Tina Barr
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 …
Catherine Carter
In Catherine Carter’s latest chapbook, the poet considers the world beyond the surface: the lives of microbes, housekeepers, and history; tendrils of magic in both blessings and curses; and the magnetism of love, gin, sorrow, and the dark, …
Jane Craven
“Here the poet sings to ‘the congress of spotted turtles on a log,’ while ‘cats track sunbeams around the house’ and somewhere above us ‘the swirling eye of August, silent at its center, / contains whole flocks of birds.’ Magical things happen …
Stella Reed
“Myth from the field where the fox runs with its tail on fire is a book of grit, of faith, of wondrous creaturely light.In this chapbook I found a voice burning with the kind of questions I did …
Violeta Orozco
“Violeta Orozco offers a deep range of poetic sensibilities inside of plain talk and personal brown body politic. Stillness in the Land of Speed allows us to inhale the Atlantic and wade with the wisdom inside Yemaya’s skirt …
Deborah Bogen
Available on Kindle.
In Speak Now This Charm, Deborah Bogen creates a mosaic from states of mind we all experience, but are trained to ignore. Or forget. Or devalue. She records what is visible and what is positioned …
Tina Kelley
Available on Kindle.
What if we all spoke the same language? What if making up words were an art form? Tina Kelley takes delight in new words that enfold meanings in compact, elegant packages, and she revels in …
Isabelle Doyle
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“…obsessive, inventive, mysterious, lyrical, horrifying, and even funny.”
Jill S. McDonoughfrom O’Riley
But it was your mouth that moved to meet mine and made the moon slice herself into snow and made strings tie …
Colleen Coyne
“THIS DOCUMENT SHOULD BE RETAINED AS EVIDENCE OF YOUR JOURNEY begins with a strange kind of urgency, ‘When the dead speak, we have to listen.’ I’m compelled to lean in, listen, get a closer look into this book’s …
Ali Black
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“If It Heals At All defines personal moments that conjure reincarnations of straightforward sensibility with language that names, ‘my black is a heartbeat.’ Ali Black dares metaphors to not get it twisted as she creates …