"ECLIPSE ILLUMINED is an extraordinary three-way dialogue between lyric poets Cathie Sandstrom and Thom Cooney Crawford, and Cooney Crawford’s contemporary paintings and sculpture. '…an exquisite Rilkean meditation…' "—David St. John Lyric poets Ca...
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“Sharon Carter's poems reveal an astonishing sensibility, a voice that probes the intimate life of the body —personal, cultural, history itself— with the exactness of a scalpel. The heart stutters on, she tells us, and she would know. As a physician...
In these poems Chapman deals with the isolation and challenge of the first pandemic year in Madison, WI: local disasters; the loss of usual occupations and friends, the fear of contagion, her husband's sudden triple-bypass surgery, the collapse of t...
Gerard Wozek’s poems are searching for a deeper sense of belonging, family, literary kinship, and the “I am” song of Whitman. His best work mines the imagery and memory of gay boyhood – the boy that somehow / made it to here — through torment and bu...
An award-winning collection of poetry that exquisitely blends technology and the Asian-American experience in what poet Colleen J. McElroy calls "an evocative mixture of sensual experiences, and mathematically infused linguistic patterns." Elizab...
"I love the clarity and directness of these poems, the precision of both vision and language here, where perception and imagination are inseparable, where a deep intelligence and cutting wit are met always, and always unexpectedly, by magic. José Al...
"In ARIADNE'S THREADS, Kaaren Kitchell's luminous, wise and frequently heart-breaking new collection of poetry, a contemporary Ariadne follows the threads of her own past as she retraces both distant and more recent paths through the labyrinth of a ...
“In The Place Where Grief Begins, Christopher Brandt wisely reminds us of a place of joy and love that is ignorant of what is coming. With uncommon honesty and emotional depth, the poet takes us through a loved one’s illness and death to a complex g...
SPILLWAY is an annual journal containing poetry, essays on the craft of poetry, and book reviews.Poetry. Literary Nonfiction.
"In MOONLIGHTING AS AVALANCHE, Daniel Romo gives us prose poems as proverbs, filled with famine, faith, frailty, and failure, but also filled with hope, vulnerability, trust and healing. In a voice both wise and searching, Romo's poems function almo...
Poetry. Winner of the Patricia Bibby First Book Award. "THE CLOSE WORLD is a prayer toward co-existence between self and other, past and present, the natural and the made world. Despite painful images drawn from childhood in the segregated south of ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. "In this book, as in the seasons of a woman's life, the quotidian world and the world of mystery change places, pause for us to marvel, then change back again. Hari Bhajan Khalsa shows us the way ordinary tasks, delights, an...
Poetry. "Jonathan Yungkans writes as if he were a John Ashbery clone who'd spent his youth in an L.A. punk band... Death looms largely over a fabricated landscape; past and present mingle uneasily; memory and dream provide a momentary 'shimmer.'"—Ga...
Poetry. In PARIS, Richard Jones establishes himself as the flâneur, walking through the city and, in turn, his own life experiences. Although Jones places his poems against a storied and legendary backdrop, the poems themselves are deeply intimate a...
Poetry. "CALLING THROUGH WATER is the seasoned work of a multi-faceted, humane and gifted poet, endowed with refinement of intellect and an artist's eye that burnishes and transforms what it sees. In her brief for nature against the 'race to drain y...