Two Midwest Voices: Mirror Lake AND The Weather in Athens

Poetry. “Jerry Roscoe is a poet of the American commonplace. I wanted to say – full of ‘generic pleasures’ (his words) about those old neighborhoods, the last haircut from Louie and the women who traveled too quickly by – but his framework is a setup, a carefully crafted fuse that burns toward unsettling surprises. MIRROR LAKE launched me into a place that I almost forgot to remember and be thankful for. Read and enjoy; you’ll know yourself better for it” – George Myers Jr. “Bob DeMott’s poems achieve what is to me one of the most important accomplishments any poet can offer. Their style, which is straightforward and conversational — with figurative language gracefully and humbly eased in – is almost always We are invited to read through the screen of the words into the poem without being dragged back to the surface of the page by stylistic and graphic peculiarities. This is a reader’s poetry, inviting, heartfelt, generous and moving” – Ted Kooser.