Dandelions on A Hillside by Leslie Racz
“Dandelions on a Hillside” is a collection of poems about the simple, meaningful things in life. Through its heartfelt verses, it explores the depths of human emotion, from the happiness of love and friendship to the heartbreak of loss, all while maintaining a warm and hopeful outlook. It will also take you back in time to the innocence and wonder of childhood, leaving you with the good feelings that nature and the changing seasons bring. Find out which poems tell your story, listen for their melody, and may they bring a song to your heart.
The Seventh Dimension Is Love by Michael Esquer
“The Seventh Dimension Is Love” is a collection of lyric free-verse poems and meditations written in the aftermath of loss and in the slow emergence of a new interior life. It is not a book about heartbreak alone, nor about healing as a performance or a solution. It is a record of what happens when a person is stripped of the stories that once held them upright, and must learn to stand again inside something quieter, more honest, and more alive. These poems move through grief, memory, intimacy, fatherhood, desire, and spiritual awakening with a voice that is both tender and unflinching. They do not rush toward closure or redemption. They stay with what is present—the ache, the beauty, the confusion, the moments of sudden clarity—and allow meaning to arise naturally from attention rather than from explanation.
At the center of the book is love, not as an emotion or a possession, but as a dimension of perception. Love is presented as a way of seeing, listening, or inhabiting the world that changes what becomes visible. In this sense, love is not something the speaker finds at the end of the journey; it is something that slowly teaches the speaker how to be inside the journey at all. The poems are autobiographical in origin but universal in resonance. They speak to anyone who has loved deeply, lost profoundly, and found themselves altered by the experience. They are for those who have felt the world withdraw its permission to make sense, and for those who have felt it return in smaller, quieter forms: in breath, in memory, in the presence of children, in the way light moves across a room.
Written in a musical free-verse style, “The Seventh Dimension Is Love” invites readers into a contemplative space rather than a narrative one. It does not offer answers. It offers companionship. It offers language for what is often lived without language. It offers a place to pause, to feel, and to remember that even in the midst of loss, something luminous remains—not as a promise, but as a presence.
A Bridge is More Magnificent Than Any Tower by Ben Yakir Li
A work of elegance and power all at once, this debut volume presents a new voice and a new force in poetry. Ben Yakir Li’s artistry is born in the confrontation and surmounting of trauma and struggle, ultimately and courageously revealing the poignant beauty in the mundane and miraculous. His writing is grounded in tradition but original, a seer whose redemptive words are an antidote to our times. Intimate, playful, meditative, and uplifting, the poems in this work demand attention, penetrating with wisdom and driving toward healing, introducing readers to an artist who will endure.
Tanning In the Winter by Sameerah Wyivine
Emerging from the heart of the most paradoxical chapter of Sameerah’s life—where the hardest moments birthed the deepest truths—these poems serve to confront and inspire. Each poem holds a rawness that holds nothing back and illuminates the consequences of choices as well as the power the reader has to change them. These pages offer a mirror: one that invites you to see yourself, your power, and your growth in a new light. Walk with Sameerah through moments of pain and power, through confusion and clarity, and through grief and growth. Feel what she felt, receive the lessons she’s learned, and witness the wisdom that came from incarceration and that led to elevation. By the end, readers will feel not just challenged but ready to embrace their own personal transformation with intention and courage.
Breathe In by C.A. Morningstarr
“Haiku” is a term, at times, loosely applied to any short, impressionistic poem; there are certain characteristics commonly associated with the genre, such as having a strong focus on nature or the four seasons. While Japanese haiku are written in verses arranged in three lines using the 5-7-5 syllable rule, English haiku is still hoping to be defined as poetry that focuses on the subtlety of the effect, cultivated by the poet, while adhering to the accepted themes, such as the crush of autumn leaves underfoot, the stillness of falling snow, the soothing effect of a river’s flow, the mountains’ solitary magnificence, the phases of the moon, and the changing of seasons.
Here, the poet paints with a dry brush, hoping the reader might visualize the colors, moments, and moods for themselves. The gift to the reader would be one of either intensifying or exhausting the experience, without explaining or giving it away, thus allowing the reader their own interpretation. This may be in part due to the fact that Japanese and English expressions are not, in essence, always comparable. As a result, it is rare to find a poem as long as seventeen syllables in today’s English-language haiku. As for Morningstarr, it is not their intent to dishonor the poetry that is Japanese or their contemporaries’ artistic styles, but instead to create something they may call their own on this journey, creating these haikus.
The Umbrella Fixer by Vashti Stopher Klein
A life lived in the rain embraces the entire spectrum of love, from the peaks of joy to the valleys of despair. Some years blend both, while others tip the balance. These past two years have profoundly challenged Vashti, compelling them to confront their past, embrace the present, and build a future rooted in newfound strength and inspiration. Vashti’s journey is captured in the poems within this book. For now, the future remains a dream in progress.
November Keepsakes by Lola Willis
From the towering pines of Leesville to the sweeping cypresses of Lafayette, the state of Louisiana has been the inspirational backdrop for Lola Willis’ “November Keepsakes,” a chronicle of love in all its passionate forms. Lola’s first collection of poetry and short fiction comes ten years after its completion, published upon the death of her firstborn child, who was the ultimate driving purpose behind these works seeing the light of day. Pain, love, woman, faith… these chapters trace an era of a woman’s life in times of despair and fulfillment, as is the nature of lasting love.
From Ashes by Jessy Oswalt
Embark on a mesmerizing journey through the kaleidoscope of Jessy Oswalt’s life’s whirlwind of transformations, woven delicately into a captivating collection of poems. With intimate strokes of ink, these verses were born not just for my own solace but to extend a comforting hand to fellow wanderers navigating parallel paths. With each open, the untamed essence of their thoughts, the shotgun blast of their emotions, and the labyrinth of my struggles find liberation transcending the limits of mere spoken words. Let the symphony of these written musings ignite your own personal metamorphosis.