A long-awaited collection featuring new poems by Keith Althaus, as well as selections from his three previous collections. This long-awaited collection features new poems by Keith Althaus, as well as selections from his three previous collections, ...
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A new poetry and fine art collection by award-winning poet and artist JoAnne McFarland attempts to counteract violent acts with creative output. A companion piece to the poet and artist's gorgeous and powerful PULLMAN (Grid Books, 2023), A DOMESTIC...
A Debut Collection from the 2023 Off the Grid Prizewinning Poet Susan Okie. In the poem that opens her debut poetry collection, Susan Okie recounts an evening in the anatomy lab. Here we witness the depths of her curiosity toward her subject's inner...
The poems in RINSE are like prisms that we, her readers, pass through. On the other side, we are not the same. The title of Elaine Terranova’s seventh collection implies a cleanse, a refresh, not unlike the kind a body undertakes in sleep. Rinse c...
With urgency, and without apology, JoAnne McFarland's multimedia collection PULLMAN underscores the relationships between the events of our American past and of our present. JoAnne McFarland’s PULLMAN examines themes of labor and love, using as its...
Winner of the 2022 Off the Grid Poetry Prize, a masterful collection by Donald Platt, "one of the finest American poets working today," writes poet and editor Adrian MatejkaIn SWANSDOWN, the poet Donald Platt makes a study of life’s inevitable trans...
Poems exploring our most fragile points of connection—to lovers and family, to the living and the dead, and to oneself, one’s own life’s work—with the care and wisdom of one who knows these roads. “Silently / pulling for itself, / the will wants the...
Poetry. In his seventh poetry collection, Jon Davis exhibits the range and mastery that is the result of fifty years of study, teaching, and practice. ABOVE THE BEJEWELED CITY opens and closes with homages to Federico Garcia Lorca's dream-struck bal...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Winner of the 2021 Off the Grid Poetry Prize. In MORE AMERICAN, poet Sharon Hashimoto reconstructs a collective memory, conjuring the voices of grandparents, children, soldiers, and "those left to tell." In mo...
Poetry. Dennis Hinrichsen's THIS IS WHERE I LIVE I HAVE NOWHERE ELSE TO GO is a formally adventurous, cinematic collection of poems about everything at once—father, mother, family, the brutality of American history, the Pulse nightclub shooting, Alz...
Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Young Adult. Born amidst tragedy and implacable hatreds, the young Peter McCutcheon is denied his freedom, his birthright, and the fruits of his labors by cruel masters, and by a society and history which denies the tru...
Poetry. AN AMIABLE RECEPTION FOR THE ACROBAT, Jon Davis's sixth full-length collection of poems, is jarring and beautiful, and in both cases necessarily so. In her praise of its wisdom and irreverence, Pam Houston has described ACROBAT as "a map to ...
Poetry. In this astounding second collection, Ioanna Carlsen presents us with visions of breath, both ecstatic and mundane—at once spoken, quoted, and listened for—examining the air shared by all. It is breathing that connects us, the poet knows. An...
Poetry. Karen Whalley's second book takes up the question of identity in the face of isolation and loss. At its core are twin wounds—the death of a father and the end of a marriage—and the struggle to define oneself in the ensuing absences. "Somewhe...
Poetry. In PERDIDO, Elaine Terranova's seventh collection, the poet ponders the predicament of loss—"I want the dead but I am beside / the living." But for Terranova, perdido does not mean loss merely. Like the music from which she borrows her term,...