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Her quiet, lyrical language slyly unveils complex incident and emotion: “from you I learned the beauty/of a flawless downshift/and a smooth start/at the crest of a hill./and from you I learned to dread/the coming of the cocktail hour.” In her whimsical mode, she brings the quotidian to joyful life: children “squander[ing] our days like penny candy,” When she writes about her beloved sea, you can feel the waves rocking below you. And she observes all of nature with the same exactitude and affection. Emily Axelrod’s poems are an abiding treasure. Alec Solomita is a critic, fiction writer, and poet. He’s published fiction in the The Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, The Adirondack Review, and The Drum Literary Magazine (audio), among other publications. He was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal, and named a finalist by the Noctua Review. Rooted in family and place—be it California, Maine, or Cambridge, Massachusetts—the poems in Emily Axelrod’s collection, By Chance, contemplate time, mortality, and love using direct and personal language. Employing an artist’s discerning eye, Axelrod draws us into a world of feeling using artifacts such as the childhood piano she practiced “feet just reaching the pedals, /wishing I loved to play;” or an heirloom recipe card for “roast chicken forever paired/with a stormy departure/from the dinner table.” Though loss often looms, these poems consistently deliver pleasure. We feel seen and included in the remembrances of young love, the grappling with loneliness, and the way that, for all of us, “the years…disappear/one snowstorm at a time, and with each blooming of the apple tree.” Mary Beth Hines, author of Winter at a Summer House (Kelsay Books, 2021) https://emilyhaxelrod.org/passerby daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68b8e00c6d9c2b0071e66c4d/e9184c2b-f058-441a-b054-1f852c541e54/917VZXK3IPL._SL1500_.jpg Passerby In her first book of poems, Emily H. Axelrod sees clearly the grime, the grief, the danger of the world around her, but her vision is essentially a redemptive, celebratory one. Her poems are informed by memories of childhood: “her cheekagainst a horse’s warm neck;” racing to a waterfall, her body “young and lithe / as flexible as the silver birches…” We are offered lovely moments including epiphanies from the poet’s later years and from her travels, creating a series of poems that find beauty in the midst of turmoil. One isuplifted by these poems, transported as the poet herself is transported by a rocking rowboat that becomes for the moment “a seagoing cradle. Reading Emily Axelrod’s poems, one is surprised by a language that surrounds the normal, the usual with the glow of a poetic light.” – Ashley Bryan, Islesford, Maine Ashley Frederick Bryan (July 13, 1923 – February 4, 2022) was an American writer and illustrator of children's books. an artist, storyteller, teacher and sculptor. https://emilyhaxelrod.org/north-window daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68b8e00c6d9c2b0071e66c4d/c73de54c-e6f2-42bd-8e2e-c28deb94b1b1/AXELROD-EMILY-WEB.jpg North Window Emily Axelrod’s fine ear transmutes the world as she sees it with her fine eyes into memorable poetry. And luckily for the reader, she is a world traveler, both geographic and psychic. Indeed, each of her poems is a journey, often a roundabout one, to the reader’s heart. From intimate, sad, never cloying recollections of childhood to poems fierce with latent sensuality, she takes the reader’s hand and leads them, almost always gently, into insight. Her rhythmic verses are often deceptively simple, belying the complexity of what Robert Frost called "the ulterior," the meaning behind. Alec Solomita is a critic, fiction writer, and poet. He’s published fiction in the The Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, The Adirondack Review, and The Drum Literary Magazine (audio), among other publications. He was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal, and named a finalist by the Noctua Review. Emily Axelrod’s poems are scintillating, occasionally fragmental – pieces of a bigger mosaic. They are sometimes very personal, alternatively – relate to the general condition of the world and nature, but they are always the ones you turn to because of the pleasure they deliver. Katia Kapovich is a bilingual Russian poet, celebrated in both Russia and the United States. She has won two Russian National Literary Awards and received the US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship. Her two books in English are Gogol in Rome (2004) and Cossacks and Bandits (2008), both published by Salt Publishing. https://emilyhaxelrod.org/block daily 0.75 2026-02-05 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/68b8e00c6d9c2b0071e66c4d/31be6856-360a-414f-ba34-24bfdff929a8/81eQS298kGL._SL1500_.jpg Around the Block Emily Axelrod’s fourth poetry collection Around the Block, vividly dwells on the poet’s loss of close friends, memories of travel, and the sorrows of our age. Her poems are always clear, economical, and reflective. The moments she captures hold our attention. I always keep a keen eye out for this poet’s new work. Katia Kapovich is a biligual Russian poet, celebrated in both Russia and the United States. She has won two Russian National Literary Awards and received the US Library of Congress Witter Bynner Poetry Fellowship. Her two books in English are Gogol in Rome (2004) and Cossacks and Bandits (2008), both published by Salt Publishing. Like her three earlier books, Emily Axelrod’s Around the Block offers us the profound sensibility subtly underlying the author’s poems. Quietly rhythmic and mostly “quiet,” these elegant verses treat the mundane like the sacred it actually is. Always alert for the telling detail, Axelrod transports us effortlessly from sweet and capricious childhood to reflective and melancholic old age – from “plucking juicy plums” and dancing to “Earth Angel,” to visiting her beloved beach with friends whose stiff bodies are “content in the warmth/of the waning sun.” This is a book about a life and all the lives encircling it. Sad and thrilling stories of children, grandchildren, brothers, and cousins, as well as a long and rewarding marriage. And there is always nature and the boundless sea, which reside in the author’s very bones. Eventually, the reader becomes a passenger in this remarkable work, a convenance not unlike “the ferry carrying us/in a rocking embrace.” Alec Solomita is a critic, fiction writer, and poet. He’s published fiction in the The Mississippi Review, Southwest Review, The Adirondack Review, and The Drum Literary Magazine (audio), among other publications. He was shortlisted by the Bridport Prize and Southword Journal, and named a finalist by the Noctua Review.