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Nathalie E. Amazan's first chapbook "Still" is an intimate poetry collection that explores themes of spirituality, liberation, and resilience in the struggles of justice. It is a manifesto of perseverance through personal and societal adversities for the pursuit of peace. As such, this body of work is not only a declaration of faith in the attainment of peace and justice, but also a means for others to find inspiration and empowerment within i...

The poems of Julie Taylor burn indelibly on the retina of the soul-you can't but see and feel their fire long after the page has been turned, the book put down. From the wonders of the natural world, it's rhythms, beauties, deaths, to the heat of bodies in desire and the death of her partner by fire, and the shards of grief held in fragments of the body, Taylor shows us, poem after poem, in rich spare language (like the loam of earth) how what...

My Photo Album is about family, neighbors, friends, colleagues, significant others, and those who walk past by or maybe acquaintances, casually met, or strangers, but their stories are relatable. Our world seems torn by conflict, fear, loss, disparity, sickness, and confusion, and it is some consolation to know that one is not alone on the road. Being born is not a choice, but living is. Love and compassion rooted in courage and persistence ma...

In this incredible chapbook, Meg Files' poems sing us goodbye. As humans take their leave from this planet by ordinary death, the animals remain. Meg Files' unpretentious Beasts will not miss us but perhaps they'll note us as beautifully as she has noted them. In these straightforward, penetrating poems, we can take some solid satisfaction knowing the beasts keep the humans alive and significant a little longer.-Nicole Walker, author of Proces...

Searching for A Way Home is an off-the-road exploration of American life and family history. Veteran essayist and journalist Stephen J. Lyons takes readers to the fringes of society through his own experiences, whether sampling the exploits of an Elvis imitator in Florida, partying with a rowdy cowboy in Colorado, slacking with old-timers in an Oregon hotel, failing at farming in the Midwest, dodging his demons as a boy in Chicago, or simply c...

Searching for A Way Home is an off-the-road exploration of American life and family history. Veteran essayist and journalist Stephen J. Lyons takes readers to the fringes of society through his own experiences, whether sampling the exploits of an Elvis imitator in Florida, partying with a rowdy cowboy in Colorado, slacking with old-timers in an Oregon hotel, failing at farming in the Midwest, dodging his demons as a boy in Chicago, or simply c...

These poems pay attention to what it means to be the citizen of a troubled country, the son of warring and loving parents, a devoted brother, a husband and father. The collection sifts and sorts through differing memories, places in time, senses of history and identity.

These poems pay attention to what it means to be the citizen of a troubled country, the son of warring and loving parents, a devoted brother, a husband and father. The collection sifts and sorts through differing memories, places in time, senses of history and identity.

Aphorisms... Minimalisms... Trauseisms... More fun with Andy Taylor Mead, writer, actor, performer, poet, and one of Andy Warhol's Superstars Brief as the lives on display, these utterly charming pieces resonate with eroticism, sentiment, devilish humor and unexpected editorial comment... fitting testament to one of the key moving image projects of the 20th Century. Ron Magliozzi, Associate Curator, Department of Film, Museum of Modern Art, N...

Sherrie Fernandez-Williams's starkly honest Goddess of the Whole Self is a defiant and raw portrait of the woman's experience from body image to insomnia to middle age. Lyrical and intelligent, the poems in this collection serve as a fiercely feminist tribute to the women who came before and the women we were before. Fernandez-Williams mines history-both personal and political-to represent a life lived and living.-Anika Fajardo Author of Magic...

Turbulence in Small Spaces is a collection written for and about women. The poems explore love, loss, heartbreak, healing, and getting older. Dealing with toxic relationships, violence against women, and family dynamics, they confront the expectations placed on women and examine the challenges that aging brings. Ultimately, these poems offer the hope that wherever you experience turbulence-whether it be in a supermarket, at home, or in your me...

In Its Own Time is a collection of poems that looks at how time is a critical element in the alignment of factors that determine when and how events occur. Whether in an ICU unit, at the entrance to a swimming pool, in the muddle at a yard sale, or on the banks of a river bed, these poems examine the nuances of events that could easily go unnoticed.

We Are Mary Shelley's Monster tunes in to history and the present through poetry from the author's perspective, as well as how and where those moments exist collectively for the rest of the world. Frequently, mythology ushers the reader through this chapbook, either in the context of ancient gods and goddesses or modern figures and celebrities. This crafting of the past within the present through familiar names and events intends to highlight ...

The In a Moment poems deliver a kind of meditation that considers how we have damaged and continue to damage the world we live in by our capacity to create harm through our activities and through the products we manufacture and carelessly dispose of into our environment without considering the caustic effects such products have on that environment. The poems also consider the never-ending wars we find ourselves engaged in, and the many mental ...

In his collection Vacationland, Michael Bross takes the audience on a tour that spans decades, recalling memories such as his daughter mimicking animals or his father's physical decline. After all, seated in a "beached boat at world's end, " what else is there to do but look back? Bross demonstrates the importance of this reflection, even when-perhaps, especially when-it hurts like hell. Having seen this book in several iterations, I'm excited...

For in our youth, we know everything...except what it is like to become aged, when no one cares what we knew in our youth." This self-evident truth - this "aha!" moment - is a sentiment illustrated throughout the pages of Grace Notes from a Bohemian in Wanderlust, where each poem embodies a quest for truths - in aging, in Nature, in life, and in death. From queen bees and martyrs who stare down the devil, to bird gods who drink from the land o...

We Are Mary Shelley's Monster tunes in to history and the present through poetry from the author's perspective, as well as how and where those moments exist collectively for the rest of the world. Frequently, mythology ushers the reader through this chapbook, either in the context of ancient gods and goddesses or modern figures and celebrities. This crafting of the past within the present through familiar names and events intends to highlight ...

LOW-HANGING FRUIT is an archaeological dig deep into the realm of an aging woman's memory. At times, the narrators of these poems may embellish or be guilty of "retrospective distortion"-yet, they strive to tell her truth. Truth: nostalgia for a coming of age during a time of growing injustice and violence, the bullying of the defenseless and the different, the warping effects of religion. Artifacts of joy, loss and love are exhumed in poems o...

Birds in the City offers reflections on love and loss. Written from different points of view, the collection examines divorce, abuse, loss of loved ones, and the challenges of parenting. The poems explore the tension between reality and dreams, of history and the future. They are deeply felt poems, allowing the reader to visit the lives of others, vicariously experiencing their moments, big and small.

A thrift store, a blue heron, a deceased bobcat: the poems in New Lebanon subject the upstate New York town to microscopic, idiosyncratic scrutiny. Because its abundant cedars reminded them of the famed Biblical Lebanon, people who were steeped in Scripture gave the town its name more than 200 years ago, adding that "New" as a hope for, and acknowledgement of, the town's future. In the same way, many of the poems here attempt to locate the tow...