A Poem for When You Need It Most by Regan Noelle Smith reads like a personal journal meant to help you walk through the hardest, most painful seasons of your life. Regan skips past the easy platitudes to give you a look at the physical...

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...

Cyberpunk 1876 by Stephen Kagarise is a collection of poems inspired by words and phrases from The Daily Astorian, a historical newspaper. These poems wander through a world chasing after shiny prizes like gold bracelets, falling into habits like opium, and losing people along the...

Lauren Martin offers an intimate collection of poems in her book, Forgotten Lands. Through her poetry, Martin recounts her experiences and paints a vivid portrait of her life and the environment in which she grew up. She reveals her disillusionment with society, which continues to...

Circles in the Dirt is a collection of observational poetry by Roderick Makim. These poems delve into the very nature of life, showing how it varies over certain cycles of time. Storm brings the nostalgic echoes of childhood freedom, and it stops suddenly, like growing...

“No responsibilities but/ to sleep, eat and excrete.” Profound words about the beginning of one’s life. It’s poetry; the life of poetry, life in verse. In Fran Abrams’ Gathering Memories, Collecting Dust, a poet explores her life, from the first few hours of existence through...

Join the Flock and Other Poems by David Somerfleck is a very interesting poetry collection. I quickly found myself drawn into David Somerfleck's world. The poems move through memories, family stories, relationships, work experiences, and encounters with nature. There is no single storyline holding everything...

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?...

In Adelma, Where It Is Always Dusk by Roderick Makim is a wide-ranging collection of poetry and prose that moves between outback Australia, Southeast Asia, Antarctica, and the inner landscapes of memory, anger, and wonder. Makim grew up on a farm in the Gulf Country...

Somewhere Between Death and Dreaming by Christopher Sartin dives into the shadowy corners of life. The collection muses on death—it gets tangled up in betrayal, regret, guilt, and that unsettling urge for something darker. You get haunting stories: palm prints appearing where they shouldn’t, a...