“What does it mean to be a person in relation to others, both human andanimal? Rife with observations of the natural and manmade worlds,Creature by Kathryn Kirkpatrick is a garden of awareness and grief,insistence and wonder. In this …
"Spoken Word artist Dasan Ahanu is the inaugural recipient of the Unsung Poet Award for his manuscript, Concrete Jungle Allegories. This is a joint project between Jacar Press and Sable Books, awarded to honor someone who is an …
"All I Know About a Heavy Heart Is How to Carry It is a celebrated revival of the absorbing language of an observant writer who raises and struggles with the right questions that the heart requires answering. Chisom …
"Simon Anton Niño Diego Baena is the author of three chapbooks. His work has appeared in Poetry Daily, The Bitter Oleander, The Columbia Review, The Cortland Review, The Ocean State Review, Pembroke Magazine, Louisiana Literature, …
"In this richly imagistic and formally inventive collection, Christopher Nelson illuminates the dailiness of beauty and horror juxtaposed in our natural and private worlds. These poems see straight through to the actual, at once unflinching and tender. ‘I’ve …
"What a remarkable sensibility lives in Mark Neely’s Late Stage, at times cynical and witty, at times filled with awe at an America that is at once beautiful and uncanny and more than a little frightening. Here …
White Dresses by Jaki Shelton Green. Limited Edition. $40
This collectible work of Book Art is a 24 page accordion book printed on archival paper, produced by artists from 3 countries. It was published to coincide with …
“With stirring clarity, modesty, and understatement, Tuon shares the feeling of what it must have been like at one end and what words can light up the next mystery. Most of all, he finds a place for himself …
from Deployed
At lunch, Shelby tells me her mother died when she was twenty-one, father gone. In the living room, a cop, her uncle, and a lawyer, who slid a piece of paper across the coffee table. She …
“Pieta” stands out as a profound collection that delves into the depths of human experience, eliciting emotions that resonate on a universal scale. With poems of careful craft and a brushstroke of clear-cut language “Pieta” paints vibrant and …
