RaveNew York Journal of BooksIn this volume, Sealey, in her breezy, formal-verging-on-experimental style, tackles an eclectic mix of themes and subject matters ranging from childlessness to racially influenced social patterns ... Sealey’s dizzyingly addictive spectacle of subject matters is rendered in a complex assortment of free-verse lyrics, sonnets (sometimes nonce, sometimes traditional), a double sestina, an extended cento, and at least one form Sealey claims as her own: the obverse ... Nicole Sealey clearly has the potential of becoming a breakthrough poet through the aegis of her insights and talents, her passionate enthusiasms, her incisive formal stance, and her unflinching aesthetic.
Elizabeth Spires
RaveNew York Journal of BooksA Memory of the Future is (Elizabeth\'s) seventh poetry collection. In these lyrical verses, Spires questions the quotidian, elevating the everyday to a meditational art form ... These poems glow with interiority—profound, intense, spiritual.
