Poetry Books

A new constellation of wisdom and healing that is modern and timeless.Word by word, the poetic method and wisdom of Wendy E. Slater will radiate into your soul, and liberate you from constraints of self-blame and judgment."Wendy has an unusual...

Jessica Jacobs' In Whatever Light Left to Us is about how a great love for another woman got her to write it; poems infused not only with a serious and, at times, satiric and erotic understanding of the world facing intimacy, but poems that also...

A book of 129 poems that range from personal observations about human behaviour via physics and art/culture to perspectives on cites and politics.The book is divided into ten equal-length groupings of twelve poems each, plus...

She is CALM AT SUNSET, CALM AT DAWN, CALL IT COURAGE of the CAPTAINS AND KINGS of CAPTAIN COURAGEOUS, CAPABLE OF HORROR, CARRYING THE FIRE as one of her daily function.She is stronger than THE CASTLE OF IRON, wittier than THE CAT IN THE HAT, smarter than...

Part American history, part poetic memoir, part multifaceted and lyrical study of tender human life, Jacqueline Kudler's Ripenings is a trajectory, a richly detailed arco iris of ancestors, intimate family, lifelong loves, inevitable loss. "Revelation...

Healing the Heart and Mind: The Therapist's Workbook of Poetry allows the reader to enjoy author Steve Daily's poems and then reflect on the central messages and apply what they've learned using guided questions and a downloadable journal aspect. Through...

Say What I Am collects forty-nine of the best of the Old English riddles found in the Exeter Book, the largest surviving collection of Old English poetry, plus two more found in other manuscripts. Carefully translated by Ben Waggoner, these riddles...

Maybe it's because "A railroad line runs im-/mediately behind the/parietal lobe." Or maybe it's because "Phallic ritual is a/literary genre that blends/aspects of natural rubber/& cognitive therapy..." I don't know, but Mark Young's poetry opens out...

IS KNOT is: Poems, many incorporating visual elements, in English or Spanish or both, interspersed with visual poems, Fluxus-like texts, hacks, and collaborations. Written in 2016, it is a tour de force of Bennett's unique poetics."Your visuals are...

In the neighborhood of Jim Peterson’s Speech Minus Applause, the dog bowl refills itself. There is nothing and everything to do. Thought is the only sound, and strangers, friends, animals and loved ones, old and new, come and go like...

That Rain We Needed is one man's search for his place of true belonging in an imperfect world. Sometimes comical, other times poignant, always willing to be vulnerable-here Sam Barbee unfolds his map for negotiating family and its complicated...

In What My Hand Say, Glenis Redmond digs deep, risking peace of mind, the comfort of ignorance and the assurance of being numb to history and memory, to make poems that are urgent, full of alarm, and marked by the realization that the best art is one...

This wide-ranging, beautiful, and painful book reveals LaWanda Walters as a masterful, brave, and dangerous poet. As much at home with a disciplined free verse as with traditional forms, and as comfortable with narrative as with lyric, Walters delivers...

Not luminous, not ethereal, not numinous. These poems you are holding, as you do toothpaste or whiskey, are firmly sustained for use on earth. In mining her own life for material, Stella Padnos-Shea creates an intimate support circle for the living,...

Slow Dance with Sasquatch is an invitation into a private ballroom, a banquet hall in the middle of the woods.  Here, you will sit and feast and waltz with your monsters. Here, you will harvest imagination from loneliness and longing. Here, you...

Time Bomb Snooze Alarm is a raw, unflinching exploration of survival and identity in a world teetering on the edge. Through visceral poetry and stark imagery, Bucky Sinister delves into the depths of addiction, loss, and the dark humor that emerges from...

a multi-themed exploration in three sections. "Freshman" is a collection of stories on love and relationships, "Field Work" offers observations from travel to Nairobi, Kenya, and "Thesis" concludes the volume with reflections on family, legacy, and how...

Winner of the +GAMMA RAYS Book Prize"Orphanotrophia is a record of Andrew Kozma's stellar ability to write unforgettable images that seem to sing off the page through rhymes so subtle they echo through to the final line and after. Reading each page...

Pressure Dressing leaves us wondering where and how deeply are we wounded. In these poems, most especially in the extraordinary title suite, we are kept distracted from our own pain by the poet’s talk, his brilliant counterpoint of realities, his...

After the twilight ambience of The Dark Brightness, here comes Grassy Stairways. These poems and poetic sequences are often morning- born. Taylor at once meditates on and observes Alpine landscapes, wind, clearings or edges of woods, an alluring...

In Shattered Dreams in Light, Brandon Flesher attempts to make sense of the fears we keep hidden, bringing them into the light to examine how they influence us in subtle, imperceptible ways. His poems teach us that even if we think we have emerged...

This collection of poetry centers on my reflections of the concepts surrounding civility, and writing the poems has been restorative to me and to my understanding of this ancient concept.Beginning with the traditional notion of manners and politeness...

Included in U.S. Poet Laureate Tracy K. Smith's feature, "6 Recent Collections that Deliver Truth with Originality and Grace" in O, The Oprah Magazine, April 2018Finalist, CLMP Firecracker Award in Fiction, 2018Finalist, American Book Fest Best Book...

“Rich and inventive, Kurt Heinzelman’s poems are funny, serious, and everything in between, often all at once. Again and again their verbal playfulness opens up to genuine feeling. These poems are sometimes boisterous and sometimes sad,...

The mood and scope of the whole are sounded in Part I, The New Odysseus, a series of twenty linked poems,where a somewhat weary new Odysseus invokes his legendary adventures and various gods as he wandersboth in the Tacoma present and yet in other lands...

“In Gone to Gold Mountain, poet Peter Ludwin brings to life the little-known story of Chea Po and his fellow Chinese gold miners, massacred in 1887 by Eastern Oregon pioneers.  Ludwin embodies Chea Po and his experiences of breathtaking...

I offer you my perspectives, my many mothers’ teachings.I present both hopelessness and moments that excite, the taxi mgosi that makes me write.Johannesburg performance-poet Katleho Kano Shoro puts her stage presence into print with this metapoetic...

A voice of sanity for these crazy times, Not My Circus, Not My Monkeys offers an audacious perspective that addresses the inevitable dilemmas of the human condition with uncanny wisdom and passionate understanding. Unlocking the mysteries of Emily...

A Specialist at The Recycled Heart is free verse poetry and storytelling focused on the Speculative Fiction (SF) genre. The genre of What If . . . writing that encompasses fantasy and Sci fi and other forms within its warm embrace.. What is the sound of...

Coffee Poems contains 167 richly-roasted, verbally aromatic poems by poets from 34 states, 5 provinces, and 12 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, France, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, and the United States.Included...

In Sundown at Faith Regional, Barbara Schmitz offers Heart Medicine which "drops the pain body"-an invitation to let go to the rhythms of her love songs to life. Death and childhood; memory and forgetting; family cacophonies and inventions of...

Since this is the fourth book in the “Being” series of poems and pictures, I can look back at almost a half century of what I euphemistically call ‘poetry’. As I reflect on that journey, I find that I have been asking myself some...

The place that Maria Mazziotti Gillan calls home is a universal haven built of enduring memories and peopled by loving family. In Gillan's newest book of poetry, THE PLACE I CALL HOME, we share her complex emotions of an immigrant childhood in Paterson,...

RIDING WITH DESTINY, Jayne Lyn Stahl's first published collection, is a high voltage volume of poetry that flirts with the boundaries between sacred and profane, self and other, the erotic and transcendent in ways that are fresh, and continually surprise...

Using deceptively simple lines that raise common life events to art, Tony Gloeggler fills his new collection, THE LAST LIE, with people who don't fit in easily, naturally. It's a book filled with cripples, the one boy in a working class house who kept...

An moving tribute in poetry and some prose to one of the seminal poet-teachers of 20th Century American poetry by eighty former students and friends.

Delightful and challenging poems by the Poet Laureate of Glouscester MA.

Join us in Celebrating Resilience through this fine selection of short stories, poems and personal narratives. Resilience is the ability to bend and flex like a tree in a violent storm, to persevere like a flower pushing through the pavement of a parking...

'خواب در خواب' میں ڈاکٹر خالد سہیل کی ۱۹۶۸ سے ۲۰۱۸ کی پچاس برس کی مطبوعہ اور غیر مطبوعہ شاعری کو یکجا کیا گیا ہے۔اس میں غزلیں بھی ہیں نظمیں بھی' قطعات بھی ہیں فردیات بھی۔اس کتاب میں ان کی شاعری کے چار مجموعوں'تلاش ''آزاد فضائیں''خواب نگر' اور'ادھورے...

This is a short collection of poems by one of America's fine and widely published poets. It describes her close connection to nature and the land, her love of her animals, her relationship with the Tibetan Buddhists who live and work with her. She...

First collection of poems by Chinese-Canadian author Phyllis Kwan. This Toronto-based author has put together a collection of her poems from early stages of writing poetry to more recent writing. She writes love poems, reflections on life, musings...

"Lessons from a Dragonfly" is an intimate poetry collection exploring the emotional journey of a relationship's end. Through candid and reflective verse, the author confronts the complexities of questioning, dismantling, rebuilding, and ultimately...

A collection of poetry inspired by growing up in Australia, quite a long time ago. Yet it is all relative and to me, this was my yesterday, my beginnings, the start of who I was to become. This was When I Was a Kid.... Including: The Day the Dunny...

This is a study of one of the major literary figures of the period of Mongol rule in China, the Yuan dynasty (1260-1368).From the Studio of Sour Mood: Poetry and Prose of Guan Yunshi 貫雲石 (1286-1324) is a radically rewritten and expanded version of...

This is a collection of lyric poems full of passionate love and glittering with the light of philosophy, containing more than 70 poems. The poet's ups and downs of life exsperience, painting a deep color to the work, make it a more unique charm.The...

Many times, they will fumbleMany times, they will need,Just as many we supportJust as many we will shield.When the Words Come Easy by Janet Botham is a deeply personal and evocative poetry collection that builds on the success of her debut, Life Simply...

Poems in this book describe my reflections on the signs of our times through social, historical, and personal narratives about:Canada through memories of British Columbia and the Maritimes.War and the ongoing military conflicts in the world...