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Jane Blue
Jane Blue’s BLOOD MOON is a book of passionate poems: passion in the usual form, of love lost and love found, or of a saint’s passion, surprisingly, perhaps, not so…
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Stephen Longfellow
In his debut poetry collection, Stephen Longfellow reveals a strange world of shifting images dwelling just below the surface of the ordinary. In this world, familiar objects-a mailbox, a fire…
Melanie McCabe
In these poems, Melanie McCabe traces the disintegration of a marriage and the loss of a house lived in for decades. The poems explore not only the end of a…
Ken Meisel
This is a book of surrealistic, metaphysical poems about love; poems of invitation, engagement, ordeal, passion and devotion. Meisel’s poems evoke the sentinels of love through the wise voices of…
Elizabeth Schultz
Peeling away stereotypes with knife-sharp images, Elizabeth Schultz’s collection of poems opens up the Kansas landscape to reveal astonishing complexities and subtleties. These poems dazzle the senses, breathing life not…
William Greenway
Winner of the 2014 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. William Greenway’s poems travel between muggy recollections of a Southern Baptist childhood, meditations on the otherworldly beauty of Wales, and commentary on…
Dana Wildsmith
This new collection by SIBA nominee and GAYA winner Dana Wildsmith brings the reader back once more to Wildsmith’s family farm in Bethlehem, Georgia, a farm introduced through Wildsmith’s earlier…
Jesse Breite
The Knife Collector features a speaker who cannot escape weighing each present moment and image against the parallel narratives of his youth and his family in Arkansas. While traveling through…
Tim Peeler
Set on what remains of a small family farm in the Blue Ridge foothills of Western North Carolina, ROUGH BEAST depicts the quirky ascension of Larry Ledbetter from small-time country…
Paul Hostovsky
Paul Hostovsky: Selected Poems brings together 120 poems from this prolific, masterful, Pushcart Prize-winning poet’s previous five collections of poetry, Bending the Notes (2008), Dear Truth (2009), A Little in…
David Chorlton
Eric Greinke (in Presa) has written that Chorlton more than meets my criteria for inclusion in the canon of the best poets of the Boom Generation. With more than 90…
Michael Trocchia
Divided into three parts, Michael Trocchia’s debut collection of verse is a lyric study on the forms of fate, a haunting discourse on the linguistic fractures between one’s self and…
Joel Peckham
A Chevy up on blocks is only an eyesoreto the faithless. -from Husks In GOD’S BICYCLE, Joel Peckham’s fifth collection of poetry, he offers a spiritual road mix for 21st-century…
Christine Swint
SWIMMING THIS is a touching and moving account of a woman’s personal journey toward self discovery and wholeness. Weaving together memory, myth, dreams, and folklore, these poems chronicle a woman’s…
Leona Sevick
The poems in DAMAGED LITTLE CREATURES remind us that we can never remake ourselves entirely; we are distilled through the experiences that shape our early selves In direct and spare…
Tom Daley
In HOUSE YOU CANNOT REACH, a mother’s voice is reimagined, amplified, and permitted to ventilate both forbidden grievance and private passion. Simultaneously wistful and excoriating, she cherishes and denounces a…
Steve Coughlin
In his debut collection of poetry, Steve Coughlin examines the severity of family trauma on both personal memory and the human psyche. Written in an accessible, colloquial voice that poet…
Diana Pinckney
In this collection of persona poems, Diana Pinckney explores the art of others and regards the wolf as the ultimate other: Wolves speak to me from beauty, strangeness and vulnerability…
Winner of the 2015 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. Who are the bad guys, anyway? Which one is the good fight, anyway? In Paul Hostovsky’s eighth book of poetry, The Bad…
Judith Saunders
A tribute to creative partnership and enduring intimacy, this chapbook collection celebrates an artist whose work exudes vitality, warmth and wit. The poems cross genres to capture the artist’s use…
Irene Mitchell
Minding the Spectrum’s Business is a work set on a path that is personal, as well as universal, in appeal. In this collection, the poet, recording the perks and pitfalls…
Don Boes
This collection by Don Boes features quick shifts in tone, subject, and language as a way to discover and track the moving targets of life. Each poem offers an experience…
Joan Colby
The poems in Joan Colby’s chapbook BROKE were engendered by an accident in which several of the author’s bones were broken. This led her to contemplate aspects of the word…
CARNIVAL celebrates the quirky, the odd, and an audience of participants and voyeurs. The first section contains linked poems that focus on small towns’ annual festivals. The second, Sideshows, looks…
Jennifer Lagier
In this collection of poems, Jennifer Lagier transports readers to California’s rural Central Valley during the 1950s and ‘60s, a time of transitional upheavals. Her poetry explores disintegration of the…
Anthony Dimatteo
An urgent question drives this book: what is it to speak for another? Technology today often makes us feel as if we can speak for or as another. But this…
Alan Catlin
American Odyssey is a poetic journey that began when Alan Catlin saw Mary Ellen Mark’s life study of three young girls standing by a Coney Island boardwalk. He was struck…
Carol Frith
In this collection, the early echoes are the isolating sirens of patrol cars and ambulances in the darkness, along with poems of morning glories in urban alleyways, of seedy coffee…
William Page
Winner of the 2016 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. In his fifth poetry collection, William Page explores humankind’s complex relationships with the world’s inhabitants. We encounter teens feeling the illusion of…
Ken Craft
A childhood home haunted by the past, a farm-animal veterinarian’s bloody operations in the field, an unemployed cousin stranded by time and hope-Ken Craft explores the indifferent world in all…
Kevin Burris
These are quiet poems, plainspoken. They sit in the back of class, in the last pew at church, and have sly, considered things to say. Bittersweet, self-aware, surreal, and funny…
Jm Miller
Wilderness Lessons by JM Miller is a love note to the planet that risks burning, a song of loss and connection, and a prayer for being alive and becoming the…
James Owens
The poems in MORTALIA come into being at the glinting intersect of mortality and love, both personal and as reflected in the natural world. The question is not so much…
Victor Henry
In WHAT THEY WANTED, Victor Henry’s narrative poems offer a journey into a war he was drafted to fight, in a strange country for political reasons he knew nothing about…
Tobi Alfier
In DOWN ANSTRUTHER WAY, Tobi Alfier takes us on a trip through a Scotland of love, hard work, pubs, lorries, lochs, and skies ranging from bruised purple to misty to…
Judith A Rypma
Two decades after racing in terror during an elementary school air raid drill to escape the dreaded Commies, a child finds herself battling the restrictions of Soviet-Style Touring. In poems…
In this collection, Lagier offers readers a series of plotlines and protagonists, comparing life experiences to a cheesy, second-rate film. Her reviewers describe a voice full of compassion, endurance, tenderness…
Beate Sigriddaughter
Beate Sigriddaughter has dedicated this collection of poetry to Xanthippe, the not exactly beloved wife of the revered philosopher Socrates. Xanthippe’s name was used for a long time as a…
John Laue
A Confluence of Voices Revisited combines the varied characters and situations from John Laue's poetry chapbooks, A Confluence of Voices and Colma: Elegy for Skeptics. It also includes his poetic…
Daniel Romo
Waving goodbye to any past requires re-examining lands of inadequacies. It’s once again exploring worlds where losing your footing becomes the normal way of walking. It’s where haunting memories are…
Lucia Galloway
Lucia Galloway’s collection of poems, SOME WORDS FOR MEANWHILE, invites us into a place we come to recognize not only as the time of our ordinary living, but also as…
Lake Angela
ORGANBLOOMS is a book of mystic poetry in two parts. In the first, Prophecy, the poet emerges multiply. She details her visions as they unfold in the deepest recesses of…
Arnold Johnston
Collection of English-language poems by Arnold Johnston –
G Culshaw
Welsh poet G. Culshaw’s poetry brings you to the immediate moment. In A Bard’s View, the details of everyday life are enhanced by a detective view of the world. Gareth’s…
Dennis Trujillo
Dennis Trujillo has composed a magical collection of poems that resonate with wonder and vivid imagery. His poems transport the reader to a place where dragonflies and dandelions occupy the…
Robert Cooperman
Lost on the Blood Dark Sea is not just a modern retelling of Homer’s Odyssey. It’s a re-imagining of the ten long, murderous years it took Odysseus to return to…
Tasha Cotter
Poetry by Tasha Cotter, a poet and novelist based in Menlo Park, California. Her previous collections of poetry include Some Churches (Gold Wake Press) and The Aqua Notebook (Anaphora). In…
Bill Freedman
A volume of poetry by Bill Freedman in five sections. Bill Freedman on his work: I’ve been writing poetry for more than 60 years, since my first love poem to…
