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

Like the Greek Antigone, the speaker in Slaight’s poems seems to be crying out to be heard. Living in Canada in the 1970s, writer Marie Slaight and artist Terrence Tasker took on timeless themes—birth, death, sexuality—through... Read More

Heroic couplet-form dialogue brings an epic feel to this survey of war and human nature’s destiny. No one is more aware of the paradoxes inherent in war than its principals. In this epic survey, Richard Lyons takes to battlefields and... Read More

The Art of Art, authored by attorney, painter, gallery owner, and poet Dan Matson, consists of a constellation of contemporary poetic verses that cover myriad aspects of art and reflect Matson’s deep understanding of and passion for... Read More

In "The Opera", Kateland Leveillee creates a vivid portrait of the tortured mind of a mad poet. It is a collection that is interesting in its premise but limited in its scope. The speaker in Leveillee’s poems is at once deeply... Read More

Mystical Faery Folk: Look for the Signs, by Joy Lynette Smith, is a lovingly crafted book of poetry designed to help the reader see and experience faeries as the author does herself. Smith, who states in the foreword that she has been... Read More

"Topper and the Stable" looks like a children’s book, but it is a Christmas story, above all else, intended for anyone who honors the religious significance of the holiday. The book also offers some innovative additions to a well-known... Read More