Politics and art can make for an interesting mix, as Walter Rice shows in his book of historical political commentary and decidedly nonpolitical poems, "Rising with the Underclass and Poems". Rice is a longtime social activist who has... Read More

Francee` Bouvenir’s poetry collection Child’s Dark Soul challenges readers to pay attention to the world’s injustices: racism, poverty, homelessness, and rape, among others. A Southern Poverty Law Center Wall of Tolerance honoree,... Read More

Peter Knoester’s slender fourth collection of poems reveals an empathetic desire to lend voice to society’s fringes through rhymes that express anguish and regret—often in the form of invocations—from the vantage of several... Read More

In "Color Me White", Jamaica-born writer and musician Alfred Lloyd asks the reader to walk in his shoes—to experience love won and lost as well as the harsh reality of a society that has lost its values. The seventy-five poems in this... Read More

The Gist of Life: Ain’t What it Was Book 2, by octogenarian Robert Perdue, considers diverse topics, most of which center on the “days of yore” and “modern social blight” from a traditional, circumspect vantage. Tinged with... Read More

Even though "Ramblings of a One-Eyed Garbage Man" is written in brazenly blunt English, there is an artistry and music to Jim Hart’s collection. This assemblage of free-verse poems is written from a variety of perspectives that are... Read More

In her third poetry collection, "The Glass Tree", Laura Davies Foley achieves a faultless marriage of the personal and universal. Foley shares her grief over her husband’s death, her pleasure in her children, and the personal rewards... Read More

Finnish-born businessman Ozzy Vikman uses poetry to make sense of the world. The poems in "A Thing Called Life" show readers that tough people can outlast tough times if they stay positive and focus on the light at the end of the tunnel.... Read More