In Brandt Schubbe’s collection, The Auburn Book, the persona opens up in the narrative pieces giving us a glimpse of their difficult and sometimes chaotic life. These experiences are coupled with a revelation of their struggles and hopes. He narrates his struggles with bipolar disorder,...

The Myths of Girlhood by Christine E. Ray is a poetry collection that revolves around the theme of womanhood and everything it entails. The Myths of Girlhood is a stark book in the sense that it portrays the woman not simply as the stereotypical gentle,...

The Malignant Presidency (Volume 1) Donald Trump's White House Set to Satirical First Person Poetry by William Robinson is a hilarious, cleverly written collection of satirical first person poems, from Trump, to Clinton, Obama, and a host of others of notoriety. These poems come across...

Learning doesn’t just happen at school. The potential to learn is all around us: our parents, our siblings, our friends, our experiences, our joys and sorrows. When someone we love dies, we learn to grieve and then we learn to carry the love inside ourselves...

What can I say? Twelve by Kindra M. Austin is the most powerful thing I have read in recent memory. It may be the most powerful collection of poetry on the planet. It is real. It is honest and devoid of the pretentiousness of most...

When I read poetry, there’s always something that stands out above all else. Even poetry about romance and love has some element of surprise that captures my soul and my imagination. I am always fascinated with how poets use or describe eyes. The eyes are...

In the 42 poems collected in The Night I Burned My Origami Skin, Romanian-born writer Catalina Florina Florescu ranges through a wide swath of human experience, delving into both the deeply personal and the broadly political. Likewise, there is a variety of poetic styles, some...

The Last Jazz Fan and Other Poems by Kenneth Salzmann is a short collection of poetry that touches on the unique experiences and inspiration of the poet. While short in length, the thirty poems within this collection touch on many subjects including nature, culture, the...

Relationships are hard, especially romantic relationships. The love shared can fill a person, only to tear them up when everything falls apart. Life is hard; love is even harder. Love lost can leave behind scars that fracture the soul and are difficult to heal. In...

The world around us is filled with beauty in the people, in the events, in the world itself, and yet it can be difficult to see that beauty for ourselves. The poet is someone who can help us to see that beauty, but also to...