("What Happens" by Hilda Raz, Bison Books, University of Nebraska Press, 134 pages, $14.95). These are emotionally taut poems, created by the poet to share her self or, perhaps, her many selves with ...

Few poetry books may be more openly honest than Suzan E. Zan’s collection, "From Suffering to Salve: My Journey to Happiness" (Turtle Cove Press, 2021). Organized into three parts, the poetry ...

If hope were an object, it would be poet Alex Dimitrov's new book Love and Other Poems. In its entirety, the book itself is one long love poem — to New York City, to the moon, to the many "scenes from ...

When spoken word poets Sarah Kay and Andrea Gibson come together, magic happens. Their collaborative reading at the Paradise Rock Club on Tuesday was a melding of art forms. With interspersed bursts ...

Thomas Dooley’s debut collection of poems, “Trespass,” published in September, deals with the duality of vulnerability and forgiveness. “I think that sometimes going into a very vulnerable place, or a ...

When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. By Emilia Phillips Early in Natalie Diaz’s second book, the speaker has an epiphany that she’s “the ...

Chivalry and love on this campus are not dead but merely lost in the wind. To revitalize our generation’s lost passion for love, we need to bring back an old-school practice of showing affection to ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. While valentine notes today tend to stress caring and warmth, love letters from ancient Rome ...