In Marcella Pixley’s aching novel-in-verse "Neshama", a lonely, gifted girl navigates middle school tensions and family secrets with some supernatural help. For Anna, who records ghost poems in her notebook and is ostracized at school,... Read More

Transmitting warmth and love for all creatures on earth, "Bright Mornings, Lit Paths" is a soothing religious poetry collection. Patti Jones Morgan’s faith-filled poetry book "Bright Mornings, Lit Paths" celebrates beauty in the world.... Read More

Dealing with universal themes of Christian devotion, including doubt, praise, and forgiveness, God’s Word in Verse is an affecting poetry collection. Callie Turner’s slim poetry collection God’s Word in Verse borrows the imagery of... Read More

Rooted in twentieth-century American history, Greek mythology, and human anatomy, the prose and poems collected in "Proud Gods and Commodores" are connected by riotous linguistic flourishes. James McMillan’s personal anthology "Proud... Read More

It’s not easy being Keetje—so truthstakingly, heartgapingly, cliffedgingly vulnerable and live. The experience of her poetry feels dangerous, capable of triggering changes both lasting and longed for. That she recognizes love as... Read More

Michigan’s Upper Peninsula is the least-populated region in the lower 48. Walking a riverbank, you are more likely to meet a black bear, wolf, bobcat, or whitetail deer than you are a human—which is why M. Bartley Seigel calls the UP... Read More

If you walk long enough to see your hair turn gray, fending brush from your face through starless nights, note taking to the cadence of seasons, your poetry will reach great heights—that is, if Kelly Shepherd’s modus operandi holds... Read More

Trifle, in poet speak, refers to what doesn’t make the cut, to all of the musings and ideas that are deemed unworthy—why bother? Trifle, in other words, offers a wonderful window into a poets head and what they care to keep top of... Read More