Under Your Nails: Poems of Love, Loss, and Healing by Lauren Marelli is a collection of original poetry, each piece ranging in length, tone, and tenor. The titular poem, Under Your Nails, describes an act of forced exposure, where one’s body and identity are unwillingly...

In this captivating poetry collection, George H. Northrup explores the human condition through a wide range of themes. Everyone's Going features a collection of both intimate and observational poems that address topics related to the complexities of aging, death, loss, and grief. Each piece reflects...

Scientific research on a cure for HIV has come a long way since the 1980s. But there is still progress to be made. With Holding HIV, Pauline Sameshima, Emily Turner, and Dazié Grego-Sykes present an enthralling collection of poems. Inspired by members of San Francisco's...

Two Spirits Here by Louise DeVito is a poetry collection that helps you face your tender spots when life is burdened by grief and personal struggles. Louise teaches us to process the significant or painful milestones in our lives by looking closely at the world...

“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...

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...

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...

Words from the Sky: Dedicated Poems to each Heavenly Word by Rayan Abdul-Baki is a collection of spiritually uplifting poems that looks at life in a positive manner. The author speaks about life in general, dedicates poems to his mother, tsunami victims, victims of racism,...

Augustine Sam's Flashes of Emotion: A Collections of Poems is romantic poetry that looks into a vast array of subjects: love, pain, death and other life matters that evoke our sentiments. Having read his previous work, Take Back the Memory, a contemporary women’s fiction, I...

As Glaciers Move by Joseph Whitson is a lovely book of poetry. Whitson has attempted to outline his whole life with poetry. Various episodes appear, including everything from birth to death; first love to marriage. It would seem that one is reading Whitson's most intimate...

With the rapid destruction of Earth's ecosystem due to human impact, we must ensure that future generations learn from our mistakes and acquire the knowledge and wisdom to save the planet. Poetry collections like May We Learn From the Earth by Robert J. Tiess are...

Michael Pedretti’s Nonpareils: 53 Panegyric Poems is a collection of panegyric poems centered on people whose lives are defined by giving rather than taking. Organized into carefully structured sections, the book moves through exemplars, performers, creators, family, biblical figures, and reflective self-portraits, presenting individuals whose...

Grain by Doug Bentley is an erudite, insightful, and provocative poetic journey through the mystical regions of the human psyche. From first word to last, this thought-provoking volume of sonnets and free verse begs to be pondered - to be mulled over and savored like...

Dreamy First Love and Unforgettable First Loss: Little Heartfelt Poems by Charlie High is a book of poetry that reminds us all that, once upon a time, we were young. As I say this out loud, my husband is giving me the stink eye. Yes,...

PushBack: Selected Poems of Resistance by Richard L Rose is a fascinating collection of poems that will make readers contemplate the nuances, intricacies, and complexities of life. The wonderful imagery, metaphors, and juxtapositions will offer vivid sketches of the profundities that nature offers us. The...

Upon opening Paul Kaplan's The Thingy That’s Stringy (and Other Ridiculous Poems), young readers enter a playful world of everyday moments and familiar objects that turn into ridiculously silly rhymes. This book is full of short poems that bounce quickly from deli counters selling laughs...

Khaya Dawn Klanot clearly expresses the definition of a real friend in her poem "A True Friend". In "A Rainbow of Moods", the author expresses the emotions and moods that she associates with colors. Parents will appreciate the words in "A Very Busy Family". "My...

Laurell L.M. Wright’s “Yearnings of the Heart” is an ebullient collection of prayers, testimonials, psalms and affirmations of the wondrous power of Christ’s redeeming love. Through many scenarios, witnessed in diverse voices, readers will find both comfort and inspiration for any milepost on their journey...

Hypnopoetics…Modern Love Poems and Hypnopoetics Inductions, by Phil Billitz, is the hopeful lover’s tool for seduction. In this special collection of poems, Billitz uses carefully crafted rhythm, meter, and rhyme to create mesmerizing poems that are designed to relax and woo your potential lover. These...

Poet Angel Aranda is the author of Mono No Aware: A Poem For A Transient Being Called Love. This poem/book illustrates young love that survives both time and distance. "Mono no aware" is a Japanese term meaning sensitivity to things. The term expresses “nothing lasts...