The Unfolding

The Unfolding by Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer

In The Unfolding, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer startles us with the wonder, beauty, and sacred connection that blossom out of living wholeheartedly. Here the aching heart goes dancing. Written after the deaths of her son and father, these poems embody paradox—simultaneously somber and playful, brokenhearted and uplifting, even solemn and sexy. Trommer wades heart-deep in the broken […]

The Long Invisible

The Long Invisible by Michael Dechane

Waiting inside each of us are lives we can’t imagine living or even wanting—until upheaval or loss or what appears to be a profound mistake—means we must become these people and live these lives, after all. Here are poems for those days when we wake up inside some raw, unchartable place. Some trembling songs to companion us in the […]

Soul Kindling

Soul Kindling by Ally Markotich

With playful and poetic depth, Soul Kindling: Ignite Your Sacred, Creative Heart invites you to embark on a journey of discovering your creative, sacred self. Drawing on her alluring artwork, poet and artist Ally Markotich beckons you—with wit and imagination—to rekindle your inner spark and open yourself to the love of the Divine Feminine. Through […]

Love Calls Us Here

The divine meets us in the real world and nowhere else, Anderson suggests in these poems, coming without fanfare and often startling us with its presence. When and where should we look for these encounters? Here and now. In our ordinary lives. In those everyday moments, now and then, when something suddenly stirs within us, […]

Space That Carries Light Forever

Space That Carries Light Forever (Robert Rice, 2024)

These days ‘nature poetry’ is often disparaged as irrelevant in modern society with the presumption that poets should be writing poems about humans: our suffering, our problems, our wars, prejudices, and injustices. In our culture of money, nature is mostly devalued as scenery or as an exploitable resource, a place to cut timber, extract minerals, […]

Refuge for Cranes

In Refuge for Cranes, Jerome Gagnon writes at the intersection of inner and outer landscapes, finding refuge in nature, art, and awareness itself. These are poems of wonder and alarm, in awe of the natural world yet full of concern for the harm we do to it, and to ourselves. They range in topic from climate […]

Meridian

Meridian is a collection of poems that reflects the poet’s deep and abiding love affair with the natural world. The poems draw on the alchemy that binds the visible and the invisible, capturing moments with people, places, and things that cannot be reduced and therefore diminished. Written over a span of years, the poems reflect the […]

The Invisible Fugue

At a time darkened by war, Ellen Hinsey’s The Invisible Fugue returns to questions of our endurance and what it means to be human. Like Czeslaw Milosz’s Treatise on Poetry, The Invisible Fugue lyrically reflects on the natural world around us, the possible celebration in the encounter with the other, our confrontation with time and the mysteries ever-present in […]