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Christine's is a new and generous voice. In The Bronx Years, she recalls her rebellion growing up in a traditional, Italian-American family in the Bronx, New York. The poems examine her relatives - with humor and honesty - and ask, what do we choose to inherit? The poem at the heart of the collection, The Truth About Skating, won Honorable Mention for the Allen Ginsburg Award. Her work appears in The Paterson Literary Review, Voices in Itali...

Hawk's Cry explores the ways in which humanity becomes flawed and the rippling of that brokenness into our relationships and our treatment of the earth. The hawk's ever-present circling cry is a call to consciousness. Author Brian Turner has said this about the book: "In Hawk's Cry, the latest collection by Mary Pacifico Curtis, we are given a cry of pain and beauty, gods and prisons, Ai Weiwei, Greta Thunberg, and so much more-with Sinatra ...

Lee Landau's poetry is deeply accessible as she writes with raw honesty about her personal landscape: her relationships with family, their dysfunctional backstories, and the many phases of loss and grief that tumble through her life and poems. There is an inherent glow to her precise language and images that charm the reader. Many of the poems in this Chapbook underscore feelings of anxiety. Landau opens up her life and times in these thirty p...

In The Coffin Makers, Heather Bryant Jordan turns a close and penetrating look at the unfolding daily experience of living through a pandemic. By turns elegiac, melancholic and hopeful, she explores the bonds of family, the horrors of loss, and the solace of children and nature as the seasons turn and we come to grips with experiencing the unthinkable.

In The Coffin Makers, Heather Bryant Jordan turns a close and penetrating look at the unfolding daily experience of living through a pandemic. By turns elegiac, melancholic and hopeful, she explores the bonds of family, the horrors of loss, and the solace of children and nature as the seasons turn and we come to grips with experiencing the unthinkable.

BLACK PAPER ALBUM is the story in poetic form of a young girl growing up in the 1940's and 50's absorbing her grandparent's immigration to America and their hardscrabble life in the foothills of the Catskill Mountains and her parent's struggles to make a life for themselves and their family in the hustle of New York City. Captured in family photographs dating back to turn of the 20th century in a crumbling "black paper album, " the family stor...

Hawk's Cry explores the ways in which humanity becomes flawed and the rippling of that brokenness into our relationships and our treatment of the earth. The hawk's ever-present circling cry is a call to consciousness. Author Brian Turner has said this about the book: "In Hawk's Cry, the latest collection by Mary Pacifico Curtis, we are given a cry of pain and beauty, gods and prisons, Ai Weiwei, Greta Thunberg, and so much more-with Sinatra ...

Terence Degnan is the real thing-a streetwise philosopher whose poems ring with music, rough wisdom, and wry humor. They don't "guardrail" or snowflake with us, " and there's "no need to doctorate around." The speaker here-"born with eyes too wide/ sworn to an Irish secrecy"-is both emphatic and questioning, professing to "regret almost everyone, " while asserting "in me is born a great empathy." Indeed. Degnan strikes such a fine balance betw...

A Cast of Characters is a compilation of poems based upon familiar literary characters. Written by a retired high school English teacher, this chapbook summarizes, analyzes, and relates these characters to modern times. The characters memorialized range from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn to the nursery rhyme, "Henny Penny, " from Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" to Wilder's Our Town.

The poems in Work of Body: Body of Work slow down time and ask us to appreciate the artistry and magnitude of the smallest Work of Body such as a single breath or a spinal adjustment. As the poems progress the Works of Body grow larger and help us recognize our small connection to larger Bodies such as a Body of Water or a World Body. With physicality, poignancy and humor, Work of Body: Body of Work explores the blurry lines where each Body be...

Peter Barton would get a wink of approval and a smile from William Carlos Williams. His poetry is simple yet reverberant, his aching wishes and pale sorrows are those we all share. You will read these poems more than once."-Peter Davis, Academy Award winning filmmaker, author of Girl of My Dreams "I seem to be stories now, " reflects the narrator of Peter Barton's When All Is After, but the poems refuse tidy narratives and easy explanations. H...

Home is a Sweater reflects on ideas of place, infertility, trauma, and hope. A series of poems explore memories held within specific organs of the body and others use tangible objects to reflect on absence and loss. Pieces take you to Detroit, Pittsburgh, a kitchen sink, and a small classroom in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Throughout the collection, Wielkopolan continues to question what it means to feel at home in a specific plac...

Sophoetics: Philosophy Poems thinks uncannily as a collection, wondering what exquisite and gruesome facts of the universe give us our everyday experience. J. Martin Strangeweather addresses this question smartly askew, often funny, and always skeptical in a mode that is more psychedelic than it is Sextus Empiricus." -Daniel M. Gross (Professor of English at University of California, Irvine, and the author of Being-Moved: Rhetoric As the Art o...

The world in these poems is constricted by the demands of tending to a mother in cognitive decline, who talks to her daughter in "a circular spin, " a welter of tears, accusations, and delusions. Musselman writes clearly about the strain of juggling intense caretaking and daily life. Certainly, there is grief for all that is being lost and for the pain in this family's past. As the poet's voice carries readers through the shocking and wistful ...

Home is a Sweater reflects on ideas of place, infertility, trauma, and hope. A series of poems explore memories held within specific organs of the body and others use tangible objects to reflect on absence and loss. Pieces take you to Detroit, Pittsburgh, a kitchen sink, and a small classroom in the mountains of Western North Carolina. Throughout the collection, Wielkopolan continues to question what it means to feel at home in a specific plac...

This is a poetry collection that will break your heart, but also make you grateful you read it. Mary Sexson tells the story of her daughter's addiction(s) honestly, sometimes painfully, with grace and love. The first time I read the powerful and moving manuscript I sensed it could be a challenge for her to find a publisher. As the author of a book of poems about surviving abuse by a priest, however, I also had faith that some wise publisher wo...

This is a poetry collection that will break your heart, but also make you grateful you read it. Mary Sexson tells the story of her daughter's addiction(s) honestly, sometimes painfully, with grace and love. The first time I read the powerful and moving manuscript I sensed it could be a challenge for her to find a publisher. As the author of a book of poems about surviving abuse by a priest, however, I also had faith that some wise publisher wo...

Real Country chronicles a world that is less and less known or remembered in the fast-changing, media-saturated culture of today. It is the world of the farm kid: a world of large spaces and small schools, of long bus rides and short statements, of harsh conditions and hard-earned satisfactions. These poems mean to preserve a West Texas version of that experience from a few decades ago, played out against a wide landscape with its own contenti...

Friday Night, Shanghai is a love letter to one of the most dynamic cities on the planet. Living as an expatriate in China for well over a decade, Solway's poems are intimate meditations on what it means to be nomadic at heart, or "stranded in a world that won't let go." There are also poems about the transformative powers of art and the lives of artists-Giacometti, Warhol, Joseph Cornell, and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as to our patron saint...

Friday Night, Shanghai is a love letter to one of the most dynamic cities on the planet. Living as an expatriate in China for well over a decade, Solway's poems are intimate meditations on what it means to be nomadic at heart, or "stranded in a world that won't let go." There are also poems about the transformative powers of art and the lives of artists-Giacometti, Warhol, Joseph Cornell, and Robert Mapplethorpe, as well as to our patron saint...