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Udder Uproar is Cathy Perkins's debut collection of humorous poems. Courageous, crude at times but always unapologetic, the poems in this book surprise and entertain the reader with their mixture of frankness and vulnerability.

You're now here in Dean Crawford's world. Forget your troubles, settle back in your Tom Robbins La-Z-Boy for a delightful tramp through the little Kansas cowpoke town of "You're Now Here." I can't think of a better way to spend an afternoon than with Calvin Cheeseburgers, Katie McGhee, (the villain) Ike Drogue, and the other characters who inhabit the town, including two ghosts-on-call-when-needed. Stick around for the inadvertent invention of...

Jett's unique storytelling seamlessly blends monologue, poetry, and even recipes to create a strong voice that speaks straight to the hearts of readers. Each entry in Girl stands alone, but together as a whole they tell the powerful story of Girl as she navigates themes of identity, self-worth, trauma, family, and survival. Not a single word is wasted in this haunting book, and what is left unsaid becomes equally as powerful as the words print...

In A Field of First Things, you can read some of Greg Pape's best work, featuring narrative poems of beauty and compassion, poems addressing the complex interdependence between humans and the natural world.

True to his title there are many fathers (along with a few prominent women) celebrated here, foremost his own father Joe Howard "Buzz" Taylor, as well as ancestors like Reuben Taylor, first of his Kentucky line, surrogate fathers including his Uncle Louis and best friend David Orr, and his son, now a father himself, continuing the generational saga. But recalling that the child is father of the man, the chief reason to welcome this book is for...

There is a profusion of sublime recognitions in this, the latest of Greg Pape's numerous collections that is perhaps the capstone to his fine career as a poet. His book is a furling face of the mounting wave of his entire life, the sweep of a fine and articulate nature, its torque of fulminating emotions, and the sweet foam of joy with its glister of gladness even in the troughs of sorrow. Greg Pape is my kinsman and brother, myself made other...

In his new book of poems, Love House, Frank X Walker invites his readers in and speaks to them with consummate grace and intimacy about the things that matter most: loving, parenting, aging, living, dying, as well as basketball, birds, gardens, and golf. Walker, who is well known for giving voice to historical characters and bringing their stories to life, uses his insight, imagination, and hard-earned wisdom to write about himself and his fam...

Boney-Fingered Reach for God is a remarkable debut, a testament to Mark Brown's striking imagination, energetic vocabulary, and devotion to intense love relationships. This three-part work is fueled as well by the poet's appreciation for the bizarre in historical situations, culminating in poems that literally radiate around the life of Marie Curie. Brown's vulnerable investigations of love and his wacky narratives are made all the more vibran...

In Andrew Merton's view of poetry, brevity is the soul of wisdom. His poems are compact. He likes plenty of white space around some image or pithy utterance ... Merton is like some elderly neighbor, someone we pass on the street for years without a second look, someone who-when we finally exchange a few sentences-seems to be thinking and worrying about many of the same things we have, someone we would like to spend more time with from now on."...

Strictly From Hunger by Jennifer Litt is a powerful debut collection by a poet who has spent decades mastering a diverse set of literary skills, including writing fiction, poetry, teaching and consulting. The voice is playful, yet fearless, and walks us through events personal yet relatable. We love this book and are proud to share it with the readers.

Accents Publishing is honored to bring to you the latest poetry book by the beloved Kentucky poet, writer and teacher Richard Taylor. In this new and selected collection, we can read poems spanning nearly five decades and hear the strong and memorable voice of the author.

The Bardo of Becoming is full of tender, questioning memories of a beloved father, a departed dog, a cherished partner-all of them gone now, leaving the writer with the small sensual details that make up a life, taste of cheese and crackers dissolving in the mouth, delicate scent of amaryllis, an ancient address book stuffed with post-it notes, all evidence of a life vibrantly lived, and living still in present time. In Owens' world the dead a...

A Hollow, Muscular Organ is a bittersweet, cannily precise anatomy of a love story-a meditation on connection and disconnection, and on writing itself, for the self, as connection and retrieval. Meg Files' riveting, wise novel, the story of Susannah and Griff, is unputdownable for its intelligence and its heart. I read it in one sitting and so will you." --Karen Brennan

Set in a Kentucky river town, here is a tale that is part murder mystery, part existential allegory of wonderfully imagined characters. Mauriello has a gift for drawing us into their struggles toward epiphanies that may save or devour them. This fictional universe connects us to the aesthetic realms of Updike, Cheever and O'Connor. Mauriello has created a distinct milieu, both American and universal, in which everyday citizens find themselves ...

Tina Parker's haunting new collection Lock Her Up is a tribute, a beautifully rendered defense of women who throughout the late 1800s and mid-1900s were admitted into the Southwestern Lunatic Asylum in Virginia. It is an examination of the platitudes, misdiagnoses and treatments administered towomen who needed succor not restraint, understanding not punishment, women who had been set aside by their families or bored husbands, wereabused, widow...

From whimsical relationship advice to heartbreaking details of a long-term struggle with Friedreich's Ataxia, Jude Lally's poems do not leave us indifferent. We root for the speaker in this book, and his success at the "full-time job" of living, we become invested in his interactions with friends, relatives and loves. Many of the poems offer a philosophical view of life, derived from a unique point of view and we are thankful for the author's ...

In this medley of voices-journal entries and letters of a soldier preparing for war, the philosophical reflections of Lucretius, the poet's rich imaginings of her grandfather's inner life-Nana Lampton creates a moving meditation on war and its brutal mechanization in the 20th century, capturing the idealism and dutifulness of the young, the tedium of camp life, and the anachronism of cavalry on the eve of "the war to end all wars." These voice...

These poems from Stoykova-Klemer are equally subtle and powerful. I found it surprisingly easy to build a film around these engaging works, because they already tell stories that fill the reader's mind with rich and complex emotions. -Thom Southerland, Director of Proud Citizen

Scotch Tape World is a daring new poetry collection by Western Kentucky University professor Tom C. Hunley. Tom C. Hunley, on the evidence of these poems, is as in love with, as he is bewildered by, the world. And although that might seem a common way of being in the world, Hunley's ability to render his love and bewilderment precisely in his poems is unique and necessary. These poems manage to be funny without being cynical, and they manage t...

Featuring an eclectic and inspired range of vignettes, Sirens and Rain celebrates Philadelphia with poetic dexterity and brilliance. Poem after poem brings out the essence of how human activities blend seamlessly with nature. This is clearly the work of a poet engaged, aware, and attuned to the finest details and character of his city.-Tom Clausen