A collaboration between photographer Ryan J. Bush and his mother, poet Virginia O. Bush, The Singing Wire pairs their work in order to “peer through the veil of the ordinary into a contemplative, non-verbal, timeless place beyond... Read More

Written to honor youth activists Janna Jihad Ayyad and her cousin Ahed Tamimi, Naomi Shihab Nye’s "The Tiny Journalist" uses poetry to blend stories and speak truth to power about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. Amid unfathomable... Read More

With its wide spectrum of topics and styles, "80 Poems" is an alternately thoughtful and playful collection. Roger Wayne Turkington’s transformative collection "80 Poems" offers wisdom within its musical verses. The book’s prevalent... Read More

"Love in Winter" reaches for the art of poetry to clothe a father’s naked grief. William Edmund Evans’s Love in Winter: Missing Ryan collects poems written in the long season of grief. As its speaker navigates the first winter after... Read More

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

Elusive, elegant, and meditative, the poems in Cassie Donish’s "The Year of the Femme" resist traditional narratives, opting instead to accrue meaning by way of juxtaposition and repetition of language and images. Rife with nature and... Read More

In Lynn Lurie’s "Museum of Stones", a woman experiences parenting as a cross between profound love and constant, only sometimes low-grade terror. Swinging between the past and the present, the novel moves from the mother’s rough... Read More

"An Angel in My Garden" is a heartfelt personal poetic scrapbook from a couple’s time together. Mart Grams’s heartfelt collection "An Angel in My Garden" pays tribute to his late wife, Linda, reminiscing on their memories together.... Read More