As a high-school sophomore some forty years ago, I waded into Dave Etter's first book, Go Read the River. It opened up a world mostly unknown to the New-Jersey-native likes of me: the contemporary sm
Poetry. James P. Lenfestey has been engaged with the writings of the Cold Mountain Poet, Han-shan, for many years. The poems in this collection are a result of that study and a visit made to the Goodh
Poetry. "I remember, thirtysome years ago, when Dacey first published a couple of poems in traditional forms, thinking, 'Phil, Phil, what are you doing?' That's how out of fashion the old forms had fa
Fiction. Another genre-stretching book from Sid Gershgoren, and one you could be paging through for years to come! We think there never has been a book quite like it. Albert Goldbarth describes it thi
Poetry. These poems--of small town Minnesota, its backroads, its beauty, its loneliness, and its pain--are many-voiced, producing a rich and polyphonic texture, that is by turns irreverent, political,
Poetry. This book contains fourteen poems. And is Daggett's strongest, most distinct, and most carefully crafted collection so far. A small book that puts forth a tremendous voice.
Poetry. Film Studies. FLIC(K)S: POETIC INTERROGATIONS OF AMERICAN CINEMA is a collection of poems that brilliantly investigates the dark political legacy of American cinema, from Cat People to Thelma
Poetry. DRIVING GRAVEL ROADS is a collection of prose poems about small towns, forgotten places, and back country destinations traveled to and from along "beetle tracks, deer trails, tote and gravel r
Poetry. Joyce Sutphen grew up on a working dairy farm, and her poems recover this lost world, with all its beauty and order. This collection traces a shift in the rural landscape from horses to tracto
Poetry. BREAKING THE RULES is a collection of 107 ghazals and quasi-ghazals, with an introductory essay by the author on the rules of writing ghazals and his intent in breaking them. "It's wonderful t
Poetry. llustrations by Jessica Zeglin. YOU THIS CLOSE is a rippling work encompassing love and water, longing and the natural world. Su Smallen wrote these poems during a residency with the St. Croix
Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Environmental Studies. CULTIVATING THE WILDERNESS WITHIN recounts two decades of woods wandering and soul-searching in the wake of Walt McLaughlin's solo immersion in the A
Poetry. Winner of the 2016 David Martinson—Meadowhawk Prize. "Michael Hettich's THE FROZEN HARBOR is a book brimming over with revelations, a rich, evocative collection that is an absolute joy t
Poetry. Winner of the 2015 David Martinson—Meadowhawk Prize. A collection that takes on the profound questions in language that catches the ear and the imagination. Arising out of wild fires and ash,
Poetry. This anthology features the work of 105 poets, including work by Margaret Atwood, William Blake, Wendell Berry, Robert Bly, Billy Collins, Louise Erdrich, Martín Espada, Bill Holm, Galway Kinn
Poetry. Philip Dacey published many books of poetry in his lifetime. This posthumous collection of poems is his gift to poets and poetry readers, to his many friends and admirers. How fitting that the
Poetry. Translated from the Modern Greek by N. N. Trakakis. The prose poems and short stories of this volume are violets offered by Leivaditis as a funeral bouquet in a requiem for a generation defeat
Poetry. Ben Morris has one version of events in David Steingass's new and selected poems. Bigfoot, a famous classmate, and pioneers on the Oregon Trail each have others, as do General Custer, Greta Gr
Poetry. This new collection by Chad Hanson is populated with interesting characters in the tradition of Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology or Dave Etter's Sunflower County. The women and men in
Poetry. The augurs of ancient Rome were charged with studying natural phenomena, like the flight habits of birds, in order to look for propitious or unfavorable omens. The poems in AUGUR are attempts,
