Wherever souls reside, all the rules of time and space, language and thought succumb to an older way of being—and that is where Ricky Ray hangs out with Addie, his old brown dog. An ecomystic animist, Ray’s work explores their... Read More

The good poet’s body slowly leaves one sex for another and she wonders what else, if anything, will change—the Jewishness that influences so much of her world; the Holocaust memories of twelve murdered ancestors; love and sex; fear... Read More

The poems collected in "Footprints" combine pitch-perfect musicality with empathetic considerations of human nature, emotions, and aspirations. In James Ten Eyck’s memorable poetry collection "Footprints", the pleasures of rhyme and... Read More

Reaching to lyric heights, "Embers" is an empathetic poetry collection that speaks to consequential universal experiences. Howard Giskin’s somber poetry collection "Embers" concerns death, time, and memory. Among the book’s poems are... Read More

Anything can spark and hold a memory according to Dorothy Chan’s poetry collection "Return of the Chinese Femme". Across five sections, the poems’ speaker luxuriates in memories of childhood, family, and past and current lovers.... Read More

A work of primordial feminine beauty, "Night of the Hawk" is a poetic pleasure. Sarah Lawrence graduate Lauren Martin’s "Night of the Hawk" is an expansive book of poetry. Reading this panoramic collection is like flying, circling the... Read More

Friendly and wise, the poems collected in "Connections" muse through heady contemporary topics. Pairing text with photographs, Ian Stott’s poetry collection "Connections" distills wisdom from lived experiences. Written in a friendly,... Read More

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More