These evocative poems express kinship with nature, and are musical and rich in their language. What the River Knows: Conversations with the Natural World by Andrea Freeman is a meditative poetic exploration of the flora, fauna, and... Read More

This healing collection, filled with poems steeped in ecology, lands on timeless themes of gratitude. Gwendolyn Morgan’s Snowy Owls, Egrets, and Unexpected Graces is a poetry of wild spaces. Atmospheric portraits of finding solace in... Read More

These poems are an unflinching deep dive into the modern American experiment. In "God, Grace, Dumb Luck", Phloyd Knucklez uses experimental verse and alternating personae to probe the pedestrian darkness of contemporary America. Grounded... Read More

With its rare dual focus on the throes of romance and the acrimony of a breakup, this collection is a reminder that all relationships have a shadow side. In his poetry collection Love’s Reflections, Ian Harding contrasts the emotional... Read More

Devotedly Euro-American, schooled in language, literature, verse, acting, and the working parts of script, Hélène Cardona first wrote this bilingual collection in English and then delivered the French translation. A citizen of the... Read More

Delight in the presence of a poet so sane as to make you want to sit at her feet, lean against her knees. And yet, Jean Hollander’s poetry won’t stroke your cheek with comforting missives—her work is commanding, powerful, spare as... Read More

The archeology of lost, forgotten, hidden sound, archeophonics seemed a useful approach for moving beyond poetry’s aesthetic qualities, so Peter Gizzi trained his versemaker on repeated words, phrases, and themes, resulting in this... Read More

That ominous sloshing sound Jen Karetnick hears in her sleep is the warmer, ever-fatter Atlantic spilling over the brim of her Miami hometown. Denial be damned, this collection confronts climate change and poetically spotlights the... Read More