Jay Aquinas Thompson is a poet, essayist, activist, and teacher. He has recent work in Berfrois, THEthe_poetry, and Young Adult Catholics, and is a contributing editor and columnist at Poetry Northwest. He lives with his family in Seattle, where he teaches creative writing to women incarcerated in King County Jail. He keeps a blog at downdeepdowndeep.wordpress.com.
Summer 2016
Anything’s Art: Two New Books of Poetry from Ugly Duckling Presse
Like the friend who makes you wish you knew more French film, Corina Copp’s The Green Ray is both dazzling and taxing, invitingly too much and just right.
Spring 2016
Alchemy and Myth: New Books by Emily Wilson and Julie Carr
Science or magic? Emily Wilson knows: choose both. The temperament underlying her fourth collection of poems, The Great Medieval Yellows, feels not scientific, not magical, but alchemical...