Editor’s Note: This poem by Andrea Jurjevic is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. People are disappointingly human under the clothes they... Read More

General jargon may render truth “alternative” and knowledge always questionable, but against such strange turns stand fighters: in burgeoning political circles, on march, and in our libraries. The heroine of Paula Martinac’s newest... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Lloyd Schwartz is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. Past midnight, a man in his late 60s, tall, with long /... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Judith Vollmer is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. In for the night I empty my pockets, / gallery stub, train... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Fleda Brown is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. Poem by Fleda Brown, from The Woods Are On Fire, published by... Read More

Editor’s Note: This poem by Gillian Wegener is being presented as part of our special focus on poetry during #PoetryMonth in April. Please read our introduction to the series. Poem by Gillian Wegener. From This Sweet Haphazard,... Read More

Welcome to Poetry Month, all you April Fools and literary leprechauns. For the past several weeks, here at Foreword Reviews, we’ve been quietly whittling through scores upon stacks of poetry collections in search of thirty poems we... Read More

Modern life is messy and frightening—and at certain times, the best alternative is to disappear into a good book. Imagine a world where good triumphs over evil, magic obeys its mistress, and the world’s many savage tribes meet on the... Read More