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With a pervading air of mystery and curiosity, poet Sahli A. Cavallaro probes the puzzles of life, love, connection and meaning in The Second Arrow: A Book of Illustrated Poetry, an exploratory and experimental collection.

With poems that range from the whimsical and musing to the heavy and emotionally vulnerable, this gathering of work is linguistically unique, and buttressed by detailed illustrations that break up the experience for readers. One could argue that this is a dark collection, but it is more varied than that, with plenty of existential weight mixed with splashes of playfulness and intrigue.

In “Comfort […]

Evan McMillan releases a torrent of biographical poetry in his raw and unabashed collection Growing Pains: Volume 1 (Raw Mind).

Notably, there is a clear autobiographical story woven through these bursting lines of passion and vulnerability. The poet is a man who has faced numerous heartbreaks and disappointments, he’s been failed by multiple systems, and he has even been betrayed by his own body’s desires, so the collection often feels like a cry of rage into the void.

As he explains in his introduction, there is “… no trying to say the right thing. It’s pure expression, spilling out […]