Like  “winged psalms of love and loss,” sung by “swallows by the river,”…

  To Look After and Use (Finishing Line Press, September 2019) uses the life and…

  Here, We Bury the Hearts presents us with an apparent paradox: how can a…

  James Green offers the reader these poetic, wavering dreams, these prayers to earth and…

  The poems in George Eklund’s ALTAR avoid screaming and distance themselves completely from the…

  Francine Conley writes with a raconteur’s wit and craftsman’s ear for the frisson between words. In What…

  In Charles Halsted’s poignant debut, the reader journeys from first beers to medical school,…

  In these vivid, spare poems, Arthur Powers lifts you up and transports you into…

***** “A dogged and indefatigable forager of the radiant, Casillas takes us on an expedition…

  Itala’s portrait poems are an artist’s tracings of imagined lives. From hairdresser to lawyer,…

  The Salty River Bleeds is a juicy tale in verse that draws us into…

  Anastasia Clark has a natural knack for drawing her readers into her poems, and…

  “Stand Still in the Light,” Milton Bates urges us in his title. Stand still…

  Tara Shea Burke writes with so much goddamn intensity that it feels like looking…

  Pretty in A Hard Way by Michelle Brooks is a captivating and remarkable book. Like…

  There are seven poets who have written poems to light up the little universe…

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  I love Tricia Coscia’s poems, her details of common lives both tragic and uplifting,…

  Julia Knowlton’s poems are vulnerable, tough, and brave –sharp as silver, clean and stunning. Beautifully…

  “What a gift, to see the natural world as it is, minute and filled…