Black Lawrence Press

American Scapegoat is a book of painstakingly honest and chilling poems about America's neglectful relationship with its own history. At the core of this reluctance to frame the past in its proper...

Analog Poet Blues captures the journey of a poet searching for romance and seeking justice in a world transformed from the analog to the digital age. This dazzling collection ventures beyond the...

Author: DEBORAH. THOMPSONPublisher: Black Lawrence PressPublication Date: Dec 01, 2021Number of Pages: 150 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1625570252ISBN-13: 9781625570253

A finalist for the Fall 2019 Black Lawrence Press Black River Chapbook Competition, the Cupboard Pamphletís 2020 Annual Contest, and the 2021 Newfound Prose Prize. Inspired by Virgie Townsend's own...

Poetry. African & African American Studies. "Cynthia Manick's BLUE HALLELUJAHS bring us to a broil like Koko Taylor's 'white-toothed love coils on repeat.' Here, we have a gospel of womanly...

In many cultures, a caul is considered talismanic; and a child born with it, possessing luck or protection. Luisa A. Igloria invokes this metaphor to weave poems exploring the veiled intervals of...

Spanning four books across a six year period, Darling''s selected delivers a natural cohesion, a sense of the single, complex gesture, sharply whittled from these formerly separate visions. In the...

Dressing the Saints, the second selection for the Black Lawrence Press Immigrant Writers Series, vividly explores the lives of Cuban Americans. Set in the lushness of Cuba and Florida, and spanning...

Though Joe Wilkins's new collection of short fiction set under the big Montana sky may have all the trappings of a traditional Western-long shots of sage flats and blue mountains, late nights at the...

Cursed by tenderhearted witches, saved by Nazarene healers, and haunted by brazen lunatics, the characters in FIELD NOTES FOR THE EARTHBOUND yearn to escape the relentless horizon of Northwestern...

Linguistically acrobatic, FISHWIFE interrogates dictionary definitions and the messy function of memory, reclaiming and redefining language to discover the self. This collection explores where and...

" Following her mesmerizing debut collection Atrium, Hala Alyan offers a sustaining and luminous meditation on love and war in Four Cities. Baghdad, New York, Beirut, Tel Aviv, Tripoli, Detroit and...

Black River Chapbook Competition winner, Lucy Wainger, is a portrait of adolescent mental illness at the end of history. In Life There Are Many Things is a portrait of adolescent mental illness after...

In the Tempered Dark: Contemporary Poets Transcending Elegy examines the relationship between the body in grief and the body of the poem. This collection brings together work that conveys the range...

Author: AlvaradoPublisher: Black Lawrence PressPublication Date: Oct 20, 2020Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1625578210ISBN-13: 9781625578211

Winner of the Spring 2021 Black River Chapbook Competition Poet Gaia Rajan's second short collection is a razor-sharp interrogation of queer Asian American identity, intergenerational trauma, and the...

An unflinching new collection from poet, Jenny Irish, in which cultural violence against women is explored through various personae. At the heart of all violence is fear: Lupine is a gathering of...

"In this marvelous debut collection, Charlotte Pence provides us with all the pleasures of poetic tension. We have the pull of narrative and the flares of the lyric, the graceful rhythm of blank...

Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Winner of the 2017 St. Lawrence Book Award. "Regalado's elegant debut, MATRIA, introduces us to a world where 'leaf- cutter ants... could easily strip the lime sapling...

Positioned at a nexus of poetry (regarding which our ideas about form condition our expectations for content) and nonfiction (regarding which our ideas about content condition our expectations for...

" Pantano offers us a chance once again to see a poet live comparative literature the way Pound did. His poetry and translations reveal that writing is different languages influencing each other at...

No two immigrant poets are the same. Even those from the same country don't necessarily answer to the same poetics or, for that matter, speak to the same concerns. How, then, do immigrant poets in...

" J. Marion Sims, the legendary, now controversial, 19th century gynecologist looms large in Bettina Judd's recent collection Patient. Sophisticated, complex, haunting, Patient. beckons readers to...

From an Italian word meaning "to repent," a pentimento is an instance in painting when traces of an artist's earlier decisions or mistakes are visible through the final layer(s) of paint. Using modes...

?In her third book, PREY, Jeanann Verlee examines predatory relationships from childhood onward. Drawing parallels between human and non-human predators, the poems collected here strive to illuminate...

From his first appearance on the page, "we knew he was bound for something unsolvable." But a little thing like futility can't stop our hero from holding up a magnifying glass to a world "so bright...

San Franshitshow is an emotional reckoning with self, love, and the world that unfolds amidst a turbulent gender transition upon arrival into a new city. It chronicles the pain of loss and of coming...

Named one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Fiction Books of 2014. Each of the characters in Scouting for the Reaper faces an unanticipated challenge: transporting a truckload of penguins across the country,...

Poetry. Women's Studies. "In TETHER, a spacecraft of a book superbly conceived and assembled, Lisa Fay Coutley engineers both recovery and healing in poems that swerve emotionally between the landing...

THE BONES BENEATH captures what it means to be American, Southern, diasporan, what it means to belong and not to belong, and finding many ways home. It transports readers across place and time,...