Luciano Iacobelli DOLOR MIDNIGHT Quattro Books, 84pp., $20.00 There is a poetry in gambling and Luciano Iacobelli has written an important book about it. As

Valentino Assenza, Through Painted Eyes, Piquant Press, $19.95 Here are some admirable lines from Through Painted Eyes, Valentino Assenza’s first full-length collection of poems: “that precious/subliminal taste/of

  El Marillo is an elegaic work of great passion focused on Hamilton’s late wife, Rhena Hymovitch, and her humanitarian passion to bring ‘boots-on-the-ground’ aid, relief

On Tuesday, November 6, at  7 pm, I will be a feature reader in the Wild Writers series at the Poetry Jazz Cafe , 224

Two of my poems have been published in the anthology Things That Matter.

The Heart of All Music: Poems about Music and Musicians, by Stanley Fefferman, Aeolus House, 2018. 52 pages. Fefferman’s poetry is a phenomenal verbal symphony of

Penn Kemp. Fox Haunts. Aeolus House, 2018. 97 pp. The way suburban garden fences are a line the fox crosses from the countryside to steal our chickens,

I received an email saying that depression is a very popular theme in poetry published online. I checked it out. True. Tons of them on Poem

Stanley Fefferman hit Today’s book of poetry over the head with a poetry sledgehammer with his poem “Black Spruce” from Home Was Elsewhere.  There we were

Marc-Pierre Toth gave the first in a series of recitals of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas prefaced by a quick and lucid demonstration of the themes of

Over the river the shining moon; in the pine trees, sighing wind; all night long so tranquil—why? ​              

Brian Sonia-Wallace was selected to pen poems at the Mall of America. In a shrine to consumerism, he regularly brought visitors to tears. This account

Juniper Vol.1 No.2 is loaded with superfine poetry, gutsy, skillfully writing-for-reals work. Check it out. https://juniperpoetry.com/volume-1-issue-2/

Just received emailed PDF’s of two illustrated chapbooks by the outstanding, one-of-a-kind, original-voiced, surrealist lyric-poet of a kind never seen since Vachel Lindsay. I’m talking

Help me out here. I am writing a story that centres on a serious workplace accident and stay in hospital. My character recovers, realizes how

Because I am 80 and write poems about music, my friend, the poet and producer Randy Roark sent me this poem by Diane Di Prima

To write a poem about something is to make it somehow more than it is.

September 21, 2017. What is it that inspires you to go deeper into a poem you’ve read a dozen times before and blow new energy

First Post. I am excited about reading my poems at the Coburg Poetry Workshop, with Allan Briesmaster, on Thursday, September 21. The theme of the

In my future is a new book of poetry I’m calling The Heart of All Music: poems about musicians and their music. The poems are based on

I was sitting in a cafeteria listening to the chatter and clatter of an incoming crowd, and the air-conditioning in the ducts began to boom,