"The Rigid Body", Gabriel Spera’s second poetry collection, is a knockout fight against physical rigidity. While the rigid body signifies death in this collection, the poet does not limit his scope to only skin and bone, carrying... Read More

Too often, when contemporary poets employ humor, they do so at the expense of their art. The potential for sublimity and poetic revelation in language seems to be diminished by its inclusion. The poems end up feeling cheapened or even... Read More

The smallest of moments can have great meaning. The short poems in Daniel Micheal Hermon’s "Travelling in the Mind" touch on many things, from the look of “a great church” and a one-toothed man to a beloved cat and clouds in the... Read More

Sometimes the story behind a book is more interesting than the collection itself. In "Listening to Africa", Raab travels to Africa in the wake of a devastating second cancer diagnosis. Her husband and three grown children come with her.... Read More

This title of this anthology suggests writing evocative of a place where nature acts as the primary metaphor. It also implies that a certain allegiance to the land binds the writers of the work collected within. Under Sonoran Skies does... Read More

Richard C. Hampton served as a Navy corpsman for over twenty-one years and was decorated for heroism during Operation Iraqi Freedom. He is one of the courageous Americans who has seen the horrors of war and learned to heal from the... Read More

Poetry can be an intimate affair, if the poet is willing to let down defenses and share every fear and insecurity, as well as triumphs and tribulations, with the reader. In "Dancing, with Mirrors", George Amabile does so boldly and... Read More

How many variations can one person find in the sonnet, the poetic form made famous by Petrarch, Spenser, and Shakespeare for their particular tailoring of it to suit their designs? The Canadian poet Wayne Clifford has added himself to... Read More