Just Universes Diana Smith Bolton Lines and Stars Press © 2016 $10 Just Universes, Diana Smith Bolton’s debut chapbook, frames the circuitous journey of a woman from Mississippi, exploring different phases of her life. The speaker’s path to maturity is marked by minor hiccups but, in the end, is a raucous read, with the hero traversing entire continents and the wide expanses of human galaxies. Eva Holland declares in a 2016 article in the online publication Outside, “It’s th

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