At play in the spacious fields of her wit and down to earthiness, Wendy Videlock’s poetry has been published in the New York Times, Poetry, and two other full length collections of her work, Nevertheless (a finalist for the 2012... Read More

Exactly fourteen lines, each of five-foot iambics—ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM ta DUM—such is life for a sonnet, and Rebecca Foust strings more than eighty together in this biting, rhythmically haunting collection. Foust’s poems... Read More

This collaborative project features Amy Lowell’s lesbian love poetry from the early twentieth century, an essay by Lillian Faderman that analyzes Lowell’s poetry and her relationship with actress Ada Dwyer Russell, and lastly, Mary... Read More

This inspiring collection is filled with prayerful self-examination. Stone Michaels’s "Defining Atlas" contains poems that illuminate both the poet himself and the God he gives all glory to. In plainspoken language, Michaels praises... Read More

Imaginative, inventive, and dynamic, "On Shaving Off His Face" is meaty poetry, a substantial work. There’s an ominous-looking skull on the cover of Shane Neilson’s "On Shaving Off His Face", and it’s a clear indicator that what... Read More

"Symphonies of Life" is a wonderful spiritual undertaking that provides food for the soul. Eman Abid’s new volume of poetry, "Symphonies of Life", avoids the pitfalls of linguistic obscurity through simple, direct, and comprehensible... Read More

Clements is at his best when he begins to unravel the social and moral complexities of a bygone era. A certain cartoonish quality characterizes Tom Clements’s new collection of poems, Chicken Soup for Betty Boop: A Book of Funky Poems.... Read More

This poetry collection is a wide, bright vein of life that cracks open the tender, violent, imaginative earth we stand on. The forty-two poems in Carl Hitchens’s newest collection, "Shades of Light", represent a shimmering spectrum of... Read More