Each of Bloch’s poems tells a story filled with history and depth, inviting the audience to watch each enlightened moment unfold on the page. Award winning poet and translator Chana Bloch’s latest collection of poems, Swimming in the... Read More

Various themes, including music, war, love, and faith, make up this dense array of passionate and volatile poems. In his collection "First Poem of Words", Jef Harris dives into various modes of poetic license and expression. The poems... Read More

With smartly arranged variety, this is a worthy introduction to Wilkinson’s work. "The Essential Anne Wilkinson" is an elegant volume featuring Ingrid Ruthig’s selections of the Canadian modernist poet’s work. Against the odds of... Read More

Graceful poems juxtapose the mystical with the practical. "Me, Rain, and a Hired Taxi", a book of poems by Davoud Safdarian, explores the mystical while remaining grounded in the often stark realities of everyday life. Using a consistent... Read More

While each haiku stands on its own merit, the collection, read from beginning to end, is linked by tone and subject matter. Poet Sander Zulauf’s haiku collection "Bashō in America" takes its inspiration from Matsuo Bashō, a famous... Read More

The speaker in Bennett’s poetry questions her mother’s love and her sexuality, offering coming-of-age insight. "Canoodlers" looks hip—bright colors, swooping birds, titles in the table of contents alternating between black and... Read More

Playing with perspective and personification, Hoffman introduces new observations about pregnancy. In her poetry collection "Paper Doll Fetus", Cynthia Marie Hoffman takes on a voice of the disenfranchised, those made marginal and... Read More

Newman sifts through the complexity of place and humanity to find both the ugliness and the beauty in our world. Richard Newman’s latest collection of poetry, "All the Wasted Beauty of the World", strips away the rose-colored lenses... Read More