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Caught in a Hazy Dream

by Tiffany Mackay

Caught in a Hazy Dream: Contemporary Tanka Poems by Tiffany Mackay is a collection that invites readers to explore life's fleeting moments through 100 tanka-inspired poems, each paired with stunning digital watercolor art. Divided into five themed sections—memory, love, growth, transformation, and dreamscapes—this collection blends contemporary themes with traditional tanka elements. Each poem and artwork duo captures the beauty and complexity of nature and everyday life, offering readers a mode... more

Life

by Mohiro Iwakami

Life is a meditative collection of your innermost thoughts, feelings, and desires. The poems included throughout are striking and inviting. Readers will feel welcome to journey alongside you as you discover and find your true happiness.

HOMO Too SAPIENS: A Consciousness Dilemma

by Piero Rivolta

A collection of provocative observations from the novels and books of poetry by award-winning poet, Piero Rivolta. Laced with passion, wit and humor, and tinged with irony, they address a wide range of human concerns, including sexuality, ethnic differences, media, politics, bureaucracy, money, creativity, imagination, and consciousness. Rivolta’s love for humanity is as evident as his frustration with people’s pettiness, willful ignorance and inability to learn from history. You may not agree ... more

Drifting

by PJ Thomas

Drifting is a romantic, riveting poetry book about life on Earth, the cosmos, and human connection. Drifting is the third book in The Water Trilogy, following Undertow and Waves. Using images of geographical beauty, and the strong and subtle yearnings of the human heart, Drifting is lyric words put into poems about various kinds of love.

The Museum of Craven Life

by Robert N. Watson

(As on cover image) This dreamlike but sharply observed tour of ten museums – real and imagined – deploys a range of poetic styles and images to explore the ways humanity looks at itself. What does a wide-eyed child notice at natural history museum? What does a White tourist see and hear at a museum of Black history and culture? How hard is it to tell the difference between a thriving marriage and a collapsing one? Why do people curate themselves out of living fully as themselves?

Dominus

by Tiffany Troy

If logos, the law of the father, could be personified, the “Master” of Tiffany Troy’s devastating debut collection Dominus is its Hegelian sine qua non. It follows the journey of a “Baby Tiger” whose lyric powers and canonical, mythic transmutations (of Dostoevsky, Whitman, Machiavelli, Montaigne, and the epic Greeks) evince the apprenticeship of a genius. Is it wrong to “want life to matter” amid a wasteland of toxic positivity, double whoppers, trains, and “fathers beyond reproof”? If work inv... more

Don't Talk About You Know What

by Jonah Fujikawa

In “Don’t Talk About You Know What,” an anonymous individual grapples with the weight of depression and a hidden sexual assault spanning sixteen years, within a society where addressing trauma remains taboo. When besieged by intrusive thoughts from a floating eyeball dubbed “You Know What”, he embarks on a journey through his past and present, facing the ultimate choice between life and death. Illustrated by Dedy Kurniawan, this poignant narrative follows the anonymous protagonist as he navigate... more

ENDfinity

by hydrus Author

Everyone deserves love, understanding, to be heard, and, above all, hope. As I began to write this book, penning thoughts and ideas about this very notion, I found myself in a place where the world sometimes appears overwhelmingly dark. I believe our minds and hearts resonate with that darkness too. Surrounded by negativity, often stemming from those around us, we may begin to doubt ourselves and our convictions. I hope that by reading this book, you can find some direction, motivation, or... more

Brewing Storms

by A.M. Ramzy

The stories of men as seeker and teacher abound in the pages of heritage texts and literary works, but the stories of women are rare. Brewing Storms is a collection of poems that offers a window into the spiritual path of one young woman as she navigates her way through the storms of the soul. Ramzy's poems provide deep and honest insight into the challenges of growth and spiritual development, along with moments of profound fulfillment experienced along the way. The beauty of poetry... more

Missed Arrows: Poems

by Amber Campbell

Divided between four sections, Missed Arrows is a collection of poetry following the paths taken when Cupid's arrow doesn't quite hit. Conversational poetry blends with fairy tale inspiration as the fair maiden traverses the land and encounters a scorned man, a cruel lover, a wistful flame, and an irresistible musician. For nothing brings a maiden closer to love than the scars of missed arrows.

The Ones

by Amber Campbell

Amber Campbell weaves through the journey of finding and losing love from friends, family, and partners in her first collection of poetry. Divided between three sections, her poetry explores the highs and lows of relationships, including hope, grief, acceptance, regret, and peace. The Ones is a conversational, heart-wrenching collection of everything love has to offer.

Jasmines in Her Hair: Poetry for the Soul

by Kalpesh Desai

From the mind of Kalpesh Desai, a successful tech serial entrepreneur who uses poetry to process his thoughts and insights, comes his debut book that takes readers on a profound journey through love, loss, healing, reconciliation, self-love, forgiveness, and opening one’s heart again to find home. “Jasmines in Her Hair” is a collection of romantic poems that delve into the lessons learned through life’s journey, covering themes of love, loss, pain, reconciliation, and finding love again. If e... more

Journey Bread: New & Selected Poems

by Ruth Thompson

From the publisher: The title of this collection suggests sustenance, and the poetry within certainly supplies that; but it is more an account of the journey itself, the journey of an accomplished poet back through her life’s work. In her preface Ruth Thompson admits that what she first conceived as a conventional “new & selected” volume became something else once she allowed her poems to become what they needed to be, sometimes radically different from how they began, and to “gather themselves... more

A Collection of Morning Hours

by Tinamarie Cox

A Collection of Morning Hours is Tinamarie Cox’s second poetry chapbook. This small volume brings together 23 short-form poems under one sun. Written during the early hours of spring and summer days, these poems reflect on the simple beauty of nature as well as the brevity of seasons and life. Within this gathering of morning hours, Tinamarie captures that precise moment when life suddenly becomes visible in a fresh way. She gives new meaning to the sunrise and shares her ideas through imagin... more

Csaba Méra - Author

by Csaba Mera

My passion is to tell stories about the complexities, nuances and quirks of humanity on our pale blue dot through poetry, screenplays and multimedia artwork.

Middling Wood & Other Poems

by Valentin Per Lind

Middling Wood is Valentin Per Lind’s second volume of poetry, offering a rich tapestry of traditional and modern verse that plumbs the depths of the human soul, set against often wild and evocative landscapes, in which love, jealousy, desire and loss become potent elemental forces.

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