Cornerstone Press

How does a daughter forge her own life in a situation fraught with loss, grief, and the weight of her mother's expectations? Sarah A. Etlinger's re-telling of the myth of Persephone and Demeter is...

Author: Colleen AllesPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Mar 18, 2022Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737739038ISBN-13: 9781737739036

Rather than seeking answers, Molly Fuller's Always a Body calls into question the goal of answers, of the idea of linear and logical paths to answers; her poems seek, instead, to replace static...

A boy sets off to trace the aquatic life in a local stream and is overtaken by the journey itself ... A single day of violence and comic absurdity separates an aimless young man from the confining...

One year when asked around the campfire what their favorite vacation memories were, Jim Landwehr's kids replied, "trips to the cabin." In At the Lake, stories of fishing and kayaking, a single mother...

Linda Nemec Foster's collection of prose poems is a reflection of the world before COVID. All of the pieces are inspired by other parts of the world-Istanbul, Rome, Krakow, Prague, Vienna,...

Over the course of the eighty-one poems that make up Bowed As If Laden With Snow, Megan Wildhood considers humanity's climate crisis in parallel with the personal experience of divorce from the...

Author: Barbara Costas-BiggsPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Dec 10, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733308695ISBN-13: 9781733308694

Author: Devon BohmPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Dec 10, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737739003ISBN-13: 9781737739005

A door-to-door salesman's visit shows Carol a new side of her mother and threatens the security they both had taken for granted; a woman finds out what happens when we're "too busy to die"; a woman...

Cuttings explores a timeless relationship-a mother and daughter-from meditations on childhood, to adolescence and young adulthood, and finally toward marriage and contemplating motherhood. The...

Dear Lo captures the difficulty and raw emotion of moving to a new place and struggling to form meaningful relationships. Highlighting the change of mindset needed to confront the loneliness, find...

With poems that glow with energy, humor, heartbreak, and risk, Do Not Feed the Animal, the astonishing debut from Hikari Leilani Miya, breaks molds and reshapes expectations. Food, culture, behavior,...

A father tries to explain to his daughter what Earth was like, a boy believes his mother has been abducted by aliens, a ghost hunter wonders if her absent father is a deceased serial killer, and in...

Forgive the Animal, the luminous and stunning debut collection from Sarah Pape, explores rural poverty, sexual abuse and its reverberations, young motherhood, and the path back to oneself through...

Named for the glassy, mazelike structures that can form underground when lightning strikes sand, Fulgurite weaves together reality and myth. Informed by fairy tales, domestic fabulism, and...

Like glitter-tiny, precision-cut, reflective particles-the poems in Glitter City shine by reflection with flashes of light. Narrative, cinematic, and at times trance-like, the poems trace their way...

Stories of families living in Detroit.Author: Joseph Alexander O'MalleyPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Dec 05, 2019Number of Pages: 236 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Gridlock : StoriesAuthor: Brett BiebelPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Apr 05, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1960329219ISBN-13: 9781960329219

Cher Bebe manages the dance floor and flogs patrons at a nightclub while his estranged father takes his last breaths back home; a Michigan tornado spotter grieves the end of his marriage; Maggie...

Holding My Selves Together: New And Selected PoemsAuthor: Margaret RozgaPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: May 20, 2021Number of Pages: 168 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

An epidemic's emotional strain drives among victims a stoic resolve to conceal their disability. A mother retreats inside herself, disarmed by the steps of a building she sees. A neighbor's drooping,...

The stories in Kind of Blue juke and jive in an unpredictable voice-driven romp. Set in rural Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Duluth, Milwaukee, Detroit, New Orleans, Houston, and South Florida, these are...

Lake, River, MountainAuthor: Mark B. HamiltonPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1960329189ISBN-13:...

Written and published over a period of forty years, the essays in Phillip Sterling's Lessons in Geography chronicle how his formative years in Northwest Lower Michigan not only inspired him to be a...

Let It Be Told in a Single BreathAuthor: Russell ThorburnPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Listening to Mars serves as a record of our national transit, one a journey from there-before the Covid-19 pandemic-to here-a new now. Our microscopes pinpoint a virus; our telescopes search the...

Shame has kept so many women's stories silenced, with a cultural lineage of lack that asks women to give up their own desire while simultaneously performing cultural expectations of desire for others...

Moving and mysterious, the poems in Messengers of the Gods: New and Selected Poems by Kathryn Gahl have such a nice beat, you can dance to them-even if you have two left feet. Featuring poems new and...

Exploring histories forgotten or often overlooked, Heather Bourbeau's Monarch is a powerful poetic memoir of the American West. Focused on the people and events that shaped California, Nevada,...