Too often spiritual poetry is so much card sentiment and stale repetition of religious dogma with little original thought or feeling. Poet Roger R. Mahaney rips away this curtain of ennui in his vibrant work "Seizing the Poem in the... Read More

Perverted Slinkys an ode to Paris Hilton’s cell phone and a poet’s relationship with his pens and pencils are just some of the jokes and jibes that make up Paul Kokkinis’ two-volume flip-book of drawings and poems. In the first... Read More

In an early poem David Huerta describes his own work and the context in which he writes: “Under a leaden sky words and syllables / were dancing in my throat.” Huerta one of Mexico’s leading poets (and the son of another famous... Read More

"In Search of Small Gods" is filled with what is most loved about Harrison’s work….nods to pure attentiveness. When he rises Harrison bows to the cardinal directions and to the vertical in order to place himself on the earth. These... Read More

For this author, the poet’s vocation is brutal, as knuckle-bloodying as any street fight. Consequently, the poems of his latest work are often chock-full of bravado, but in the end, the speaker admits his powerlessness: Why can’t the... Read More

We grow up hearing the adage that “History is told by the victors”—the notion that those in power possess jurisdiction over our shared story. In authorized versions of history, the prevailing orthodoxy decides whose lives were... Read More

In The Inner Sky: Poems, Notes, Dreams, even a Rilke scholar will find new work within this collection of the Ger-man writer’s notebooks and less-published writings. A mix of poems, prose, and unstructured musings, "The Inner Sky"... Read More

The poems of "Self-Portrait with Crayon" are haunted. There are no ghosts or goblins lurking, but rather an absent mother and Edgar Degas. The two apparitions seem unconnected until Allison Benis White skillfully commingles them. The... Read More