Poetry. Tammy Robacker's VILLAIN SONGS poems sing a world of menace into the light. Voyaging through a mythic-seeming land where everyday objects grow treacherous and the most vulnerable among us are used in spirit-crushing ways, she summons her con...
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Fiction. These patient, heartfelt stories of Midwestern life are shadowed by loss, by straightened economic circumstances (they're also, not coincidentally, stories of tenuous middle class life), by loneliness. And yet they also glow with an affecti...
Fiction. "Zack Bean has put together here a wonderful and memorable collection of stories. I was surprised and delighted by the unusual landscape, sometimes lush, sometimes stark, often full of secrets and always peopled by 'bad boys' of one kind or...
Fiction. INVINCIBLE SUMMERS explores the agony of family. The story begins with the death of Claudia Goodwin's father, and then plunges into the murkier emotional trouble that follows for years. Through the 1960s and 70s, the world around Claudia mo...
Poetry. The poems in Jessica Walsh's HOW TO BREAK MY NECK are alive, visceral, and softly twitching. Each section beginning with different famous last words, these poems interrogate hard-hitting themes of purpose, mortality, and legacy with beautifu...
Fiction. Following Joyce Goldenstern's voice is like following a train of thought... that suddenly leads to an epiphany. It is a voice that takes us deep into ourselves and shows us what we are made of, convincing us that despite our failed dreams, ...
Fiction. Flash Fiction. GIRL POWER traces the lives of women from growing pains to achy joints, creating a collage of stories that speak to the challenges, heartbreaks, joys, fears, and wonders of the worlds we inhabit. Cortese weaves effortlessly b...
Poetry. Kristine Ong Muslim has dissected life's parts and crafted updates carrying a calm punch. Her precise and mournful vision shows us that the NOW refuses to be lulled by "last year's domesticity" and that every object exemplifies a contradicto...
Fiction. Beate Sigriddaughter's writing is fearless and lovely all at once. Her new novel, AUDREY: A BOOK OF LOVE, examines our most precious, (and often all too fleeting), emotion in an honest, lyrical, and forthright way. Sigriddaughter's language...
Poetry. This dynamic collaboration between Michael Cooper and Cindy Rinne hurtles through the male/female binary into the polyphonic, as the voices prism and ricochet past one another, multiplying in possibility. The trickster spider-god, Anansi, is...
Poetry. "Allie Marini Batts' Before Fire: Divorce Poems is a steel-girded elegy that instructs, 'I have taught you well / how to leave me.' Batts' speaker masterfully mourns and acts; she is the voice of the put upon wife but also the wanderer who k...
Fiction. "Guns, punches, fishing. Empathy, forgiveness, love. This is what readers should expect from Miller's astounding debut collection. His work harkens to what it means to me a boy, a man, a father, a human being struggling in this crumbling wo...
Poetry. Sometimes things happen. Memories store themselves in your head like stories written in a book. HEAT WASHES THROUGH is a collection of poems of recollections from a year of madness and loneliness. William L. Alton takes confessional poetry t...
Poetry. "Nina Bannett's THESE ACTS OF WATER traces a daughter's journey through the depths of her mother's mental illness. These beautiful, finely crafted poems chronicle love, loss, grief and the redemptive power of memory. The intensity of Bannett...
Fiction. "Set in a small corner of northern New Jersey, these astonishing stories explore so much that is essential about contemporary life: the comforts and tensions of class, the terrors and joys of parenting, the rage and futility of politics, th...