Trials and Tribulations by Liv Kalay Hernandez is a 24-page collection of poetry and is a diary in verse about anger, rage, disappointment, and hard times as demonstrated by such poems as Walking Through Hell, Bleed, and Snake Eyes. But then a few poems of...

Poetry is one of the many outlets people use to convey messages. This Side of Heaven: A Poetic Journey of Strength and Survival by Kreceda W Tyler is a collection of poems written from a heart of compassion. The author describe a tragic event that...

The Shadow of the Mind's Heart by Cheryllynn Dyess is a collection of poems that deal with the darker side of our emotions and the dark thoughts most of us have. There are poems on heartache, and even thoughts on suicide. I particularly enjoyed the...

Because I have been dealing with depression for a couple of decades, I wanted to read The Silent Roses by author C. Handy because it was listed as a poetry collection involving the topic of depression, inspired in part by his life. Inside I found...

The Thesoddy by JD Peterson is a crazy version of Homer's Odyssey set on a distant planet with a lot of crazily named people and creatures. It starts with an introduction to this world and the writer who is being 'translated' in the story to...

The Museum: A Collection of Dark Poetry by Kristen Flood offers a series of spectacularly dark vignettes drawn from several sinister, dystopian museums where humans, deprived of place or purpose, are on display in the form of macabre experiments. In glass-walled cells, they try to...

The Unattainable Shakes Loose My Tongue: Poems by James F. Vickery, Volume Three is an interesting collection of poems that vary in style and tempo. It is a large collection that pays homage to a lot of different things in this man's life, from his...

The Silent Compass by Serene Martin is a collection of poetry that will make you reflect on your life. In a piece titled "Spilled Milk," Martin pens the lines, "Cause time wasted will soon be karma tasted, Which battles are worth fighting? Which words are...

The Girl with The Blue Umbrella is Heather Awad’s debut collection of observational and thoughtful poems. A very readable collection that covers a whole variety of themes around everyday life, and what it is to live and be human. Relationships, the passing of time, memories,...

The Trees Outside: Family Tree, the Novel is a collection of poetry with an essay and an excerpt from author Andrea Carr’s debut novel, Family Tree, the Novel. The author explains in her introduction that The Trees Outside is not a sequel to Family Tree,...