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 ...
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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...
Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Able Muse Book Award. "In the poems in GREEN HILL, Lorna Knowles Blake takes the intimacies of human life and the riots of nature and transmutes them into forms that both discipline and liberate their beauty. By doing so, ...
Poetry. NAKED FOR TEA, a finalist in the Able Muse Book Award, is a uniquely uplifting and inspirational collection. Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer's poems are at times humorously surreal, at times touchingly real, as they explore the ways in which our o...
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...
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...