Poetry. Finalist for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award. Eclectic characters in everyday scenarios populate Jacob M. Appel's THE CYNIC IN EXTREMIS. We attend a sister's second wedding with a "hand-me-down groom"; trick-or-treat with a young son; encounte...
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Poetry. Runner-up for the 2017 Able Muse Book Award. In UNDER DARK WATERS: SURVIVING THE TITANIC, Anna M. Evans juxtaposes the recent loss of her mother with comparable elements and incidents from the 1912 disaster. Evans traces an intricate traject...
Fiction. On the bridge over Paterson's Great Falls, a retired state trooper is murdered by a girl in a grammar school uniform. The victim was the beloved uncle of Jack Colt, a private investigator descended from the inventor of the revolver. While i...
Poetry. Aaron Poochigian's prizewinning second collection of poetry, MANHATTANITE, is by turns frenzied and focused. It examines New York's juxtaposed symbols of towering achievement and monumental desolation, and then traverses the country to Calif...
Poetry. Emily Grosholz weaves elements of philosophy, mathematics and the sciences into her experience of the social and natural world, to produce wise and cosmopolitan poetry of high lyricism. THE STARS OF EARTH starts with new poems chronicling th...
Poetry. Translated by Lee Harlin Bahan. Lee Harlin Bahan delves into the crowded field of Petrarch translations and delivers a classical offering with a postmodern-cool facelift. A YEAR OF MOURNING is daring, quirky, and playful, but with traditiona...
Poetry. Elizabyth A. Hiscox's REASSURANCE IN NEGATIVE SPACE is a debut collection with the seasoned deftness of a master in its keen intelligence, wit, innovative diction, unflinching handling of loss and grief, and deep lyricism. Hiscox muses with ...
Poetry. Art. Illustrated by Russ Spitkovsky. In his impressive bestiary, THE BLIND LOON, Ed Shacklee shows as keen an insight into the nature of the beast roaming free as into the beast within. This encyclopedic collection includes the commonplace p...
Poetry. Finalist for the 2016 Able Muse Book Award. Maryann Corbett's STREET VIEW is a panorama of views: suburban and urban avenues, shown in leaf and in snow; alleyways where misfits lurk in darkness, but also where "Adonis, charioteer of municipa...
Fiction. A.G. Harmon's SOME BORE GIFTS: STORIES is an eclectic collection of stories spanning the traditional to the satirical, with a kaleidoscope of viewpoints and characters that includes tree cutters, department store pianists, museum guides, ph...
Poetry. In THE BARD AND SCHERAZADE KEEP COMPANY: POEMS, Jan D. Hodge shows impressive formal dexterity, and inventive use of the double dactyl. He turns the difficult form on its head as it transforms into a narrative vehicle, retelling the great cl...
Poetry. In Ben Berman's second full-length collection, FIGURING IN THE FIGURE, poems laden with aphorisms, puns, and witticisms meditate on shapes, angles, thinking about thinking, marriage, and the joys and trials of bringing a daughter into the wo...