Poetry and religion have enjoyed a long marriage in writers from St. John of the Cross and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Louise Gluck and Mark Jarman, as well as midrash writers like Adrienne Rich and Alicia Ostriker. Each writer uses sacred... Read More

Debut books of poetry often offer similar fare—first love, independence, Eros—but this volume offers a more mature perspective. Rather than first love, Paula Evans Archer examines parental love. Those seeking independence in these... Read More

A young man embarks on a journey to re-invent himself as a Christian man and pens a series of poetic prayers that document the joys and challenges he experiences along the way. As with any collection of poetry, "Situations Before Heaven"... Read More

In Life Is a Treasure, her second published book of verse, Jamaican Karen Ann Treasure writes of passion won and lost, internal struggle, God, and loving oneself. The narrators in these stanzas include paramours, sexually adventurous... Read More

In her eighth book, poet Gray Jacobik plunges readers deep inside the story of a mother looking back on her life with her first-born, a son born when she was still a teen. Written as one poem in twenty-three separate movements, Little... Read More

Daily life, Jacqueline Jones LaMon believes, is filled with the absences of people and stories. “This silence is the source of these poems,” she writes. Inspired by photos of missing people, this collection responds by imagining the... Read More

How is the heart won? Laughter certainly loosens the bars; cleverness occupies the mind, leaves the creature unprotected. After that the heart is easily cleaved in two. Troy Jollimore sneaks up on you. You’ll think the clap upside the... Read More

Lynna H. M. Roane’s collection revolves around familiar themes in poetry: family, love, and faith. She writes in a style reminiscent of spoken-word poetry, with its rhythmic pulse and easy familiarity. The book contains three sections... Read More