Jennifer K Barber

Relationships are often detailed for their closeness, but the poems of this collection also explore the surprising isolation, and even danger, that is brought about by them. The poet drew from her own marriage and family relationships when she crafted thesepoems that are at once personal and adaptab...

Selected by Askold Melnyczuk and the poetry panel of AGNI magazine, Take three: 3 is the third in an important annual series designed to launch the work of new poets.

Viewing the contemporary world through the lens of biblical psalms, the natural world, medieval history, and spiritual dimensions of lightness and darkness, these poems travel to cities in southern Spain, to rural New England, and to Achill Island off the Irish coast. Vibrant and lyrical, these medi...