Andrea Ballou's "Other Times, Midnight" Reviewed in The New York Times - Civitella Ranieri

Andrea Ballou's "Other Times, Midnight" Reviewed in The New York Times - Civitella Ranieri

Poet, critic, and professor Stephanie Burt reviewed Doggerel by Reginald Dwayne Betts (CRF 2023) in The New York Times Book Review on April 23, 2025 praising it as “poetry that leans into calm and joy amid life’s chaos.” Burt writes, “Tender figures of fatherhood, raising boys; idyllic walks and a “bike ride” through “Italian countryside”; the poet’s Jack Russell (called Taylor or Tay-Tay); and other “small/Dogs who appreciate the chance silence…