In "Engaging Thoughts", Dr. Hubert Glover cobbles brief passages of Holy Scripture together with his free-verse musings to bring readers closer to the promises of God. His expressions are inspired by church services or his daily journeys... Read More

“Ay, in the very temple of Delight / Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine.” These lines from Keats’ “Ode to Melancholy” open the latest and third collection of poems by Jack Wiler, a New Jersey poet who died just after... Read More

The mid-nineteenth century saw the rise of Spiritualism, a religion which taught that people could communicate and interact with spirits in the afterlife. Practitioners participated in activities such as séances and card readings to... Read More

The ghost of Sylvia Plath seems to hover gently over Karla Kelsey’s newest offering, "Iteration Nets". With a lyrical ease and an interest in linking and exploding traditional forms, Kelsey is clearly an heir to Plath’s intensity.... Read More

“Since 1993, over 450 girls and women have been murdered in or near the cities of Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico, along the US–Mexico border,” Valerie Martinez writes. “…Despite local and federal investigations, intermittent... Read More

Hong Kong—bright lights, deep harbors, yearning, regret, hope, and all the complexities that come from being one of the densest places on earth. For-ty-two writers tackle the subject of Hong Kong in the new anthology edited by Xu Xi,... Read More

Michael Indemaio’s "Exaltation", which strives to convey the poet’s “passion and pain,” takes its philosophical inspiration from Romantic poet John Keats’ renowned statement, “beauty is truth, truth beauty.” Unfortunately,... Read More

Poets as disparate as Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Charles Baudelaire, and Thomas Moore have put pen to paper to write about music. Music is accepted as a universal language to which we all respond, and poetry’s oral tradition speaks to... Read More