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Eileen Cleary
Eileen Cleary's Wild Pack of the Living is not simply a retelling of Steven Stayner's abduction at the age of 7; rather, the poems of this volume are haunting and…
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Mark Walsh
If Pablo Neruda worked at a consulting firm that oversaw the account for Chinese cookie fortunes, what would those fortunes look like? Found Fortunes by poet Mark Walsh delivers bursts…
Shari Caplan
Slip into this book like you would the halls of a gallery, except here you're allowed to touch. Try on mask after mask; see how they nestle against your face…
Mary Buchinger
Mary Buchinger's The Book of Shores is a meditation into the nature of being, one that recognizes that "there once was a self/ known only to self// who carried the…
Jennifer Martelli
Psychic Party Under the Bottle Tree explores the daily reprieve from active addiction
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Amanda C Shaw
With urgency and compassion, humor and wonder, Amanda Shaw's It Will Have Been So Beautiful implores us to consider what "home" means, particularly in the midst of an ever-worsening climate…
Mary Lou Buschi
"Through textured landscapes and vivid, bittersweet memories, Mary Lou Buschi invites us into a life in which "not everyone wants to be found." These restrained and tender poems which explore…
Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado
Poetry collection by Maria Luisa Arroyo Cruzado. This is poetry that takes us to external and internal places both distant and familiar, poems in conversation with what it is like…
As I read Eileen Cleary’s 2 a.m. with Keats, I felt breathless, suspended in a place of red keys, plum stones, cats, willows, and sphinxes. It would minimize the reach…
Joey Gould
"Poetry collection by Joey Gould that explores binaries, trauma and gratitude"--
Lily Poetry Review is an international print journal featuring poetry, art and flash fiction. In this issue: Miriam Levine, Steven Cramer, Janice D. Soderling, R. Nemo Hill, Ellen Austin-Li, Kali…
Lily Poetry Review is an international print journal featuring poetry, art and flash fiction. In this issue: Marcia Karp, Yuan Changming, Suzanne Edison, Cammy Thomas, George Kologeris, Jeff Oaks, Mary…
Lily Poetry Review is an international print journal featuring poetry, art and flash fiction. In this issue: Martha Silano, Grey Held, Kareem Tayaar, Lily Greenberg, Tommy Archuleta, Geof Huth and…
Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal devoted to poetry and visual arts, flash fiction and literary criticism by emerging and established writers and artists. Issue 3 includes work…
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COVID 19 Poetry Anthology. 122 pages. July Westhale, Kevin Prufer, Annie Finch, Eileen Cleary, Daniel B. Summerhill, Hannah Larrabee, Sean Thomas Dougherty, Anne-Marie Oomen, Dzvinia Orlowsky, Robbie Gamble, Michael Mercurio…
Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal featuring poetry, flash fiction, and art. In this issue, Jenna Le, Jennifer Franklin, Jennifer Martelli, Richard Hoffman, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, and others…
Martha McCollough
Martha McCollough writes as if in a stone turret encircled with open windows, a small space
with a big skylight. Based on a keen, visceral sense of the present, the…
Lily Poetry Review is an international poetry journal/anthology featuring art, flash fiction and poetry. Featuring Kathleen Aguero, Michael ST Germaine, Jenne Le, Gloria Monaghan, Nam Nguyen, Sarah Dickenson Snyder, MK…
Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal featuring poetry, flash fiction and art. In this issue: Caprice Garvin, Rikki Santer, Richard Kostelanetz, Ace Boggess, Martha McCollough and others. Lily…
Valerie Duff
These poems, like an aquamarine, are transparent, iridescent, and evoke both sea and light-whether it's the blinding light off a surface, or kaleidoscope images spilling like waves in the rearview…
Jeff Oaks
Written in the wake of the poet’s mother’s Stage 4 cancer diagnosis, The Things tackles not only the keen anticipation of grief and loss but also its arrival and aftermath…
Faye Snider
Seeking Grace is a verse memoir narrated by the mother of a daughter in a religious cult. Based on a true experience in the '80s, each poem reveals the choices…
Lily Poetry Review is an international print journal featuring poetry, art and flash fiction. In this issue: Dzvinia Orlowsky, Quintin Collins, Suzanne Mercury, Cynthia Bargar, Jennifer Martelli, Amanda Shaw, Robbie…
Meghan Sterling
Ranging across the past and the present, Sterling, asks us to not only examine what home means to us but to dream in View from a Borrowed Field
Deborah Leipziger
The poems in Deborah Leipziger's Story & Bone are centered around connection, the forging of it, the strength of it and the loss of it. She writes of the connections…
Cynthia Bargar
Sleeping in the Dead Girl’s Room yearns for a truth that eludes knowing. These poems grapple with the presumed suicide death of an aunt and with the poet’s mental health…
Gloria Monaghan
"Cormorant of the Strand is a poetry collection in which the natural world is to Gloria Monaghan something like we imagine it to have been for Dylan Thomas-a wellspring of…
Jules Jacob
"And there it is: beneath the title's light-fingered surreality (the book's signature tone), scenes of hardscrabble tenderness and sometimes unbearable cruelty, scavenged and placed ever so carefully side by side…
Steven Riel,Steven Cramer
Lily Poetry Review is an international literary journal devoted to poetry and visual arts, flash fiction.
Richard Hoffman
People Once Real redefines elegy. Elegy for the present of our failing democracy, our failing planet, our failing bodies. Elegy for the futures we had imagined would be. Elegy for…
Kareem Tayyar
"A poetic communion with a modern-day John Keats in San Francisco"--
What will you teach us, O Plague? is the central question in VIROLOGY. In the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, each day offered up startling revelations of science and…
Paul Nemser,Jon Imber
"Paul Nemser's poems find inspiration from nature, travel, mysticism, memory, ecstasies and nightmares, mysteries and clarities of daily life, fateful steps, chance encounters, donkeys braying, one nightingale calling, reflections off…
Hannah Larrabee
The Observable Universe explores human wonder and temporality within the backdrop of cosmic and earthly observation. The poems move beyond the narrow confines of self into a wider frame of…
Rikki Santer
Rikki Santer’s dazzling How to Board a Moving Ship makes the familiar brilliantly strange again. Neighbors are bears in golden vanilla coats, garden gnomes wander, adolescence is electric and ever…
Lyric-narrative poetry by Joey Gould. In an original, organic style, this collection charts a poet discovering they would like to survive. It’s a discovery that comes about both through the…
Miriam O'Neal
Lyric narrative poetry of family, human nature, faith, and natural surroundings which take on gender, religion, and illness with a compassionate and empathetic lens –
Elizabeth Mercurio
In Doll, Elizabeth Mercurio explores the appetite to leave life and the beauty that binds us to it. Recalling an early suicide attempt, a grandmother’s gift of violets, visiting a…
Chell Navarro
Poetry Collection celebrating feminism and art.
Christine Tierney
surrealistic, whimsical poetry that tackles family relationships, bullying, body image and coming of age –
Steven Riel
Shapeshifting abounds in Steven Riel’s latest collection, as this pro-feminist gay poet marshals a parade of female personas that includes Senator Elizabeth Dole, Joan of Arc, and The Supremes. Riel’s…
Bernadette McComish
Florence Nightingale’s Lost log is an imagined affair between history’s most famous nurse and a soldier during the Crimean War. Nightingale unapologetically gave up romantic relationships to be in service…
Jennifer Badot
Jennifer Badot brings a clear-eyed and earthbound lyrical power to the experience of childhood sexual trauma, its often-concomitant phenomenon of adolescent promiscuity, and the grief and rage that roils beneath…
Max Heinegg
Good Harbor is a book of poems about trying to provide shelter for the ones we love. In poems rooted in New England and New York, Max Heinegg writes about…
Tommy Archuleta
"Tommy Archuleta's second collection of poems presents a mind constantly endeavoring to adjust to the constancy of loss"--
Ron Mohring
How does a family heal from brutal trauma? The speaker in Relative Hearts faces the burdens of both his namesake and his past by digging to uncover personal details while…
Lyric narrative poetry that explores relationships, queer poetry, LGBQ. sapphics, sonnets. Little What is a collection of poems focused around narratives of childhood and trauma and the subsequent labor needed…
Liz Ahl
"Liz Ahl's second full-length collection contemplates grieving and the quests for solace that guide - for better and for worse - living in the face of loss. The losses in…
