We can never be quite sure what powers a poet draws upon, where exactly she gets her mojo. Chelan Harkin discovered it the hard way: at the bottom-most point of mental and emotional suffering she was mystically blessed with creative... Read More

Between. Not here, not there. Not this, or that. Somewhere but not someplace. Not easy to put your, wrap your, place your—but confidence, and masterful touch with language, is what makes Esteban Rodríguez a credible, incredible even,... Read More

Care, from carry: as happens mysteriously in utero; from what was once her single-selfed existence, the poet assumes the burdens of maternity—a carrier‘s nine-month care package that stretches into motherhood and beyond. In "Each... Read More

Personable and unapologetic, the poems collected in "Northwest Poems" are spirited in their observations of the mundane. Playful, introspective, and sometimes elegant, C. E. Rivers’s poetry collection "Northwest Poems" narrates the... Read More

The interactive picture book "Imagination Blast" utilizes rhyming poems and illustrations to enhance children’s perspectives of the world and themselves. In Vicky-Lyn Ashby-Harris’s picture book Imagination Blast, poems are paired... Read More

Each gentle poem of the artful collection "Arcadia and Other Poems" resembles an intimate, personal missive. More than a poetry collection, Robert Brooks’s "Arcadia and Other Poems" is an artifact. Bound in hardcover, hand-lettered,... Read More

A paean to beauty, honor, and truth, "Bare Witness" is an expansive poetry collection that delights in experimentation. A fifty-year career retrospective, Joseph Small’s "Bare Witness" gathers beautiful images that attest to a lifelong... Read More

The prose-poetic pieces collected in "Poetic Beauty" struggle with love, honor, and eternal questions about the nature of reality and time. The poems and micronarratives of John Thomas Qua’s literary collection "Poetic Beauty" are... Read More