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

Neuroscientists speculate that humans might have thirty or more senses, and we speculate that Patrycja Humienik’s acute sense of longing for a place that no longer exists on a map affects the way she perceives all the others. She is an... Read More

The skillful poems of Songs from Fern’s Pond explore loss, family, and the power of human will. Sheryl Pothier Harmer’s Songs from Fern’s Pond is a stirring poetic tribute to her mother, who staked out a solitary, hardscrabble... Read More

Original wordplay and quirky rhymes vivify the illuminating poetry collection The Lotus Eaters. Peter Dabbene’s musical poetry collection The Lotus Eaters clothes its sly cultural allusions in traditional literary techniques.... Read More

In grief-soaked language, Lisa Sewell’s poetry collection "Flood Plain" meditates on the parallels of personal, ecological, and social loss, aching for the world with “a gust of triumph beneath / the syntax of regret.” Open... Read More

A lyrical poetry collection, "An Absence of Fear" denies death’s finality even as it mourns great human losses. Holly Peppe’s precise poetry collection "An Absence of Fear" confronts the emotions surrounding death, from astonishment... Read More

"Happyagony" is a diverse poetry collection with a frequently confessional bent. Mem Ferda’s narrative poetry collection "Happyagony" touches on youth, society, love, and grief. Covering the experiences of a Turkish man in the US, the... Read More