Book Reviews

We welcome unsolicited short book reviews of 750-1000 words.  However, we reserve the right to select those we publish.  Books reviewed should be published no earlier than 3 years preceding the publication date of the forthcoming issue of Presence. For example, for a writer’s review to be included in Presence 2022, the book’s copyright date must be no earlier than 2019. As with the submission of poems, please refer to our Mission Statement.  Each review should be a Word file attached to a separate e-mail to the editor, mmiller@caldwell.edu.  In the e-mail message, the reviewer should explain his or her reasons for choosing the poet's collection for review in Presence.  The subject line of the e-mail should read: "book review for Presence."  Inquiries to the editor should be made before June 1 of the year preceding the publication year of each annual issue. For example, to submit a review for Presence 2022, an inquiry should be made by June 1, 2021. The book review itself would then be submitted by October 1, 2021.