Michael Lieberman's Some Dark Fire, New and Selected Poems is a generous sampling of an exceptional poet's mature work, written over almost thirty yearssince Lieberman moved to Houston in 1988.
Linda Parsons Marion's fourth poetry collection, This Shaky Earth, straddles time, family divisions and legacies, and the regions of her native Tennessee.
Linda Parsons Marion's fourth poetry collection, This Shaky Earth, straddles time, family divisions and legacies, and the regions of her native Tennessee.
This anthology gathers the strong voices of accomplished poets reaching into and beyond nostalgia to remember, to honor, and to document through figurative imagery their experiences of Mexico and the vibrant border areas before the ravages of narco-violence.
Christine Kitano's Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative safety of upstate New York before and during the pandemic.
Christine Kitano's Dumb Luck & other poems offers a portrait of a thirty-something Asian American woman who finds herself living in the relative safety of upstate New York before and during the pandemic.
In a world as terrifying as Plath's and as mistake-ridden as Curly Howard's, a world trapped in its Gothic, Southern O'Connor-esque box, Gay picks through the wreckage of the years with gritty idiomatic narrative, and sardonic lyric.
In a world as terrifying as Plath's and as mistake-ridden as Curly Howard's, a world trapped in its Gothic, Southern O'Connor-esque box, Gay picks through the wreckage of the years with gritty idiomatic narrative, and sardonic lyric.
The poems of Backmasking uncover secret messages of rock and roll in relation to religion, mostly in a loose sonnet form reminiscent of David Wojahn's classic, Mystery Train.
In the Night Orchard is a retrospective collection of poems gleaned from over three decades of writing by a poet absorbed by nature and culture in the American South.
Jeff Hardin's No Other Kind of World explores our ';need to witness miracles' within a world that too often favors ';soapbox diatribes/or mournful tones.
An Ivorybill in Arkansas, which human guilt has conjured up from extinction; mud daubers toting "e;stunned spiders"e; to their nests on a screened porch in Louisiana; a whale shark off the Yucatan whose spots tell its story in indecipherable Braille; conchs harvested from an undersea garden in the Caymans; stray dogs in Athens, ancient gods in disguise-the lives of these creatures and others entwine with ours in The Garden of the Fugitives.
An Ivorybill in Arkansas, which human guilt has conjured up from extinction; mud daubers toting "e;stunned spiders"e; to their nests on a screened porch in Louisiana; a whale shark off the Yucatan whose spots tell its story in indecipherable Braille; conchs harvested from an undersea garden in the Caymans; stray dogs in Athens, ancient gods in disguise-the lives of these creatures and others entwine with ours in The Garden of the Fugitives.
Jeff Hardin's No Other Kind of World explores our ';need to witness miracles' within a world that too often favors ';soapbox diatribes/or mournful tones.
Set primarily in a garden alongside a tidal river in Maine, River Road maps the troubled path of a middle-aged man torn between longing for an idealized past that never existed and realizing he must remain vulnerable to a future of love.
Eric Hoffer Award Honorable Mention in Poetry Eric Hoffer AwardGrand Prize Short List Medal Provocateur Finalist IPNE Book Awards Poetry WinnerTender the River captures in verse the history and legacy of the Merrimack River Valley, from the Pennacook, Wamesit, Algonquin, and other indigenous tribes who settled there first, to the European settlers who came with guns and their god to supplant them, to being the birthplace of America's industrial revolution and first labor movements, to becoming a center of continued immigration, of entrenched nativism, and even multicultural celebration.
