Poetry Book Review: Love Found, Yearned For, and Lost by James A. Tweedie
Reviewed Poetry Book: Love Found, Yearned For, and Lost by James A. Tweedie by Theresa Werba I have had...
Poetry Reviews
The Zingers of Adam Sedia: A Review by Theresa Werba
The Zingers of Adam Sedia A Review Sedia's New Work The Opening of the Mouth and Other Books by...
Poetry Book Review: Petrarch’s Canzoniere, Translated by A.M. Juster
Reviewed Poetry Book: Canzoniere by Petrarch, Translated by A.M. Juster, Liveright (Norton) Publishing, 2026 by Margaret Coats A.M. Juster, longtime...
Poetry Book Review: The Burning Word by James Sale
Reviewed Poetry Book: The Burning Word: A Poetic Pilgrimage through Suffering, Faith, and Divine Encounter, by James Sale, 2026...
Book Review: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III by James Sale
. Book Reviewed: Doorway: The English Cantos, Volume III, by James Sale, 2025 by Cynthia Erlandson It’s been several years...
Book Review: Uttering the Unutterable by Louis Groarke
. Book Reviewed: Uttering the Unutterable: Aristotle, Religion, and Literature by Louis Groarke, McGill-Queen's University Press, 2023 by Margaret Coats...
Book Review: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown
. Book Reviewed: Legends of Liberty Volume II by Andrew Benson Brown, Bard Owl Publishing, March 2024 by Theresa Werba...
Book Review: What Was and Is—Formal Poetry and Free Verse by Theresa Werba
. Book Reviewed: What Was and Is---Formal Poetry and Free Verse, by Theresa Werba, Bardsinger Books, April 2024 by James...
‘Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity’: A Poem by Drilon Bajrami
. Bridgerton’s DEI vs. Historicity They sacrifice true historicity, So DEI trumps authenticity. But Bridgerton and Netflix, they don’t care,...
Are Epic Heroes Toxic?—Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown
. https://youtu.be/ICEvMGx4WnY . . Andrew Benson Brown has had poems and reviews published in a few journals. His epic-in-progress, Legends of...
Book Review: Songs of My Life and Death by Peter Hartley
. . Reviewed Book: Songs of My Life and Death by Peter Hartley, Grosvenor House Publishing Limited, May, 2023 by...
Book Review: Selected Verse of Émile Nelligan: Québec’s Great Lyric Poet, by Ian Allaby
. Reviewed Book: Selected Verse of Émile Nelligan: Québec's Great Lyric Poet, translated with commentary by Ian Allaby, Petra Books,...
Poetry Book Review: Making Music by Sally Cook
. Reviewed Book: Making Music by Sally Cook, White Violet Press, 2012 by Monika Cooper Making Music by Sally Cook...
Book Review: Poems with a Wink and a Smile by James A. Tweedie
. Reviewed Book: Laughing Matters: Poems with a Wink and a Smile by James A. Tweedie, Duncrest Press, 2023 by...
CPL: ChatGPT Poetry Quiz, Lillian-Yvonne Betram, Interview with James A. Tweedie, and More
. Classical Poets Live with Andrew Benson Brown Episode 4: Poetry in the Age of AI If you enjoy this video,...
Book Review: Seven Poems by Jacob Balde, Translated by Karl Maurer
. Reviewed Book: Seven Poems by Jacob Balde (Translated by Karl Maurer) Cooper and Posey, 2023 by Monika Cooper In...
Review of Modern Art: An Exhibition in Criticism, a Book of Poetry by Michael Curtis
. Reviewed Book: Modern Art: An Exhibition in Criticism, by Michael Curtis, National Civic Art Society, 2022 by Evan Mantyk...
Review of A Thing With Feathers, by J. John Nordstrom
. Reviewed Book: A Thing With Feathers, by J. John Nordstrom, independently published, 2021 by Andrew Benson Brown A Thing...
Review: Legends of Liberty Volume 1 by Andrew Benson Brown
Reviewed Book: Legends of Liberty Volume 1, by Andrew Benson Brown, T A J Classics, 2021 by James Sale Legends of...
Review: ‘Light In the Darkness—The Poetry of Peter Hartley’
Reviewed Book: Light In the Darkness—The Poetry of Peter Hartley, Dunecrest Press, 2021. by James A. Tweedie Peter Hartley writes...
A Review of James B. Nicola’s ‘Fires of Heaven’
Fires of Heaven, published by Shanti Arts, 2020, can be purchased here. by James Sale James B. Nicola is one...
A Review of Amanda Hall’s The Gift of Life: An Epic in Verse
Reviewed Book: The Gift of Life: An Epic in Verse by Amanda Hall, 2021. by Margaret Coats So long as...
A Review of James A. Tweedie’s Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World
Reviewed Book: Mostly Sonnets: Formal Poetry in an Informal World by James A. Tweedie, Dunecrest Press, July 2019 by Theresa...
The Singing Lines of Theresa Rodriguez: A Review of Sonnets
by Andrew Benson Brown Theresa Rodriguez, Sonnets. 2nd edition. Shanti Arts, 193 Hillside Road, Brunswick, ME, 04011, 2020. 75 pp....
A Review of Juvenalia by Reid McGrath
Juvenalia by Reid McGrath, Kelsay Books, 2019 by James Sale Regular readers of The Society of Classical Poets’ pages will...
Ekphrastic Economy: A Review of Memoirs of a Witness Tree, by Randal A. Burd, Jr.
Memoirs of a Witness Tree, by Randal A. Burd, Jr. Kelsay Books, 2020 by Andrew Benson Brown Reading Aristotle’s Poetics...
The Rebirth of Epic: A Review of James Sale’s HellWard
by Andrew Benson Brown James Sale’s HellWard is the first volume of a planned trilogy entitled The English Cantos. If...
Review: ‘The Stargazers,’ A First Book of Poems by James McKee
by T.M. Moore James McKee, The Stargazers (Atmosphere Press, 2020), $17.99 James McKee’s inaugural foray into verse publishing offers a...
Review: Poetry by Theresa Rodriguez
by James Sale Sonnets, 2nd edition. Shanti Arts, 2020 Jesus and Eros, Bardsinger Books, 2014 Theresa Rodriguez is a relatively...
On Wendy Cope’s Wasteland Limericks (Essay)
by Lew Icarus Bede The way I dealt with T. S. Eliot's The Wasteland was to write a poem, equally...
Review: “Profane and Sacred Love” by William Ruleman
William Ruleman: Profane and Sacred Love, Feather Books, 2002 and reprint 2014 by James Sale Having read some excellent poetry...
Review: In the Measuring, Carol Smallwood, Shanti Arts 2018
by James Sale Carol Smallwood In the Measuring is a substantial new collection of 77 poems by Carol Smallwood. Carol...
Review: Selected Poems from Baudelaire’s Les Fleurs du Mal, Translated by Helen Palma
by Joseph Charles MacKenzie Read the Selected Poems from Baudelaire's Les Fleurs du Mal online. Email [email protected] for details on...
Review: Two Poetry Books by James B. Nicola
by James Sale Wind in the Cave, Finishing Line Press, 2017 Out of Nothing, Shanti Arts Publishing, 2018 Recently in...
Review: ‘Organ Harvest’ by Damian Robin
Organ Harvest by Damian Robin, published by Fulton Verse, 2018. Read three sonnets from the work here. by James Sale...
Review: Three Poetry Books by Joseph S. Salemi
by James Sale FORMAL COMPLAINTS by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks Press, 1997 MASQUERADE by Joseph S. Salemi, Somer Rocks...
Rediscovering Percy Shelley’s Greatest Work: ‘Prometheus Unbound, with Other Poems’
By Brett Forester Writing but one fine, enduring poem is a remarkable achievement. Writing a book of great poems is...
Review: What Is Shen Yun All About?
By Evan Mantyk Advertising for it is everywhere. If you haven’t seen it, you just haven’t been paying attention. A...
Book Review: Groans From Old Bones by William F.E. Morley (1920 – )
Click here to download the entire book as a pdf file. By Leonard Dabydeen In the fraternity of poetic minds we...
Review: Wolfe and Other Poems by Donald Mace Williams, Wundor Editions, 2017
By James Sale Donald Mace Williams Wolfe and Other Poems is an extraordinarily good collection of poems, clearly written by a...
Spot-on Mark - the final line is a real clincher! We are back to the Garden of Eden - and…
Yes, Bruce, you rightly identify Bellini's Francis as having an "upward gaze," that word "gaze" being important in both Brian…
The XAXA rhyme scheme is deftly handled, and is perfectly suited to the subject matter. The lines could have been…
Thanks for the read, Mark. You get no argument from me. Voting is typically a “lesser of the evils” exercise…
Thank you Margaret, for this fascinating set of comments, especially regarding the academic speakers. As for the Symposium, it was…
