Book Reviews on Published Titles

J.S. Absher ~ Skating Rough Ground

 

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

Also by Belair ~ Settling In

 

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

Also by Blanchard ~ Furthermore

 

Laura Bobrow ~ End Game

 

Mary Ellen Boehm ~ Do Oceans Have Underwater Borders?

 

Rose Mary Boehm ~ Life Stuff

 

Michelle Bombardier ~ What We Do

 

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

 

Claire Coenen ~ The Beautiful Keeps Breathing

 

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

Also by Cooperman ~ The Death and Rebirth of Ophelia

 

Lucia Coppola ~ TEMPO

 

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

 

Priscilla Denby ~ This Planet Neighborhood

 

Arlene Distler ~ This Earth, This Body

 

Lynn Domina ~ Inland Sea

 

Erika Dreifus ~ Birthright

 

Sandra Brodkin Dreis ~ Cultured Pearls

 

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

 

Christopher Fried ~ Analog Synthesis

 

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

     

    Charise Hoge ~ Inheritance of Flowers

     

    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

     

    Kathleen Latham ~ The Ones

     

    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

        

      Marjorie 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

         

        Scudder H. Parker ~ The Poem of the World

         

        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

          Also by Potos ~ Two Emilys

           

          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

           

          Andrea Potos ~ Two Emilys

           

          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

               

              Wally Swist ~ Aperture

               

              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

                 

                Karen Warinsky ~ Beauty and Ashes

                 

                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