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Lily Poetry Review is an international print journal featuring poetry, art and book reviews.. In this issue: Andrew Cleary, Jennifer Badot, Margie Duncan. Suzanne Edison, . Malcolm Farley, Karen George…
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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…
Martha McCollough
In an exploration of the changes experienced by the Comanches and Caddoans during Spain’s occupation of the Southern Plains (1689-1921), McCollough focuses on the relationship between political and economic conditions.
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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…
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 featuring poetry, flash fiction, and art. In this issue, Jenna Le, Jennifer Franklin, Jennifer Martelli, Richard Hoffman, Anne Elezabeth Pluto, and others…
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…
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…
Josette Akresh-Gonzales
Apocalypse on the Linoleum grapples with big stuff - religious and cultural identity, climate change, motherhood, death, history - with an unflinching eye and a paradoxical, active hope. Gutsy, raw…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Joey Gould
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…
Marjorie Power,Sally Zakariya,Martha McCollough
3 Poetry chapbooks bound in one single volume. It includes Grandmother Mountain by Martha McCollough, Refuses to Suffocate by Marjorie Power, and Muslim Wife by Sally Zakariya.
Clarissa Adkins
"Collection of modern lyric narratives"--
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…
Robin Reagler
Night is this Anyway investigates the love, desire, and pain of the LGBTQ experience in the deep South. These poems move from the dazzling charm of new love, through the…
Jennifer Jean
A series of poems on objectification in America–most of which is based on interviews the author conducted with sex-trafficking survivors. A selection from that series which I fashioned into a…
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…
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…
A deeply moving meditation on place, space, childhood, fatherhood, and family, Going There is also a profound study of arrival and departure, natality and mortality, and gifts of inheritance-from Thoreau…
Eric Roy
We’ve lost more Americans to the opioid crisis than to the Vietnam War. Eric Roy begins this extraordinary chapbook by asking that you conceptualize this number. Think of this number…
Phoebe Reeves
Helen of Bikini examines the way humans inhabit the world, both in beauty and in conflict. How do the twinned human forces of domestication and domination, rage and mediation, witness…
Paul Nemser
"Break On Through by Paul Nemser is a collection of poetry in which each poem describes an escape, a breakout, a breaking on through to the other side"--
Suzanne Mercury
In Hive, a book-length poem that explores the poetics of the apiary, Suzanne Mercury creates a meadow: a world, a microcosm, a universe which invites the reader into a renewed…
Kelly Dumar
Lusty, vigorous, zestful. It's hard to imagine our parents in the throes of passion, yet jinx and heavenly calling does just that. DuMar culls original text and graphics from love…
David P Miller
A poetry collection exploring a father’s grief and a look back mid-life –
Barbara Helfgott-Hyett
The voice in these remarkable poems displays the assurance of a poet who has perfected her art. This authority carries throughout all three sections of the book: from the first…
