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

With moments of humor and sensuality, these poems cover subjects that are universal. In "Dark Eyes and Other Poems", R. Udaya Bhanu explores the realms of eros, social consciousness, faith, and history. The book opens with a series of... Read More

With an honest tone and real heart, Lombardo tackles the topic of love in his new collection of poetry. There are shelves and shelves of love poems in libraries around the world. In truth, it’s the most complex topic to write about... Read More

Gjoka’s poems flow naturally from theme to theme, candidly narrating human desires and fears. In a volume of poetry that runs the gamut from beautiful and candid to vulgar and hyperbolic, Sami Gjoka exposes human nature in all its... Read More

Equating nature to humans illumines divine elements of life in this gentle and spiritual volume. Beth Duncan takes a look at spirituality, nature, and mortality in "The Tree that Walks". Her poetry is sensitive and personal and speaks of... Read More

This experimental prose-poetry piece is an ambitious and heartfelt salute to Newfoundland. Often writers have the desire for their work to take readers to another realm—to create transcendence with their prose. It’s no easy task.... Read More

Johnson’s intriguing collection is firmly rooted in everyday life. In "The Sky and the Sea", Kevin J. Johnson brings together poems and prose that inhabit both the mundane and the fantastic. The result is a collection that intrigues in... Read More

The poems in "Strange Life" are constructed with terrible and forthright beauty, both existential and hauntingly specific. From Eleanor Lerman (The Sensual World Re-Emerges, 2011), a National Book Award-nominated poet and Guggenheim... Read More