Twenty-One Days Later chronicles Tony Baccarini’s three-week stay at Kenilworth Clinic, a psychiatric institution in Cape Town, South Africa. Most of the poems revolve around staff, fellow patients, the author’s treatment for bipolar... Read More

Painter, poet, novelist, and Trinidad and Tobago Senator Helen Drayton follows her debut collection, Passages I, with Passages II: Brown Doves, seventy-two poems that contemplate love, friendship, homeland, and beauty in nature. Drayton... Read More

Elizabeth Bishop, arguably one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century, produced a very small book of collected poems that represented her life’s work. Forever careful to only publish her best work, Bishop’s... Read More

The title of "Modern Poetry" suggests a nod to a major movement of the twentieth century, one that forever changed the landscape of poetry, as it was developed by legends like Eliot, Stevens, Pound, Stein, and others. Unfortunately, the... Read More

In her debut poetry collection, "Storm Farmer", Tracey Gass Ranze reflects upon the details of her world with passion and an underlying sense of joy. Whether she’s writing about the connection she feels to the Delaware River, which... Read More

There’s a curious trend among some contemporary poets to produce collections that include annotations, backstory, and personal history. In the introduction to Deidre Alexander’s Making of a Poet: Reflections in Verse, editor J. Ralph... Read More

Writing from the Welsh poetic tradition with its emphasis on musicality and landscape, Lee Robinson adds another voice to that culture’s literature. The poet moves from his personal history to the very distant past of the Celtic... Read More

Married love, the simple satisfactions of daily routines and habits around the home and garden, light and darkness, and ruminations about aging and dying give this third collection by Michael Millar substance and form. There are also... Read More