Art Cure: un-alone in Poetry by Mario Gabriel Adame is a collection of all-encompassing poems touching on every vital element of life - love, living, courage, forgiveness, inspiration, self discovery, trust, ecstasy and more. The poems tell tales of life's precious moments and memories, those...

“My body is an instrument. It transfers pain to melody so well.” Typically, non-fiction books about abuse – physical, mental, and emotional – are written from an observer’s point of view, even if the observer is the victim. Don’t Hit Me! by Vanessa de Largie...

I Can Help Take Care of Me is an educational story about Diabetes (Type 1) written by Yerachmiel B. Altman. This illustrated children’s book, written completely in rhyming poetry and using soft toys as patient, parent and doctor, talks of how the author was diagnosed...

Life: it’s very complex. It’s full of pain and sorrow, but it is also full of love and happiness. How does one express these deep emotions? How does one put down in words the passage of time, the meaning of life itself? It is a...

After the Chisholm by George Rhoades is a collection of poetry focusing on cowboys and cowgirls, and the countryside after the Chisholm trail was closed in the 1890s. Many of the poems, especially in the beginning, focus on the clash of cultures between what the...

Raja Williams’ Imprints In The Sand: Raja’s Insights is a collection of poems that explore thoughts and insights about life and our experiences as human beings. There are ninety-two pages of fairly short but inspirational and thought-provoking poems, written in a thoroughly readable, contemplative, and...

Crossing Places by Ernestine Cowalton is a collection of entrancing poems about love, loss, survival, and generally life and its twists and turns. Each of the poems tell a different story, but in a way they all come together to form one captivating read about...

Under Angel Skies by Liv Kalay Hernandez comprises twenty-eight poems. Unlike Ms Hernandez' Addicted to You, the first collection presented by this author that I had the pleasure of reviewing, they are mostly written in a traditional way rather than her previous freestyle. None are...

The GUMBO POT Poems: A Savory Recipe for Life, Community & GUMBO Through Poetry by Judy Sundayo, Alyce Smith Cooper, and Jaime V. Jones is a touching and emotional collection of poems written by an eclectic group of people about topics ranging from family life...

Markings in the Cave, a brilliant collection of short poems by Paul Tait, is a profoundly personal selection of one man’s musings – perhaps unheard by the silently attentive universe that he addresses. A theme emerges from these plaintive ruminations of the soul – an...