With haunting imagery and consummate skill, Foote has created a masterpiece that deserves a place alongside the very best war poetry. War poetry is a genre unto itself, and poets from Thomas Hardy and Wilfred Owen to Siegfried Sassoon... Read More

The raw honesty and power of sixteenth century poet shines through in Zwicky’s translations. Jan Zwicky presents her translations of ten sonnets from Vittoria Colonna’s Rime Spirituali, accompanied by stunning photographs by Robert... Read More

A young girl joins forces with a group of misfit dragons to save her home in this exciting adventure told in beautiful verse. "Mindel and the Misfit Dragons", a lushly illustrated rhyming fairy tale, assures tweens in those awkward... Read More

"The Seasons", with careful descriptions of natural details, ably reminds us that enchantment can be found in ordinary hours. Bruce Meyer, poet laureate of the city of Barrie, Ontario, gathers one hundred sonnets for his wife in his... Read More

Certain poets harness inhuman powers of observation, as if they were closer kin to hawks, dogs, and heavenly angels in the ability to see, hear, and intuit their surroundings. Rarely such poets complement these observation skills with... Read More

The Lord is my muse, I shall not want. Green pastures, still waters, paths of righteousness, walks through the valley of the shadow of death—Thou anointest my head with poetry; my pen runneth over. The biblical Psalms, in all their... Read More

Ellen Bass’s poems might best be described as transcendental incidentalism. In "Like a Beggar", her prose moseys along, skillfully detailing tightly framed shots, one right after another, and then “a boy on a bicycle rides by.”... Read More

Some poets can’t contain their morosity, some, their cynicism, and others make mirth at the damndest times. Sasha Steensen, step forward, si vous plaît, cha-cha-chagrin included. Wickedly sharp, Steensen will relentlessly poke a stick... Read More