Book Reviews on Published Titles

Gae Alexander ~ My Side of the River

 

Terry Allen ~ Rubber Time

Also by Allen ~ Waiting on the Last Train

 

Brian Allgar ~ The Ayterzedd

Also by Allgar ~ An Answer from the Past

 

Bob Ambrose ~ Between Birdsong and Boulder: Poems on the Life of Gaia

 

C.B. Anderson ~ Roots in the Sky, Boots on the Ground: Metaphysical Poems

 

Nadia Arioli ~ Be Still: Poems for Kay Sage

 

Catherine Arra ~ Solitude, Tarot & the Corona Blues

 

Nancy Austin ~ The Turn of the Tiller, The Spill of the Wind

 

Lana Hechtman Ayers ~ Overtures

 

Jon Ballard ~ Possible Lives

 

Alan Balter ~ Melancholia

 

Mark Belair ~ Running Late

Also by Belair ~ Taking Our Time

 

Gershon Ben-Avraham ~ God’s Memory

 

Paul Bernstein ~ What the Owls Know

 

Bhupender K. Bhardwaj ~ Ebullience & Other Poems

 

John W. Bing ~ Time Signatures

 

Jane Blanchard ~ Metes and Bounds

Also by Blanchard ~ Sooner or Later

 

Laura Bobrow ~ End Game

 

Mary Ellen Boehm ~ Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders?

 

Rose Mary Boehm ~ Life Stuff

 

Ann Bookman ~ Blood Lines

 

Matthew Brennan ~ The End of the Road

 

Paul Buchheit ~ Alice's Adventures ~ A Modern Version of Lewis Carroll's Classic, in Verse

Also by Buchheit ~ Sonnets of Love and Joy

 

Randal A. Burd, Jr. ~ Memoirs of a Witness Tree

 

Katerina Canyon ~ Surviving Home

 

Joseph Kuhn Carey ~ Black Forest Dreams: A Journey Through Germany 

 

Ute Carson ~ In the Blink of an Eye

 

Michael Caylo-Baradi ~ Hotel Pacoima

 

Catherine Chandler ~ Pointing Home

 

Patrice Boyer Claeys ~ Lovely Daughter of The Shattering

Also by Claeys ~ The Machinery of Grace

 

Florence Adams Clark & Carolyn Clark ~ Poet Duet: A Mother & Daughter

 

DeWitt Clinton ~ At the End of the War

 

Terese Coe ~ Shot Silk

Also by Coe ~ Why You Can’t Go Home Again

 

Elizabeth Cohen ~ Wonder Electric

 

Douglas Cole ~ The Blue Island

 

Willy Conley ~ The World of White Water

 

Robert Cooperman ~ A Nighmare on Horseback

Also by Cooperman ~ Hell at Cock’s Crow

Also by Cooperman ~ Reefer Madness

Also by Cooperman ~ Steerage

     

    Dale Cottingham ~ Midwest Hymns

     

    Ken Craft ~ Reincarnation & Other Stimulants: Life, Death, & In-Between Poems

     

    Shutta Crum ~ Meet Me Out There

    Also by Crum ~ The Way to the River

    Also by Crum ~ When You Get Here

     

    Rachel Dacus ~ Gods of Water and Air

     

    Diane Elayne Dees ~ Coronary Truth

     

    Thomas DeFreitas ~ Swift River Ballad

    Also by DeFreitas ~ Winter in Halifax

     

    Albert DeGenova ~ Human Nature: Poems of Witness

     

    Deborah DeNicola ~ The Impossible

     

    Arlene Distler ~ This Earth, This Body

     

    Lynn Domina ~ Inland Sea

     

    Erika Dreifus ~ Birthright

     

    Joanne Durham ~ On Shifting Shoals

     

    Sarah Eddy ~ Ordinary Fissures

     

    Wendy Ford ~ A Frontier Romance “Tiger Bill and Kate”

     

    B. A. France ~ Season’s End

     

    Marc Frazier ~ If It Comes to That

     

    Jennifer Freed ~ When Light Shifts

     

    Randall R. Freisinger ~ Windthrow & Salvage

     

    Amy Strauss Friedman ~ The Eggshell Skull Rule

     

    Peggy Gerber ~ The Big Indignity

     

    Alice Wolf Gibbon ~ Apples & Stones

     

    D. Walsh Gilbert ~ [M]AR[Y]

     

    Mel Glenn ~ At Bat

     

    Ethan Goffman ~ Words for Things Left Unsaid

     

    Paula Goldman ~ Late Love

     

    Carol Lynn Stevenson Grellas ~ On the Edge of the Ethereal

    Also by Stevenson Grellas ~ Alice in Ruby Slippers

       

      Lisa Grunberger ~ For the Future of Girls

       

      Holly Guran ~ Now Before and Ever

       

      Rasma Haidri ~ As If Anything Can Happen

       

      Batnadiv HaKarmi ~ The Love of Mortal Beings

       

      Dane Hamann ~ A Thistle Stuck in the Throat of the Sun

       

      Penny Harter ~ Keeping Time: Haibun for the Journey

      Also by Harter ~ Still-Water Days

       

      William Heath ~ Going Places

       

      Diana Henning ~ Camaraderie of the Marvelous

       

      Mary Beth Hines ~ Winter at a Summer House

       

      Angela Hoffman ~ Olly Olly Oxen Free

       

      Karen Paul Holmes ~ Untying the Knot

       

      Tom Holmes ~ Material Matters

       

      Jennifer Horne ~ Letters to Little Rock

       

      Charlotte Innes ~ Descanso Drive

      Also by Innes ~ Twenty Pandemicals

       

      Catherine Jagoe ~ Praying to the God of Small Things

       

      Michael Jennings ~ Summoning the Outlaws

       

      Marianne Smith Johnson ~ Tender Collisions

       

      Jacqueline Jules ~ Manna in the Morning

       

      Julia Kane ~ Paper Bullets

       

      Liana Kapelke-Dale ~ Seeking the Pink

       

      Mary Louise Kiernan ~ The Gift of Glossophobia

       

      Carolynn Kingyens ~ Before the Big Bang Makes a Sound

      Also by Kingyens ~ Coupling

       

      Daniel Klawitter ~ Quiet Insurrections

       

      Yasmin Kloth ~ Ancestry Unfinished

       

      Tricia Knoll ~ Checkered Mates

       

      Sharon Waller Knutson ~ What the Clairvoyant Doesn’t Say

       

      David P. Kozinski ~ I Hear It the Way I Want It to Be

       

      Laurie Kuntz ~ Talking Me Off the Roof

       

      Yahia Lababidi ~ Learning to Pray: A Book of Longing

       

      Lori Levy ~ What Do You Mean When You Say Green? and Other Poems of Color

       

      Sandra J. Lindow ~ Chasing Wild Grief

       

      Lorraine Henrie Lins ~ Without the Water

       

      Jennifer Schomburg Kanke ~ The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had

       

        Jonathan Koven ~ Mystic Orchards

         

        Barbara Loots ~ The Beekeeper and Other Love Poems

         

        Amy Losak ~ Wing Strokes Haiku

         

        Gregory Luce ~ Riffs & Improvisations

          

        Majorie Maddox ~ Inside Out: Poems on Writing and Reading Poems

        Also by Maddox ~ How Can I Look It Up When I Don't Know How It's Spelled?: Spelling Mnemonics and Grammar Tricks

         

        Dave Malone ~ Tornado Drill

         

        Mary Makofske ~ No Angels

         

        Charlotte Mandel ~ Alive & In Use: Poems in the Japanese Form of Haibun

         

        Rita Maria Martinez ~ The Jane and Bertha in Me

         

        Marc Alan Di Martino ~ Unburial

         

        Mary McCarthy ~ How to Become Invisible

         

        S.B. Merrow ~ Everyone A Bell

         

        Carole Mertz ~ Color and Line

         

        Nancy Anne Miller ~ Latitude, Longitude

        Also by Miller ~ Pink Typewriter

         

        Robert Miss ~ Prospero’s Glove

         

        Diane Lee Moomey ~ Sourdough

         

        Miles David Moore ~ Man on Terrace with Wine

         

        Edward Morin ~ The Bold News of Birdcalls

         

        Wilda Morris ~ At Goat Hollow and Other Poems

        Also by Morris ~ Pequod Poems: Gamming with Moby-Dick

         

        Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz ~ All the Bad Girls Wear Russian Accents

         

        John David Muth ~ Dreams of a Viking Wedding

         

        Sally Nacker ~ Kindness in Winter

        Also by Nacker ~ Night Snow

         

        Dr. Anita Nahal ~ Kisses at the espresso bar

        Also by Nahal ~ What’s wrong with us Kali women?

         

        Karen Neuberg ~ Pursuit 

         

        Cristina M. R. Norcross ~ Beauty in the Broken Places

        Also by Norcross ~ The Sound of a Collective Cross

        Also by Norcross ~ The Poetry Apothecary

           

          Larry O’Brien ~ The White Hydrangeas

           

          Chris O’Carroll ~ Abracadabratude

          Also by O’Carroll ~ The Joke’s on Me

           

          Mary K. O’Melveny ~ Flight Patterns

           

          Angela Patten ~ The Oriole & the Ovenbird

          Also by Patten ~ Feeding the Wild Rabbit

             

            Lynn Pattison ~ Matryoshka Houses

             

            Andrea Potos ~ Marrow of Summer

            Also by Potos ~ Mothershell

             

            Christine Potter ~ Unforgetting

             

            Charles Rammelkamp ~ The Field of Happiness

            Also by Rammelkamp ~ See What I Mean?

            Also by Rammelkamp ~ Uger Lee

             

            Patrick T. Reardon ~ Darkness on the Face of the Deep

             

            Nancy Richardson ~ Going Home

             

            Linda Neal Reising ~ Vivia: The Legend of Vivia Thomas: A Novelette in Poems

             

            Janet McMillan Rives ~ Washed by a Summer Rain: Poems from the Desert

             

            Lee Orlich Bertram ~ Insistence, Persistence, and Resistance: Collected Poems

             

            Nicole Rollender ~ The Luster of Everything I’m Already Forgetting

             

            Sydell Rosenberg & Amy Losak ~ Wing Strokes Haiku

             

            Menachem Rosenaft ~ Poems Born in Bergen-Belsen

             

            Sarah Russell ~ Today and Other Seasons

             

            Diane Sahms-Guarnieri ~ The Handheld Mirror of the Mind

             

            S. Salazar ~ Raíces, Relics, and Other Ghosts

             

            Kelly Samuels ~ All the Time in the World

             

            Rikki Santer ~ Head to Toe of It

             

            Federica Santini ~ Unearthed

             

            Sarah Sarai ~ That Strapless Bra in Heaven


            Kelly Sargent ~ Seeing Voices: Poetry in Motion

            Also by Sargent ~ Echoes in My Eyes

               

              Peggy Schimmelman ~ Make Me Your Love Song

               

              Nancy Scott ~ A Little Excitement

              Also by Scott ~ Midwestern Memories

               

              Ndaba Sibanda ~ We Are Not an Error But the Idioms of Our Era

               

              Carol Smallwood ~ The Illusiveness of Grey

               

              Sarah Dickenson Snyder ~ The Human Contract

               

              J.R. Solonche ~ Around Here

              Also by J.R. Solonche ~ The Dreams of the Gods

              Also by J.R. Solonche ~ If You Should See Me Walking On the Road

               

              Kris Spencer ~ Life Drawing

               

              Rae Spencer ~ Watershed

              Also by Spencer ~ Alchemy

                 

                Elizabeth Spragins ~ The Language of Bones

                 

                Lisa St. John ~ Swallowing Stones

                 

                Margaret Stawowy ~ Walking Backward

                • Naugatuck River Review (Finalist)
                • Soul-Making Keats Literary Competition (2nd Place)

                 

                Donna Baier Stein ~ Letting Rain Have Its Say

                 

                Sarah Stern ~ We Have Been Lucky in the Midst of Misfortune

                 

                Lisa Stice ~ Uniform

                 

                Judy Swann ~ Fool

                 

                Marilyn L. Taylor ~ Outside the Frame

                 

                Alarie Tenille ~ Three A.M. at the Museum

                 

                Jessica D. Thompson ~ Daybreak and Deep

                 

                Laura Rodley ~ Ribbons and Moths: Poems for Children

                 

                Rodney Torreson ~ The Ascension of Sandy’s Drive-In

                 

                Pasquale Trozzolo ~ UN/Reconciled

                 

                Gene Twaronite ~ Shopping Cart Dreams

                Also by Twaronite ~ Death at the Mall

                   

                  Victoria Twomey ~ Glimpse

                   

                  Reagan Upshaw ~ In the Panhandle: Poems 1975–2020

                   

                  Ann E. Wallace ~ Days of Grace and Silence: a Chronicle of COVID's Long Haul

                   

                  Julie Weiss ~ The Places We Empty

                   

                  Walter Weinschenk ~ The Death of Weinberg: Poems and Stories

                   

                  Charles Weld ~ Seringo

                   

                  Meg Weston ~ Magma Intrusions

                   

                  Patricia Williams ~ Midwest Medley: Places & People, Wild Things & Weather

                  Also by Williams ~ Rejection to Acceptance: 57 Poems That Finally Made It

                   

                  Paul J. Willis ~ Losing Streak

                   

                  Lee Woodman ~ Lifescapes

                   

                  Anton Yakovlev ~ Ordinary Impalers

                   

                  Joseph Zaccardi ~ The Weight of Bodily Touches

                   

                  Andrena Zawinski ~ Landings

                   

                  Yvonne Zipter ~ The Wordless Lullaby of Crickets