Easy Rhymes and Trashy Romances

Recently, my marketing/business manager (aka The Hubs) did some research on poetry books that are selling well on Amazon. He was hoping to learn how better to market my latest release (and first-ever poetry collection), Songs in the Gate. One thing he gained from this exercise was the disappointing realization that many of the popular and successful poetry books were full of feel-good, low-quality, mass-consumer poetry.

I was not surprised when he shared this with me, for I have mad...