Christopher Locke's new collection of poetry MUSIC FOR GHOSTS is a visceral testament to youth and hubris, erasure and forgiveness. The heart of these poems straddle the space between the personal and the universally lived, where the past can shatte...
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SMOKE & MIRRORS spills torment, agony, small miracles and a blind lust for life no matter what the cost. When we look closely and peel back the façade of perfect skirts, soft skin and angelic smiles, we see. We see the ugly, the truth and everything...
Barry Wallenstein's poetry, from his first book in 1977 to now, addresses his awareness of time's swift passing. The poems continue this time-honored theme and its attendant thoughts and emotions. Now in his eighth decade this theme is paramount. Wh...
Ryan Quinn Flanagan's MINOTAUR SNOW is an urban menagerie of very human poems. Difficult situations, individual foibles, that unescapable rush of the modern city; the sights and sounds and smells and touch, all told with great humour and at times, c...
In TAKING THE F TRAIN, a New York City poet rides the F Train through the final years of the 20th century into the 21st; both gentrification and technology are rapidly transforming life as she has known it. Her old haunts…cafés, bookstores, diners,...
The road a poet travels is often littered with unrealized fragments, half-realized drafts, and unfinished poems that found their ways into a magazine but never earned their way into a book. If a poet is lucky, a few of such left-behinds might be “re...
Poetry. FAMILY PROMISES is a collection of poems that are like prisms that reflect Laura's unique blend of humor, irony and clarity. Her signature style of irreverence and honesty are in full display as she faces life's challenges without flinching....
Poetry. In his third collection, THE LATITUDE OF A MERCY, Stefan Lovasik offers a testament of unflinching immediacy, conflicted sensitivity, and lyric grace—poem after poem, wise without presumption, pared down to a breed of silent speech, the stub...
Poetry. Chris Haven's debut collection of poems, BONE SEEKER, celebrates the mystery of what we take into our lives and can't let go. In lyrics, prose poems, and persona poems from voices ranging from Marie Curie to Emma Darwin to Janis Joplin, we j...
Poetry. California Interest. Alexis Rhone Fancher tears the plain brown wrapper off erotica. She refuses to play safe, strips away pretense, intent on exposing the fragility, angst and longing lurking just below the sexual surface. EROTIC features p...
Poetry. LGBTQIA Studies. Michael Montlack's second collection of poems, DADDY, reminds us that many people in our lives are daddies to us in one way or another. With humbleness and respect, he pays homage to these many parents in his life while addr...
Poetry. In THE CALCULUS OF IMAGINARIES, Gerard Grealish explores in poetry not only the elusive and transitory aspects of the physical world, but also our misperceptions of what "reality" is and the ramifications of discovering that it is otherwise,...
Poetry. THE BACKWARDS YEAR collects poems written between June 2018 back to June 2017, more or less, in reverse order and juxtaposes the poet's childhood with love poems for his own neural atypical children, Clare and Gabriel. The book returns to ch...
Poetry. Tony Gloeggler writes narrative poetry with the lyrical nonchalance of everyday NYC language infused with splashes of Monk's jazzy stop and start, quirky intonations that interweave the past and present. WHAT KIND OF MAN is filled with stori...
Poetry. In THE THINGS I DIDN'T KNOW TO WISH FOR, Linda Hillringhouse follows May Sarton's dictate to "dare to be ourselves, however frightening or strange that self may prove to be." The first poem of the book, "New Dress," serves as the origin stor...