Tag Archives: Poetry

If you read only one book of poetry this year make sure 'Nature Poem' by Tommy Pico is it.

In the collection of poetry 'Losing My Misery' Bobby Long certainly has a way with words, and while his words do not flow to my ear like those of Dylan Thomas, or for that mater Bob Dylan, he is skilled a expressing both wry humor and many other shades of emotion from despair to hope and contentment within the poetiic franework, with or without music.

'Breakup/Breakdown', a collection of poetry by Charles Jensen. Can one find hope in poems of heartbreak and loss?

If you are in the mood to read some excellent writing and discover some excellent people in less than excellent circumstances, please consider adding 'Gotta Find A Home' by Dennis Cardiff to your life and bookshelf.

'Death of the Dying City' by Matthew Taub challenges the reader to believe in something good when the world around gives no reason to do so.

Weaving together a series of Whitman's writings into a dramatic narrative monologue that forms a kind of selective biography, the actor pays a serious, loving, and artfully imagined tribute to the great American poet.

Nana Simopoulos glides through an enchanting program of eight original compositions.

If you care about modern art and culture "Massive Pissed Love: Nonfiction 2001 - 2014" by Richard Hell is a must read.

A 19-year-old Emily Dickinson, teamed with Edgar Allan Poe, is the last line of defense between the everyday and a world of magic, ghosts, and vampires.

When the former U.S. Poet Laureate read the phrase "frying pan of yourself/into the fire..." a young child in the audience gave a magnificent whoop. It was the perfect sound effect to punctuate the hot metaphor.