As an author and educator, I have always believed in the power of the written word, in its power to shape and reveal our innermost thoughts to others. Free verse poetry, in particular, with its freedom of structure, allows the poet to declare thoughts that...

The elegiac latest offering from Rob Vogel, a Dutch-born poet who spent many years in Ireland, is a collection of captivating short poems about seasonal change and grief. Those Grieving Raindrops melds rhymed verse, sonnets, and looser, prose-like pieces with a clear emotional throughline. The...

Dan Flanigan’s Tenebrae is a collection of original poetry that examines a marriage carried into widowhood through memory and confession. Among them, in the poem Quills, quoted speech and recurring porcupine imagery show spouses mistaking self-protection for devotion until sobriety alters their life together. Certain...

Andrew Daniels’s Tomorrow’s Rain is a collection of poetry that functions as a phantasmagorical seven-day journey along the shores of Washington state. The collection introduces a solitary speaker who drifts between sea and desert, traverses the footprints of giants, and crosses the Narrows Bridge. Part...

Two Spirits Here by Louise DeVito is a poetry collection that helps you face your tender spots when life is burdened by grief and personal struggles. Louise teaches us to process the significant or painful milestones in our lives by looking closely at the world...

Time Measured Out! Navigating Life's Journey Through Poetry is a beautiful poetry collection in which author Larada Horner-Miller tells her own life story in verse. These poems reflect the highs and lows of her life and everything in between. In one of the poems, the...

Life is full of minimalist moments. In nature, society, and the world around us, these moments reflect our sense of being, who we are, how resilient we are, and how we observe and introspect. When one really thinks about it, does life have a shape?...

“I glory in thy courage; I tremble with thy sorrow. Both are seeds. Plant them with me in soil that barters not with truth.” In Sergio Melicio de Bel’s The Gospel of Poetic Frolic, life is a mirage of pain and sorrow, shadow and light,...