Coulda, Shoulda, Woulda: Lessons, Learnings, and Insights From a Mother About her Daughter's Battle with Cancer by Kenna Marriott is the heart-wrenching story of a mother handling her daughter's battle with cancer. She shares with readers how it taught her to be positive even during...

Bleeding Gull: Look, Feel, Fly by Raed Anis Al-Jishi is a collection of poems exploring universal themes such as life, death and love as well as more contemporary ones like cancer and autism. The poems are short, fitting on one page, but the imagery and...

Every once in a while, a book of poetry comes into my possession that forces me to share it with others, whether they consider themselves poetry readers or not. Sherry Rentschler’s book, Paper Bones, is one of these books. As I read her poems, I...

Lines of poetry often communicate the deeper feelings that a person might have and, therefore, can give the reader a profound look into a person’s soul. Lost Memoirs from the Internal World is a great example of how the poetry of Sumit Allup has dealt...

Dreams to Dance in the Moonlight by Peter C. Stone is a delightful book of poetry. It questions one's perception of the world and it demonstrates the most exquisite verse. The poetry has many layers of depth to it and there can be several interpretations...

New Psalms for Old Sorrows, as it promises, is a collection of prayers based squarely on biblical foundations and containing relevant scriptures. It examines, through a series of prayer and personal musing, the relationship between God and human beings and also that of a person’s...

Just Because I'm Black by Sully Grand-Jean, MPA is a collection of poems about poetry, literature and history, and it is from the perspective of a poet who speaks about racism, black civilization, and black values. Written in an informal and easily comprehensible style,...

New Dawn by Saumya Bansal is an ebullient celebration of a world full of opportunity and ripe with promise. Saumya Bansal’s poems refuse to accept defeat and, in so doing, scuttle any naysayers. These effervescent verses run joyfully like clear water over rocks. This young...

Healing Words by Terri Kelley is a beautiful collection of poetry that handles diverse emotions in everyday lives. The author's expressions in verse will give readers a better understanding of topics like happiness, joy, loss, death, friendship, breakup, relationships, divorce, health, and more. Each poem...

India Blake’s Captured, like the sublime black and white photographs that accompany each of the inspired poems it contains, is an exercise in duality - here is no compromise; no middle ground. India Blake offers, in this series of verse portraits, an uncompromising look...