Budding Reverie by R.S. Sinclair is a heartfelt collection of 60 poems, each thoughtfully paired with peaceful, delicate sketches. Sinclair takes readers on an emotional journey through love, loss, mental health struggles, and healing, cleverly aligning the seasons with the phases of the heart. The...

Poetry is one of the most effective mediums to convey personal experiences in a way others can relate to. In Between These Bones, Freya Sharp shares her personal experiences through mesmerizing verses that strike at the deep reaches of your soul. This intimate poetry collection...

Bubblegum Heart and Other Elastic Things by Quazaye Konkel includes a variety of poetry themes from love, abundance, wisdom, and pain to loss that readers will be able to easily resonate with. As the author divulges the various aspects of relationships through words of transparency,...

Sarah Erin's Behind Her City Eyes is a heartfelt love letter to the woman she is profoundly in love with. The poems are LGBTQ+ inspired and convey her love for New York City. In addition to learning about the subject of the author's unfulfilled and...

Bubbly By The Sea by B. K. Sweeting is an aesthetic collection of short poems with diverse themes. It will take readers on an exciting journey that will pull them into the poems to feel, see, and learn. The collection has been divided into two...

There is a lot to enjoy in Scharlie Martin’s collection of poems entitled Brandy Apple Days n’ Dandelions. The aspect that intrigued me most was the differences. There I would be reading a poem that features a prosaic airport scene, and I would find myself...

Poetry is not just words. Poetry is an expression of words and language that stimulates an emotion or feeling. Through these emotions and feelings arises a potpourri of thoughts; this is what helps to create poetry. By reading Blu Diamonds by Kevin Hollingsworth, I must...

Matt Nagin’s Butterflies Lost Within The Crooked Moonlight is a collection of poetry that speaks about all aspects of life. The voice that crosses every page feels like defibrillation treatment. It has a commanding jolt that makes the reader sit up and take almost immediate...

Only a small percentage of poetry can move me. I like Poe and I’m fond of Japanese Haiku. Maybe that is why I liked Paul Tait’s Boston Dialect: Volume Two so much. Most of it is sharp, insightful and to the point. But some of...

Sheen Francis Reyes has divided the poems that comprise Brave Vulnerable into three chapters, written over an eighteen-month period of her life: Coastal Cliff, Treacherous Mountain, and Misty Lake. The poetry is freestyle, as her subject demands, and they record her journey from passionate love,...