Reaching to lyric heights, "Embers" is an empathetic poetry collection that speaks to consequential universal experiences. Howard Giskin’s somber poetry collection "Embers" concerns death, time, and memory. Among the book’s poems are... Read More

Anything can spark and hold a memory according to Dorothy Chan’s poetry collection "Return of the Chinese Femme". Across five sections, the poems’ speaker luxuriates in memories of childhood, family, and past and current lovers.... Read More

A work of primordial feminine beauty, "Night of the Hawk" is a poetic pleasure. Sarah Lawrence graduate Lauren Martin’s "Night of the Hawk" is an expansive book of poetry. Reading this panoramic collection is like flying, circling the... Read More

Friendly and wise, the poems collected in "Connections" muse through heady contemporary topics. Pairing text with photographs, Ian Stott’s poetry collection "Connections" distills wisdom from lived experiences. Written in a friendly,... Read More

Moving through the ambiguities of language—English, Spanish, and Paraguay’s Indigenous Guaraní—the grin of a big cat shadowing his every unstealthy step through North and South American habitats and fixed ideas of manhood, Diego... Read More

Herman Melville—mystic, orca oracle, and madness miner—left treasures of material for poets in Moby-Dick, and Steve Mentz found his muse in the idea of an Ahab-less Pequod—a multiracial, queer, and cruisier ship on a bountifully... Read More

Do perps read poetry? Is poetry’s perpose to take aim at the malevolence in all of us? Jordan Pérez would like a word with you. An expert in online safety and childhood sexual abuse prevention, she has been published in Poetry... Read More

“Reader, I married him”—–yes, Corey Van Landingham did. Jane Eyre acknowledgements aside, looks to the heavens to help comprehend just what that makes her. As her sidekick, we’re in for a dazzling ride of allusion, wit,... Read More