What if we all spoke the same language? What if making up words were an art form? Tina Kelley takes delight in new words that enfold meanings in compact, elegant packages, and she revels in the raw materials of poetry. …
“…obsessive, inventive, mysterious, lyrical, horrifying, and even funny.”
Jill S. McDonoughfrom O’Riley:
But it was your mouth that moved to meet mineand made the moon slice herself into snowand made strings tie themselves into timeand I plucked a red …
These poems are about the people we love and the sometimes cruel, sometimes joyful world we live in. We celebrate the joy and acknowledge, and mourn, the suffering. When we write we reclaim the narrative, as a group and as …
IN/DESIDERATO is a poetic meditation on what remains of us, and what has been left behind.
As refracted through the battlefields of WWII and the War on Terror, and equally through the deepest ocean depths and the planet’s oldest organisms, …
“THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE RETAINED AS EVIDENCE OF YOUR JOURNEY begins with a strange kind of urgency, ‘When the dead speak, we have to listen.’ I’m compelled to lean in, listen, get a closer look into this book’s ‘house of …
“At times an homage to icons of western culture such as Rubens and Rembrandt, and at other times the honest tracing of workers leaving the poverty of small farmers for the grinding struggle of truck driving and factory work, this …
“If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get it twisted as she creates a universe fresh with imagery …
Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these poems take advantage of the leaps this forms …
Julie Suk is a prize-winning American poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born Julie Madison Gaillard in 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. Her six previous volumes of poetry are The Medicine …
In These States is a partial road atlas of the contemporary U.S. soul.
Each of us has various existences, only a few of them coinciding precisely with the boundaries of our neighborhoods. The poems in this book are haunted by …