poetry

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

Listicles Miscellany

20 New Book Releases of The Week: Cookbooks, Suspense, Poetry and More

December begins on Friday and if you haven't begun shopping already for the holidays, then you have been thinking about it. For the next few weeks, we will be super-sizing the list of new releases to help you in your shopping quest for the perfect holiday gifts for book lovers.…

BookTribNovember 28, 2017

Listicles Miscellany

Prince, John Grisham, Anna Faris, Oliver Sacks and Nikki Giovanni Reign!: New Books, Old Favs

If there was ever a list of new releases that displayed the kind of diversity and breadth that we love about books, it would be this list. We have one of the most intimate books of the personal life of Prince (you never forget your first time hearing a Prince…

BookTribOctober 24, 2017

Fiction

Review: “Song of a Captive Bird” is a Stunning Account of Famed Iranian Poet Forugh Farrokhzad’s Life

Not quite historical fiction and not quite biography, there's a genre that exists halfway in between and Jasmin Darznik's Song of a Captive Bird: A Novel fits perfectly. While the book is fiction, it documents the real life and times of Forugh Farrokhzad, the Iranian poet. Forugh led a fairly controversial life…

BookTribFebruary 12, 2018

Nonfiction

“Letters of Sylvia Plath”: The Woman Behind the Writing

During Sylvia Plath's first semester at Smith College, she wrote to her mother, saying "I'm so happy here I could cry!" At the same time, she was writing in her journal about the depression and anxiety she has fallen into. She was a very private person, who didn't share much…

BookTribOctober 20, 2017

Listicles

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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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

Nonfiction Recommended

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

Fiction

Here’s Why Edgar Allan Poe Still Matters

Celebrating the death rather than the birthday of the master of the macabre, is only fitting. On this day October 7, 1849 Edgar Allan Poe died at the age of 40 after he was found in a gutter on a side street in Baltimore, Maryland. Some people say he died…

Matt GillickOctober 7, 2016

Nonfiction Recommended

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

Fiction

Literary Tale of Sadness, Sorrow and Grief Told by a Poet

Should a book ever win a prize for its unreliable narrator, bet on The Offering (Penelope Books) by Salah el Moncef. The narrator in question is Tariq Abbassi, a lapsed Muslim who leaves Tunisia to study philosophy at the Sorbonne but ends up running a successful Middle Eastern restaurant in…

Joanna PoncavageNovember 7, 2022

Book Club Network Miscellany

Thriller Pro Mike Bond Pens First Poetry Book

Best-selling novelist Mike Bond, "master of the existential thriller," balances intricate lyrical language while wrestling with his classic existential views in his first book of poems, The Drum That Beats Within Us (Big City Press). "By uniting knowledge with a sudden shock of emotion, a poem takes us out of our…

Rebecca ProulxOctober 22, 2018

Existence and Imperfection by Jesse R. Bodley

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Breathtaking Poetry Collection Explores Universal Themes of “Existence and Imperfection”

Existence and Imperfection by Jesse R Bodley is a collection of poems inspired by the author's experiences with grief and depression, addressing issues surrounding death and the meaning of life. “That I have woken to the anxiety of my own labored breathing / is testament to existence, and much as…

Katie BloomerJanuary 18, 2024

A Conversation with BK on Love, Loss and Letting Go

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

20 New Book Releases of The Week: Cookbooks, Suspense, Poetry and More

Prince, John Grisham, Anna Faris, Oliver Sacks and Nikki Giovanni Reign!: New Books, Old Favs

Review: “Song of a Captive Bird” is a Stunning Account of Famed Iranian Poet Forugh Farrokhzad’s Life

“Letters of Sylvia Plath”: The Woman Behind the Writing

7 Collections of Introspective, Philosophical Poetry

Profound Poetry Examines Our Shared Experiences of Love and Pain

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

Here’s Why Edgar Allan Poe Still Matters

Disability Memoir Explores Life, Love and Human Experience Through Poetry

Exploring Life’s Raw Realities Through Poetry

Thriller Pro Mike Bond Pens First Poetry Book

Breathtaking Poetry Collection Explores Universal Themes of “Existence and Imperfection”

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