This collection of poems celebrates the epigrammatic statement, sometimes intended to ironically amuse, but largely intended to thoughtfully provoke. Burhan uses very short poems, usually three lines or less, to muse on a variety of... Read More

“[S]he sees, in common junk, a raw pizzazz / that’s worth preserving and, an avid hoarder, / builds shoebox reliquaries: dead bugs, pet / pebbles and shells, goose feathers, bits of string, / the last matryoshka stolen from a set /... Read More

The poems in James Vasquez’s poetry collection, "Words Jesus Spoke", take some of Jesus’ famous words, like his parables, and set them to traditional rhyming verse. Everything from the seven woes to the second coming and judgment are... Read More

Susan Terris’ sixth book of poetry, The Homelessness of Self, takes readers deep within the mental landscape of rootlessness. Her lyrical poems obsessively capture being unmoored, in that the poet never touches down long enough for... Read More

Shel Silverstein, A.A. Milne, and Ogden Nash have a sister-in-rhymes named Martha Sears West. Her poems, like theirs, tickle the funny bone, lift the spirits, and warm the heart. She focuses on the joy and magic of childhood, and how... Read More

Rife with classical allusions and inherited forms, this volume recollects a lost love and asks the eternal “What if …?” Often the allusions create distance between the writer and the material, such that those details which add... Read More

A good poem, it seems, is a delicately, perfectly crafted lie: a thin thread that coils around itself, telling a story that relates both to itself and to the world it knows we must believe in. A good poem leads us down a trail through... Read More

Waiting rooms everywhere tend to have certain things in common: insipid music, unimaginative decorating, and a dearth of quality reading material to occupy the bored, anxious, or ill people who pass their time in such places. It’s not... Read More