If life is a game, then curveballs come out of nowhere and storms threaten even the brightest days. Patricia Etienne’s collection of twenty poems and two short stories chronicles the pursuit of happiness in a world filled with tragedy.... Read More

In his poem “A Psychiatrist’s Double Life,” Richard M. Berlin takes readers to the heart of his collection: “I became a doctor-poet / and my colleagues shunned me twice, / once out of fear I could read / their minds, and again... Read More

“You write in your time. You are of that time,” said Tess Gallagher in a 1999 interview. She was speaking of her 1976 award-winning Instructions to the Double, often lauded as showcasing a woman’s voice published when women were... Read More

In the general silence of a Cistercian abbey, one might hope for the numinous to reveal itself—and so it does in John Slater’s poems. From the very first poem in this first collection, Slater, a Cistercian monk, promises that “here... Read More

In Marcus Jackson’s first collection of poems, "Neighborhood Register", the poet reveals himself as no ordinary chronicler of the places and people and events that make up a neighborhood, for his love seeps into every chink in the... Read More

There are two sides to every coin, and a writer’s inner and outer worlds are both separate and intertwined. This dual reality is evident in Evelyn Cole’s poetry collection From a Train Window: Two Faces of Evy. Divided into five... Read More

Living on the margins of life can be isolating, but it can also give birth to great freedom. Malcolm Randall understands this. The poems and short essays included in "The Malchemist Apprentice" chronicle Randall’s childhood and adult... Read More

Readers expect superlative performances from celebrated writers and artists when they present new works to the public. The most recent publication in Welcome Books’ Art & Poetry series, Love’s Exquisite Freedom, a love poem by... Read More