Finishing Line Press

This collection is marked by a stoic and nihilistic view of human existence that is augmented with supernatural elements. A dogged optimism is teased throughout this world of contemporary fantasies...

Lois Levinson's poems combine her passion for birds with a whimsical view into what just might lie beyond the merely visible. Her insights into the workings of the natural world are made into poetry...

In Crayon Colors for Serial Killers, Silverman has constructed something akin to a potion bag-a collection of juju text to keep the forces of darkness at bay-sometimes by lament, but more often by...

Crescendo I DecrescendoAuthor: bo nilesPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 23, 2018Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163534428XISBN-13:...

Author: Megeen R. MulhollandPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 05, 2021Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646626826ISBN-13: 9781646626823

This chapbook of poems concerns the crossings or bridges between generations, between family and friends, between past and present, between human and animal. Though the subjects are varied, the voice...

Author: Tobey HillerPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jun 05, 2020Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646622227ISBN-13: 9781646622221

Through portraits of working class life and meditations on strange, even comedic aspects of personal tragedy, Crying of Small Motors follows the poet's search for a poetics of devotional wildness,...

Through portraits of working class life and meditations on strange, even comedic aspects of personal tragedy, Crying of Small Motors follows the poet's search for a poetics of devotional wildness,...

CUENT@Author: Pablo Miguel MartinezPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 18, 2016Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944899030ISBN-13: 9781944899035

Author: Michelle Lizet FloresPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: October 2, 2019Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646620445ISBN-13: 9781646620449

Author: D. G. GeisPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 09, 2018Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635347165ISBN-13: 9781635347166

Curveballs- In sun or shadow, in grief or ecstasy Curveballs does not shy from hard intimate truth and deep emotion.The reader is transported to new and strangely familiar internal territory,...

Author: Faith PaulsenPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2021Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646626532ISBN-13: 9781646626533

What's in the daddy closet? A complicated father/daughter relationship, patriarchy itself, vast and contradictory social issues from the 1950s, 1960s and now. Sometimes, real heroes chose non-action...

Ballroom dance, biography and the Bible inspire Francis Klein's poems in Dais. Klein interweaves dance rhythms, life stories, and personal reflections to create poems with resonant patterns.Author:...

The opioid epidemic has hit a small Ohio town hard. While living with his grandparents, a young boy navigates abuse and neglect through a latchkey childhood. Through the use of free verse and...

Author: Chloe VinerPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 30, 2018Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635347807ISBN-13: 9781635347807

Dark Roots - 9781635344899Author: Caroline MalonePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 11, 2018Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635344891ISBN-13:...

Author: Ben E. CampbellPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 06, 2020Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646623460ISBN-13: 9781646623464

Over a span of sixty-plus years, Maureen Eppstein traces in the Daughter poems her deeply personal arc of healing from the loss of a child and her sense of connection with all living things that...

Both intellectually stimulating an emotionally engaging, the poems in daughter, while i'm still here capture a mother's desire to convey what over eight decades of experiences and learnings have...

Author: Jan BallPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646621921ISBN-13: 9781646621927

Author: Susan OleferukPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jun 30, 2017Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635342368ISBN-13: 9781635342369

Dead Dog Poems is a collection about pet love and pet loss. It is the small joys each pet parent goes through, from naptime, to walks around the block, to the horrific moment of being at the...

Dear River is separated into two sections: The South and Everywhere Else. The poems in the collection explore the ideas of place, reconciling the past with the present, idealizing things that were,...

What a vibrant, necessary new voice in American poetry via Hayley Bowen's Dearly Departed. Buy it, read it, watch whatever comes next from this blazing talent. -Mary Karr, author of The Liar's Club...

To read or hear Suzanne Ondrus's word wizardry granted balladry is to confront a problem as old as Genesis: How does a woman claim her Liberty despite all the law books and their patriarchal,...

Deep Ends explores the fragile balance between treading life's turbulent waters and mastering a survival float. A father invents his brand of cross-chest carry to save himself and his grandson from...

Deep Ends explores the fragile balance between treading life's turbulent waters and mastering a survival float. A father invents his brand of cross-chest carry to save himself and his grandson from...