Poetry Books

Poets have always written about the world, in all its various guises. This includes the Natural and human worlds, with its and our many positive and negative qualities. With sufficient inspiration, poets would never run out of ideas for new work, because...

Anthology is just a big word for collection. I have included a variety of poems, essays, prayers, and acrostics to increase the reader’s faith, lift spirits, and promote laughter and encouragement in the soul. I hope the reader will enjoy the words...

The Boy Born With A Pinhole Heart focuses on a Massachusetts boy becoming a man. As a boy at the beginning of the chapbook, he overcomes the emotional trauma from the death of his beloved grandparents. Following their deaths, challenges continue when his...

Reading Patricia Hemminger's visionary What Do We Know of Time? is a delight and a privilege. We watch bird, beast and flower offer themselves to her lucid and sensuous language, and see how she herself flowers as a poet by speaking for living things,...

"Hailey Spencer's intense, intimate poems announce the arrival of a powerful new voice on the poetry scene. With the clarity of a wordsmith, the ear of a musician, and the feelings of a heart boiling over with passion, Spencer traces the pilgrimage of...

Twenty-four poems and a song by John Perrault former Portsmouth Poet Laureate, Pushcart nominee, poet and balladeer.

Life in Rhymes is a reflection of the poet’s experiences in life as viewed through a practical cone of vision. The poet finds a striking similarity between the ‘pattern of life’ and ‘nature’. The key elements that govern the...

थोड़ी सी ज़िन्दगी जी ली मैंने..." पिछले बारह सालों की एक लम्बी मियाद से टुकड़ों में चुराई हुई थोड़ी सी ज़िन्दगी है जो नज़्मों के ज़रिये इस सफ़र के उन पहलुओं को बयान करने की कोशिश है जिनसे हम सभी किसी न किसी सूरत में बाबस्ता हैं। ज़िन्दगी की धूप में मुसलसल चलते...

The Story Of A Man is a collection of poems that express emotions of love, pain, laughter, wisdom and self-reflection. Poetry has always been a passion of mine and it later became the avenue to express the memory of the comings and goings of my existence...

Joshua Tyrone Sanderson is a passably old, homeless black alcoholic in Indianapolis. A loner by choice, minute by minute and day by day he survives on the near downtown streets as valorously as any Agamemnon or Odysseus brandishing raw valor in battle in...

Honoring the Light in You offers gratitude for all who have been working to keep our collective community afloat, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic. The story-poems in this collection are simultaneously realistic and imaginative, depicting...

Chicago poet Albert DeGenova brings his formidable strengths as a writer and jazz saxophonist to Mama's Blues, a chronicle of his mother's losing battle with Alzheimer's disease. The familiar emotions-love, grief, confusion, denial-are here, filtered...

In her ravishing collection Over the Village, Susan E. Gunter conjures a tangled, bereaved past in poems as vivid as still-wet canvases, dripping and alive with color. The world she creates in these pages is a world laden with loss but also rich with...

American Rondeau is Carmine Di Biase's first collection of poems, but it comes after a long career in teaching and writing about English and Italian literature. Some of these poems are in free verse, and some are experiments in traditional forms,...

The speaker's language is lyrical, private, devotional almost, at other times a code-switching irreverent and raucous melding of street slang and religious tropes, a distinct minority voice of urban immigrant resilience and creative potential. In turns...

Farouk Goweda's poems as translated from the Arabic by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle give us an open and bleeding Earth, a world and a language begging to be healed, and by each of us. Goweda's poems don't get mixed up in nostalgia but yearn for...

This collection brings with it a lot of introspection, encouraging speculation in the small details around us; Perhaps, this work seems to say, it is important to take in the world around us whilte we gather our scattered thoughts. Perhaps this grounds...

Acclaimed author and music critic Sean Murphy's new poetry collection is a searing and timely take on American culture that finds perspective on the present by interrogating our past. The Blackened Blues offers a powerful glimpse into the human...

In this charming collection of poems, Sarah Voss captures the persistence of memory and joy and heartache growing old in this brave new world of technology.-Ruth Glick, prolific, award-winning and best-selling author of romance, mystery, suspense,...

Falling Bodies, a chapbook of poems from Finishing Line Press, explores loss, identity, and family through the lens of the natural world. The book, part of Finishing Line's acclaimed Chapbook Series, is by Finger Lakes area author, Jillian Barnet, whose...

In her debut collection, poet R.B. Simon paints a compelling canvas of identity one poem at a time. With evocative, lyrical language, these poems of loss, identity, and ultimately recovery, show that the complex fabric of our lives often weaves together...

"Sara Sams' Atom City opens with a caution, "But Think, Are You Authorized to Tell It." In poems of sharp wit and riveting investigation, tell it she does! Aware of the irony of "grow[ing] up happy / in a town that knitted / mushroom clouds," Sams...

Reading Lois Rosen's Diving and Rising, immediately I feel the warm presence of the person who has made the poetry. This poet has grown from a self-assertive child to a generous-spirited woman. She has ejected herself from the constricting environment of...

In this third poetry collection, Illustrious for Brief Moments offers the reader a world passionately crafted, drawing richly on both outer and inner landscapes. These poems move through seasons of heartbreak and grief, as well as compassion, connection,...

CATCH A GLOW, is both reverent and a reckoning. Iglesias moves through raw narratives with the strength, grace and focus of a dancer: combining moves, challenging rhythms, guiding each poem beyond routine and into the open bliss of abandon, the way...

Imitation Crab examines the ever-blurring boundary between the genuine and the fake in the 21st century, where reality TV shows are scripted and memoirs sometimes turn out to be completely made up. This confusion bleeds beyond pop culture into our...

Set against the backdrop of the poet's new home in the Pacific Northwest, Suppose the room just got brighter provides a snapshot of the beginning and endings of two relationships, and how the meaning of these relationships cannot be disentangled from the...

Burntwater is a book with an emotional core, grounded in craft. It doesn't need pyrotechnics of circumstance or political provocation. The collection speaks directly from Diné experience, addressing, among other subjects, the legacies of Spanish...

Thirty-five contemporary New England poets share their poems inspired by literary giant Donald Hall (1928-2018), former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire and of the United States.Cynthia Brackett-Vincent notes in her preface that Hall had an undying love...

The title of this book, From the Heart, tells how powerful these poems are. Almost every emotion known to man is in this book. The author wrote these poems during some very trying times in her life. The best way to heal is to write down what one is...

The kaleidoscopic earth and sky saturated with colours, sounds and perfume, are packed into his capsule-like poems ever glittering, humming, exuding sweet fragrance. However, one can't help noticing an elegiac tune thrumming at the heart of the poems, of...

ଇଂରେଜୀ ଭାଷାର ଇତିହାସରେ, ପୁରୁଣା ଇଂରେଜୀ ସାହିତ୍ୟ (ପ୍ରାୟ ୪୫୦-୧୦୬୬), ମଧ୍ୟ ଇଂରେଜୀ ସାହିତ୍ୟ (୧୦୬୬-୧୫୦୦) ଏବଂ ଇଂରେଜୀ ପୁନର୍ଜାଗରଣ (୧୫୦୦-୧୬୬୦) ତାପରେ ରହିଛି: ପୁନର୍ସ୍ଥାପନା ଯୁଗ (୧୬୬୦-୧୭୦୦), ଅଷ୍ଟାଦଶ ଶତାବ୍ଦୀ, ସ୍ୱଚ୍ଛଳତାବାଦ (୧୭୯୮-୧୮୩୭), ଭିକ୍ଟୋରିୟାନ ସାହିତ୍ୟ (୧୮୩୭-୧୯୦୧), ବିଂଶ...

"Chandana Banare Eka" is the fourth poetry collection of the poet Bhanuji Rao. Collection has fifty poems in it. This collection was awarded Odisha Sahitya Akademi award for poetry in 1994.

This Collection includes Gibran's most popular works including ·      The Prophet, 1923·      The Madman: His Parables and Poems, 1918·      The Forerunner: His...

"Nishabda Banshiswana" is poet's eighth poetry collection, the title of which is after its first long poem that depicts the divine love between Krishna, the eighth incarnation of Lord Vishnu and Radha, the goddess of love, compassion...

Author Dr. Nalin Joshi is currently working with SMS Medical College in Jaipur, as a professor. Having an experience of more than two decades in teaching, Dr. Nalin has been an onlooker to a plethora of emotions and empathy. As a keen observer since...

I wouldn't be surprised if I found that "Michael Darcher" is the pen name of one of my favorite comics. Through leaps and sidesteps and sidelong glances, these deeply funny and moving poems make me laugh and then wince and often leave me in an epiphanic...

The poems in Eating Pears on the Rooftop by David Estringel explore tender heartbreak where "nights are hardest to bear, / alone, atop these unwashed sheets / that smell of you and me, still, / crinkled and heavy with ghosts." The reader discovers...

Whether Margaret Barkley is remembering, reflecting, lamenting or celebrating, the poems in her chapbook, Ribs, express a life acutely observed. "She doesn't mind waiting like a new winter fox with taut muscles at the edge of a rabbit hole." These are...

Moving from childhood to retirement, "The Stoop" covers a wide range of subject matter. Several poems explore growing up in Brooklyn, New York in the 1950s and 1960s, which include painful and humorous memories. Many poems reflect on cinematic,...

From the forests of Northern Wisconsin comes Lines from Upstream: Volume II, a collection of whimsical, rhyming stories about hunting, the joy of the pursuit, and life in the Northwoods.Contents:The Hunting MachineAbby and the Insidious WantJordan...

The Fume of Fresh Ash is a story written as open-line poetry about two downward spirals told from the perspectives of a father and son, their voices differentiated by the use of italicized stanzas. The reader heavily follows the father's perspective and...

100 Sonnets For Our Time offers a lyrical glimpse of the most unusual time many of us have lived through. Jeff Wyman examines the pandemic, political climate, loves found and lost, nostalgia, and more in a series of sonnets that are more conversational...

 This book is about relationship and the joy of loving our Lord because He loves us for who we are not for who we think we should be. This book is inviting you to set aside your bucket lists. The poetry encourages you to slow down and to view God...

YOU CAN’T CAST, MOULD, 3-D PRINT OR PRICE-TAG EMOTIONS:Times are not far, when we can perhaps cast, mould or 3-D print all physical objects under the Sun, howsoever complex they may be. But can you ever artificially reproduce emotions? Perhaps not...

You are a poetry lover or you wouldn't be holding this book. Extreme Rhyming Poetry is reader friendly. Each poem is unique with plenty of laughs, intellect, and enlightenment. There's also in them the realities in life we all face, good, bad, happy, and...

“Jasmine James’s poems are about the simple pains and pleasures of life and love written with an innate sense of rhythm and a natural meditative strain. They brim with passion for life as well as fondness for nature even while they do not...

Free Verse EditionsEdited by Jon ThompsonMore than any American poet now, Joshua McKinney is devoted to origins. A conservator of first things, an enthusiast for those early syllables brooding upon the compass-rose of language, he counsels joy, and he...