“A marvelous interweaving of poetry, scholarship, literary criticism and memoir…”
Marilyn Hacker“…a gift that enriches our literature…”
Eleanor Wilner“…a celebration of, and a love letter to, the language of the world…”
Fady Joudah“…a smorgasbord …
A ritual of grace and love for what remains in memory after great loss.
I Want To Undie You is Jaki Shelton Green’s unflinching cry of sorrow at the untimely death of her daughter Imani; and Jaki’s insistence, …
“Grown-up poems for grown-ups.”
Stuart Friebert“I loved reading In Case of Sudden Free Fall, Deborah Bogen’s beautiful and remarkable oneiric prose poem collection. A delicious gem, it takes the reader on a soulful and transformative journey. Under …
“In Ardor, Tina Kelley crafts nineteen love poems to the world, celebrating the details of the daily-a new garden, town names on an atlas, the sound of swallowing. She pays close attention to language, writing an ode to …
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Two of our most celebrated poets, Dorianne Laux and Joseph Millar, weave together poems about music in a chapbook that riffs on the theme of the title; the poems move forward on …
“After experience is done teaching us just about everything it thinks it needs to teach us, we come back to desire, the one thing worth knowing. This time around desire shows up as a wild calm, dead center …
“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 its …
Winner, 2016 Jacar Press Full-length Contest
“A Dog’s Life is a delightful romp through Americana by way of ‘real’ America with sly, politically engaged poems. Though this poet issues a rallying cry against ‘siren songs of entertainment,’ his …
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“Raising the Sky is unpretentious, attempts no lofty poetic experiments with heavy themes but rather surges with philosophy caked on the sneaker bottoms of young slickster/trickster wannabes, and top-shelf gold standard prose shuffled across army …
“Threshing Floor is a serious book of poems in series. These retellings of the Biblical Naomi are compelling and soulful.”
Denise Duhamel“Threshing Floor tells the story of three women, their vulnerability and displacement; it will grip and …
