Recollect 1960: a time when many artists were courting Eastern thought and deconstructing western literary formalism. Enter Margaret Avison, a poet’s poet, a metaphysical poet, perhaps an academic poet lauded for her sometimes... Read More

How exactly did the world-renowned playboy come to be, and what was it that made him tick? Kildare Dobbs’ most recent poetry collection, Casanova in Venice: A Raunchy Rhyme, provides insight into these questions and more as he takes... Read More

Fans of the prolific Canadian poet P. K. Page, rejoice. Not only is her newest selected poems, Kaleidoscope: Selected Poems, available, but the collection will eventually be accompanied by an online scholarly edition to aid in research... Read More

A relationship changes over time. There is love, lust, heartbreak, confusion, and much more linked to romance. Ramona Saunders’s poetry collection, "Messages from the Heart", focuses on chronicling the many twists and turns of a... Read More

It is as alien as one might suppose, Life On Mars, and yet there are familiarities—David Bowie, head cocked; Universal Studios, prolific as ever. In her third collection of poetry, Tracy K. Smith, takes us on a cinematic journey to the... Read More

“I’m here to recall what I never knew,” writes Baron Wormser in “Abandoned Asylum, Northampton, Massachusetts,” the final poem in this fine collection. While he may never have been there himself, Wormser’s poetry successfully... Read More

Raymond Reininger, New Jersey Senior Poet Laureate and author of the verse anthology Silhouettes in White, serves up a second delicious compilation called Everyone Loves Raymond. In his acknowledgements, the author asserts his writing... Read More

The human transformation from immigrant to American is the focus of this lovely volume, which spans more than forty years of the poet’s profound, sensitive attention to people who arrived in the United States seeking refuge or pursuing... Read More