Poetry Books

Unashamed Observations is a collection of 110 prose poems. The poems address living for nine years in Japan, traveling in the Far East, driving a taxi for five years in New York City, growing up in the Bronx, and living for seven years in an orphanage in...

David Meischen conjures the hackberries and mesquite, the cotton harvests and "rainless earth" of his rural Texas homeplace with meticulous reserve, clarity, and crisp music. A work of abiding love and questing memory, this new volume provides the...

"These are the kind of tattered, beautiful poems I often search for and rarely find-the ones that explain, 'Just be happy with a beer after work. You know, quit all the complaining. It won't change a single thing. It just prolongs the suffering.' "-Sean...

Dive into the rebellious and thought-provoking world of 'Soon to Be Banned Beat Poems' by Elliot M. Rubin. This upcoming release takes readers on a captivating journey through the raw and unfiltered expressions of beat poetry. Rubin's collection, filled...

Abdellatif Laâbi is an internationally renowned poet and activist famous for his support of Arab liberation and unity. He has received numerous prestigious accolades, and his work has been translated into Arabic, Spanish, German, Italian, Dutch, Turkish,...

New Stars & Constellations is a full length book of mostly new, uncollected poems by the poet, David Cazden. It explores themes of childhood, coming of age, ecology, and the loss of one's parents, using both lyrical and narrative poetic forms.

This collection begins in a time of drought - of isolation, longing, and desperation in a land without rain. As monsoon season approaches, we shift into a time of too much rain, to a point where all becomes toxic and destructive. On the other side of the...

Lyrical love involves a wide aspect of the concept of love and heartbreak. It deals with overcoming emotional challenges such as depression, grief, heartbreak, and loss. It introduces patterns of love and how it empowers the ability to let go of the pain...

What a bounty to have Jamey Jones' first seven chapbooks, with original covers and illustrations, collected together in one volume! Here is a poet's passage of song, where an opera of living comes at us full-throated as it unfolds. In this gulf coast...

Streaming straight out of the Surrealist matrix, Valery Oisteanu's poetry takes us back to the movement's origins and simultaneously propels us forward, giving us the energy and values of what Breton-Péret-Desnos et al. synthesized while "making it new"...

pain, love, & purposeit's the pain that leads the way to the wisdom deep insideit cracks your heart wide open gives you nowhere else to hideand from that depth of feelingwe remember our own heartswhen we're on the path to lovesometimes pain...

The raw outpouring of emotion in easy to read prose has made Alana's work resonate with countless people who felt she was putting words to the feelings they struggle to articulate. Alana Kirby's first book, "the words i'll never say", sold 10,000 copies...

Black Heart Words & Poems. Volume OneAn inspired anthology from the edge of darkness, illuminated with a sprinkling of light.Written with love for you.Written for those who have yearned for love. For all of you that have loved too deeply and for...

Querencia Press's Winter 2024 anthology features 46 contributors of Poetry, Fiction, & Non-fiction work. Themes of the collection vary widely and the editor would like to include content warnings for self-harm, addiction, grief, domestic violence,...

A collection of poems that carry the writer and the reader with their music and wisdom into life's complications, especially when you grow up during a devastating war that pits neighbors against each other. Dziho-Sator is a young Bosnian woman...

Querencia Press's Autumn 2022 anthology features 115 contributors of Poetry, Fiction, & Non-fiction work. Themes of the collection vary widely and the editor would like to include content warnings for self-harm, addiction, grief, domestic violence,...

Alexander Laurence was born in Los Angeles. He attended CSULB and San Francisco Art Institute. He has contributed to the books The Hipster Handbook (2004), Reefer Movie Madness (2010), Degenerative Prose (1995), and books about the history of Grove Press...

James Benger has written a bunch of stuff. Some of it has even been published in print and on the interwebs. He is the resident slacker on the Board of Directors of the Writers Place, and is the most truant member of the Riverfront Readings Committee. He...

"Matthew Porubsky's Stand in Old Light will "hover / heart-like" with me for a long time. My immediate reverence for these poems almost startled me, as the experience of reading them reminded me of the first time I fell in love with poetry, with Whitman...

"Rebecca Schumejda's Hope is a Prison is a gut-wrenching collection of poems shining an interrogation room light on the intersecting narratives connecting multiple victims of abuse. The familiar threads of poverty, family denial, shame, and failure of...

"Kevin Ridgeway has a hammer in his soul and he uses it to bang out hard truths dealing with a broken childhood, staggered adulthood, psych ward stays, bleak street scenes, lessons in sin from a soon to be incarcerated father, a desperate mother failing...

While hymns are traditionally means of communicating the divine, Hymnal for Catastrophe invests sacred forms in the ordinary and commonplace. Falling out of love, losing a friend, not having money to buy food: these things we experience all the...

In A Deadly Rose, Kamryn Hanover is ready to walk away from her tumultuous relationship with her fiancé, Jeff, after discovering yet another devastating betrayal. What begins as a story of love and loyalty quickly spirals into a gripping tale of deceit,...

A hauntingly beautiful debut collection from poet Shawn McCann. Shawn McCann lives in Syracuse, New York. He works for the City of Syracuse as a Plans Examiner II in the office of the Fire Prevention Bureau. He has earned a Master of Arts Degree from...

A 2024 National Book Award nominee.Gabby Gilliam's verse preserves the feel of the summer farm, contrasting its fertile brightness with the struggle between grief and the sudden absence of connection to family and place. Belonging and the struggle to...

This book is divided into the following four sections:Rainbows are personal stories that relate to relationships, friendship, and kinship;Clovers are family stories that tell trivial matters in daily life when the baby is born;Lotus Romance is a fantasy...

Assimilated Natives is an evocative collection of borderland poems that offers a poignant and introspective exploration into the complex identity of a third-plus generation Chicanx. Through the lens of poetry, the Gume Laurel III explores the...

As in the opening poem of Flamingo Nation, Danny Dover captures the way we all "search for words under the words when times get hard", and become "like starving deer...pawing for apples at winter's end."Danny Dover's poems take the reader on journeys...

Sweet Emotions is a book created by me off the emotions that my mother's cooking & love for cooking & sharing it with others would bring. I hope everything within the covers of this book to bring those sweet emotions. When you would enjoy a great...

1st Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022In Tracking the Fox, Rosalie Sanara Petrouske weaves a tale of family ties and history. The poems are steeped in her Native American heritage and in the natural lore her Ojibwe father taught her...

Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, born in Alexandria in the Khedivate of Egypt in 1876 to an Italian couple, came of age during the turn of the 20th Century. He witnessed the rapid advancement of industrial society, observed the struggles of Europe's Great...

This collection by the award-winning writer Allan Johnston includes "Sable," a lengthy discourse based on the life of Phillis Wheatley, a well-known poet of the eighteenth century and a slave in the household of John Wheatley, a prominent Boston...

I don't feel happy when I see my friend play. I wish that I were him today!  Let's Be Happy for Each Other is a story of a friend who is jealousy. This adorable book helps kids understand and deal with the feeling of envy. The rhythmic...

From the Roots to the Fruits: Becoming A Tree of Righteousness is the second published work by Author Teresa Pearsall, aka Tree Pears. Like the first published work, Seeds, Trees, Branches & Leaves, this book is a sequel collection of poems,...

Inspired by Daoism, this collection of playful poems depicts the peace of going with the flow and the pain of going against it. In deceptively simple, spare language, these poems guide us on the road of recovery. With impish paradox and winking wisdom,...

Minimalist in style, but unrestrained in its depth and meaning, Hael López's debut collection, Routines/Goodbyes, is a frenetic heart calling for respite-from longing and loss, grief and nostalgia. Written in sparse, poignant lines, López's poems assess...

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Renault 30 is a sepia-toned drive through the dusty highways of 1980's Venezuela. Abel M. Folgar vividly portrays the country of his youth while weaving a personal narrative culled from the introduction of the automobile at the turn of the century (a...

The Way of Haiku is a guide for learning to write the most popular form of Japanese poetry: haiku. But true to the inviting and personal style of its author, Naomi Beth Wakan, it is also an eye-opening view into the way that reading and writing haiku can...

During their many travels to countries in Europe, Jim and Carol McCord have seen and responded to the world around them through two different lenses—Jim through the lens of emotive wordsmithing and Carol through the lens of striking visual imagery...

From the universal to the personal, the formal to the experimental, Carolyn Martin’s fourth poetry collection, A Penchant for Masquerades, takes an unflinching look at the fluidity of truth, time, identity, history, death, and relationships...

The Man Who Never Was was a failed TV show from the late Sixties whose protagonist was a spy named Peter Murphy. The poems in The Man Who Never Was borrow the titles of the show’s 19 episodes and explore identities, politics, lies (Sorry,...

Love, Grief, Beauty, Fear, Spirituality, Mysticism, Transformation, Choices, Nature."Twinkle" Marie Porter-Manning's writings have been included in publications and services around the world. For the first time bound in a poetry book all their own, her...

The "Alchemy of Words" is the first English-language poetry book of Ella Czajkowska who previously published a book of poems in Polish. These 70 poems deal with themes of nature, divinity, human emotions, existential contemplation and the complexities...

This book is a journey within myself to uncover the wondrous being that I am to be, a colliding of dark versus light, dawn versus dusk, day versus night.Hmm... You may be wondering why this is important. Why is it necessary, and how is it even possible?...

While backpacking in Europe as a teenager in the 1980s, Nick Benson stumbled on a window display in a Venetian gallery that caught his eye: it featured a beautifully carved duffle-bag sculpted from wood, complete with drawers. For the itinerant Benson,...

Daddy's Apple Tree is Dale's first book of poetry. Dale's poetry is uniquely lucid and original. He offers to the reader an opportunity to feel his sensitivity and thoughts, as he addresses a wide range of subjects such as love and romance, his...

25 Poems of the Heart is an elegantly expressive collection that invigorates various emotions about relationships. Each point in time is endeared very carefully with attention to the present, past and future. These poems will captivate the brave, full of...