Natural State New Release ” one of the final

” one of the final poems

gathering the spirits of Diana herself

look up to the sun and stars ("The Milky Way above us - / that's our shadow river")

and I applaud both her commitment to place and her exquisite writing

and memory — how love and loss shape Self through time and memory

Natural State New Release ” one of the finalOne of the poems in Jon Tribble's Natural State observes that "the finest moment of our lives may not matter at all." That's a devastating truth, but Tribble's poems about growing up in Arkansas make every moment he renders matter, and matter deeply. Natural State may be Tribble's first collection, but it's as polished, mature, and wise as most poets' fourth or fifth, and it not only matters, its publication is one of contemporary poetry's finest