"I didn’t know how much there was to want in the world until I saw Sheena, and then I wanted it all." These twelve short-short stories, illustrated by collage artist Stephen Knezovich, are a
The poems in Danielle Pieratti's Fugitives are punctuated by avoidance, disguise, and sheltering of all kinds—escapes both from and to. They combine the magical and the mundane, shifting between dream
Renee Rossi’s first full-length collection, Triage, weaves poems about seeking license to heal others, Detroit’s dog days, dreams’ brushstrokes, and how we become closer while drifting apart: "fo
Austin LaGrone has written a first book of exceptional singularity, wholeness, and focus of vision. He can be playful and tragic. His poems are deadly serious, even when they are funny, and he is unaf
Of A Monstrous Child is an innovative literary anthology which explores the peculiar and seldom written about world of student and mentor creative writing relationships. Through the words of both esta
"A poet examines his life: what he's been dealt, what he's chosen, the workings of history with personal griefs and delights, 'amnesty' of an uneasy coming-to-terms with self and others, being his mus
Ten years in the making, Radiation King, the second full-length collection by poet Jason Gray, takes us to the beginning and the possible futures of the atomic world we created at the start of the twe
The formal deftness of these couplets—three per page of almost exactly the same length which are, yes, a set of fence rails. Some might find that sort of strategy suspect: the idea that a formal or st
What Does Not Return examines dementia and caregiving against the expansive backdrop of the rural inland West. Through a process of loss and letting go, the poems turn away from “what cannot be undone
Caribou is Thomas Mitchell’s second full-length collection of poetry. The poems are humble, straightforward, generous, and range from the sublime to the mysterious, always with lyrical clarity. In poe
Gary Copeland Lilley?s collection, The Bushman?s Medicine Show, is a southern gothic testament delivered by an archetypical denizen of the modern south, a sort of Everyman from the Carolina low-countr
True to its title, The Loves and Wars of Relative Scale is a community of poems that address ideas of perspective, of proximity?of what happens when the large-scale universe collides with our human-sc
The heroine of "The Voluptuary" is not a king's sybaritic mistress, installed in the summer palace at Versailles. Her assignations are with the stars, with color and the air. ("Silver and Deep") The r
Decanting: Selected & New Poems, 1967-2017 is a poetic biography of arachnids, boats, cemeteries, damfoolskis, eggs, funerals, grandparents, hairy woodpeckers, innocent gazing, jabalinas, Kornjuden, l
What it Done to Us, by Essy Stone, is a poetry of narrative tension, sense of place, and with a wide-angle scan of lyrical language. There is a landscape here, the depiction of Appalachia, a beautiful
A Filament Burns in Blue Degrees explores life?s strains and joys and the human compulsion to create something lasting despite certain entropy. Teardowns, remodels, sex, longing, joy; sometimes tender
The characters in Sarah Crawford's Here Among Strangers struggle to integrate the developing world experience with their prior or future lives; so much so, in fact, that their very sanity becomes, at
Chinook and Chanterelle is Robert Michael Pyle's second full-length book of poetry. Rich in natural images, stories, and indelible episodes from the whole world around us, Pyle's poems also track the
