Category: Poetry
Superior Voyage by Marquette Poets Circle
Marquette Poets Circle’s Newest Book Is Superior Five years ago, the Marquette Poets Circle wowed readers with their debut poetry book, Maiden Voyage. Their follow-up volume is titled Superior Voyage, and it is appropriately titled for it is a superior volume of poetry that just happens to have been written…
Complete Poems, 1965-2020, by Michael Butterworth,
Clutch (Collection for 2023), edited by Robert M. Zoschke
Lightness of being (poems), by t. kilgore splake
Review by Mack Hassler I think there is no argument that our writers who set themselves up as our poets are the real forerunners in language development. Storytellers entertain us, historians order and give us useful general ideas, comic tone writers defend us against the many predators that lurk in…
Piney woods (poems), chapbook by t. kilgore splake
Camp Baraga Ghosts by t. kilgore splake
By Sharon Brunner Kilgore Splake elicits strong imagery about various life situations. “Camp Baraga Ghosts” contains photographs of the old prison that was located in Baraga, Michigan, long closed. The imagination is sparked by the renditions of things past. Splake provides this quote in his introduction: “The old long-abandoned and…
Chlorophyll: poems about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by Raymond Luczak
Review by Deborah K. Fronteira A poet as well-known as Raymond Luczak has been published in numerous books, anthologies, and literary journals. It would be hard to own all the various publications listed in the acknowledgment section of this volume, so Modern History Press made it easy working with Raymond…
Dredge Artistic Decay by t. kilgore splake
Review by Sharon Brunner Dredge Artistic Decay, written by T. Kilgore Splake, offered the reader renditions of past losses. After the “Copper Boom” in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.), businesses crumbled and along came the appearance of industrial relics. During the boom miners dredged millions of pounds of copper…
Clutch (2022), edited by Robert M. Zoschke,
Rain of Stars, Poems by Kathleen Carlton Johnson, Traprock Press (2022)
Old Reliable: Collection of Poems (2022) by T. Kilgore Splake
Trout Fishing in our Own Lake Review by Mack Hassler Like many serious writers, this poet tinkers with his name for literary purposes. He invents an identity that links his work to the clever science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut (Kilgore Trout) as well as to the Kerouac-type Beat writer Richard…
Life Beyond Shadows by t. kilgore splake
Roads Not Traveled: Collection of Poems by t. kilgore splake
The Road to Splake by Robert M. Zoschke
Niiji, A Collection of Poetry By Sally Brunk and Ron Riekki
Freshwater Mermaids by Troy Graham
Once Upon a Twin by Raymond Luczak
Superior Voyage by Marquette Poets Circle

Marquette Poets Circle’s Newest Book Is Superior Five years ago, the Marquette Poets Circle wowed readers with their debut poetry book, Maiden Voyage. Their follow-up volume is titled Superior Voyage, and it is appropriately titled for it is a superior volume of poetry that just happens to have been written…
Complete Poems, 1965-2020, by Michael Butterworth,
Clutch (Collection for 2023), edited by Robert M. Zoschke
Lightness of being (poems), by t. kilgore splake

Review by Mack Hassler I think there is no argument that our writers who set themselves up as our poets are the real forerunners in language development. Storytellers entertain us, historians order and give us useful general ideas, comic tone writers defend us against the many predators that lurk in…
Piney woods (poems), chapbook by t. kilgore splake
Camp Baraga Ghosts by t. kilgore splake

By Sharon Brunner Kilgore Splake elicits strong imagery about various life situations. “Camp Baraga Ghosts” contains photographs of the old prison that was located in Baraga, Michigan, long closed. The imagination is sparked by the renditions of things past. Splake provides this quote in his introduction: “The old long-abandoned and…
Chlorophyll: poems about Michigan’s Upper Peninsula by Raymond Luczak

Review by Deborah K. Fronteira A poet as well-known as Raymond Luczak has been published in numerous books, anthologies, and literary journals. It would be hard to own all the various publications listed in the acknowledgment section of this volume, so Modern History Press made it easy working with Raymond…
Dredge Artistic Decay by t. kilgore splake

Review by Sharon Brunner Dredge Artistic Decay, written by T. Kilgore Splake, offered the reader renditions of past losses. After the “Copper Boom” in the Upper Peninsula of Michigan (U.P.), businesses crumbled and along came the appearance of industrial relics. During the boom miners dredged millions of pounds of copper…
Clutch (2022), edited by Robert M. Zoschke,
Rain of Stars, Poems by Kathleen Carlton Johnson, Traprock Press (2022)
Old Reliable: Collection of Poems (2022) by T. Kilgore Splake
Trout Fishing in our Own Lake Review by Mack Hassler Like many serious writers, this poet tinkers with his name for literary purposes. He invents an identity that links his work to the clever science fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut (Kilgore Trout) as well as to the Kerouac-type Beat writer Richard…