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Libby Maxey

Libby Maxey studied medieval literature at Cornell University and now works as a freelance editor. She is also a senior editor with the online journal Literary Mama. Her poetry has appeared in Kestrel, The Fourth River, Crannóg, The Mom Egg Review and elsewhere.

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Sibylline by Marc Vincenz

by Libby Maxey

Sibylline by Marc VincenzAmpersand Books, 2016, paperback, $12.95, 47 pgs.ISBN 9780986137068 The Sibylline Books of the ancient world were many things: legend, prophecy, political tool, guide to worship, syncretic node, divine relic, dangerous art. Long protected for their power, they were ultimately destroyed for the same reason. Marc Vincenz’s Sibylline is also many things:

Spring 2018

Ordinary Magic by Alison Stone

by Libby Maxey

Ordinary Magic by Alison Stone, NYQ Books, 2016, 109 pp., $14.95. Alison Stone is not the only contemporary poet inspired by the tarot (see Arcana: The Tarot Poetry Anthology, to which she is a contributor), but she may be the most dedicated. With Ordinary Magic, she has built a full-length poetry collection around the cards,

Spring 2017

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