Poetry

Animal Children By Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Animal Children By Hugh Behm-Steinberg

Light-winged, inspiring out of senses, a poetic collection so striking ever seen is the Animal Children by Hugh Behm-Steinberg. The poet has excelled in establishing a harmonious relationship that exists between poetry and life which appeals to the reader's emotions and produces a pleasurable effect.

Generous Peril  By Alan Elyshevitz

Generous Peril By Alan Elyshevitz

There’s a great deal of variety in these new poems by Elyshevitz. The opening poem, “My Wife is Shrinking” is a look at women losing size or shrinking juxtaposed with workmen and how they get through the job. Quite the comparisons!

Flares by Christopher Merrill

Flares by Christopher Merrill

Written by Christopher Merrill, Flares is a poetic collection comprising poems of diverse elegances, unforgettable experiences of the poet and events encountered in several places of Middle East Asia entailed with vivid imagination and insights.

After Goya  By Roger Aplon

After Goya By Roger Aplon

Roger Aplon has put together a collection of poems with a wide variety of sections. In each one, there’s a contrast in style, theme, and so on. The poems are intense, each one simply enough to stand on its own.

Reverberations of the Genome  By James Grabill

Reverberations of the Genome By James Grabill

There’s a constant comfort to the poems in this new book from James Grabill. He examines life, essentially presenting his poems almost as a research experiment or paper but in a far more interesting way. Immediately with the first poem, “Reverberation of the Genome,” you will be drawn in. This particular poem, is divided into four parts: “The Symbiosis in Diego Rivera,” “As the Sun Soars Over,” “In Schoenberg Mind,” and “Blue Fin in the Seas of Hemingway.”

Our Delicate Barricades Downed by William Reichard

Our Delicate Barricades Downed by William Reichard

William Reichard has derived inspiration from nature and worldly concerns by the power of his imagination and has composed it in an aesthetically pleasing poetic collection named as Our Delicate Barricades Downed.

Brief Accident of Light by Rhina P. Espaillat and Alfred Nicol

Brief Accident of Light by Rhina P. Espaillat and Alfred Nicol

Brief Accident of Light the latest poetic collection by Rhina P. Espaillat and Alfred Nicol showcases the most entrancing poems relating to alluring locations resided in a coastal city called Newburyport. If a book of poems gets the support of illustrations it becomes flawless and shows the essence of seamlessly styled writings in true means as Kate Sullivan’s illustrations have done here. No doubt the poems have an emotional attraction and are well allied with the art of poetry and infuse spectacular effects on the reader as felt in Morning Railway Riders and The Youngest Actors Take the Stage.

Convenient Amnesia by Donald Vincent

Convenient Amnesia by Donald Vincent

Donald Vincent’s Convenient Amnesia stands as a work of art of orality and temporality in the prospering oeuvre that is his poetic showground. The verse pervades the pain and agony of blacks and depicts certain restrictions imposed on them.

Bubbles . . . Up!  by Jacqueline Davies

Bubbles . . . Up! by Jacqueline Davies

An amusing and refreshing picture book expressing the pleasure of a swimming pool with friends and family.

Simona:  A Celebration of the SPCA  By Chad Norman

Simona: A Celebration of the SPCA By Chad Norman

This book of poems is a themed one dedicated to the rescuing of a cat named, Simona. While living in Truro, Norman and his family chose to add a pet to their lives. As many rescued pets are apt to do, the cat chose them as her new mates. The cat in turn became Norman’s muse.