Controlled Burn

Controlled Burn blazes across the landscape of a poet’s everyday life. Here you find poems about everything from COVID to cabbage soup, pets to Peter Rabbit, grand-parenting to buying boots, and always with the poet’s signature witty, cool, and humane voice. Ortolani’s poems burn with a language so clear, concise, and under control that it makes room for new growth.
~ Clint Margrave, author of Visitor