Cornerstone Press

A woman has both recently become a mother and lost her father, and a ghost has begun haunting this new family. What is the ghost? Why is it here? In poems of the everyday, Emily Hockaday charts a...

In her powerful debut, R.B. Simon confronts subjects that we often dare not talk about in our daily lives, topics we shy away from in our water-cooler conversations. From miscarriage to addiction and...

Drawing on the rich complexity of the American Midwest, Kim Suhr peoples her debut book of fiction with characters that we know, carved out of the Wisconsin landscape and caught between expectation...

Author: Robert MiltnerPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Mar 18, 2021Number of Pages: 130 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733308652ISBN-13: 9781733308656

For 20 years, the New York City-based spoken word group Poetic People Power has creatively explored social and political topics, offering insights and solutions to issues that affect our everyday...

Within the pages of Points of Tangency, a sequence of brilliant personal essays, Scott Russell Morris, a closeted queer Mormon, tells the story of meeting and then marrying his now wife. His story,...

Between the world that created these poems and the one in which they still live, Red Camaro shuttles us through lifetimes of touching moments as well as challenging times when the beauty within our...

Author: Patricia Ann McNairPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Dec 10, 2020Number of Pages: 202 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733308644ISBN-13: 9781733308649

This a weighty, but often witty, collection of new poems by Margaret Rozga in which she invites us to walk the restored Waterville prairie with her through the great cycle of seasons and it becomes,...

The beauty and danger of an isolated family compound, the corruption that privilege can bring, an extensive burn injury that interrupts a girl's life, and the many predators who swoop in when the...

A morally dubious chef reacts unconventionally when he comes to believe that his prized dog has killed the pet rabbit of the middle-school girl next door; an angry, second-rate actor seeks a...

From Joe Bonomo, author of Field Recordings from the Inside: "In dry, dark, very funny stories shot through with poignance and compassion, Libman's outwardly polite folk navigate everyday...

Silent Letter, the masterful full-length debut from Gail Hanlon, centers around the idea of learning to navigate desire, uncertainty, and grief. In part through art and literature, and in part...

One word describes Louisiana fifty years from now after climate change intensifies: Soaked. A nearly silent Cajun man is the last speaker of Louisiana French but doesn't know what he is saying. A...

The seventeen unrelenting stories in Steve Fox's debut story collection, Sometimes Creek, traverse a sub-zero trail of plausible magic and grit from a kaleidoscope of broken ice at a hockey rink in...

It takes years to learn the art of seeing, of expecting to see nature's gifts. In Soul of the Outdoors, Dave Greschner passes that art along. He tells how little that chickadee at the feeder weighs,...

Author: Cathleen CohenPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Dec 10, 2021Number of Pages: 126 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733308687ISBN-13: 9781733308687

Squatter : One Woman's Journey to Reclaim Her Spirit on the Ice Age TrailAuthor: Yolanda DeLoachPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

With a dual sense of convulsion and care, Table with Burning Candle tackles a subject that is every parent's worst nightmare-the death of a child. Grieving the loss of her son to opioid addiction and...

"A humanist at heart, Linda Nemec Foster has demanded from her poetry an artfulness that engages ordinary life. With each new book her work has continued to mature, deepen, console, surprise, and...

Author: Susanne DavisPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Dec 07, 2017Number of Pages: 200 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737739054ISBN-13: 9781737739050

The Arc of the Escarpment : A Narrative of PlaceAuthor: Robert RootPublisher: Cornerstone PressPublication Date: Jan 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

With clarity and intensity, Linda Nemec Foster dives deep into the shadows, and deep into the light-global landscape, personal touch; faith and art; the sensual and the cruel; forward and backward...

At the intersection of poetry and prose, Sharon White's The Body Is Burden and Delight examines ecological communities in fragile northern landscapes, and in the geography of the poet's daily life...

In The Clayfields, Elise Gregory's powerful debut, the lives of three women are threaded together through the changing backdrops of farming communities in the twenty-first century. Where country...

A chimpanzee is stolen from Cameroon and rocketed to space as the test flight for John Glenn's historic orbit; a former child star struggles to stay sober; a prehistoric mammal imagines a better...

From Matthew Rohrer (author of Army of Giants) . . . "Ben Gantcher's poems are located in a distinctly urban landscape that is at the same time a riotous natural habitat-because of course; that's how...

A zombie learns to pass for a living human being. College friends decide to play a child's game that turns out to be anything but child-like. A man builds a box to keep his loneliness. Two department...

In The Found Object Imagines a Life: New and Selected Poems, Mary Catherine Harper collects some of her most personal and poignant poems. With precision and gravity, Harper explores a High Plains...

The biblical plagues that overtook Egypt in the book of Exodus are transported into the twenty-first century in The Plagues, a collection of eleven stories that take place primarily in St. Louis,...