A new Book by the New Mexico Poet Laureate, Lauren Camp. The poems in WORN SMOOTH BETWEEN DEVOURINGS travel through fears of ecological devastation and national and global tragedy, and map routes away from despair. Worry remains in the background, ...
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Heeding St. John Cassian's call, THE THIRD RENUNCIATION rejects classic depictions of divinity and religious dogma to see God more fully. Each poem begins with a proposition (e.g. "Say God is the music we strain to hear," "Say prayer is just a fire ...
Sentenced: It’s not that we didn’t know what the sentence would be, it’s that we didn’t know what would happen on the other side of the sentence. We didn’t understand that it would be a long story, paragraphs filled with contrasting sentences: mine,...
Powerful forces at work in this poetry, a collection of mature reflection and intense epiphany, wherein we learn that we exist within a cauldron that we cannot name, amid forces beyond the ken of seismologists and those who would map the cosmos. Are...
Winner of the 2022 Laura Boss Foundation Narrative Poetry Award. In Man at the Railing, the 2022 winner of the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award, Edwin Romond explores how "joy and loss join hands across our lifetime." Drawing upon his family exper...
The only book of poetry to date devoted to the Rwanda genocide and published in this country, this is a work of nonfictional poetry, a cousin in genre to the nonfictional novel. It is based not only on the poet's observations and encounters during ...
A New Collection from award winning poet Alexis Rhone Fancher. For Alexis Rhone Fancher fans, the wait is over. Admit it! You've been lusting after something naughty to liven up your life. Once again, Alexis delivers. Brazen showcases her best wo...
At the intersection of religion, politics, and Americana, Colin Pope's latest collection inquires what it means to believe while living through unbelievable times. These poems careen and rollick, imagining a world in which conspiracy theory and urba...
Matthew Johnson's second poetry volume constructs a space where the rural communities of Upstate, the suburban living of the Lower Hudson Valley, and the metropolitan landscapes of the City are woven together in a mosaic snapshot. A collection of po...
Connie Post's Newest Book. In BETWEEN TWILIGHT Post delves deep into the difficult journeys of everyday life and intersects those with the difficult maps of the past. There are "atrocities in the body" and many ways a person can falter, fall or ris...
HOW MUCH? offers a panoramic view of a poet whose work has often been a cult-pleasure until now. Spanning Sala’s early years as a punk performance poet in Chicago to his career as a copywriter/Creative Director in New York City, these poems offer sa...
The poems in Clint Margrave’s VISITOR, travel to distant lands and familiar ones, through museum doors and down the aisles of grocery stores, into the pages of books and along the shared walls of an apartment complex, far out in space and up close i...
Al Ortolani’s most recent collection of poems, THE TACO BOAT, focuses not just on the people of the American Midwest, but on the connection to the humor and pragmatism of working men and women. His poems are vignettes from the fields of Kansas, the ...
Christopher Locke's new collection of poetry MUSIC FOR GHOSTS is a visceral testament to youth and hubris, erasure and forgiveness. The heart of these poems straddle the space between the personal and the universally lived, where the past can shatte...
SMOKE & MIRRORS spills torment, agony, small miracles and a blind lust for life no matter what the cost. When we look closely and peel back the façade of perfect skirts, soft skin and angelic smiles, we see. We see the ugly, the truth and everything...