Unaffected and affirmative lyric poetry on cycles of aging, death, and rebirth.In her aptly titled new collection, Stevens (Sirens’ Songs, 2011, etc.) offers poetry true to the best qualities of the nocturne tradition—atmospheric, tranquil, dusky, and musical verses—while inflecting it with an ...

Stevens (Household Words, 2014, etc.) shines light on a young woman’s struggles to break from societal expectations.Twenty-two-year-old Amy Morse is not going to follow in her father’s footsteps. A professor at “The Hill,” Dad passed away before fulfilling his life’s ambition of publishing ...