"Swimmers in factual waters / disinventing depth...." Those opening lines of Chuck Tripi’s poem, "Proof," stand as an apt definition of poets and their paradoxical ways. Poets (and in fact all artists) operate in the known universe, subject to the same laws of physics as everyone else. And yet, poets can disinvent depth, can rise to the surface, are called upward into the light that they themselves can also create. There is this world. And then, there is this world rediscovered. And for that, we have the poets to thank.

  

The themes of the short stories selected in the anthology Insights include ethnic conflict, gender bias, violence, man-woman relationship, the central character in conflict with established social values, personal trauma, spiritual quest, etc. Insights features stories of a great variety. Several of the authors included in Insights reveal in their short stories the impact of John Collier's "Bottle Party"(1939), Elizabeth Bowen's "The Demon Lover" (1941), Saki's "Tobermory" (1911), Isak Dinesen's "The Sailor-Boy's Tale" (1942), E. B. White's "The Door" (1939), E. M. Forster's "The Celestial Omnibus" (1908), Nadine Gordimer's "Termitary" (1974)...

  

Explorers features some of the best poems by 21st century poets from all over the world. This collection includes the works of hundred poets differing in style and belonging to different nations. The great diversity and range of themes proves the rich wealth of English poetry in the 21st century. In several poems the reader will encounter the plain, unornamental language really used by common man, and this goes straight to the heart. We also notice that many poems in Explorers possess universality revealing more than a temporary or local interest, since great poetry transcends geographical boundaries.

  

The short stories included in Fantasies reveal the psychological intensity, vast knowledge of human character and nature, without any excessive moralising. Here is a great variety of characters with distinct peculiarities. The authors of Fantasies are very great artists writing with unaffected, vigorous, vivid and lively style using proper words in proper places. Fantasies is surely a memorable contribution to the world of literature.

  

New Pegasus, the latest Global Poetry Anthology by Cyberwit, allows the poetry lovers to relish the most spectacular poems across the world. Few things are more frightening than war, and dark clouds of smoke spilling over the still horizon. No doubt, together the poets create a better world, and ensure Peace through their compositions. Several poets of New Pegasus are influenced by William Carlos Williams, Pound, T. S. Eliot, Wallace Stevens, Robert Lowell, Roethke, Sylvia Plath, French symbolists including Laforgue, Corbiere, Mallarme and Valery.

  

Here are tales, fantasies, horror and satire, and character studies created with careful choice of words, sentences, and paragraphs to produce a specific effect on the reader. Some of the major themes of these short stories are human alienation, personal trauma, such as anxiety, love and hate, man-woman relationship, delusion and self-discovery, spiritual struggle, the individual in conflict with popular social values.

  

The Edge of the Metaphor includes mainly the poets, who through poetic symbols (The French poets are leaders in such type of poetry), visionary trances and metaphors are successful in confronting the inner and external realities. These poets reveal that poetry is more than common metaphor and analogies, and their poems reach deeper.

  

The Ferment of Images features poems by Albert Russo, Andy Harding, Beverly Joy McCormick Weber, Brian Beaudry, Charmane Rae Kelley, Del Senkbeil, Donald Edward Kidd, Floriana Berdyck Hall, Frances J. Gallon, Gerald G. Morrison, Dr. Henry Victor, Martin A. Enticknap, Michael D Lawson, R. Leland Waldrip, Rebecca Guile Hudson, Rose Marie Streeter, Sharon Flynn, Shirley Bolstok, William August Kobs and Yvonne Sparkes.

  

Passion features 73 short stories full of invention, imagination and originality. The stories communicate an idea or impression, which will certainly engage the reader's attention from the first to the last. The authors have succeeded in depicting one character's inner conflict or conflict with others, usually having one thematic focus.

  

The poems included in Symphonies will surely deepen and purify our normal existence. In several poets, we notice a decided opposition between the artist and society. Symphonies shows that the poets have a greater knowledge of life and a more comprehensive soul than a common person. Besides, by a deft use of their power of imagination, the poets are able to unravel the mystery of life, and to reveal uncommonness in the ordinary things of life.