Meridian Small-McKinney showcases a true talent

Small-McKinney showcases a true talent for imbuing the smallest details with authenticity and layered meanings

” The poems in Night Court are often starkly rendered

/ burning the world as they go

there is such rich imagery in Vivian Faith Prescott's Marigram that I feel physically present at her coastal Southeast Alaska fishcamp while reading these poems

Her rhymes

Meridian Small-McKinney showcases a true talentBeginning with an exhortation as finely calibrated as clockworkdear reader Im trapped beating on the other pages sideand proceeding in filigreed language that is at once sparse and lush, Raymond Gibsons Meridian reads like a French detective novel translated by Sappho into sparking, barking and completely original English. Brimming with invention and intelligence, this is poetry that cuts to the bone and reaches the ether. As a moth lays eggs on a