by gsfrnkln | Jun 21, 2026 | Remote Cities, Reviews
Reviewer: Shawn Pavey George Franklin’s exquisite Remote Cities is, as John Burt expertly points out on his back-cover blurb, a collection of “poems for grown-ups.” These mature, honed, expertly crafted poems display for the reader Franklin’s current existence in...
by gsfrnkln | Jun 21, 2026 | Reviews, What the Angel Saw
Reviewer: Scott Ferry In reading some poetry collections one is immediately overwhelmed with the narrative and drawn in. Many such books are so intricate and complete in creating their own self-sustaining world that it is almost impossible to describe this microcosm...
by gsfrnkln | Jun 21, 2026 | A Man Made of Stories, Reviews
Reviewer: Robert Fillman Poetry, when it’s honest, doesn’t hide behind artifice or form. It walks beside you like an old friend. It speaks softly, coming in close to level with you, especially at times when you’d rather not hear what it has to say. That’s what George...
by gsfrnkln | Jun 21, 2026 | Reviews, Traveling for No Good Reason
Reviewed by Richard Allen Taylor Most of the traveling in George Franklin’s new poetry collection is done not by train or plane but by memory. This has several advantages. Traveling by memory is inexpensive, instantaneous, and allows the traveler to go backwards and...
by gsfrnkln | Oct 21, 2025 | A Man Made of Stories, Reviews
Reviewer: Peter Mladinic The poet is concerned with making a thing of beauty. Just as Francisco Goya, Rembrandt, and John Singer Sargent put things in their paintings, this poet’s poems include paintings, statues, photographs, books, cups, air conditioners, and...
by gsfrnkln | May 26, 2019 | Reviews, Traveling for No Good Reason
Reviewed by Deborah Bacharach In his second book, Traveling for No Good Reason, George Franklin shoots the reader straight into Zeno’s paradox of the arrow: in any instant, nothing moves. As he writes in “Scrapbooks:” Of paper and silver oxide, the distance between...
