Poetry. Katie Hartsock's BED OF IMPATIENS is astir in myths and myth–making in the backdrop of the grit, waters, scenes and atmospheres of the Midwest. While its tributes to Saint Augustine's Confessi
Poetry. ASPERITY STREET, Gail White's most balanced poetry collection, explores the breadth of human existence with cutting wit, irreverence, keen intelligence, and an uncommon mix of empathy and aspe
Poetry. Alfred Nicol's ANIMAL PSALMS begins with the baseball field's organized uncertainties, and continues on many a trajectory of animal ruminations-with the human species well accounted for–ending
Poetry. In SECOND RAIN, Elise Hempel gleans anecdotes of uncommon poignancy from the seemingly commonplace, and crafts them into memorable poems. Family settings and the world of nature are captured a
Poetry. In THE BORROWED WORLD, Emily Leithauser transforms keenly felt experience and bittersweet memories into poems of impressive craftsmanship. She deftly muses on the dichotomies of, among other t
Poetry. Art. Illustrated by Russ Spitkovsky. In his impressive bestiary, THE BLIND LOON, Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This e
Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Able Muse Book Award. "In the poems in GREEN HILL, Lorna Knowles Blake takes the intimacies of human life and the riots of nature and transmutes them into forms that both di
Poetry. NAKED FOR TEA, a finalist in the Able Muse Book Award, is a uniquely uplifting and inspirational collection. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poems are at times humorously surreal, at times touchin
Poetry. PEARL is an intricate fourteenth-century poem written by one of the greatest Middle English poets--the anonymous artist who also gave us Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This medieval masterpi
Poetry. Art. Illustrated by Russ Spitkovsky. In his impressive bestiary, THE BLIND LOON, Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This e
Poetry. PEARL is an intricate fourteenth-century poem written by one of the greatest Middle English poets--the anonymous artist who also gave us Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This medieval masterpi
Poetry. Aaron Poochigian's prizewinning second collection of poetry, MANHATTANITE, is by turns frenzied and focused. It examines New York's juxtaposed symbols of towering achievement and monumental de
Poetry. Runner-up for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award. In UNDER DARK WATERS: SURVIVING THE TITANIC, Anna M. Evans juxtaposes the recent loss of her mother with comparable elements and incidents from the
