Kristen Evans teaches and studies writing at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. Her poems have appeared in recent issues of Jellyfish and GLITTERPONY, and she serves as assistant managing editor of jubilat.
Summer 2013
On Rusty Morrison’s Book of the Given
Rusty Morrison's quiet, strikingly honest third collection, Book of the Given, navigates grief, love, and fear of estrangement from one's partner after the death of a loved one.
Winter 2012
The Beauty of Waste, the Waste of Beauty: Anna Moschovakis’ You and Three Others are Approaching a Lake
The poems in Anna Moschovakis' second collection investigate philosophical and ethical questions about morality, labor, and art, as well as the very terms we use to approach these fundamental human experiences. Often, we categorize our experiences in discrete units, to better understand and order the world around us.
Summer 2011
On Kevin Goodan’s Winter Tenor
Alice James Books: Farmington, ME, 2009. 80 pages. $15.95. Kevin Goodan’s second book of poems, Winter Tenor, presents a series of evocative meditations on what it is to live close to […]