Cynthia Huntington
“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 …
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 its …
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 to …
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 the …
Catherine Carter
Available on Kindle.
“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.”…
Betty Adcock
OUT OF STOCK.
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 …
Jaki Shelton Green
Also available on Kindle.
“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 …
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 to …
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 the …
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 poems …