Mary Mackey charts the paths of her own creativity as she tries to discover an entry point to the magical place where the seed of a poem starts to open.A meditation on how the sources of creativity emerged from a vast, wordless reality and became av...
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Discover Where Poetry Begins25 ORIGINAL ESSAYS and INTERVIEWS. An innovative anthology of essential information about the development of the writing craft—memoirs and interviews of outstanding poets from diverse backgrounds who recall the ways by wh...
If you’re a poet, how are you going to survive if you can’t get a teaching job?In PLAN B: A POET’S SURVIVORS MANUAL, McIntosh offers the answer: you need a Plan B if you want to put food on the table, wear shoes without holes in the soles, and stop ...
Winner of the 2021 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize, RASA is Joanne Dominique Dwyer’s second collection of poems, chosen by David Lehman for the Marsh Hawk Poetry Prize. Dwyer lives and writes in Northern New Mexico. Poetry.
"'I am more than the smell / of fear grasping my collar,' Lorna Dee Cervantes tells us in one of the powerful poems in this new collection. Indeed, she is. But Cervantes' brilliance here is her ability to speak the fear as well as the resistance to ...
Poetry. "Recalling 'Lycidas,' in which young Milton overcomes doubts about his poetic commission to mourn the loss of Edward King, his drowned Cambridge companion, Jon Curley successfully navigates his 'own twin sense of faith and doubt' to embrace ...
Poetry. Winner of the 2020 Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize. A book of poems based on a legendary UFO Encounter. "Near Lancaster, New Hampshire, in the White Mountains, they noticed a bright light in the sky that seemed to be following them. The light ...
Poetry. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. THE IN(TER)VENTION OF THE HAY(NA)KU: SELECTED TERCETS 1996-2019 presents tercets that Eileen R. Tabios created during her writing career, a process that led to her invention of the hay(na)ku p...
Poetry. Literary Nonfiction. "Edward Foster's poetry, always exacting and infinitely sweeping, comes to us like a whisper from behind our own ears. . . His poems suspend themselves just above language, connotative of some understanding—perhaps commo...
Poetry. Art. Basil King's DISPARATE BEASTS PART 2 follows the same reverence for painters that he expressed in 77 BEASTS: BASIL KING'S BEASTIARY published in 2007 by March Hawk Press. Each poem speaks about the painting and the painter.
Poetry. "In A PAGEANT FOR EVERY ADDICTION, Fink and Mason give us poetry that goes to the brink, peering off the cliff, before they pull one another back to safety. These poems—about death and dying, inheritance (monetarily and otherwise), and famil...
Poetry. Jewish Studies. "Writing about the Holocaust can be difficult now, not that it was ever easy. It has become myth or something people use as a metaphor for something they object to; those who know, who went through it, are dying off. Those wh...
Literary Nonfiction. Poetry. At once, an origin story of a poet's beginnings, "a human genome project of the lyric." A title in Marsh Hawk Press' Chapter One Series: On Becoming a Poet.
Poetry. Art. "BLUE POLES vibrates with the rhythms of our century's linguistic upheavals, resonating in lines that beat-track each syllable's blue note. Read it aloud to catch the humor that resides as much in the sound as in (between) the words."—D...
Poetry. "With Lynne Thompson's new collection FRETWORK, one feels spurred on by the cherished care of the American emigrant story, which is to say, the buttressing and fortifying of the dream with all of its inglorious and joyous plots and twists. I...