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G Culshaw
These poems are nature-based and provide the fabric for a collection of fresh outlooks on the modern world. At times simply written, these poems have a depth that will surprise…
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Jennifer Lagier
The third in the Camille series, CAMILLE MOBILIZES gives us the ever-feisty Camille, a woman who intends to RESIST, both literally and figuratively. Like so many women in America now…
Jane Simpson
The author turns to poetry in Blessings of the Beasts to chronicle her eight years working for President Jimmy Carter-four years on the White House staff and four years following…
Timothy Martin
Winner of the 2010 FutureCycle Poetry Book Prize. STEALING HYMNALS FROM THE CHOIR is a collection of poems about the outward pull of the forces of history, the inward tugging…
Emily Raabe
LEAVE IT BEHIND expresses the paradoxical wish of every poet, seeking to leave behind-in both senses of that phrase-the language trace of her mind and heart. And what a fine…
Lori Lamothe
In her third poetry collection, Lori Lamothe contemplates the connections-and disconnections-that bind us to each other and the natural world. Just as Kirlian photography captures objects in electromagnetic fields, the…
Melanie Faith
The time: 1918. The U.S. is both prosperous and at war. An influenza epidemic, often known by the misnomer Spanish Flu or La Grippe, is spreading throughout the world. The…
Joan Colby
In JOYRIDING TO NIGHTFALL, written in her eighth decade of life, Joan Colby explores resistance to the obvious and the heartless while insisting that defining beauty in all its masques…
Randy Blythe
Randy Blythe’s poems wend their way through personal, historical, regional, philosophical, aesthetic, familial, and spiritual landscapes, and in doing so echo a larger search for how and where liberation might…
Paul Hostovsky
In his ninth full-length collection, Paul Hostovsky serves up his usual unusual fare of graceful, musical, accessible language sauced with humor and tenderness in poems about love and sex, exes…
Mike James
Take a little bit of Berrigan’s SONNETS, a little bit of Kerouac’s BOOK OF DREAMS, throw in a dash of SPOON RIVER, and then sprinkle with a healthy dose of…
Elizabeth Schultz
Elizabeth Schultz’s sixth book of poetry, WATER-GAZERS, confirms and inspires our dependency on and our fascination with water. With particular attention to lakes and oceans, her poetry considers water not…
Wendell Hawken
Heart-breaking and life-affirming, Wendell Hawken’s WHITE BIRD testifies to the human spirit. This poem sequence, told from the caregiver’s perspective, chronicles a beloved’s cancer from diagnosis to death. The speaker’s…
Grey Held
WINNER OF THE 2019 FUTURECYCLE POETRY BOOK PRIZE. WORKaDAY is a collection of lyrical poems steeped in the sardonic commerce of American business, and revealing of capitalism’s glaring incongruity, when…
Charles Rammelkamp
Ah, youth! Charles Rammelkamp’s ME AND SAL PARADISE is a poetic tale of the hitchhiking adventures of a young man in his early twenties. It’s the early 1970s, when Jack…
D a Gray
CONTESTED TERRAIN captures the myriad identities inside a veteran shaped by birth, geography and, later, a set of experiences that belie any hand-me-down wisdom. Cave Country sees the green, fertile…
ON THE PORCH, UNDER THE EAVE is a look into home, family, growing up, growing away, and returning to the people of the past. The author gives the perspectives of…
Jeanine Stevens
The wide range of subjects in Limberlost move from identity formation, love, solitude, reflection, maturity and acceptance, how an individual grows by interaction with people, places, even strangers. Poems meander…
Tania Runyan
With consummate skill, subtle and exacting artistry, and fierce passion, Tania Runyan’s first collection, Simple Weight, brilliantly unveils the mysterious ties tethering heaven to earth [and] explores the painful and…
Amy Riddell
In her first full-length volume of poetry, Amy Riddell has given us a true crime story, that of her Bluebeard-like father who went to prison for trying to murder his…
Wally Swist
The title says it all. These are clearly written, luminous poems about nature and relationship and love.
Katherine Riegel
In her debut collection of poetry, Katherine Riegel explores the secrets that lurk in the wide-open spaces of the Midwest, images of prairie as ocean never far from the surface-as…
Maureen Sherbondy
Poetry collection in the English language by Maureen Sherbondy –
Michael Jennings
Where She Dances is the story of the unfolding mysteries of the heart told in the psalms and elegies of two landscapes/dreamscapes: a journey through the deserts of southwestern Iran…
Christopher Bursk
Poetry by Christopher Bursk, a recipient of NEA, Guggenheim, and Pew Fellowships and author of eleven books, including The Infatuations and Infidelities of Pronoun, Cell Count, and The Improbable Swervings…
Timothy Krcmarik
Contemporary American poetry by Tim Krcmarik, a Lieutenant with the Austin Fire Department –
Laura Bayless
As described by reviewers: CHAIRS IN THE RIVER is a sensuous and profoundly moving journey into the realms of nature, loss and grief. Poetry and poetic language can create vivid…
Don Thompson
Don Thompson is a native of the southern San Joaquin Valley where he has lived most of his life, writing about its unique environment. In From Here On: Four Sunday…
Sandra S McRae
In poems shaped by nature, news stories, and the sine wave of motherhood, Sandra S. McRae shows us the miracles embedded in the everyday. She zooms in on mountain flora…
John W Schouten
A collection of poems by author and poet John W. Schouten –
Pamela Murray Winters
Pamela Murray Winters’ poems walk the meandering line between memory and imagination. In her debut collection, The Unbeckonable Bird, one will find questions, elegies, love songs, dream songs, and songs…
Mary Jo Balistreri
The word, still, like life itself, is pregnant with possibility. On one end of the spectrum, it is the ultimate stillness of death; on the other, it is generational: still…
Nancy Anne Miller
In STAR MAP Nancy Anne Miller writes through the four seasons of Northwestern Connecticut beginning with winter in It Hints of Madness with icicles/ drooling from roofs, constant snow/ a…
Laurel S Peterson
Do You Expect Your Art to Answer? is a collection of ekphrastic poems that explores the world of art and our relationship to it. Born from an experience at the…
Jane Ellen Glasser
IN THE SHADOW OF PARADISE by Jane Ellen Glasser opens with an epigraph by Rumi, The wound is the place where the light enters you, a theme resonant throughout her…
Kristen Staby Rembold
"A volume of poetry by Kristen Staby Rembold on rural themes"--
Judith O'Connell Hoyer
"A collection of poetry by Judith O'Connell Hoyer"--
Nancy Owen Nelson
How does a progressive woman with southern roots confront the racial tension that exists in our country today? In these poems, Nancy Owen Nelson grapples with how to embrace her…
Jose Angel Araguz
In SMALL FIRES, Jose Angel Araguz engages personal mythologies of the self, culture, and place. The crucible of Mexican-American identity is on display: poems about feeling the need to hide…
Maria Williams-Russell
Maria Williams-Russell’s debut chapbook is a dark and sometimes surreal collection where domestic life is not only lonely but buzzes with potential harm. Disillusioned, the poems offer language and images…
Robert S King
The Hunted River is a book of poems dealing with phases of life and mind. The poems examine the struggle between status quo and growth, comfort and change, control and…
The Gravedigger’s Roots is told by the gravedigger himself, a man who is at the lowest point of the social totem pole. He is, however, also a man with spiritual…
Pat Hanahoe-Dosch
FLEEING BACK chronicles travels through the mental and geographical landscapes of the world and of the spirit. The poems reveal the sensual, sometimes dark, sometimes lush and exotic topography of…
Jane Ellen Glasser’s fifth poetry collection begins and ends on the metaphor of the title’s image: I will wear gratitude like a red coat, / forbearing the shifting/ seasons of…
John Sibley Williams
Filled with impassioned logic and musicality, John Sibley Williams’ debut collection strives to control the uncontrollable by redefining the method of approach. In these compact poems, so edged in dark…
Scott T Starbuck
Scott T. Starbuck’s THE OTHER HISTORY puts the poet’s lens on the real buried underneath suburban legends of Christopher Columbus discovering America and making it a better place, the illusion…
Robert J Levy
Employing a clear, unflinching eye and a wry, affirmative humor, Robert J. Levy’s All These Restless Ghosts unfolds in a series of discursive meditations and vignettes - written in a…
Harold Whit Williams
The poems that make up Lost in the Telling present a scene change from the southern gothic narratives of Williams’ previous collections. These surreal little poems, most of them looser…
