Alessandra Gelmi’s collection, Ring of Fire: Selected Poems 1972-2008, brings together poetry that touches in one way or another on the topic of suffering. Don’t expect these more than two dozen poems to be anything like any other poems about suffering that you have read....

New Dawn by Saumya Bansal is an ebullient celebration of a world full of opportunity and ripe with promise. Saumya Bansal’s poems refuse to accept defeat and, in so doing, scuttle any naysayers. These effervescent verses run joyfully like clear water over rocks. This young...

Healing Words by Terri Kelley is a beautiful collection of poetry that handles diverse emotions in everyday lives. The author's expressions in verse will give readers a better understanding of topics like happiness, joy, loss, death, friendship, breakup, relationships, divorce, health, and more. Each poem...

Peter: Crank's Time by William O'Brien is a wonderful collection of poems and tiny thoughts. It is originally based on Peter: A Darkened Fairytale and the poetry is almost mystical. I would describe it as being about magic and fairies as well as other aspects...

Peter: The World by William O'Brien is a wonderful collection of short poems and tiny thoughts. The book is separated into two parts, The Light and The Dark. Each part is unique in its entirety and each is as mesmerizing. The Light examines the delightful...

India Blake’s Captured, like the sublime black and white photographs that accompany each of the inspired poems it contains, is an exercise in duality - here is no compromise; no middle ground. India Blake offers, in this series of verse portraits, an uncompromising look...

Strange Life by Eleanor Lerman is a collection of poems that speaks to readers on many levels. They are direct and honest and they take us through a journey of myriad emotions that dominate life and living in general. The simplicity and symmetry in her...

The Shadow Of Leticia by Jean Paul Ernst Brutus is a collection of romantic poems written by the poet for his late wife. The poet has captured their years of marriage through his words. Every poem is filled with a lot of emotions and readers...

In a world where so many creative artists weary themselves with the effort of trying to find anything new to say, it is a rare pleasure to find a poet who speaks about familiar, universal things in simple, straightforward verse clearly intended to warm the...

A collection of 33 original short stories and 22 poems, David Podlipny’s A Basement: A Collection of Short Stories and Poems (Alphabet) is enjoyable yet partly a conundrum to me. The short stories are presented at the start of this collection, and I had to...