This collection of poems meditates on the intersection of landscape, myth, and loss from various imagistic perspectives that weave mythic lyric with distinctly feminine narrative poems. The poems explore relationships, loss, trauma, and a sense of p...
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Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize, Selected by Indran Amirthanayagam. "Peter Grandbois' LAST NIGHT I AGED A HUNDRED YEARS takes us on a wingéd journey beyond ourselves to the very lip of being, where identities ble...
Poetry. "'An artist worthy of her art would find a way / to capture this absence.' Thus, Marjorie Stelmach chides herself for failing to quite discover a language equal to the deepest mysteries, death and loss. This piercing collection of poems, thi...
Poetry. "David Mills' BONEYARN, about New York's African Burial Ground—America's oldest and largest slave cemetery—conducts a heart wrenching yet historically meticulous excavation of America's contradictory allegiance to freedom and slavery, equali...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Featuring poems by Ellen Bass, Ed Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Ilya Kaminsky, David Lehman, and many more!"Traditional and radical, secular and holy, the poems in 101 JEWISH POEMS FOR THE THIRD MILLENIUM come to us just as we nee...
Poetry. Winner of the 2019 Richard Snyder Memorial Publication Prize. "The poems in MIDWEST GOTHIC make the daily deliciously strange—'the daily / which isn't still at all but a whirring / gone deep.' They make us work our way inside them, but once ...
Poetry. Latinx Studies. Translated by Carol O'Flynn and Pilar Gonzalez. "The poetic language of Carlos Aguasaco is familiar, fluid, and thoughtful. His work is founded on several sensible, personal myths: some declared and others hidden with great d...
Poetry. We find in the formalist and free verse poems of Heather Halberg Yanda's LATE SUMMER'S ORIGAMI the careful perceptions of a close observer who sees beyond the material into the realm of the spirit. This collection opens and closes with sonne...
Poetry. "'I longed to become / a jellyfish,' Miho Nonaka writes, 'so transparent no one / could tell my body / from the water I swim in . . .' The self wants both to emerge and to hide, to disappear and to be known. 'Who could have taught me to stay...
Poetry. "Both laughter and tears can catch you by surprise in Barbara Ungar's SAVE OUR SHIP. As you live with these witty, satiric, and at times wrenching poems, you will find that their humor darkens while their sadness grows strangely lighter. Ung...
Poetry. "A.V. Christie's posthumously assembled, intriguingly titled MORE HERE THAN LIGHT: NEW & SELECTED POEMS is a deeply satisfying memorial to the work of a poet whose poems I have always loved for their bright inventiveness, the muscular buoyan...
Poetry. Winner of the 2017 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry. "Poems by Michael Moos often occupy a liminal space at the edge of the garden about which he so often writes, that edge beyond which wildness begins, a wildness which Moos is not afraid to e...
Poetry. Winner of the 2016 Richard Snyder Prize in Poetry, judged by Andrew Hudgins. "In 'Night Mowing,' Sutton says, 'I smell / like sweat and blood and metal,' and so do her piercing poems. All those disparate aspects of herself grieve for America...
Poetry. This collection of prose poetry was chosen by David St. John to win the 2015 Ashland Poetry Press Snyder Prize. Laura Kasischke says it is "poetry of both narrative and musical accomplishments," and Bob Hicock calls it "a diary of exquisite ...