In Out of Context, poet Thom Kudla offers a series of sardonic, heartbreaking and often inexplicably poignant observations on the futility and joy of being fundamentally human. The human condition has existed for as long as there have been poets to muse upon it, and...

Thomas Kudla’s poetry is fresh, inventive, playful, wise, insightful, musical, revealing (in the particular way that only simple questions, simply asked, can be), and always engaging. In Commencement, Kudla leads his reader through an abecedary of poetic observations, followed by similar riffs based on numbers,...

In Reflections: Home and Abroad, Gary E. Miller plays with words the way a shaman casts bones, looking for meaning in the patterns they make as they fall. The result is a fascinating, telegraphic series of images revealed in much the same way that lightning...

Letters: Building an Alphabet with Art and Attitude (ABC… the Art and Poetry of the English Alphabet Explained in a Philosophical Verse of Rhythm and Rhyme) by Peter N. Liptak is a light-hearted discourse on the twenty-six letters that make up the English alphabet. Cleverly...

A Time to Cry: A Poetic Memoir of Madness, Depression, and Unrequited Love by Paul Kloschinsky is exactly what the title suggests: a brooding, introspective, and cathartic journey through depression, lost love, and unfulfilled promises. Those in the throes of this unholy trilogy of debilitating...

Life in Suspension: La Vie Suspendue (English and French Edition) is a collection of poetry written by Helene Cardona. The poet is also a translator, editor of an anthology of Poetry and Aesthetics, and an essayist. The poetry in this collection was originally written in...

I Come to Morning: Selected Poems of Gale Gesner has an intriguing history. The author, Gale Gesner, was the daughter of the widely acclaimed American artist and sculptor, Galed Gesner, and she chose to use the name Gale, rather than Leonora-Louise, the names of her...

Reverberations: A Compendium of Haikus and Photography by Charles E. Rawlings MD, JD is a thoughtful collection of Haiku and photography that anyone with a bit of the poet or artist in their soul will enjoy immensely. Haiku is a traditional poetic form from Japan....

There are many times in one’s life that the world might seem to spin around in poetic eloquence. A simple view of summer with the rising and setting sun, childhood play in the great outdoors, the undeniable magic of believing in Santa – these are...

Everyone’s Happier Than You by James Zerndt is a collection of poems that speaks about a wide range of topics and reveals the author’s observations on them. Written in free verse, the poems are filled with rich imagery, layered emotions, and wonderful metaphors. The poet’s...