Edited: Beary, Moore –
Edited by Roberta Beary and Lenard D. Moore, this collection highlights 14 haiku writers who chose their ‘best poems’, those they believed would last over time. The writers were selected in a vote by editors and …
Joseph Bathanti –
A hand-bound, limited edition chapbook, signed and numbered by NC Poet Laureate Joseph Bathanti. Original pen and ink art works by Tasmanian artist and poet Ron Moss, created exclusively for this project.
The Sonnets of the Cross are …
Jeff Hardin –
Jeff Hardin is extremely sophisticated, mature, and knows exactly what he is doing.
Toi Derricotte, The Undertaker’s Daughter (Pitt Poetry Series), Academy of American Poets’ Board of ChancellorsAn “advocate of letting things lean as they must,” …
Edited: Elrod, Kaufman, Krawiec –
Poems by Marge Piercy, Sam Hamill, Dorianne Laux, Ron Rash, Lola Haskins, Stuart Dischell, doris davenport, Fred Chappell, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Alan Michael Parker, Michael Chitwood, Betty Adcock, Joe Millar, Nancy Simpson, David Huddle, Holly …
Chera Hammons –
Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest
This is wonderful work. The poems in Amaranthine Hour are both vibrant and somehow modest at the same time, wonderfully reflective. The speaker has earned maturity and understanding yet realizes …
Stephanie Levin –
Winner of the Jacar Press Full Length Book Contest
Sensuous and precise, these poems explore the boundaries and transgressions between parents, children, lovers: the ways we confine one another, the ways we break free.
“This one just …
Sharon Fagan McDermott –
Winner of the Jacar Press Chapbook Contest
A woman’s yearning and the inevitable losses of a life take shape, find meaning in the rejuvenating power of the natural world, and the rich textures of language.
“Here …
Kathryn Stripling Byer –
A book of sonnets by Kathryn Stripling Byer
A rare, limited edition handmade book of sonnets about race relationships in the South by the former NC Poet Laureate. Each one of the 100 copies of this …
Edited: Krawiec –
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“This is the most delicious book on my bookshelf. The poems will make you laugh, cry and wax nostalgic. (Be sure to savor Gail Peck’s elegant poem How Considerate of Pears.) And the recipes will …
Debra Kaufman –
“Kaufman’s poems trace a journey of passion, emotional turmoil, loss and reconfiguration, sometimes in natural settings of almost mystical beauty. She can be exact: ‘the heron hushed and studious…’ Or lyrical: ‘…leaves swoop and skirt/the chilling wind …