Thoughts on Quiet Diamonds through the years…what reviewers have had to say about our annual poetry journal:
2018: “Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes showing how the ordinary is anything but, these poems have a lot worth saying and hearing. Quiet Diamonds is a terrific poetry collection, one I shall keep for a long time.”
Thomas Dukes: professor, poet, and author
2019 : “Here is a collection that bursts with a riveting and engaging potpourri of style and substance, of poets connecting with the natural world, their own humanity, and the humanity of others, delving into experiences with keen intelligence and original turn of phrase…approach from the beginning or dip in at random, nothing here will let the reader down.”
John Grey: poet, playwright, musician
2020: “Readers will discover fine writing from beginning to end, and be reminded, as Bill Glose insists: ‘what a miracle it is / to be alive at all.’ This really is an impressive group of poets and poems.”
Jeff Gundy: author of Without a Plea and Somewhere Near Defiance
2021: “The lyrics of Quiet Diamonds 2021 are landscapes of memory, vision, loss, and fulfillment…These poems take readers on journeys of awareness from ancient to contemporary, personal to universal, perceived to imagined.”
Deborah Fleming: Director of the Ashland Press and author of Earthwise
2022: “These poems are treasures as found in an “old house named the Shambles” filled with our life’s moments blended into the sweet scent of cedar and saltwater. The reader will not be disappointed at any turn of the page but will read and wonder.”
Ben Onachila: author of Homecoming and Anubis Stands Close By
2023: “Themes of loss, innocence, desecration, and death move beyond living onto the realm of imagination where the ultimate path forward becomes one of growth, communicated through vivid imagery and fresh language to bolster a most identifiable reading experience.”
Michael Keshigian: widely published author of thirteen poetry collections
2024: “Each poem in Quiet Diamonds 2024 displays both craftsmanship and depth despite a wide diversity of styles and subjects…I recommend this satisfying collection to all discerning poetry readers everywhere.”
Eric Greinke: author, poet, and editor