A Body Made of Shadows by Joseph Miguel is a jarring collection of poems and dark art that really digs into the rot of modern life. The author writes with a nervous, frantic energy, almost like a midnight journal someone pulled out of a burning...

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...

Journey of Smooth J: Basketball to Poet by Joseph Hill is a collection of poems that looks into the lives and struggles of Black men in America. Hill writes about more than just hardship. You get poems about love, passion, and relationships that run on...

Adversology: Unconstitutional Stories by Avalok is an illuminating poetry collection that encourages you to confront societal ills head-on. When civil discourse gets thrown out the window in a sovereign republic, anarchy takes root in society. Sometimes, you have to dig deep and push yourself to...

Author Avalok brings readers yet another mesmerizing collection of poems with Poems of Captain Coddiwompler: Tacking Onwards. The book opens with a poem in which the narrator searches for light and hope through imagination and poetic creativity. The narrator finds peace and joy trekking in...

Disconnected is an absorbing collection of short stories and poems by Vivian Herkes. An emotionally drained man who can only connect to his feelings by writing letters on behalf of others finds himself in the midst of a deadly lovers' quarrel. A bright young man...

Author Rob Vogel presents an enthralling collection of poetry and poetic narratives in A Horizon Filled with Nebelous Clouds. Poetry aficionados will love that all these poems vary in structure and style, ranging from sonnets to observational and introspective pieces that really make you think...

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...