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From global pandemic to protests; from a highly contested election to murder hornets; and from devastating wildfires to deadly hurricanes, these poems not only share what we endured, they reveal…
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The final issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #14) is 148 pages of poetry and artwork by 75 poets/artists from around the globe.
Jimmie Ware
In Gospel Gone Blues, Jimmie Ware weaves the raw, the tender, the not-always-pretty side of life with the pulse of jazz and blues as a backdrop for her captivating poems.
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Melanie Green
The poems in A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm are an invitation to slow down, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green’s poetry explores the connection with…
Sherri Levine
A collection of voice poems, In These Voices, allows us to peek inside the lives of a variety of characters. Levine, through the magic of language, embodies a jilted lover…
Margaret Chula
In Shadow Man, Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children into the car and…
Gary Percesepe
Winter is a season of the heart. The Winter of J is a collection of poems set in Buffalo, New York, where Gary Percesepe spent twelve years–one winter falling in…
Julia Paul
Staring Down the Tracks is a collection of poems that gives voice to those affected by addiction, a population that, despite their numbers and diverse demographics, is often harshly judged…
Sherry Rind
Between States of Matter points out that we spend more time getting somewhere than being there, more time in the process than the final form. And beings are always trying…
Wes Jordans
With the quick passing thoughts that we so rarely catch, Wes Jordans takes readers on a flurry of perspectives and relationships, while trying to move forward down the only open…
Joan Colby
A collection of poetry inspired by birds –
Rebecca Smolen
Excoriation is an honest, thought-provoking exploration via poetry, into motherhood, relationships, heartache, love, and the cosmos. Rebecca Smolen shares her experiences in a way that’s meant to dig a little…
Shawn Aveningo Sanders
How long can you keep a dark secret before you become completely unraveled? In What She Was Wearing, Shawn Aveningo Sanders uses poetry, prose, and letters to tell her #MeToo…
Michael B Carroll
Deeply rooted in the human experience, these poems dare to ask how we strive to see the light in other people and in ourselves, despite a world in turmoil-this dichotomy…
Kali Rose Schmidt
All That She Can is a collection of poetry that encompasses motherhood, family history, what it means to be a woman today.
Sue Fagalde Lick
The Widow at the Piano takes readers on a journey through the distracted mind of the music minister who has recently lost her husband to Alzheimer’s disease and whose only…
Ralph La Rosa
Ralph La Rosa, as the title indicates, has created a delightful collection of poetry pastiches and whimsical words-of-play, including playful sonnets, weird lists, clerihews, proverbs and converbs, tailgating couplets, strange…
Songs of an Indomitable Spirit is the follow-up to Carroll’s 2019 chapbook, The Dichotomy Between Light & Dark. This beautiful, full-length collection is a testament to Carroll’s enduring strength and…
Liz Nakazawa
These are poems of memory, thanks, prayer, bliss, dreams and blessings, embedded in color, and, while ethereal, are also rooted firmly to the earth. Hope is the sustaining thread even…
These poems explore what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. Through the eyes of the poet as young girl, teenager, daughter, granddaughter, wife and mother, we…
Donnarkevic
A young boy grows up in a small steel town along the Ohio River between 1963 and 1968, while another boy’s suicide overshadows the community. These poems tell their story.
Rheanna Haaland
An Eyeful of Hennepin Neon is a story of loss, thrill, and temptation, for anyone who has ever tried to claw their way out of savage memories with lonely sex…
Tricia Knoll
Broadfork Farm is Tricia Knoll’s poetry love song to a small organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington.
Gudrun Bortman
In November 2008, a vicious wildfire swept through Santa Barbara, California, forcing many residents to flee in fear, while wondering what would survive the angry flames. These poems tell that…
Jeanne Julian
The poems in Like the O in Hope take the reader on a journey, a quest from dark to light-both literally and spiritually, where revelations about the magic of place…
Patrick Sheils
The Secret Land by Patrick Sheils is a collection of poems about purpose. It examines the tension between the individual purpose that propels us to live our day- to-day lives…
Sally Zakariya
Take a peek into the mystery of other people as Sally Zakariya shares stories of those she knows, those she remembers from childhood, and the ones she’s merely observed throughout…
Christopher Bogart
Twenty-six Mexican migrants were discovered in the Sonoran desert near Yuma, Arizona. Twelve of them were wandering around the desert, delirious and dying of thirst. Fourteen were taken by pickup…
Cynthia Gallaher
In Epicurean Ecstasy, Cynthia Gallaher celebrates not only historical and modern pleasures of the kitchen and the table, but also the seasonal evolutions that take place in the cultivated fields…
Michael Estabrook
The Poet’s Curse Everything the poet sees or hears, thinks, feels or imagines gets captured, interpreted and shoe-horned into a damn poem whether they like it or not.
Cathy Cain
Cathy Cain, like a bee to flower, gathers thought from one encounter with nature to another. She speaks from many perspectives - as tree, as mushroom, as goddess-hero, or as…
Dianne Avey
A Beautiful, Heartrending Memoir in Poems
Sometimes our lives are divided in two – the before and the after. Insert something in between that is so profound, and it feels…
Heather Wyatt
Call My Name by Heather Wyatt is a collection of poems from the voice of a small-town southern woman working through relationships with her family and discovering who she is…
Melissa Fournier
A mother’s worst fear is realized at 23 weeks into the pregnancy, and a baby girl is born at the edge of viability. Melissa Fournier shares her profound grief for…
Stanford Searl
Mary Dyer’s Hymn and other Quaker Poems by Stanford Searl constructs poetic songs which open-up multiple dimensions of an embodied sensibility of the conflicts between Puritans and Quakers in 17th…
Gregory Loselle
In The Very Rich Hours, Gregory Loselle recounts experiences, in childhood and later, in and around his grandparents’ house on Grosse Ile, Michigan, an island in the Detroit River near…
Catching Narcissus is a collection of poems which form a smooth, yet unsettling, reflection of the critical loathing and lustfully egotistical self. Through the intermittent lens of mythology and too-real…
Kaja Weeks
Mouth Quill’s twenty-one poems narrate an intimate journey of universal themes-of ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and connection. Drawn from the author’s childhood familiarity with ancient poems of her heritage, the…
Pasquale Trozzolo
The COVID-19 pandemic had us all sheltering at home, and with all that shelter comes time to reflect, and with all that reflection comes truth. From that truth, if we…
Lauren Tivey
Moroccan Holiday is a poetic series following a married couple-an American woman, and her Scottish husband-on an extended vacation in Morocco. As the husband suffers an extreme alcoholic relapse, the…
Laurel Feigenbaum
As the title would imply, Matrimony is the story of a long marriage, a family, and the inevitable changes that occur over time. Through her poetry, Laurel Feigenbaum depicts her…
Breakpoint is a collection of poems that speaks to a nation in crisis. Its poetry is commentary on a country that was built on the promise of the American Dream…
Our new issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #12) is 180 pages and includes poetry and artwork on a variety of topics by 92…
Doug Stone
Here, Doug Stone, a fourth generation Oregonian, shares his love of Oregon–its places, its seasons, and its people. Through his lyrical and narrative poems, we are led to witness the…
Christopher Bogart’s poems demonstrate that poetry’s embrace can include the idea of justice and the feeling of outrage. –Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate (1997-2000)
The Eater of Dreams begins…
Ahrend Torrey
In Small Blue Harbor, Ahrend Torrey exalts the ordinary, everydayness of life spinning his keen observation into lyrical poems and proems.
This book is for any woman who has experienced domestic or sexual abuse, for the people that love them, and those who are still seeking a way to escape from…
Karla Linn Merrifield
Psyche’s Scroll is a post-postmodern epic poem that pushes at the frontiers of what is possible and invites you to participate in a woman’s psychosocial self-analysis as she struggles to…
