Crows and mirrors, shadows and mothers. Moving seamlessly between lyric and persona and always telling a piece of a larger story, God Shattered offers poems that are home to many familiars-family and community, landscape and weather, fairy tales, …
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When she died suddenly from lymphoma in June 2017, Kathryn Stripling Byer had just completed her 7th, and what would be her last, collection of poetry, Trawling the Silences. …
“Elise Hempel’s Ache tells of the devastating disconnect between the desire to communicate and the inability to do so due to intervening time, distance, reticence, and technology. These are well-crafted, plainspoken remembrances, clearly the result of what William …
Adam Scheffler and Tina Kelley participate in a flow reading.
We sponsor readings at diverse venues to bring our writers to new communities. On a New York tour, Jacar Press organized readings at the Poets House, …
Editor Roberta Beary and contributor Mary White at the launch of Wishbone Moon, an anthology of women’s haiku, in Westport, Ireland at theWestival Arts Festival.…
At the Pakistani launch of Shadab Zeest Hashmi’s Ghazal Cosmopolitan. After her reading she engaged in a conversation with Ali Madeeh Hashmi, Faiz Ahmed Faiz’s grandson and biographer.…
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“A generous range of thought-worthy subjects, approached with simplicity, wisdom, and a deft use of language.”
Marilyn NelsonThe poems in Bulletproof look at the joy and dread of being alive in this world. Even …
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“Wishbone Moon is a groundbreaking anthology of haiku by women in the international haiku community. As editors we consulted women journal editors and haiku leaders around the globe. We asked them for …
“Cornelius Eady’s poems sing America, as Whitman’s did, but amending our national bard, they are mindful of the distance between his America and ours. Race, culture (especially music), family history, and urban life are all in play in …
“In Life Without Furniture ‘the whole visible world flows through one white birch.’ Sharon Fagan McDermott inhabits the spaces between the common and the uncommon: the rich landscapes between ‘A State of Un-Union’ and ‘Driving Home After …
