by Jennifer Matthews / Ibbetson Update

"Never Say Never" is an achievement that carries the reader through a window-eye into roomfuls of lilacs, mud and onyx...then to portraits of moments freeze-framed by the art of lyrical perception. In her poem titled: "Letter Perfect," Alice Persons delivers a perfect litany to the world of "O." Very clever.

Ms. Persons is an enjoyable poet to read. She writes owl sharp cantatas of life's snapshots captured in beautiful well-crafted collages of words.

Not pretentious, but real...something to soak your feet into while gazing inward...her chapbook displays moments of contemplation that lingers in your thoughts, well after you have read her and digested.

Jennifer Matthews / Ibbetson Update / http://www.jennifermatthews.com Jennifer Matthews is a vocalist and poet and the author of the poetry collection "Fairytales and Misdemeanors." (Ibbetson 2003)

by Baron Wormser, Poet Laureate of Maine

The poetry of Alice Persons is deeply alert to the mundane moments of living on earth, moments that in the hands of a poet aren't mundane at all. Alice Persons is very much such a poet as she deftly fashions scenes and perceptions that register genuine intensities and then lets go. Her sense of how a poem can do its work quietly yet passionately is a delight.