~ Olena Kalytiak Davis, And Her Soul Out of Nothing (Wisconsin Press Bittingham Prize 1997)

          I just needed to put something up.  It doesn’t feel right letting blight overcome such a wonderful source of poetry.

          ~ TM

~ Julia Kasdorf, Eve's Striptease (Pitt Press 1998)

          This poem was such a surprise.  She moves deceptively and wonderfully toward the last image, which never fails to make me both shudder and smile.  Good stuff.

          ~TM