Powerful and moving… This deeply affecting collection narrates Brown’s struggles with his parents’ separation, his mother’s recurring episodes of maniac depression, verbal abuse at the hands of his schizophrenic father, and his own battle with maniac depression. In “To… Read More ›
A sophisticated debut… Keegan’s debut collection takes cars as its inspiration for quirky fun and terse, stark verse. The poems in the collection are both fun and contemplative and not only pay homage to cars but also revel in… Read More ›
A chorus of emotional teenage voices… Peterson’s short collection captures delicate moments of love and heartbreak in high school years as the protagonist talks about falling in love, the misery of a broken heart, her regrets, and her grief…. Read More ›
An ode to the broken, beaten, exploited, and oppressed… The well-structured, consciously dark poems in the collection will surprise the reader with their raw tenderness. Carmona covers a wide range of topics with emphasis on the dark. The first… Read More ›
Devotion, intensity, and passion mark this beautiful collection… Love is the integral part of Jon Trovato’s The Firefly collection in which he details the feeling in its full glory in effortless and relatable verses and provokes tender feelings as he… Read More ›
A candid glimpse into the depressed mind… In this short collections of poems, Shaun O. Smith chronicles his own battle with depression and anxiety, bringing forth an unconstrained examination of the depressed mind. Smith’s struggle to cope with the mental… Read More ›
