Poetry. "Yeats said, 'There is a second world but it is in this one.' Reading THE THRESHOLD OF LIGHT, I have a deeper feeling for what he means. These poems, in their exquisite simplicity, in their love and kindness, make sacred ground of daily expe...
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Poetry. "The noblest aim of FIGURES FOR A FAMILY PORTRAIT may be to gather all the poet's knowledge, experience, and mystical realization into single, singular expression. Steve Lautermilch's world is rendered as palimpsest; all moments are superim...
Poetry. READING SUNDAY, a selection of poems written between 1980 and 2015 by Terry Savoie, contains material first published in journals such as American Poetry Review, North American Review and The Iowa Review that centers on life in rural Midwest...
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Photography. Edited by Bertha Rogers. Catalog of the Ninth Americas Curated Book Arts Exhibit at Bright Hill Literary Center, juried and curated by Alexander Campos and Bertha Rogers. The catalog includes detailed, color ph...
Poetry. Fiction. Literary Nonfiction. Bright Hill Press was founded in 1992; since then, the press has published more than 90 titles, primarily poetry but also fiction and nonfiction. This book, edited by BHP's founding director and editor-in-chief ...
Poetry. "Joanne Clarkson's THE FATES is a relentlessly engaging collection; you'll be hooked from the start. 'Anything can be spun: mare's tail, thistle, / free will. My task is dust / and the sticky milk of love,' she writes, assuming the guise of ...
Poetry. Winner of the Bright Hill Press 2015 Poetry Competition, selected by Alice B. Fogel, New Hampshire Poet Laureate, and Bertha Rogers, Editor in Chief, Bright Hill Press. "Without autobiographical impulse but not without personal pronouns, Car...
Poetry. "What begins in grief, sails forth like a ship's spider on silk rigging, swinging from a draft of hope. PASSING THROUGH BLUE EARTH is a lyric meditation on the vagary and seduction of life, a celebration of both 'presence and absence on this...
Poetry. Sally Fisher's poems speak for the value of unknowing. John Keats said that what we all need is a quality (Shakespeare had it) he called "negative capability"—the capacity to live in uncertainty. In fact, this collection savors the pleasures...
Poetry. THE HYDROMANTIC HISTORIES is a meditation on both personal and cultural mythology. Humans have been fashioning mythos and spinning creation narratives—of various sorts—for thousands of years. The poems in this book are preoccupied with illum...
Poetry. In HEIRLOOM BULLDOG, animals seize their freedom and defend their homes. Pet-trade escapees thrive. Nile monitor lizards prowl public beaches and Burmese pythons feast on panthers in the Everglades. Runaway factory hogs join wild descendants...
Poetry. OTHER PEOPLE'S STORIES is a collection of poems in which the author describes telling moments in the lives of famous people and family members. The cast of characters ranges from American Civil Rights Heroes to well-known artists to characte...
Poetry. "LANGUAGE YOU REFUSE TO LEARN is a masterly articulation of what is spoken in the book's title: the poems in this collection, despite individual strength, readily conspire to give an exhaustive description of the typical experience of immigr...
Poetry. THE CARDS WE'VE DRAWN is divided into two sections: the first consists of a Celtic Cross style reading of eleven Tarot cards, their descriptions followed by a first person narrator ruminating on his life's relationship to the cards. An expla...
In Constance Norgren's collection TONIGHT'S QUIET, worries go hand in hand with good luck, everyday amazement with misfortune, shadows and the encroaching darkness with next day's sunlight. Here we are, "the carriers of things / with gravity pushing...