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Nocturne: New & Selected Poems

by Mike Dillon

Mike Dillon's Nocturne: New & Selected Poems, features his best work from six books of poetry, two poetry chapbooks, and three books of haiku. In That Which We Have Named he writes: “eyes that long for the windless/light of Heaven must, in the end/show proof of earth.” This quest for ultimate things grounded in daily life is the common thread running through all of Dillon's books. Along the way, the poet's eye swerves to the margins, away from the crowd, to find a patch of sunlit moss, or a fl... more

Recreational Vehicle

by BUCK DOWNS

Short lyrics addressing love (intoxication) and loss (recovery). RIYL Anselm Hollo, Eileen Myles

Infinite Times More

by Neida Y. Reyes

Neida Y. Reyes Delgado or you can call me wolfine. Baby steps, breathe, breathe, and breathe. That’s all I can do. Short and simple except it’s completely not simple. This path and destination infinite times more is entirely never ending. There’s phrases and pit stops. There’s heartbreak and loss. There’s misery and guilt. Self-destruction of a girl in her late teens and early 20’s. Nothing is suppose to make since that’s okay. There are pieces of Wolfine in all her ache, joy, and passions being... more

The Raindrop

by Jared Auchter

"The Raindrop" takes young readers on an exciting adventure as it traces the life of a single drop of water that longs to bring joy to others. Its journey from a cloud to the earth sees it meet a variety of things, creatures, and people. The key question it grapples with is: how can such a tiny entity make a significant difference?

Blue Toes and a Dog

by Rudy Baron

Blue Toes and a Dog invites readers on a journey of self-discovery, to explore the depths of our own existence, to find ourselves in the maze of life. Rudy Baron's poetry is a woven tapestry of life's experiences, etched with the ink of introspection and cloaked in metaphoric grandeur. His verses mirror our own lives, our joys, our sorrows, our hopes, and fears. Blue Toes and a Dog reminds us that poetry is not just about rhyming words; it is about capturing the essence of existence, about pa... more

Full Moon Survivor

by Andrea Fahselt

Full Moon Survivor is the follow up book to We Came In Like the Wind. A collection of poetry expressing the strength of the human spirit. This book highlights the perseverance dealing with the pandemic, the loss of life, and starting over. Each poem represents a raw organic message capturing the world in the previous few years. Autobiography: Andrea Fahselt is a make-up artist, sales and education executive and part time professor. She has been writing since a child and had her first poetry b... more

We Came in Like the Wind

by Andrea Fahselt

All people are individuals with their own thoughts, ideas, and dreams. What we share are feelings-How we process them and deal with their effect. Even though our situations may differ and circumstances may have different outcomes, we all share the same emotion, love, and passion. The way we miss someone, the heartbreak of loss. They are universal that everyone can understand. Each poem I write is real, raw human emotion. The reader will be able to take my experiences and relate them to his/her o... more

Caught in a Hazy Dream

by Tiffany Mackay

Caught in a Hazy Dream: Contemporary Tanka Poems by Tiffany Mackay is a collection that invites readers to explore life's fleeting moments through 100 tanka-inspired poems, each paired with stunning digital watercolor art. Divided into five themed sections—memory, love, growth, transformation, and dreamscapes—this collection blends contemporary themes with traditional tanka elements. Each poem and artwork duo captures the beauty and complexity of nature and everyday life, offering readers a mode... more

Untethered Grounds: A Collection of Poems: Revised Edition

by Billie Bioku

In this book of 70 poems, readers should be expected to stimulate their curiosity. There will be a focus on elemental properties, society, self, and humanity. How can we remain grounded in these components?

Life

by Mohiro Iwakami

Life is a meditative collection of your innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires. The poems included throughout are striking and inviting. Readers will feel welcome to journey alongside you as you discover and find your true happiness.

Homo Too Sapiens: A Consciousness Dilemma

by Piero Rivolta

A collection of provocative observations from the novels and books of poetry by award-winning poet, Piero Rivolta. Laced with passion, wit and humor, and tinged with irony, they address a wide range of human concerns, including sexuality, ethnic differences, media, politics, bureaucracy, money, creativity, imagination, and consciousness. Rivolta’s love for humanity is as evident as his frustration with people’s pettiness, willful ignorance and inability to learn from history. You may not agree w... more

Drifting

by PJ Thomas

Drifting is a romantic, riveting poetry book about life on Earth, the cosmos, and human connection. Drifting is the third book in The Water Trilogy, following Undertow and Waves. Using images of geographical beauty, and the strong and subtle yearnings of the human heart, Drifting is lyric words put into poems about various kinds of love.

The Museum of Craven Life

by Robert N. Watson

(As on cover image) This dreamlike but sharply observed tour of ten museums – real and imagined – deploys a range of poetic styles and images to explore the ways humanity looks at itself. What does a wide-eyed child notice at natural history museum? What does a White tourist see and hear at a museum of Black history and culture? How hard is it to tell the difference between a thriving marriage and a collapsing one? Why do people curate themselves out of living fully as themselves?

Dominus

by Tiffany Troy

If logos, the law of the father, could be personified, the “Master” of Tiffany Troy’s devastating debut collection Dominus is its Hegelian sine qua non. It follows the journey of a “Baby Tiger” whose lyric powers and canonical, mythic transmutations (of Dostoevsky, Whitman, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and the epic Greeks) evince the apprenticeship of a genius. Is it wrong to “want life to matter” amid a wasteland of toxic positivity, double whoppers, trains, and “fathers beyond reproof”? If work inv... more

Don't Talk About You Know What

by Jonah Fujikawa

In “Don’t Talk About You Know What,” an anonymous individual grapples with the weight of depression and a hidden sexual assault spanning sixteen years, within a society where addressing trauma remains taboo. When besieged by intrusive thoughts from a floating eyeball dubbed “You Know What”, he embarks on a journey through his past and present, facing the ultimate choice between life and death. Illustrated by Dedy Kurniawan, this poignant narrative follows the anonymous protagonist as he navigate... more

ENDfinity

by hydrus Author

Everyone deserves love, understanding, to be heard, and, above all, hope. As I began to write this book, penning thoughts and ideas about this very notion, I found myself in a place where the world sometimes appears overwhelmingly dark. I believe our minds and hearts resonate with that darkness too. Surrounded by negativity, often stemming from those around us, we may begin to doubt ourselves and our convictions. I hope that by reading this book, you can find some direction, motivation, or... more

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