Read the 2023 Reviews!

By: Karen Garrabrant

Karen Garrabrant tells us "this is the era of letting go / the year of releasing" ... Driving Into Midnight navigates grief and joy, from personal loss to the real faces of gentrification with a deft, caring hand and with the voice of someone who has stomped and shouted with equal aplomb at American power structures and their own lungs. This collection is a manual for How To Love So Fierce and Full. It is both testimony and confessional...these poems show up and keep showing up. Now that's love.

- Rob Sturma, author, HEAD V HEART

Driving into Midnight ... is a stunning collection of luminous poetry. Each piece carves out scenes, feelings, sensuous moments. A hot summer night. The arms of a friend. A casual exchange at a stoplight. Garrabrant’s work celebrates the body at all times - even when surviving a pandemic, working, and grieving. The reader will find a glowing world in these pages - sad, joyous, bitter, laughing, full of rage, and most of all full of love.

- Louise Robertson

From within the fallout of 2020 and the following years, this punk - with a reputation for showing up - has met us once again in Driving Into Midnight. Garrabrant's book is that black leather jacket one needs for the ride.

-Marjorie Hendrix

By: Emily Cordes

“With inspiration from the Tarot spread with an adept hand, Emily Cordes weaves a beautifully wrought collection of poems about our times. This collection is proclamation, a toast…exultant, despite the fears, grief, illness, chaos that surrounds us.”  – Alise Versella, author of Tender Is The Body & A Psalm For The Weary

“The Queen of Swords, Emily Cordes, wields her sword - a pen at face value, her unflinching register of the world, her secret weapon - yet again. Her artistry is on full display, complete with storytelling, nostalgia, allegory, visceral imagery, rhyme, rhythm, and a dramatic fusion of Tarot, reality and fantasy. This work of art is “brave…brazen…[and] wide-eyed,” reminding us that “[we are] no less the blessed for our scars.” – Maureen P. Medina, author of My Fears Out Loud

By: Rick Spisak

Robert Cole

It’s a privilege.”A maker of poetry that’s immediately lyrical & sardonic, mellifluous & laconic; a poet of the realpolitik.”

Laura Grevel

Rick Spisak’s poetry works as a panacea for what ails us.  His rhyming poetic high life gives a dance tour of tap and shuffle to deliver hijinx on themes serious, philosophical and light.  He may even change a few minds.  Highly recommended!

Meher Prestonji

Richard Spizak has creativity oozing from every pore. ‘Stone Poetry’ spans universal concerns, tinged with satire as his poetic canvas eulogises packing off the rich into space, makes an octopus into a metaphor for state surveillance and tenderly celebrates Earth Day with the sprouting of a seedling. His book is a must-read for every poet with a penchant for humorous critiques.