McCandless describes actively turning toward trust and forgiveness in this eclectic collection about chronic illness and abuse. “Life is not a state of being; it is a process of becoming. This book is about the process,” states Beth... Read More

This entertaining poetic display captures inner experiences and converts them into meaningful words, with musicality and grace. Patricia Jamison, a Midwesterner who currently lives in Texas, has been writing poetry for fifteen years. She... Read More

To subvert happily-ever-after, this poet populates his verse with grim Grimm characters and sprinkles in some dark humor. Ron Koertge—fiction writer, recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the California Arts... Read More

A balance of dark humor and a devastatingly sorrowful tone illumines the human condition in these elegiac poems. Appointed the first poet laureate of Missouri in 2008, Walter Bargen writes about humanity with a candidly chilling and... Read More

In Randall, readers find a reassuring voice—a strong, assertive narrator whose bravery resonates. Veteran poet Margaret Randall does not disappoint with her latest collection of poetry, "The Rhizome as a Field of Broken Bones". A... Read More

The Bible’s first book as distilled through rhyme brings a new perspective to an ancient text. An imaginative retelling of Genesis, Sean Sheahan’s first collection aspires to make the first book of the Bible more accessible to teen... Read More

Osmani urges his fellow Muslims to choose faith over invectives in well-crafted poetry. Rashid Osmani, an Indian-born engineer who found his way back to Islam as an adult, was troubled by how dramatically the West’s perception of Islam... Read More

In Leon Rooke’s imaginative, surreal world, it is always April. In "The April Poems", Leon Rooke bridges the gap between poetry and fiction with an array of poems that, while wildly experimental at times, form an overarching narrative... Read More