Thomas Kudla’s poetry is fresh, inventive, playful, wise, insightful, musical, revealing (in the particular way that only simple questions, simply asked, can be), and always engaging. In Commencement, Kudla leads his reader through an abecedary of poetic observations, followed by similar riffs based on numbers,...

Letters: Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude (ABC… the Art and Poetry of the English Alphabet Explained in a Philosophical Verse of Rhythm and Rhyme) by Peter N. Liptak is a light-hearted discourse on the twenty-six letters that make up the English alphabet. Cleverly...

A Time to Cry: A Poetic Memoir of Madness, Depression, and Unrequited Love by Paul Kloschinsky is exactly what the title suggests: a brooding, introspective, and cathartic journey through depression, lost love, and unfulfilled promises. Those in the throes of this unholy trilogy of debilitating...

Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (English and French Edition) is a collection of poetry written by Helene Cardona. The poet is also a translator, editor of an anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics, and an essayist. The poetry in this collection was originally written in...

I Come to Morning: Selected Poems of Gale Gesner has an intriguing history. The author, Gale Gesner, was the daughter of the widely acclaimed American artist and sculptor, Galed Gesner, and she chose to use the name Gale, rather than Leonora-Louise, the names of her...

All My Loves and Deaths is a collection of sixty poems by Adele Seronde. They have been written as a long and eventful life travels towards its end, and the content reflects this: family, friends and loves lost, experiences that age decrees can never be...

Without From Within: Poems by Ron Shaw is a collection of 43 poems that gives readers a peek into the heart and soul of the poet. The entire collection reveals a wide range of emotions, from pain to pleasure to loneliness to his observations on...

A collection of humorous, poignant and spiritual poems by William T. Elliott comprises the book, A War of Love. In the introduction, Mr. Elliott explains he wrote these poems over a span of thirty years. Many of the poems describe nature, whether the topic is...

William Barrington Worden, author of Christmas Sacred, has written a short but poignant book that very well may have changed my life forever, and inspired me to hold a sign like the vagrant during the Christmas season to remind people what it’s all about. I...

Adorable Scoundrels by Howard Eisenberg is a fun collection of short verses about bringing up toddlers or children. There are 43 poems, each accompanied by bright and colorful illustrations. Parents and grandparents everywhere will recognize and empathize with the humorous take on life with youngsters...