Ann Leamon

Poetry Review: The Art of Letting Go — Gail Mazur’s “World on a String”

February 18, 2026
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The poems in :World on a String” set an example for us all of how to live, to love, to release, and to remember.

Book Review: Amy Leach’s “The Salt of the Universe” — Fundamentalism Is Not Fun

August 16, 2024
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Amy Leach’s book may help you understand the rewards of  Christian fundamentalism for its followers — and how much richer a non-fundamentalist life can be.

Book Review: Natasha Trethewey’s “The House of Being” — Safeguarding the Imagination

April 9, 2024
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Protecting the imagination — whether our own or others — means encouraging questions about whose voice isn’t being heard and why, whose words are being erased, and whose stories unsettle the status quo.

Poetry Review: According to Whom? — “Invisible Mending: The Best of C.K. Williams”

March 26, 2024
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I’m not against the concept of a Whitman’s Sampler of C.K. Williams poems —  but this problematic selection proves that it should not be a family affair.

Poetry Review: Christian Wiman’s “Zero at the Bone” — A Bulwark Against Despair

December 5, 2023
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Christian Wiman’s new book takes readers on an exhilarating, confounding, comforting, and surprisingly fresh intellectual journey.

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