Melancholy, discontent, and focused on aging, the poems of Nicks’s collection move from a Detroit childhood toward autumnal realizations. In Joseph Nicks’s poetry collection Can’t Forget the Motor City, aging and its various... Read More

An admirable amateur genealogical survey, "Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire" illustrates the historical record with personal details. Angela Fortnum’s "Pages and Leaflets of North Oxfordshire" is a personal family and religious... Read More

This deeply personal poetry collection is a tender homage to a lady deemed worth celebrating. Franklin Bass Jr.’s sweet and heartfelt poetry collection, "This Atmosphere of Love", is dedicated to his “special lady” and is filled... Read More

"Bedtime Story" is an amusing collection of narrative poems, filled with enjoyable puns and idioms. Brett Fleishman’s smart and “punny” poetry collection, "Bedtime Story", is aimed at advanced elementary school readers and... Read More

"Silent Lucidity" is a heroic and delicate tale of healing from familial sexual abuse. Olivia Benson’s chilling and forthright memoir "Silent Lucidity" recalls the deep trauma of incest and illustrates how healing comes from bringing... Read More

The poems in "The Radical Dreams" are resonant, colored by emotional turbulence and finding solace in relationships and the natural world. In his collection "The Radical Dreams", poet Samuel Guest offers striking images and an... Read More

That there’s such a stratospherically high level of difficulty in writing great poetry doesn’t get discussed much, probably out of superstition and a belief among poets that, after Homer’s singular brilliance, the gods disabled the... Read More

The eloquent language and thoughtful subjects of the poems are made prevalent. "A World Diverse II" by David Edmond is a thoughtful and passionate collection of poems that explores the most universal of life’s experiences. The work... Read More