The title of George Peltekian’s poetry collection is accurate: it’s packed full of "Poems Galore". This poet is bold: he tackles such big dog topics as God, politics, and human nature, and he does so with straight-up, often humorous... Read More

Journey to Enlightenment: Revealed maps the territory between the individual’s desire to improve and the limitations imposed by relative poverty and outside authority. The crafted free verse is largely unrhymed covering themes from... Read More

“Poetry became my escape,” the author writes. “It became my way of expressing how Parkinson’s affected my life. It eventually became a safe way of communicating my feelings to the world that otherwise would have been left... Read More

O public road, I say back I am not afraid to leave you, yet I love you, you express me better than I can express myself. —Walt Whitman, “Song of the Open Road,” from Leaves of Grass (1892) This reverence of grace in the twilight... Read More

…so God please use me to try to take a stand against the atrocities of the soul *—*from “My Daddy’s Records” The Looking Heart: Poetic Expressions From Within, a convergence of spirit and emotion, is an ambitious effort of one... Read More

*You are not to be walked on, spit on, ridiculed or discounted. —*from “Hopeful” A certain kind of valued friend senses the need for encouragement and leaves an unexpected note where they know you’ll stumble on it. Michelle... Read More

I was on fire, and no one will dare tell me different. —from “A Chain Unbending” "Tattoos and Scars" is a dichotomy on the theme of self-destruction, alternately rejecting and embracing it. Steven Leake II knows much about... Read More

There’s no doubt this is a title that compels the reader to pick up the book. Between the covers are101 reasons, and 101 not-to reasons to do the deed, paired with promising titles and designed like prose poems. The pieces are... Read More