Poetry. Forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections--this is the lyric gift of Glenna Luschei, poet, editor, small press pioneer, and devoted friend of literature. This collection of her life's work reminds us that it continues, unflagging in its intelligence, beauty, and concern for the earth and those who inhabit it. California's poet laureate Al Young has praised Glenna and other women of her generation: "You make me cry. You do all this for love. / You do it all because you dare to care, / you dare to dream. Someone has to act. / You're sick of hearing about how somewhere / over the rainbow...." Glenna Luschei grew up in Iowa and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she started the poetry journal, Cafe Solo, in 1976. The journal and a related small press have been in existence in one form or another for the last forty years. Glenna has won the National Endowment for the Arts writers award and the D. H. Lawrence fellowship. She has a Ph.D. in Portuguese and has taught at the men's prison and San Luis Obispo and the nearby Atascadero State Hospital in California. In 2001 she founded the Luschei Endowment to support Prairie Schooner magazine in perpetuity.

Glenna Luschei grew up in Iowa and moved to Albuquerque, New Mexico, where she started the poetry journal, Café Solo, in 1967. After she moved to California, she began publishing under the Solo Press imprint. She has served as chair of the Committee of Small Magazine Editors and Publishers and won a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship as well as a D. H. Lawrence Fellowship in New Mexico. She lives in Carpinteria, California.