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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...

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...

In Handbook for Unwell Mothers, Jill Crammond's poems turn motherhood on its head, shake it up, and pop the cork. When the second stanza you read is, It is morning in the gingerbread house/and no-one has eaten the children yet, you know you are in for some fantastic and engaging work. Crammond's voice is like no other-funny, dark, powerful, honest, vulnerable-she continually engages the reader with playful language as well as giving a few nods...

Questionable Views continues Ed Ahern's wry and sardonic outlooks on our humanity. His poems are crisp and approachable, with melancholy sometimes lurking in the shadows. His hope is that people who never read poetry can read and enjoy his.

A collection of 45 poems in 5 sections, The Next Breath traverses the last 50 years of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st but not in a sequential way. The first poem of the book, "Twenty Twenty, " is a kind of prologue that takes us right into the current pandemic, while the next poem, "Visitors, " a ghostly third-person meditation with a vague sense of modernity, leads into another poem squarely placed in a small midcentury to...

A collection of 45 poems in 5 sections, The Next Breath traverses the last 50 years of the 20th century and the first decades of the 21st but not in a sequential way. The first poem of the book, "Twenty Twenty, " is a kind of prologue that takes us right into the current pandemic, while the next poem, "Visitors, " a ghostly third-person meditation with a vague sense of modernity, leads into another poem squarely placed in a small midcentury to...

The Dark Diary: in 27 refracted moments explores the creative impulse and the possibility of personal change. These 27 poems are like images in a montage, different yet connected by a consciousness in pursuit of a new becoming. Each poem stands by itself as a moment of realization, be it about the power of habit, or desire, or love. Yet, each moment resonates with the moments before and after it, creating a single dark diary.

Part love song, part eulogy, part interrogation and resistance, ¿Beast of the World ¿chronicles Chris Morgan's incisive exploration of biosphere in decline. These thirty-five poems scintillate with erotic engagement, grief of loss, and moments of transcendent connection. This is an urgent little book of psalms for our time, one in which Morgan articulates psychic landscapes as inextricable from the physical world. The "Beast" roaming this rema...

Part love song, part eulogy, part interrogation and resistance, ¿Beast of the World ¿chronicles Chris Morgan's incisive exploration of biosphere in decline. These thirty-five poems scintillate with erotic engagement, grief of loss, and moments of transcendent connection. This is an urgent little book of psalms for our time, one in which Morgan articulates psychic landscapes as inextricable from the physical world. The "Beast" roaming this rema...

A Book of Bothersome Cats is a witty examination of social annoyances through illustrated rhymes featuring anthropomorphous cats. The book begins and ends with the character Cat, who ruminates over the myriad types of irritating felines that darken his mood. These include: a cat that makes robot calls, one that talks in a loud protracted manner in restaurants, another that writes insipid elevator and telephone tunes, an online troll, a hoarder...

A Book of Bothersome Cats is a witty examination of social annoyances through illustrated rhymes featuring anthropomorphous cats. The book begins and ends with the character Cat, who ruminates over the myriad types of irritating felines that darken his mood. These include: a cat that makes robot calls, one that talks in a loud protracted manner in restaurants, another that writes insipid elevator and telephone tunes, an online troll, a hoarder...

Sleepwalker's Guide to Grieving is a collection of poems about loss-through the death or vanishing of loved ones-but also as we bear witness to the tragedies heaped one upon the other in an increasingly turbulent world. Shakespeare wrote, "Grief makes one hour ten", for the path of bereavement can feel endless and hopeless to navigate. As we struggle sleeplessly through our sorrows, grief is that reflection of acute and shifting distress that ...

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Her Sea-filled Arms: Layers of Blue shares poems that drop down through the blue colors of the Canary Islands off of Portugal, to Cape Verde off of Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean through the Caribbean, over to the Dominican Republic and into Guatemala with a family of six on a sailboat called Selkie. The water sparkles and swallows, and their arms reach and breathe. The galaxy becomes their nest, and the children complex planets. The author...

Sleeping with Demons includes poems that examine the intersection of mental health and feminism using different poetic lenses, personas, forms, and styles. Through an exploration of loss, betrayal, violence, and the generational transmission of dysfunction, McCormick offers a voice to the emotional and physical encounters of one version of the feminine experience.

In "Hush, Puppy" a neighborhood, a city and memories are more than just a neighborhood, a city and memories. "Hush, Puppy" is a call and response praise song to the antimony of being Black and Gullah and Southern in Charleston, South Carolina and the world. This chapbook explores familial, societal and community relationships with spice and a dash of humor. "Hush, Puppy" braids love and wrath into one lyrical plait. Meet "Hush, Puppy" at the i...

Her Sea-filled Arms: Layers of Blue shares poems that drop down through the blue colors of the Canary Islands off of Portugal, to Cape Verde off of Africa, across the Atlantic Ocean through the Caribbean, over to the Dominican Republic and into Guatemala with a family of six on a sailboat called Selkie. The water sparkles and swallows, and their arms reach and breathe. The galaxy becomes their nest, and the children complex planets. The author...

Natalie Marino's chapbook Under Memories of Stars is a collection of lyric poems that use the symbolism of stars to represent what is unreachable but ever present. Involving California's natural landscape, these poems speak about grief and love, the evolution of memory, and the transience of experience.

My Burning City is the winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, and the poems in this chapbook are part of a full-length collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, that was selected as the inaugural title of the Immigrant Writing Series with Black Lawrence Press. The poems "Rain, " and "Armenian Folk Dance, 1915" won the PS Strousse Award with Prairie Schooner. My Burning City is a book of poetry about a boy escaping the ...

Sleeping with Demons includes poems that examine the intersection of mental health and feminism using different poetic lenses, personas, forms, and styles. Through an exploration of loss, betrayal, violence, and the generational transmission of dysfunction, McCormick offers a voice to the emotional and physical encounters of one version of the feminine experience.