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Dancing Through Life, Loss and the Soul’s Long Journey with Diane Skye Gropper

In Dancing Through Seafoam, poet Diane Skye Gropper explores the fleeting nature of life through a personal and spiritual lens. Drawing on decades of studying Buddhism, Native American teachings and other spiritual traditions, Gropper reflects on love, loss, past lives, healing and the connections that endure beyond a single lifetime.…

BookTribSeptember 18, 2026

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Poetry That Finds the Holy in the Hard Places

Laura Wifler came to poetry late and, by her own account, reluctantly. For much of her life, she thought the form was obscure, overly complicated ... and simply not for her. Then, while homeschooling her children, she encountered poems that were clear without being simplistic, beautiful without requiring a decoder…

BookTribSeptember 15, 2026

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Poems for the Long Journey of the Soul

What if autobiography did not begin with birth or end with death? What if the story of a life included people we have loved before, lessons carried from one incarnation into another, unfinished relationships that find us again and glimpses of worlds beyond the one we can see? Diane Skye…

Cynthia ConradSeptember 2, 2026

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Energy, Consciousness and a Lyrical Search for the Soul

What is the soul? Joseph L. Bensinger begins Energy Fields with that old, almost unanswerable question, then refuses to keep it in one category. The soul, in his telling, is not only a religious idea, a poetic image or a problem for consciousness studies. It is a pattern — a…

BookTribMay 20, 2026

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15 Canadian Poetry Collections to Add to Your TBR this Poetry Month

With National Poetry Month underway, you may be looking at your ambitious 2026 reading goals and wondering if you need more poetry. Yes, the answer is always “yes.” Canadian poets are some of the finest on the planet, writing face-melting, breathtaking, soul-expanding poetry. To celebrate this auspicious month, here are…

Sasha YurchenkoApril 3, 2026

Author Spotlight

A Conversation with BK on Love, Loss and Letting Go

In a world where silence often hides pain, BK’s writing speaks with an honesty that echoes after the page is turned. In her book The Gratifying Relief of Being Forgotten, she navigates the fragile crossroads of love and loss as personal truths carved from grief, longing and the search for…

BookTribDecember 8, 2025

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A Reckoning With Grief and Identity in The Gratifying Relief of Being Forgotten

The Gratifying Relief of Being Forgotten by BK is a bruising and beautiful exploration of grief, longing, self-erasure and the persistence of love in its most destructive and redemptive forms. Moving between aphoristic fragments, longer narrative poems, typographic experimentation and a prose-poem sequence, BK constructs a world where memory, nature,…

Cynthia ConradNovember 21, 2025

Nonfiction

A Voice That Changed History: Remembering Nikki Giovanni Through Her Final Work

Alas, Nikki Giovanni’s The New Book was her final book, unless a later comprehensive compilation of her many works of prose, poetry and children’s books is published. Breaking Barriers in the Halls of History Yolande Cornelia (Nikki) Giovanni Jr., an extraordinarily gifted writer, activist and educator, born June 7, 1943,…

Linda HitchcockOctober 23, 2025

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7 Collections of Introspective, Philosophical Poetry

Imagine the hush of dawn, when the world still speaks in quiet whispers — and poetry becomes the vessel for that inner conversation. These seven varied works are united by a shared purpose: to guide readers inward, toward reflection on identity, impermanence, suffering and spiritual awakening. Each volume offers a…

Katie BloomerJuly 28, 2025

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A Quantum Tapestry of the Soul: Joseph Bensinger Blends Science, Spirit, and Song

At the intersection of metaphysics and quantum mechanics lies a vast area of exploration for curious minds. Among these explorations, perhaps one of the most compelling is how our ancient spiritual traditions can be reframed in the context of modern science, where we can examine and understand them in new…

BookTribJuly 11, 2025

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Profound Poetry Examines Our Shared Experiences of Love and Pain

It’s been said that “To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving.” Truer words have never been spoken. This is the essence of Joanne Sherry Mitchell’s latest collection of contemporary poetry, The Pain We Call Love, in which Mitchell…

Katie BloomerApril 10, 2025

Discovering the Beauty in Ordinary Moments with Ira Joe Fisher

The Magic of Nature and Small Moments Ira Joe Fisher has a sharp eye; he sees something special and unique in the ordinary and expresses his take on it with beautiful prose. The Birth of Snow is his latest collection of poetry and I had the wonderful opportunity to discuss writing and…

Jennifer BlankfeinMarch 14, 2025

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Find Hope, Beauty, and Connection in “Soul Flowers”

With the new year comes a new sense of hope. I can think of no better time to embrace the beauty of poetry, especially in works such as Cynthia Schumacher’s seventh collection, Soul Flowers. In this timeless collection, Schumacher explores with gifted verse those universal human emotions and experiences that…

Katie BloomerJanuary 9, 2025

Author Spotlight

Author and Poet Emphasizes Humor and Tenacity in Eye-Opening Disability Memoir

“Gravity,” Mary Keating writes. “One: a fundamental interaction keeping every body down to earth and drawn to each other, counterbalancing the inclination to float away. Two: the prison guard of my paralysis — escaped by full submersion in water, meditation, poetry, or dreams. Also overcome by a shift in perception.”…

BookTribOctober 21, 2024

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Disability Memoir Explores Life, Love and Human Experience Through Poetry

“I am not just one voice alone. I am one voice among a billion.” It’s been said before that most poetry is autobiographical. Poetry is known to draw from a place of truth — whether emotional truth, universal observation, or personal anecdote. But Recalibrating Gravity by Mary Keating is a…

Megan BeauregardSeptember 5, 2024

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Exploring Life’s Raw Realities Through Poetry

Poetry often has a reputation as lofty and pretentious, something only the most educated, cultured and refined people can appreciate. But that’s simply not true — even Shakespeare, the pinnacle of pretentiousness today, was the common man’s poet during his day. Poetry is meant to connect people on an emotional…

Katie BloomerSeptember 4, 2024

Dancing Through Life, Loss and the Soul’s Long Journey with Diane Skye Gropper

Poetry That Finds the Holy in the Hard Places

Poems for the Long Journey of the Soul

Energy, Consciousness and a Lyrical Search for the Soul

A Conversation with BK on Love, Loss and Letting Go

A Reckoning With Grief and Identity in The Gratifying Relief of Being Forgotten

7 Collections of Introspective, Philosophical Poetry

A Quantum Tapestry of the Soul: Joseph Bensinger Blends Science, Spirit, and Song

Profound Poetry Examines Our Shared Experiences of Love and Pain

Find Hope, Beauty, and Connection in “Soul Flowers”

Author and Poet Emphasizes Humor and Tenacity in Eye-Opening Disability Memoir

Disability Memoir Explores Life, Love and Human Experience Through Poetry

Exploring Life’s Raw Realities Through Poetry

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