Gary Fincke –
Winner of the 2015 Jacar Press Poetry Book Prize
In After the Three Moon Era, Gary Fincke keeps returning to the missing, the vanished, the disappeared. The speaker of his sharply-etched poems is a man in late …
Lola Haskins –
W.S. Merwin believes “Haskins writes with the startling freedom and grace of a kite flying, and with the variety and assurance of invention that reveal, in image after image, the dream behind the waking world.” In this, …
Julie Suk –
The poetry of Julie Suk is at once deceptively spare and metaphorically rich, and the sensual mystery of her perfectly pitched and etched lines is haunting, elemental, and wild.
R. T. SmithIn her 6th collection, Suk …
Edited: Kaufman, Krawiec, Levin, Parker –
Intimacy is a state of closeness that transcends explanation. It is a feeling of being at home emotionally and physically, a biological need so severe that when we don’t have intimacy with those who …
Kelly Michels –
“The philosophy and emotional pulse moving behind the words—that and the flawless lineation of the music—just wouldn’t let me go.
Jamaal May, Hum (Alice James Books) American Library Association Notable Book Award“Kelly Michels’ collection takes us …
Gibbons Ruark –
“There’s a clean, lively language at work here, full of fine words clearly relished, while those poems lodged in Irish landscapes, both physical and literary, shine with the virtue of authenticity: they see, feel and communicate what’s …
Kathryn Stripling Byer –
“The Vishnu Bird is both a memorial and a memoir in lyric poetry. This clean-spoken, deeply-felt chapbook remembers the poet’s dear friend by tracing his vocation of anthropology, and honoring his spiritual depth, through vignettes from …
Kevin Boyle –
“Rich in detail and attentive in focus, Kevin Boyle’s poems rock back and forth between tenderness and irony. In language both fluent and metrical, they explore what it’s like to be alive and awake in today’s shifting …
Debra Kaufman –
“If you have any doubt that Debra Kaufman is one of our best contemporary American poets, then read this collection.”
Kathryn Stripling Byer, Descent, Coming to Rest, Catching Light and 3 others from LSU Press“Which universe …
Catherine Carter –
“Catherine Carter’s poems wrestle with contemporary human dilemmas: identity, aging, nostalgia, desire, as well as our place in the natural world. I’m drawn to her diction, spiky and sharp, grounded in the imagery of experience.”
Joseph Millar,…