Poetry. 2015 Robert Dana-Anhinga Prize for Poetry. "Elizabeth Powell's theatrical book of poems plays out against the backdrop of Arthur Miller's signature play, which is at once a guidepost and a foi
Poetry. "What could it mean to be gentle in an era of ill omen and terror? Ask Jesus or Mahatma Gandhi. Ask the omni-genius da Vinci, of whom Keith Ratzlaff writes, 'In his last great studies / Leonar
Poetry. "Ted Kooser was moving all his books from his shed to his new library, and in the process he was dipping into them. 'I've been coming up with a list of good bird poems,' he e-mailed. 'Can you
Poetry. Winner of the 2007 Anhinga Prize for Poetry. "Engaged by contemporary American life at every level, from the down-and-out to the urban sublime, the poems in Kenneth Hart's UH OH TIME have at t
Poetry. "Approaching eighty, Robert Dana, in THE OTHER, seems younger and more vigorous than ever. There are laments here, certainly, like the touching poem about his friend and fellow writer Donald J
Poetry. "These cool, hot poems about women and girls in danger and on the prowl, coming of age and being of age, are full ofstartling detail and vivid setting. Meitner's range, wit, compassion and her
Poetry. Winner of the 2008 Anhinga Prize for Poetry selected by Sheryl St. Germain. Open this book up anywhere and you'll find a poem of fierce and uncompromising energy and insight, a poem that doesn
Poetry. "Kelle Groom's poems are like underwater songs, sung from the submerged continent of the inner life, the life we don't often expose to the outer world, the one we don't speak of. They have the
Poetry. THE DIAMOND DOG, Diane Wakoski's nineteenth collection, calls into being a world where the scientific and the mytho-poetic interact and combine. Here, in her first collection of entirely new w
Poetry. "There is an extraordinary lightness to this collection of poems—it is as if they are floating just above the surface of the earth, or in dream, as they celebrate love, marriage, family, frien
In Known by Salt, Tina Mozelle Braziel searches for home in the trailer park where she grew up and in the house she and her husband built by hand. Aware that her homes and life fall short of social no
"Winner of the 2017 Anhinga Robert Dana Prize, selected by Eduardo C. Corral, 'Arsonist' is a shape-shifter of a book, a book that leaves the reader with an existential 'shivering', yet, it is on
The organization of the Blood Vinyls as tracks, with each track as a theme, illuminates these soulful, gorgeous, intelligently-crafted poems, capturing the black South and womanhood so intimately, and