"Roxy is After Hours Poetry; when the lights go down and the memory of last call has faded into the exhaled smoke of a bummed cigarette – Roxy comes to life. The poems are rooted in the street, caress (no slam) the frailties of the human relationship, lean toward the erotic and show that honest poetry, feelings and emotions, cannot be confined by political correctness. In fact, Roxy is not a politically correct collection. Cirillo, Gaine ..."
"The poems in Perfume & Cigarettes by Madeline Levy come at you like Tom Waits driving a 1957 Cadillac onto the sleek asphalt of night, with only the red glow of taillights sending kisses on the road to everywhere. These poems take us places, somewhere between the proper and the profane, the dive bars and the five-star restaurants. These are poems with wicked grins and sharp edges that will leave a “tiny-sized cut in the back of your he ..."
The Girl Who Left You After Hours Poetry by Amber Decker, ToddCirillo Paperback, 58 Pages, Published 2014 by Six Ft. Swells Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9853075-3-0, ISBN: 0-9853075-3-6
"The poems in Amber Decker’s "The Girl Who Left You" deliver love and lust on the spot, demanding us to immediately pull over to the side of the road and catch our breath. They are moving, visceral snapshots of a poet’s life when she bares all and declares: “that next morning / we wore our bruises / proud as prizefighters.” When Amber brings us storms over her landscape, we shake deep inside. When she seduces us, we fall for it. And when ..."
The Distance Between poems by Julie Valin by Julie Valin, ToddCirillo Paperback, 54 Pages, Published 2011 by Six Ft. Swells Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9853075-1-6, ISBN: 0-9853075-1-X
"The Distance Between reflects a woman balancing her own wild and reckless heart with the responsibilities of marriage and motherhood. It is both the drawing together and the completely falling apart; the slow dancing in the kitchen and the slamming of the doors. To write lines about the one you love such as “and what we have/isn’t called sex anymore” and balance it with the simplicity of “Coltrane on the stereo/red wine and mac and ch ..."
Burning the Evidence by ToddCirillo Paperback, 70 Pages, Published 2017 by Epic Rites Press ISBN-13: 978-1-926860-58-9, ISBN: 1-926860-58-6
"Todd Cirillo's book Burning the Evidence is filled with snapshot observations from his Polaroid eye for detail, thieves' ear for dialogue, and optimistic attempts at love and affection in all situations. Cirillo accomplishes a rare feat; he makes poetry relatable and accessible to every person. In these poems, he lays his heart bare on the bar, sometimes stupidly, other times sacrificially, but always sincerely. Some poems are punches t ..."
Sucker's Paradise after-hours poetry by ToddCirillo by ToddCirillo, Julie Valin Paperback, 78 Pages, Published 2012 by Six Ft. Swells Press ISBN-13: 978-0-9853075-2-3, ISBN: 0-9853075-2-8
"Todd Cirillo's poems in Sucker's Paradise come hurling at you through the window, with no way to sidestep the pain or pleasure of them. They are full of busted hopes and kisses to the cheek, humor and hangovers, flowers at midnight, and hearts that take the beating. It is a collection of Cirillo's life itself--a full-bore run to find the tender moments that make us believe that paradise has been found. Sucker's Paradise holds all that ..."
"Matt Amott’s poems in "The Coast is Clear" are for 3 a.m. when the only light is the one that she left on, like a Siren’s song, beckoning the poet toward love, or the perfect death. These poems are like postcards written to us from a Saturday night barstool—sometimes observational, sometimes interactive, as Matt hops from train to train, town to city, coast to coast. These poems are our ticket to getting out of town and seeing what, or ..."