Afghan poet M. S. Adam-Zad’s "The Expression Garden" embraces a series of poetic clichés—rainbows, love poems, and flowers. Certainly, poets have made these topics new in any number of ways, but that is not the case in Adam-Zad’s... Read More

Some people write poetry as an enjoyable pastime or hobby, others use it as a more creative form of journaling or a path to spiritual healing. Some find pleasure in engaging language as music and medium, some find the discipline is a... Read More

Poet Alise Versella is barely into her twenties, yet the majority of the poems she has crafted in her debut collection use fresh imagery and resist clichés. Even though she is young, she does not take her youth for granted, as shown in... Read More

Guy Bala’s "Memories, Thoughts, and Dreams" features twenty-eight poems celebrating common aspects of nature and grieving the end of a romantic relationship. Using symbolic elements such as seasons, flowers, beauty, and the... Read More

In "Perspectives", Charles R. Barfield’s poetry takes on a number of complex themes: race, urban poverty, civil rights, love, and the breakdown of the body. His background in public service gives him a unique perspective from which to... Read More

Lloyal High Cloud Walker notes in "Alpha State Writings", “Alpha State is that state often achieved in meditation, wherein the brain produces mostly Alpha waves.” Each piece in Walker’s collection of general musings, poems, and... Read More

In this odd and often repetitive collection of journal entries, e-mails, letters to the editor, midnight scribblings, disjointed poems, badly rhymed limericks, and muddled diary entries, Philip Fletcher chronicles the physical, mental,... Read More

In "Feelings Poetry", Gary McLauchlan attempts to capture and convey the deep emotions of his heart. McLauchlan’s more than sixty poems cover a wide variety of topics from family, prayer, teddy bears, the news, bullying, and natural... Read More