Reviews

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"Rigby has a knack for grabbing your attention with an elegant phrase and then twisting the idea of the phrase into something entirely different. By the time you get to the third or fourth poem, you are hooked--you read the beginning of the poem and want to see where it goes."

-Valerie Fox

"Rigby writes with rigorous intensity...She makes intricate lists of surprises, she looks closely at small things, and she draws her imagery together, loading it carefully, letting it mount to flare as the poem ends."

The Georgia Review

Summer 2005, "Hello, Sky"
p. 414-415

Paul Zimmer

"In these fifteen poems, we have the privilege of glimpsing the poet with an already unique voice and a natural panache for the lyric... The poems in Festival Bone are beautiful, startling, and unsettling. Like any good chapbook, it will whet your appetite and leave you hungry for more."

March-April 2005

"Indelible Ink"

American Book Review

Brian Barker

"Her poems demand that we pay attention to the logic in each image, the intelligence of each phrase... She is a careful craftsman that demands careful reading."

Tears in the Fence

Issue Thirty-Nine, Autumn 2004

Bruce Spang

"With these images, inventive metaphors and Ms. Rigby's sense of drama, two things are sure about Festival Bone: the reader is well-rewarded and Georgia O'Keefe would be pleased."

Volume 3 No. 1
November 2004, Gin Bender
Anne McCrady, editor