Benjamin S. Grossberg –
“Difficult as it is to describe honestly the spectacle of living, to describe death and dying is to go almost where language can’t: past knowledge, experience, or the reliable image. Yet what An Elegy achieves, through …
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 …
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 …
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,…
Betty Adcock –
These deeply moving poems about grief, its aftermath, and learning to embrace the world again rank with Betty Adcock’s finest work.
A new book of poetry by the author of six award-winning collections from LSU Press.
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Jaki Shelton Green –
“Rooted in hypnagogic logic and deeply seated in the tradition of Jayne Cortez, Quincy Troupe and Ntozake Shange, Jaki Shelton Green’s verse narratives pay homage to the orphic ethos of the mythmaking South with all the …
Shelby Stephenson –
An intimate, tender and lyrical chapbook that looks back at a childhood, where friendship, family, and slavery intersect. These poems ponder the conflicted emotions, from joy to sorrow, that come from meditating on one’s legacy.
Shelby Stephenson’s Family Matters: Homage …
Maura High –
Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Chapbook Contest
The Garden of Persuasions speaks in a low voice you must quiet yourself to hear. “I have left some things out of this picture,” it says in one of …
Edison Jennings –
Tough words from Edison Jennings on how to survive “the coming of claws and snapping teeth,” and how to reckon our course through “the plenty of loss.” No whine in this voice, no plead for succor–these hard-hitting …
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 …