In "The Eyes of Wonder", poet Tina Emiliani offers much more than mere words: her pages are bursting with emotion, authenticity bleeds from the heart, soul, and memory of seventy years of life in her native Italy. The seventy-two poems... Read More

For readers who have not experienced Africa outside of the occasional National Geographic television special, Brent Cassan’s book of poetry will be educational. The poems, which are based on Cassan’s years of travel on the continent,... Read More

Distilling the bittersweet, capturing what it means to be creatures in love with a fleeting world of wonders—this is the specialty of poets. Adele Ne Jame’s poems are lovely examples of the art. In this beautiful collection, Ne Jame... Read More

This is a marvelous book: a debut collection filled with the voice of an old soul, someone who has battled to claim what he knows. James Crews’ compassionate intelligence ranges wide, looking for stories within the stories of news... Read More

Many writers refer to some kind of relationship with a muse or “channel”—a source of inspiration or even a voice—as in Rainer Maria Rilke’s famous Duino Elegies, which he claims were spoken to him while he wrote, as if in a... Read More

God’s words: Woman’s interpretation. In The Power of God’s Words, author Michelle L. Coley is at her best when her poetry stems from a place of sincerity. This is emotional poetry, from the heart. The poem “Clark” is a good... Read More

“Before we are forgotten, we will be turned into kitsch. Kitsch is the stopover between being and oblivion.”—Milan Kundera So begins the opening poem in Brian Barker’s second book, "The Black Ocean", and that epigraph frames the... Read More

Virgil Ballard’s Come Into My Garden: Volume Two contains nearly two hundred poems composed of cute rhymed stanzas that cover everything from macaroni to thwarted love. The tone runs towards the sentimental, even edging into Hallmark... Read More