Jianqing Zheng’s Visual Cords (Broken Tribe Press 2025) and Dreaminations (Madville Publishing 2026) capture discrete moments in time with seamless beauty and often echo imagistic poetry with Zheng’s striking use of images and precise, concrete language. The poet, who spent his first thirty-some years in China and the last thirty-plus years in Mississippi, displays considerable […]
“Visual Cords” and “Dreaminations” poetry collections by Jianqing Zheng
June 2, 2026 by Leave a Comment
“The Mediator” by Robert Bailey
May 15, 2026 by Leave a Comment
The stakes in a rogue divorce mediation couldn’t be higher—life and death for both the shaky mediator fresh out of rehab and the desperate husband who has never confronted an ethical line he will not cross. With that set-up, award-winning, best-selling Alabama attorney Robert Bailey is back with a new one, The Mediator (Max Ringo, […]
Read of the Month: “Kissing the Sky” by Lisa Patton
May 6, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Kissing the Sky (Lake Union Publishing 2026) by Lisa Patton is an engaging historical coming-of-age novel about finding and asserting one’s true self. Set during turbulent times, much of the story takes place at Woodstock—both the original 1969 famous music festival and the 50-year anniversary celebration. In her author’s notes, Patton admits she was too […]
“Sing Down the Moon” by Robert Gwaltney
March 17, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Robert Gwaltney undoubtedly has one of the most stunning imaginations of any author now writing. In his award-winning debut, The Cicada Tree—which, among other honors, won the Georgia Writer of the Year Award for a First Novel—he proved he excels in lyrical prose, richly drawn characters, and confident storytelling. Now, with his second novel, Sing […]
“1000 Pieces of Time” by Michael Minassian
February 10, 2026 by Leave a Comment
Literate, imaginative, erudite, precise, and lovely—the poems by Michael Minassian in 1000 Pieces of Time (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2025) are all that and more. Minassian blends the here and the gone, the realistic and the fanciful, the dreamy and the sharp, in a collection at once creative and impeccably well crafted. Divided into three distinctive parts, […]