In LOCKER ROOM TALK, we listen in on the epic and ordinary moments that happen when women are together. Subverting the traditional idea of “locker room talk,” this collection illuminates the conversations women share with family, friends, and strang...
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A new collection of essays, poems, and plays by award winning poet Kazim Ali. In SWEET NOTHING Kazim Ali finds, just beneath the details of daily life, the presence of spiritual reality. A corner of the street, a gesture of the hand, the pattern on...
Literary Nonfiction. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Carolyn Holbrook's EARTH ANGELS discovers, in the intimate spaces of daily life, contact points with visionary experience. As a mother, artist, daughter, sister, teacher, and ...
Drama. After 10 years and 25 productions, the Minneapolis-based Workhaus Collective ended its run in 2016. This 12-play anthology contains a sampling of the group's finest work, along with essays from each playwright with advice and ideas about writ...
Poetry. Hybrid Genre. Brianna Johnson has performed an experiment in destruction: Of forms, of identity, of personae. Her narrator(s) lead a procession toward revelation as ruin. About THE AXE LECTURES, Johnson writes: Here, Lizzie Borden walks free...
Poetry. African & African American Studies. In WAITING FOR A SPACESHIP, J. Otis Powell pens a deep acknowledgement to both the pain of language and its potential for liberation. In these elegant and absorbing poems, Powell plays soloist to a backdro...
Drama. Phases of the moon mark the passing of time for two inhabitants of a remote, dreamlike farm. Lua and Dal alternately support and dismantle their co–created reality as they navigate the magical swells of their daily routine. Encyclopedia explo...
Literary Nonfiction. In EPILOGUE Juliet Patterson performs an act of intimate illumination as she narrates with poetic and visionary clarity the experience of her father's death by suicide and her subsequent inquiry into his actions. Like the best w...
Poetry. In her third book of poems, Kirsten Dierking explores the way our everyday desires shape themselves into the miraculous, like "antlers branched in sprays of bone against the sky." In selecting Dierking's work for a McKnight Artist Fellowship...
Fiction. Edited by John Colburn, Michelle Filkins, and Margaret Miles. In its most soulful incarnation, what actually transpires in the vastness of the northern plains? The forty-one short stories gathered for this collection, each less than 1,200 w...
Poetry. Is it a cocktail guide for poets? A poetry anthology for bartenders? This strange hybrid contains poetry, cocktail recipes and artwork in one sleek package, and features work by many of the bright lights of the next generation of American po...
Poetry. The much anticipated second collection of poems by one of the most dextrous, original, and dazzling voices in American poetry today. Critic Maria Damon has called Jeffrey Little "an unsung poetry treasure." THE BOOK OF ARCANA is formally inn...