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SEASON UNLEASHED, a new collection of poems by Anna Odessa Linzer, an American Book Award-winning novelist, evokes the dramatic yet subtle wonder of the Salish Sea.SEASON UNLEASHED, a new collection of poems by American Book Award-winning novelist and poet Anna Odessa Linzer, evokes the dramatic yet subtle beauty of the Salish Sea bioregion in intimate detail based on the author's long acquaintance, close attention, and deep reflection. As sea...

Creative and critical responses to the plays of award winning poet Jay Wright.The lauded poet Jay Wright is known for weaving global cosmologies into taut, rhythmically dynamic verses that double as poetic and philosophical treatises. Having recently published two volumes of his selected plays, composed over several decades, in this volume, nine leading voices in contemporary US poetry, performance making, and performance theory, offer insight...

A debut chapbook from a promising talent, Jane Morton.Jane Morton's debut chapbook SNAKE LORE explores the intimacy and violence born of a particular place, weaving a broken narrative fraught with the tangled dynamics of individuals and their environment. This collection is steeped in dirt and framed within the politics of disgust concerning sexuality and the gendered body in the often-fantastical world of the American South. Morton uses forma...

PINK: Long-Awaited New Collection from Yuko Otomo.Yuko Otomo's new work is like visiting Paris without getting on a plane. This collection of prose poems delves into the deepest conundrums of human existence. She observes and muses upon time and love, poverty and compassion, crown and clown, the difference between r and l, the confusion of beauty and ugliness, and masculine/feminine. She continually probes the paradox found throughout the spec...

A searingly sociopolitical English-language poetry from award-winning Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo, translated by Lupita Eyde-Tucker.At once image-rich, lyrical, and searingly sociopolitical, HOMELAND OF SWARMS (Cardiopatías) is Venezuelan poet Oriette D'Angelo's debut poetry collection in English, translated from the Spanish by Lupita Eyde-Tucker. In her unrelenting, charged poetry, D'Angelo reveals how the diseases and dis-eases of a fra...

New collection from adventurous and innovative award winning Sarah Rosenthal.In Sara Rosenthal's ESTELLE MEANING STAR, light becomes love and sometimes dust, and dust is what we share with the stars, what we fall to, but also what we need. These collaged, torn and rearranged words-now-poems had their origins in cancer journals, and now they become guides and markers for all of us as wee wanter through the skies, through our lives. Rosenthal wr...

A new and original studies of one of a fast growing epidemic: attention deficit disorder.Since ADHD was first classified as a disorder in the 1980s we have seen a startling increase in diagnoses for children, adolescents and, most recently, even adults across all demographic categories along with its standard medical regimen of nervous-system stimulants. How to account for the sudden appearance and rapid proliferation of this astonishing epide...

Winner of the Host Publications Chapbook Prize, Spring 2024.Full of lament and wonder in equal measure, Stephanie Niu's poems are maps that guide us to a place of intimate attention where we can hold what is most vulnerable and tender on this planet, to better understand what has already been lost and what is currently at stake. These poems collect fragments of memory to shape an archive of things lost--from the fleeting raptures of childhood ...

Debut Book of Poetry by New Jersey Poet and Educator Carla Sofia Ferreira.Carla Sofia Ferreira's debut poetry collection A GEOGRAPHY THAT DOES NOT HURT US lives and breathes longing and saudade--across immigrant generations, across city streets and bus stops, parks and gardens, continents and oceans. With a great tenderness of attention, Ferreira travels between the song traditions of the ode and elegy, the prayer, and the fado. To long is als...

Debut Poetry Collection from Seattle Poet Rachel Edelman."What do I know of exile?" asks the speaker in DEAR MEMPHIS, standing inside the colliding geographies and intimate economies of the American South. Offering a direct address to the city where the poet grew up, this collection explores the displacement and belonging of a Jewish family in Memphis, Tennessee, alongside their histories of community and environment. The simultaneous richness...

Designed as a turn of the century women's magazine that combines memoir, history, theory, poetry, and image, FEATHERS: A BIRD-HAT WEARER'S JOURNAL explores women's complex relationship with birds through the history of feather fashion. Originating in the bird-hat controversy of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, which coincided with both the women's suffrage and budding American conservation movements, this polyvocal book moves in multipl...

Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? SWEET MALIDA is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs. Using various poetic forms, the poet launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian...

Drawing on comic books, cartoons, Hollywood movies, slang, urban culture, Cuenca's poems address happy and unhappy loves, fantasies and nightmares, the lineaments of big-city life.As one of Spain's most celebrated and influential poets, Luis Alberto de Cuenca has won a wide international following. His poems have been translated into several languages, among them French, German and Italian, but thus far his appearances in English have been rar...

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Beloved in classrooms, these poems broadly explore themes such as identity formation, nostalgia, and impermanence, passing through risk to find refuge in the sensory world.Life-affirming but without illusions, HOW TO LIVE ON BREAD AND MUSIC showcases poet Jennifer K. Sweeney's mature consciousness and circumspect intelligence. This collection takes us on a physical and spiritual trip, symbolized in recurring images of the train. Exploring broa...

Poetry. Women's Studies. "Bandura's poems make me cry. They reach into my pithy little heart and rip it out of my chest. She writes about Black Sabbath and guns and children and bad fathers and nutty sisters and Facebook and beautiful husbands and none of the language wants to pretend. She's saying Come here. Come closer. I want to whisper something in your ear. But, it's the ear of the world, of humanity."--Matthew Lipmann

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