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Animal Like Any Other is about love and loss, queer longing, and a rural Virginia upbringing that housed strange, yet loving familial relationships. These poems cross boundaries between prose and poetry, the narrative and lyric, truth and story, and sing a hungry body back to life after heartbreak. Awards include runner-up in Split This Rock's Poems of Provocation and Witness and publication in Reading Queer: Poetry in a Time of Chaos, an anth...

Milton J. Bates's poetry collection Stand Still in the Light opens with an evocation of place, capturing the people, animals, and rugged landscapes of Michigan's Upper Peninsula. Other sections of the book delve into the author's past, in particular his experiences as a soldier in Vietnam. The war poems were chosen as the runner-up for the Peter Meinke Prize when published separately in 2018.

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From the Galapagos Islands to Iceland to a retirement village barber shop, these poems mingle natural history, memory, and reflections on mortality. They conjure blue-footed boobies, wildfire, coral-adorned underwater sculpture, a post-election Fourth of July, the aurora borealis. They explore life with twin sisters, the enduring presence of the dead, the way wars cascade through lives, the making and meaning of art, and earthly love.

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In a series of brave little poems, "Porch Light to the Longshoreman" brings to life what it means to be out in the world, having adventure, but being ultimately called back by the porch light of one's own home. The emotional interior of life in the Midwest is central to this collection. Some poems, like "Reeds Lake" highlight specific areas in West Michigan. Others speak to the challenges of having young children, or needy dogs to walk. All in...

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Beginning in Pompeii, Nothing Remembers visits the US Midwest and Jerusalem, where Michael Dickel (the author) now lives. The musical contemporary and at times jazzy experimental poetry re-members loss, relationship, and human connections with the world, while at the same time questioning the fallibility of memory and failure of poetry in undertaking such an endeavor. The poems engage geography and geology in the world(s) they inhabit. Ghosts ...

The Scenery of Saviors considers the savior in all of us as we do, every day, what we can for others, ourselves, and the common good.

The poems of Straight Jacket gather bravely at the intersection between LGBTQ identity and the politics of illness, and speak to the consequences of homophobia and social injustice. The book takes readers into the horrors of being committed into a mental hospital and does fierce linguistic battle with stigma, offering witness to failures within the mental health system and demonstrating expressions of the indomitable spirit's restlessness in t...

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These are accessible poems, written in plain, direct language reminding us what it is like to be awake in our world, minute by minute, poems delivered with humor and unaffected humility that suggest a steadier, larger happiness than we might know. Basting's voice is simultaneously traveler, bystander, and intruder, a recalcitrant participant-witness admonishing himself for riding the cusp of other's experiences. HOME and AWAY reads as a team o...

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