October 6, 2026
J. Simon Harris’ enthralling new translation of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight essentially offers two books in one cover.
The first is the adventure story that begins when a green-hued knight rides his green horse into King Arthur’s court on New Year’s Eve and asks which member of the Round Table will be brave […]
September 29, 2026
Maria Nazos’s fine new poetry collection begins with an “Ars Poetica’” declaring that nothing is off the table for her: not how “the empty bottles in my old place/chimed into the recycling bin like a vagrant’s morning anthem”; not the lover “who lived in a rotted cabin in Vermont// with a half-dead dog and nothing […]
September 29, 2026
In this collection by long-haul trucker and photographer Steven Prop, poems capture desire and thwarted love, small but poignant moments, and more.
Many poems have amusing titles, such as “Existentially Challenged: Am I Here? Am I Not? Is That Bacon I Smell?” or “Excuse Me. Could You Not Play Hopscotch on My Cerebral Cortex Today? […]
September 2, 2026
Alicia Cahalane Lewis’s wholly arresting hybrid project, Nefertiti’s Tomb is an intriguing and ambitious exploration of history, philosophy, myth, and prose poetry.
The work is arranged in nine sections, with each poem (some untitled) centered on the page surrounded by significant white space. This visual suggests more is unknown/unsaid about these subjects than is known […]
July 14, 2026
Breezy, freewheeling and dangerously funny, Joe Rolnicki’s book of prose poems, The Repeated Hedonist, is a crash course in the hazards of love, work and (post)modern life.
Rolnicki notes that he writes “like Bukowski knocked up Dr. Suess” and that Madame Galaxy has given him permission “to do the thing that keeps you up at […]
June 30, 2026
Abe Kosh’s Seed to a Flame is a collection of faith-based poems, stories, and reflections that explore the challenges of being human and the abiding presence of God in creation. Examining themes of suffering, forgiveness, aging, hope, redemption, and eternal life, the author invites readers to consider the hidden movements of grace within ordinary life.
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June 2, 2026
Yan Gertsoyg’s poetry collection, The Story of the Universe, is about science, wonder, and humanity’s place in a vast realm.
The book is divided into sections titled “Universe,” “Galaxies,” “Stars,” “Milky Way,” etc. The author intersperses bold and eye-catching images of outer space and Renaissance art between sections.
The first poem, “Universe,” narrates the Big […]
May 18, 2026
It can be called a rabble, flutter, swarm, or wing. Yet the most common word for a group of butterflies soaring in a colorful swirling pattern is kaleidoscope. This is the inspiration for Kaleidoscopic Quill, an anthology of poems, prose poems, and short stories centered on butterflies.
In some of the work, the connection is […]
April 28, 2026
John Yurechko’s collection follows his life over decades, with engaging prose and poems touched with irony and empathy.
The book starts in 1966, when the author, age 18, is working a night shift at US Steel Fairless Works Mill, sweeping the “floor of the Open-Hearth furnace,” where, as Yurechko notes in the later poem “I […]
April 28, 2026
Relationships between the author and the dogs he has owned are the subject of Scott Tomlinson’s poetry collection Letters to My Dog.
Featuring themes of selflessness, loyalty, and love and employing free verse with occasional end rhymes, these poems explore the universality of humanity’s bond with dogs. The author handles the topic in myriad creative […]