Poetry. The augurs of ancient Rome were charged with studying natural phenomena, like the flight habits of birds, in order to look for propitious or unfavorable omens. The poems in AUGUR are attempts, in prescribed and open forms, to "decode" the si...
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Poetry. NEXT TO NOTHING: MELBOURNE 2009-2016 is a new collection by fine press printer and poet Alan Loney. The poem, assembled against the dissolutions of time, contains "a welter of relation & resonance" and "pockets of memory & oblivion."
Poetry. Andrea Moorhead's poems are rooted in the rugged landscapes of James Bay, the American West, and the North Atlantic coast. Language becomes a stone carver's chisel, a transformative tool that allows the voice of the stone to speak, to reflec...
Poetry. Translated from the Modern Greek by N. N. Trakakis. The prose poems and short stories of this volume are violets offered by Leivaditis as a funeral bouquet in a requiem for a generation defeated by lost causes. But a new path, albeit solitar...
Poetry. Winner of the 2016 David Martinson—Meadowhawk Prize. "Michael Hettich's THE FROZEN HARBOR is a book brimming over with revelations, a rich, evocative collection that is an absolute joy to read. Throughout the book, Hettich takes us on a cons...
Literary Nonfiction. Essay. Environmental Studies. CULTIVATING THE WILDNESS WITHIN recounts two decades of woods wandering and soul-searching in the wake of Walt McLaughlin's solo immersion in the Alaskan bush. Disorientation slowly gives way to aff...
Poetry. Ben Morris has one version of events in David Steingass's new and selected poems. Bigfoot, a famous classmate, and pioneers on the Oregon Trail each have others, as do General Custer, Greta GreatPlains, presidents who talk tough, and Utzi th...
Poetry. Philip Dacey published many books of poetry in his lifetime. This posthumous collection of poems is his gift to poets and poetry readers, to his many friends and admirers. How fitting that the title of this book alludes to an act by the poet...
Poetry. "THE BIG JOB is filled with exclamations, high-spirited imperatives, and raucous hilarity in poems that are linguistically and formally adventurous without being coy and vague. All of these qualities make them highly unfashionable, but we wo...
Poetry. llustrations by Jessica Zeglin. YOU THIS CLOSE is a rippling work encompassing love and water, longing and the natural world. Su Smallen wrote these poems during a residency with the St. Croix Watershed Research Station, where she learned ab...
Poetry. Winner of the 2015 David Martinson—Meadowhawk Prize. A collection that takes on the profound questions in language that catches the ear and the imagination. Arising out of wild fires and ash, birds and shadows, deaths in the family and lives...
Poetry. This new collection by Chad Hanson is populated with interesting characters in the tradition of Edgar Lee Master's Spoon River Anthology or Dave Etter's Sunflower County. The women and men in Hanson's poems, under the influence of a high pla...
Poetry. Translated from the Latvian by Bitite Vinklers. EACH DAY CATCHES FIRE presents work from the rich period of the 1970s and 1980s, particularly the prose poems Ziedonis called "epiphanies"; he characterized them as "little impulses, sparks, in...
Poetry. From childhood to elegies and curmudgeonly rants, the poems in PERMANENT RECORD seek to explore what has remained memorable in Mark Vinz's life. As Roland Dille, former English professor and president of Moorhead State University, has aptly ...