Did you know that poetry can, and does, heal? Perhaps you haven’t read or written any recently, so you may not know this simple fact. In Claudia L'Amoreaux’s Red-winged Blackbird Calls Me Home, the poet reveals a deeper understanding not only of herself but of...

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...

A Collection of Poems by Kauveh Rusta brings together thoughtful poems about life, exile, love, death, and the search for identity. Every poem is accompanied by an abstract painting, which gives the words a visual story. Kauveh takes readers to Iran, a country he still...

Musings of a Dune Thistle by Oscar O’Neill-Pugh is a refreshing book of mostly free verse poetry. It often uses the imagery of nature to paint a picture of universally true life lessons. Everything about the poems seems very intentional, from the way they are...

Underwear Hat by Aubrey E. Drummond presents the author's thoughts, emotions, and experiences, captured in short verses that read like direct communication. The poems follow the arc of a speaker’s life, moving from the trembling joy of childhood and marriage to the challenges of widowhood...

Ready for some giggles? Ron Rich's 365 Limericks You Won't Find Anywhere Else will offer you a chuckle a day for an entire year. Open these pages, and you’ll meet Patty Price, who falls on ice; Terry Westin, who asks questions; Danny Dirk, who’s late...

Love Her Blind and Other Poems, an anthology by David Somerfleck, has deep philosophical themes and is rich in symbolism. Several poems see the unattainable fair woman take center stage, ever eluding the author, in which life can often be unforgiving and somber, but for...

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...