The Poetry E-Book Free-For-All

'Twas brillig by Karen Pierce Gonzalez
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This hybrid poetic libretto contains seven original art works and one five-part poem inspired by Lewis Carroll's Jabberwocky (from Alice in Wonderland).
https://karenpiercegonzalez.blogspot.com

54 of 99 Word Poetic Stories by Duane L Herrmann
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Fifty-four stories of ninety-nine words written as part of Carrot Ranch literary community.

A Stolen Hour by Fokkina McDonnell
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The 22 poems that were published in my pamphlet with Grey Hen Press, UK, 2020. This has sold out, so I've made available a pdf. Poems about childhood, family, life in The Netherlands, and a set of ekphrastic poems.
https://acaciapublications.co.uk

A Way with Words by Deirdre Garr Johns
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A Way with Words is a collection of word poems — poems that create moments of reflection related to words’ connotations. With words like bamboozle, chrysanthemum, y’all, and binge, these poems may transport readers to unexpected places. A Way with Words is a compilation made possible by fellow word lovers.
https://amuseofonesown.com

Anthem by John Dorroh
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On November 6, 2024, the day after "The Election," I was so distraught that all I could do was stand in the shower and cry, then vomit, then get back in the shower. These poems followed. My family censored me. I left and have not been back. Sad.

Appear to Dance by Linda Kleinbub
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Living in the epicenter of the pandemic, this book captures the chaos and search for small pleasures we experienced in quarantine. It's filled with poetic surprises, poignant prayers, practical advice, and playful lists. Reading this will reawaken your senses. It's a survival kit and therein lies its gift.
https://www.pinktreespress.org/

Approximate Wilderness by John Sweet
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OOP collection from the late, great Flutter Press. Putting the truth into words, so you don't have to.
https://bleedinghorse.blogspot.com/

August Postcards by Constance Taylor
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Observations and reflections on nature and life sprinkled with humor and cats by an Alaska poet. A collection of thirty-one poems shared with Poetry Postcard Fest participants during the 2024 season.
https://fathompublishing.com/

Austere Lights by Ali Znaidi
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Austere Lights (Locofo Chaps: an imprint of Moria Books, 2017) includes poems written in a time governed by austerity measures.
https://x.com/AliZnaidi/

Between the Nova and the Night by David Vandervort
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Between the Nova and the Night gathers fifty-plus original works that evoke awe, wonder, surprise and even humor. From the distant past to the far future and untold alternate realities, these poems chart a course through a cosmos that is vast, beautiful, and always surprising.
https://historyroad.substack.com/

Bradshaw or A Coming-of-Age Story Told in Pieces by Amanda Harris
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Coming-of-age story about a pro wrestler.

Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir by Lindsay Soberano Wilson
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Lindsay Soberano-Wilson crafted "Casa de mi Corazón: A Travel Journal of Poetry and Memoir" (Poetica Publishing, 2021), about how her sense of community, identity, and home was shaped by travel to Israel and Europe as a Jewish Canadian granddaughter of Spanish Moroccan immigrants and Romanian Holocaust survivors.
https://lindsaysoberano.com

Coast to Coast – A Honduras Road Trip by Lorraine Caputo
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Come for a great road trip through the Central American republic Honduras, from the Caribbean coast to the Pacific.
https://latinamericawanderer.wordpress.com

Cross Wind Travels: A Collection of Poetry by Joan Fingon
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This lovely 18 page collection of poetry presents the author's traveling through the winter, sunny, clear, and cloudy skies from California to New England visiting family. It is a compilation of free verse, haiku, and senryu poetry through the seasons.

Dancing Under the Moon by Joan Leotta
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The joy of the beauty of the moon as inspiration, awe-inspiring.

Dirt Road Lessons by Christy Granger
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Dirt Road Lessons is a short poem collection about living in the south. The things you see and do. The silly observations and how people behave. The lessons along the way. Dirt roads that live in our hearts forever.
https://substack.com/@sometimesilovewriting

Disruption at the Caterpillar Orgy by Rick Lupert
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New poems written in 2024-2025 including work from the forthcoming, as-of-yet untitled collection of poems written in Japan.
https://poetrysuperhighway.com

Dogged: A Verse Novel by Martin Elster
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Two mismatched 14-year-olds need to save America from a tyrannical king. Reddi Cruz, a budding actress, finds herself exiled to a camp in the desert. With the help of tech geek Miles Kwak and a robot pigeon named "Lucky," she leads a movement against the intolerance of her times.

E-Zine Uno by Daniel Irwin
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Pages of mostly meandering (sometimes crazy) poetry. Nothing earthy shaking. Just for fun. A bit of Christmas at the end.

Feature Faces by Don Kingfisher Campbell
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Feature Faces is a poetic libretto of 11 poems composed in this century with titles like The Many Google Faces of Marvin, Saturday Morning Face Finding, Maya's Face, The Face, Features, Shiny Gray Ceramic Monkey Face Mug, I'm Making Faces at Breakfast, Faces and Flowers, and An Orange-Faced Man.
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Fib Sequence by Larissa Shmailo
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Like the seeds on the head of a sunflower, the poems, translations, and story in FIB SEQUENCE whorl according to a special pattern. Here you will find jealous women, arachnids, alphabets, and walks through the night. Remember to "assume nothing / take a position."
https://writingwithlarissa.com/

Fog & Bone by Christian Garduno
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An 18-poem chapbook originally published by Alien Buddha Press in 2023.
https://linktr.ee/ChristianGardunoWriter?utm_source=linktree_profile_share&ltsid=45061c23-6642-4895-813b-b268efe8cafa

From Milky Pillows to Straitjackets in Winter by Wendy Webb
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If you want to hunker down throughout Winter, with words to warm you through to Spring, then dip into this collection. Your favourite place, your tipple of choice, and let these images envelop you in all that life throws, melted down, transformed and shining brightly.
https://www.facebook.com/wmwordsworth/

Gentle Grasp by Laura Daniels
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Gentle Grasp captures fragile, fleeting moments. It opens with “Courting the Count,” which describes the hypersonic beat through time, and ends with “Somersaults with Gentle Backflips,” which asks the reader how they plan to harness and get the utmost joy from the precious time they are given.
https://lauradanielswriter.wordpress.com

Haiku U. by Ron Bremner
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A collection of 30 haiku and senryu celebrating Autumn, love, rain, the sun, the moon, betrayal, leaves, wailing winds, white wine, rock and roll, a tsunami, Sri Lanka, New Jersey, traffic, kisses, et al.
https://westbraeliterarygroup.com/

Hope Springs Eternal: An Anthology of Hopeful Poetry, Edited with and Introduction by J. R. Simons by JR Simons
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Hopeful poems by John Burroughs, Amanda Hayden, Joseph Balaz, Jessica Weyer Bentley, Christen Lee, Ashley Pacholewski, Barbara Sabol, A. Garnett Weiss, Sandra Rivers-Gill, Joel Lipman, Thomas Barden, LaVern Spencer McCarthy, Emily Jane, VandenBos Style, J. V. Sadler, and Julie Marie Hoey
https://www.simple-simons-press.com/

I Fell In Love With Charlie Chaplin by Kathryn de Leon
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I’m finding as I get older I spend a lot of time looking back, finding magic I never noticed. These poems are a collection of that past magic, plus magic of chairs, tap dancing, blue bowls, and intriguing souls such as Joni Mitchell, Salvador Dali, Elvis Presley, and Charlie Chaplin.

I'm Not Over You by Heather Romero-Kornblum
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I’M NOT OVER YOU is the 2025 Four Feathers Press Chapbook Contest winner. Intimate and heartrending, I capture the crumbling of my marriage and the yearning for what could have been in the wake of several near-death experiences due to Long COVID.
https://www.heatherkornbooks.com/

Indra's Garden: 10 Japanese Short Form Poems by Marie Lecrivain
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This is s a series of ten Japanese short form poems (haiku, tanka, and haibun), inspired by my landlady's gorgeous garden.
https://dashboardhorus.blogspot.com/search/label/call%20for%20submissions

Instant Ancestors by Lee Chottiner
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Sadly, photos and letters of people no longer here are often sold cheap at antique malls—"instant ancestors," they're called—as if their lives were misplaced. In this eBook, I pair poems with such images, hoping to restore something of their humanity and linking them to the times when they lived.

Listening to Silence by Moe Shapiro
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A chapbook of lyrical poems mostly in a Beat/Romantic/surrealist key.

Love and Other Diversions by Daniel Lambert
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“Love and Other Diversions” is Dan Lambert’s first collection of poetry. Filmmaker and author Adam Barnick says Lambert “switches genres, themes, and structure” while touching on “regret, respect, and reverence for the past” as well as “sensing the darkness inside as well as beyond man . . .”
https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielelambert/

Mad As Hell: An Anthology of Angry Poetry, Edited with an Introduction by J. R. Simons by JR Simons
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Angry poetry by Mariana Goycoechea, John Burroughs, Kenneth Hickey, Debbie Allen, Lynne Bronstein, Joe Balaz, Laura Grace Weldon, Kelly Boyer Sagert, Alex Gildzen, Randy, C. White, Thomas Barden, R. T. Castleberry, Tabassam Shah, and Jason Franklin Blakely
https://www.simple-simons-press.com/

Melting Elements by Ram Krishna Singh
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The book is an experimental tanka-haiku-tanka linked long poem exploring the earth element in inner and outer nature to touch the spirit.
https://profrksingh.blogspot.com/

MOREISH by Vincent Zepp
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Youve never been here before…not sure you can handle it….enjoy.

Morning by Morning by Joan Leotta
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Poems of Dawn

Mother and I by Duane L Herrmann
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Reflections on a difficult relationship between a mother and son.

Mother, (v) by Anne Marie Wells
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Pronounced "Mother comma verb", this chapbook won the 2023 Cinnamon Press Chapbook Contest and was subsequently published in 2024. Formally distinctive and beautifully honed, Mother, (v) is a reflective, precise and poignant sequence exploring fertility and its absence.
https://www.annemariewellswriter.com

Motorcycle Poems (With Humor & Sage) by Edward Ferri Jr
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A Mini E-Chapbook chronicling the author’s relapse into motorcycle ownership at the philosophical salty sage age of 75 (with photographic evidence).

Odd Thoughts – arranged words. by Rosalind Lee
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Small set of poems that have been written within the year, I hope you like at least one of them.

Of Barbie and Cinderella by Jackie Chou
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A collection of ten girly free-verse poems on love, heartbreak, and selfhood.

Playing It Cool by Daphne Milne
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A selection of jazz poems from those published in the last two years.

Poems for a Short Reading by Johannes Beilharz
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A short collection of poems originally put together for a short reading.
https://beilharz.wordpress.com/

Poems for December by Catherine Heighway
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These poems explore ancient traditions and modern rituals of the Winter Solstice and the Christmas season. Using a variety of poetic styles, this collection delves into the juxtaposition of December busyness with the invitation of earth’s darkness to slow down and remember the great mystery.

Poetic Gems for Topaz 2025 by Wyvern Poets by Wyvern Poets
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The Wyvern Poets meet in Dundee, Scotland, writing on a different topic each month. This booklet of 14 poems focuses on the life, works and legacy of William 'Topaz' McGonagall, Dundee carpet-weaver turned poet. Though ridiculed, his works are remembered better than many society poets, and his legacy is strong.
https://wyvernpoets.wixsite.com/dundee

Prairie Perspective by Duane L Herrmann
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Poems about the rolling prairie, its beauty and the joy of living there.

Prairies Voice by Duane L Herrmann
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Poems from and about the open rolling prairie and the vast skies above.

Rock Dogs by Don Kingfisher Campbell
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Rock Dogs is a lavishly illustrated poetic libretto of 12 poems composed in 2025 with these titles: Desert Sonnet, title poem, A chocolate chocolate chip bundlet, If this two-story house could talk, Recycle, Stop Worrying, Solstice Sonnet, Peace, Surf, Joshua, Take Me to the Pilot, and Follow Me!
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Self Evidence by George Wicker
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This selection of poetry explores themes of death, love and loss. Often abstract, these vibrant and imaginative poems invite the reader to engage with their language and ponder universal questions that concern us all.
https://georgewicker.com

Serious Cloud Bank by Don Kingfisher Campbell
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Serious Cloud Bank is a lavishly illustrated poetic libretto consisting of eight poems composed in this century with titles like I Guess I Will Turn into a Cloud, The Cloud Parade, The Cloud People, Clouds of Feelings, The man who loves the clouds, Clouds Like, and the title poem.
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

Seven Ages of Man: An Extraordinarily Brief History of the Universe by Michael Pedretti
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The title poem takes you on a journey though 13.8 billion years of change that brought us from that first moment in time to today. This is how the journey begins: I was there you know / so were you / along with everything in the universe / when it all began
https://amzn.to/45vtkX3

Silence: A White Distrust by Ram Krishna Singh
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The book is an experimental long poem consisting of haiku and tanka linked together with the thread of silence.
https://profrksingh.blogspot.com/

So Be It by Ralph Culver
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Praise for Ralph Culver's second chapbook, So Be It (WolfGang Press, 2018): "Brilliant from start to finish."–Marvin Bell "In this modern era—which sometimes feels dystopian, …(Culver) reminds readers of the power of beauty, joy, and love in nature, relationships, and even the tedium of our daily lives."–Despy Boutris in Entropy
https://www.pw.org/directory/writers/ralph_culver

strange grace–the ending season by Amrita Skye Blaine
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“strange grace–the ending season” is a collection of poems reflecting on impermanence, aging, and death. I promise you, it is not depressing! Friends tell me they read it before bed because the poems are calming.
https://amritaskyeblaine.com

Streetlight Sonata: Poems by J. R. Simons by JR Simons
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My first chapbook of poetry gleaned from my MFA thesis.
https://www.simple-simons-press.com/

The Alchemy of Stars by Science Fiction and Fantasy Poetry Association
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The Rhysling Award Winners Showcase anthology (1978 – 2004), editors Roger Dutcher and Mike Allen. Introduction by Jane Yolen. Afterward by Suzette Haden Elgin.
https://sfpoetry.org

The Best of Bill Yarrow by Bill Yarrow
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Poems by Bill Yarrow from his published books.
https://billyarrow.godaddysites.com/

The Black Sun Chronicles by Amy Beth Outland
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I did not intend to embark on another poetry project so soon after writing The December Bitch (2024). These poems evolved out of necessity. The rage and despair that comes with dealing with chronic illness will eat you alive, if you let it.
https://www.amybethoutland.com/

The Book of Burning by F. J. Bergmann
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Short poems using lines from a friend's translation of a Rilke poem as titles, illustrated with WWI battlefield photographs and period artifacts. Published as a handmade chapbook in 2024 by Ambidextrous Bloodhound Press.

The Bookstore Book: A Memoir by Ron Kolm
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The Bookstore Book: A Memoir, contains prose, poems and an interview covering the fifty years I worked in New York City bookstores. I worked in the Strand Bookstore with Patti Smith. I dealt with many famous artists and writers, who are featured in this book.

The Future is Brief by Jean-Paul L. Garnier
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The Future is Brief collection of scifaiku and micropoetry.
https://spacecowboybooks.com/jean-paul-l-garnier/

The Halloween Kid by Don Kingfisher Campbell
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The Halloween Kid is a poetic libretto of 12 poems composed in this century with titles like Room for the Dead, Eternal Epitaph, Childhood Day and Nightmares, Horror, Electrified Man Screams…, Dew Drops on a Dead Leaf, Morning for the Dead, Ghost Octopus, and Ghost of a Grasshopper.
http://dkc1031.blogspot.com

The Left and Right Lights by Charles A. Perrone
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From concrete to abstract, experiential to literary, these variegated poems absorb and emit light, illuminating everything in sight, from the proverbial "I" to the interference of AI. Never a dull moment!

The Lifeguard Rules by LB Sedlacek
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Retired Lifeguard and water fanatic (and Poet & Swimmer) LB Sedlacek gives you the "rules" you need to know to be near or in the water at a pool or by the ocean or lake in fun poetic form!
http://www.lbsedlacek.com

The Naked Truth: Poems by J. R. Simons by JR Simons
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My second chapbook of poetry.
https://www.simple-simons-press.com/

The Old Mill Pond Anthology by H.L. Dowless
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These are short stories and one novella that have been published inside a number of literary journals over the past three years. These stories involve dreams and ponderings of the author over the course of a lifetime. Positive comments throughout these journals and online have led to these specific tales

Who Would Want This Life? by Duane L Herrmann
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Poems reflecting on an abusive childhood that was survived and transcended so that the abuse was not passed on to his own children.

Why I Court the Boomerang by John Dorroh
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Why I Court the Boomerang has three parts: 1. Release 2. Flight and 3. Return. These are the three basic steps of tossing a boomerang, which I often did as a child. Similarly, these are three parts of the chapbook. Who needs to go to Australia?

Zoo by Christian Ward
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A surreal take on wildlife. See fauna like never before in this exhilarating and enchanting collection of poetry.