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 …
Adam Scheffler
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 …
Gary Fincke
Winner of the 2015 Jacar Press Poetry Book Prize
“In After the Three Moon Era, Gary Fincke keeps returning to the missing, the vanished, the disappeared. The speaker of his sharply-etched poems is a man in late middle …
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 …
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.”…
Al Maginnes
Available on Kindle.
“What I love about these poems is how they manage to be so eloquent without being pretentious. I’m also drawn to the way Maginnes juxtaposes fire and its quick losses with fire’s complement, slow vanishing. …
Sandy Longhorn
Available on Kindle.
Winner of the Jacar Press 2013 Full Length Book Contest
“These sly, beautifully crafted poems inhabit and haunt the heart-land. Sandy Longhorn is a poet with the gifts of observation and imagination. An original voice …
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 …