Schneberg’s poetry is both a quiet reflection on the brevity of life and a celebration of how full it is. “In Jewish ritual clothes are torn in mourning.” This sentence precedes Willa Schneberg’s title poem in "Rending the... Read More

Starbuck offers a refreshing account of an unselfconscious woman in her seventies, through lusty poetry. Kathryn Starbuck began writing poems in her sixties in response to the deaths of several family members—hardest of all, the death... Read More

Contemporary references and colloquialisms deepen these poems’ sense of wisdom about human nature. With "This Way Out", Terence Winch offers poems that expose the rawness of life with a fierce and unapologetic bite that is sullenly... Read More

The sheer variety in this poignant collection reveals that the sonnet is very much a living art form. In the world of contemporary poetry, free verse and experimentation remain our era’s taste and tendency, so where does this leave... Read More

These poems reveal a woman deeply connected to her family, intensely frustrated by society’s expectations that women be obedient and quiet, and passionately desiring to experience all of life. Published posthumously as a loving tribute... Read More

Rose takes readers on a journey through Norse mythology and a love that can lie in wait like a dragon. Woven among runic symbols for need, strength, truth, chaos, and other results of loving are eighty pages of poems that explore J. K.... Read More

Experiments in form and language convey one woman’s struggles with love and race. Poetry is a safe space where people can express their inner fears and experiences. Sharon White’s collection, "Pretty from the Back", examines the... Read More

Precise imagery lays bare emotional experiences and observations. Sally Gallot-Reeves is a poet of witness. In "Between Shifts", she uses her writing as a recording device, a way of processing the trauma and healing that often surrounds... Read More