Faith, love, and anger in Matthew E. Henry’s new collection
“The day of reckoning / has arrived,” writes Matthew E. Henry in his new collection, Promises To Keep (Wayfarer). That day is each day, and this book serves as a reckoning itself, with the contradictions, the inequity, the many and varied iterations of violence and hate. Wrath and love hold hands in these poems, many of them voiced by a man who’s been called to be a prophet. …

Read the rest of Nina MacLaughlin’s lovely review of Promises to Keep in New England Literary News through the link below!