Poetry. Art. Carrie Green's STUDIES OF FAMILIAR BIRDS reflects upon the series of nest-and-egg illustrations that Virginia Jones saw to completion after her daughter, who had begun the project, died. The artist's loss in the late nineteenth century ...
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Poetry. IN CODE was born out of Maryann Corbett's years of work for the Minnesota Legislature, with a nonpartisan office that mandated that she maintain a public silence about politics. In poems that go from elegiac to fiery to funny, she examines b...
Poetry. Art. Written by Sydney Lea and James Kochalka. Illustrated by James Kochalka. In THE EXQUISITE TRIUMPH OF WORMBIY: AN ILLUSTRATED EPIC, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of dr...
Poetry. Art. In THE EXQUISITE TRIUMPH OF WORMBIY: AN ILLUSTRATED EPIC, multi-award winning illustrator and graphic novelist James Kochalka brings us a thematic collection of drawings that chronicle the exploits of a worm who embarks on an adventure ...
Poetry. In Sally Thomas's MOTHERLAND, the poet keenly observes the ephemeral and the everlasting in the lens of time—the daily into seasonal transformations, the gifts and wonders of nature and people. MOTHERLAND by turns hails and interrogates in m...
Poetry. David Alpaugh's SPOOKY ACTION AT A DISTANCE—a collection of double-title poems—include irreverent, insightful commentary on subjects both current and timeless. The poetic form is Alpaugh's invention. Masterfully versified with taut control o...
Poetry. In THE CUPPED FIELD, Deirdre O'Connor keenly observes both the commonplace and the unusual, finding disturbing and transcendental aspects in either. O'Connor delights with her insight, her power of metaphor, her lyrical voice, and the range ...
Poetry. Rebecca Starks's TIME IS ALWAYS NOW unfolds against a backdrop of nature, often permeated in unexpected ways with the human dynamics of family, neighborhood, and nation. Her poems convey the urgency within moments of transformation—whether ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. Jewish Studies. Susan de Sola's FROZEN CHARLOTTE spans the breadth of human experience—from celebration to lamentation, from gravity to lightheartedness, from domestic and quotidian scenarios to historic upheavals and their ...
Poetry. Women's Studies. CHARACTER SHOES, Kate Light's posthumous collection, exhilarates and enchants like a command performance. The gifts and the curse of the young Sleeping Beauty in Tchaikovski's ballet ("Some fairy picked/ and pricked her for ...
Poetry. SAINT WORM, Hailey Leithauser's second poetry collection, collects—sometimes warmly, sometimes wickedly—glowworm, bookworm, earthworm, and other earthly and unearthly creatures, including human beings. Leithauser's sparklingly inimitable sty...
Poetry. Native American Studies. Jennifer Reeser's INDIGENOUS is, by turns, a celebration of her Native American heritage and a lamentation decrying the social injustice and tragedies endured. Through Reeser's sublime craft and formal prowess, ances...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. "Rhina P. Espaillat's AND AFTER ALL combines the formal fluency of Richard Wilbur, the precision of Elizabeth Bishop, and the easy conversational tones of Frank O'Hara, and yet her poems speak in a voice that is distinctively...
Poetry. PEARL is an intricate fourteenth-century poem written by one of the greatest Middle English poets—the anonymous artist who also gave us Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. This medieval masterpiece presents the meditative Dream Vision of a fath...