A must-have poetry collection about loss… Haven’s latest explores loss and its aftermath with stark thought and insight. The poems range in scope from journal excerpts, inner monologue, imagery, poetry, and prose and navigate various stages of loss. Writing with… Read More ›
Simple but beautifully expressed… Preneta’s latest, a poetry chapbook, is an intriguing collection of short poems that delves into queer love and the feelings associated with it. Preneta’s language is pleasing and accessible, lending the reader an awareness of bisexuality… Read More ›
A riot of feeling and sensation… Stunning. Buchmann’s gift for craft combined with her unique way of seeing and experiencing things make her debut collection of poems and pictures an engaging, stirring read. Divided into nine parts, the poems in… Read More ›
A passionate meditation on love and relationships… Trovato delivers a moving ode to a lover’s memory in his reflective latest. Divided into four parts, the collection delves into the essence of loving relationships. Devotion and enduring love are rendered in… Read More ›
A marvelous mix of insights and profundity… Froilan’s impressive, insightful collection of short poems shimmers with reflection, perception, and spiritual profundity. Self-doubt, insecurity, and the fear of failure and ridicule serve as the catalysts for the book’s underlying theme of… Read More ›
A darkly erotic celebration of love… New love, sex, motherhood, heartbreak, and loneliness stay at the heart of Black’s latest collection. Drawing from her own experience, Black skillfully captures the despair, evolution, and growth along with the spirit and gist… Read More ›
A bold, memorable, and capacious collection… In his gorgeously visceral third volume in Bar Poems, the award-winning McNair explores love, life, death, hope, and self-loathing. “Grateful, Dead” examines the inevitable nature of death whereas “Roaches” and “This Will Not Go… Read More ›
Refreshing… Powerful. Coker’s impressive debut pulses with rhythms and assertiveness as it talks defiance against accepted order. The uplifting and inspiring “What Were You Told” urges all females, from a girl child to a mature woman, to believe in their… Read More ›
A piercing meditation on life, love, oppression, and freedom… Taiwo gathers the expanse of human experience of love, life, and death in his debut collection of poems. The images that tumble from the collection are both stunning and uplifting, whether… Read More ›
Evocative and beautifully haunting… Hollow uses speculative poetry to transcend a heartbroken lover’s grief in his haunting debut, a collection of short poems. Set against a haunted house backdrop, the collection comprises a sequence of poems, containing fragments from the… Read More ›
