HOME | Good River Review

Of Funk, Fathers, Sons, and Second Books

January 26, 2023 By Douglas Manuel, poetry faculty When I was giving blood for rent, adjacent to flunking out of college, flipping...

Crafting the Marvelous from the Mundane: A Review of Eamon Grennan’s PLAINCHANT

Eamon Grennan Plainchant Red Hen Press / 2022 / 72 pp / $15.95 Paperback Reviewed by Maud Welch / January 2023 In his gripping new poetry...

From Notebook to Public Square: The Pop-Up Covid Art Show

January 11, 2023 By Roy Hoffman, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction Although I don’t consider myself a poet, over the years I’ve...

Far-flung and Personal: A Review of Stephen Benz’s READING THE SIGNS

Stephen Benz Reading the Signs and Other Itinerant Essays Etruscan Press / 2022 / $18 / 384 pp Reviewed by John Mark Jennings / January...

Learning You: 5 Takeaways From My Writing Journey So Far

December 15, 2022 by Leah Henderson, faculty, writing for children and young adults Since 2017, when my first novel, One Shadow on the...

The Dance of Chronos and Kairos in PARADISE CLOSE

Lisa Russ Spaar Paradise Close Persea Books / 2022 / 219 pp / $25.95 Reviewed by Elizabeth Hall Magill / December 2022 Acclaimed poet...

Heartwood

December 1, 2022 By Karen Salyer McElmurray, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction Behind The Long House, which is what Granny called...

REVIEW: THE MINUTES by Tracy Letts

Reviewed by Charles M. Rix / November 2022 On May 15, 2022, I stepped into New York City’s Studio 54 to catch the Broadway premier of the...

The Interrelatedness of the Arts for Amateurs

November 21, 2022 By Nancy McCabe, faculty, fiction and creative nonfiction I gave up ballet when I was twelve because I was too tall. I...