Author Archives: VanderHart Hannah

“This place is a longing”

A Review of Daniel Bowman, Jr.’s A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country

“Mohawk comes / like blackbirds at dawn” begins “Poem for the Undead,” first in Daniel Bowman, Jr.’s A Plum Tree in Leatherstocking Country.

The Mother, the Poem, and Sentiment(ality)

I was sitting in a crowd of poets at a summer writing conference. In front of us sat a panel of editors discussing the submission process from the editor’s view. The most singular comment of that afternoon came from an editor of a prestigious review. He told the crowd of writers