The world is full of standard, classical, awe-inspiring poetry books that have stood the test of time and still find their way on modern bookshelves. Names like Chaucer, Shakespeare, Shelley, Dickinson, or Frost, stir up thoughts of high verse and quality work.

Yet in today's age, we have our own exciting movement of poetry that is ongoing: Quality writers who are forging their own way in the poetic form are creating volumes of verse that are inspiring in themselves.

On these pages, we will bring you the reviews of some of today's best in various forms of verse. We have no preference for form, whether it be tanka, haiku, sonnets, haiga, free verse, triolets, villanelles, or a new form that's yet to be created! Our only criteria for verse is that it be good -- solid verse that speaks to today's poetry reader about the things that only poetry can say.

We hope you'll enjoy these reviews, and in doing so, decide to pick up one, two, three, or all of these fine books described on these pages. And in years to come, perhaps these names will be synonymous with only the finest of verse.

Happy poetry reading.
Aurora Antonovic