It should be disclosed that when Chris Shipman wrote about his grandmother and the dances she would never know in his poem “Outside,” I thought of the dances he did know and wondered whether she had been his teacher. I’ve seen him dancing with his wife under the stars. That is to say I know him. Not only are we acquainted, but we are also colleagues. Shipman is the master of Dig poetry, editing a delicious taste of local verse on the weekly. It was with great pleasure, but also a relative amount of bias, that I agreed to sit with and discuss his new book of poetry, Human-Carrying Flight Technology. [read the full review here]

http://digbatonrouge.com/article/a-ship-on-the-river-4160/

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Travis Macdonald’s poetry and prose has appeared in print and online