In WHAT LASTS, a memoir in poems, Sylvia Byrne Pollack (Risking It, 2021) takes us from her small-town childhood to the emergence of bipolar II disorder in midlife to the relative acceptance and serenity of her eighties. A persona dubbed Letitia sym...
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From Irena Praitis haunting feminist poems of wisdom, motherhood, loneliness, and love. This blurb from renowned poet Jennifer Givhan says it better than anything else: “This collection catches at the motherpit inside me. It has given me a framewor...
New poetry from award-winning, widely recognized Miriam Sagan, author of more than 30 books. The poems in CASTAWAY speak to journeys between opposing worlds: illness and health, the self and the landscape, dry land and rising sea. The long narrativ...
A lyrical inter-weaving of intimate human attachment and the fragile majesty of nature. IN LOVE AND THE WEATHER Susan Gardner offers a lyrical inter-weaving of intimate human attachment and the fragile majesty of nature. In the clearest poetic term...
The poems in START AGAIN were written during the covid pandemic, and speak of solitude and isolation. The “Monastery” poems are about inward examination and self-reflection. Yet these poems also reach outward, experiencing being a grandmother and on...
Poetry. A new collection from this renowned and prolific poet. "I have always been a fan of George Looney's poetry, and this new collection might be his best yet. He's on constant high alert, noticing what so many of us miss—the beautiful, poignant ...
Poetry. Winner of the Red Mountain Poetry Prize. In SONGS FOR SOLO VOICE, award-winning poet James R. Whitley trains his artistic sights unflinchingly on the experiences of desire, betrayal, loss, and other matters of the heart. Throughout this brea...
Poetry. Winner of the Red Mountain Discovery Award for a first book. Roosting crows trace "a memory of abundance." Stars speak and then fall silent. A coyote will not be reduced to a prop. Saints are tested, composers come unstrung, and trees transf...
Poetry. PERIGEE MOON is a collection of tanka, the elegant poetic form used by Japanese court poets over 1300 years ago to express desire, longing, and unrequited love. These short five-line poems create space in the reader's mind and heart to enter...
Fiction. Can a person heal, or recover from personal and historical trauma? This is the question asked by Thea, heroine of the novella SHADOW ON THE MINOTAUR. Leaving Sarajevo after the war, she ends up on a block in Brooklyn attempting to start a n...
Fiction. "Bill O'Neill's engaging second novel, SHORT SESSION, poses the question: For an introspective and caring person like Chapman Murphy, often too personally involved with the previously incarcerated people he works with, and mostly embarrasse...
Poetry. "I have been a fan of George Looney's poems since before his first book. I know of no other poet who understands so well that regional writing is also a brand of mysticism. This is George Looney's great gift, to show us what was in front of ...
Poetry. Every story is at heart a theft from what was previously told and written. Each time the story is shared something changes, something is new, something is lost, something in our view of who we are is unsettled and unsettles the present day a...
Winner of the 2020 Red Mountain Discovery Award, winner of a 2021 prize from the National Federation of Press Women and shortlisted for the 2021 Rubery Book Award. Poetry. California Interest. Winner of the 2020 Red Mountain Discovery Award and sh...
Fiction. In this picaresque first novel, the protagonist moves from a rebellious existence to be more focused in the surrounding adult world. As he heads once more to the freights, after working intensely for seven years with parolees in a halfway h...