Directly and urgently, Gregory Austin makes a case for change in his collection "End Times Prose and Poetry". Only people can decide to save the earth by taking the necessary steps toward change at home and by urging lawmakers, leaders,... Read More

South African poet A.E. Ballakisten’s latest collection of poems seethes with rage over the violence humanity inflicts upon itself and the natural world. Hope flickers amid the bleakness via the voices of Desmond Tutu, British nurse... Read More

In Poetry, Transcendence and the Search for Wisdom, a hybrid book of poetry and memoir, George Lysloff questions life after death, religion, and the cosmos. He acknowledges that his advancing age and the loss of family and friends,... Read More

Poetry and religion have enjoyed a long marriage in writers from St. John of the Cross and Gerard Manley Hopkins to Louise Gluck and Mark Jarman, as well as midrash writers like Adrienne Rich and Alicia Ostriker. Each writer uses sacred... Read More

Debut books of poetry often offer similar fare—first love, independence, Eros—but this volume offers a more mature perspective. Rather than first love, Paula Evans Archer examines parental love. Those seeking independence in these... Read More

Lynna H. M. Roane’s collection revolves around familiar themes in poetry: family, love, and faith. She writes in a style reminiscent of spoken-word poetry, with its rhythmic pulse and easy familiarity. The book contains three sections... Read More

This collection of poems celebrates the epigrammatic statement, sometimes intended to ironically amuse, but largely intended to thoughtfully provoke. Burhan uses very short poems, usually three lines or less, to muse on a variety of... Read More

Rife with classical allusions and inherited forms, this volume recollects a lost love and asks the eternal “What if …?” Often the allusions create distance between the writer and the material, such that those details which add... Read More