Alison Stone
“With a jeweler’s lapidary skill, Alison Stone has fashioned a string of gemlike poems that indeed (dare I say it?) dazzle-with wisdom, wit, and brio. She’s crafted every line to a high polish, rich in metaphor and music. …
Shadab Zeest Hashmi
“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 …
Jaki Shelton Green
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, …
Deborah Bogen
“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 …
Tina Kelley
“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 …
Dorianne Laux & Joe Millar
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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 …
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 …
Renee Emerson
“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 …
Margaret Rabb
“Margaret Rabb’s career in poetry was a romance with words…This descendant of Confederates, this servant of transvestites, cloud- chronicler, bibliophile, Anglican and Romantic, knew that the distance between the searcher and the bookshelf was intercontinental and yet intimate, …
Ed. Tony Medina
“One of the Ten Best Poetry Books of 2016”
Beltway Poetry JournalProceeds go to a scholarship fund for African American youth, administered by the Urban League in Washington, D.C.
“Police killings of …