Finishing Line Press

In Dormant, Harriet Ribot's deeply honest first book of poetry, the reader is invited to share a writer's late life self-discovery. With children long ago raised and husband gone, Ribot doesn't...

Double Stroller Dreams by Jesse Curran is a brilliant new chapbook of poems about navigating suburbanite parenthood with sunscreen, snacks, sippy cups, and tantrums surrounded by the burdens of a...

Double Take is a poetic meditation through landscapes both real and imagined. The title refers to the act of looking again, back-and seeing anew. Between arrival and disappearance, between the...

Author: Thomas BurtonPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 24, 2016Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944251235ISBN-13: 9781944251239

A harrowing look at a decade of online bullying told in short narrative bursts. When the harassment accelerates into a full-blown breach of privacy, the narrator seeks help from a variety of sources,...

A haunting and harrowing collection of the inner life of a speaker, both as child and as adult, Down River contains, according to poet Mark Doty, "honest and startling poems that reveal themselves as...

Among the glass buildings of downtown Brooklyn, a woman tries to make sense of class and race, marriage and children, delphiniums and Sancerre. Each fractured image comes together to create a mosaic...

Author: Betsy LittrellPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Oct 22, 2021Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646626648ISBN-13: 9781646626649

Author: Carrie Hohmann CampbellPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 04, 2018Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635344778ISBN-13: 9781635344776

Dream StrawAuthor: Mariflo StephensPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jun 18, 2019Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635349591ISBN-13: 9781635349597

Why shouldn't the sun shine in the night sky, with the stars? Though clearly still enamored of our sun, the poems of Dreaming at Noon call into question the primacy of daylight reality. For who is to...

Why shouldn't the sun shine in the night sky, with the stars? Though clearly still enamored of our sun, the poems of Dreaming at Noon call into question the primacy of daylight reality. For who is to...

Author: Laura Juliet WoodPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jun 08, 2020Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646622235ISBN-13: 9781646622238

Author: Mary Strong JacksonPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 21, 2022Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646627350ISBN-13: 9781646627356

Confronting the fragmented narratives of slavery and colonization in the Caribbean, DREAMS OF DIASPORA grapples with questions of place, belonging, and identity of the dispossessed. In scales both...

Dreams of MovementAuthor: Miriam HallPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 12, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: HardcoverISBN-10: 1599245973ISBN-13: 9781599245973

Dreams of the Floating House is a waltz in summer time, holding the breath of the world. It invites one to join the poet's life-journey of search, becoming, and overcoming. "Days float past like...

In her autobiographical chapbook Drive, Sigrun Susan Lane writes vividly and without sentimentality of her admiration for an enigmatic father always on the move, as her own mercurial spirit is...

Author: Leslie ClarkPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 05, 2017Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635342155ISBN-13: 9781635342154

Each poem in Dropping Sunrises in a Jar attempts to understand why birds appear happy at sunrise. Written from notes spanning over twenty years, the poems glimpse nature's inner workings of joy. In...

Framed by the claustrophobic experience of the Covid-19 pandemic, these poems share a concern with the fragility of the earth and our bodies on the earth, as well as the webs we weave through virtual...

Durable Goods, poem by poem, finds lasting value in ordinary daily acts and objects -- shaving with an inherited safety razor, packing a backpack for a wilderness trek, listening to Neal Young on a...

Dying Dog PoemsAuthor: Lynne SchmidtPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: 45681Number of Pages: 44 pagesBinding: PoetryISBN-10: ISBN-13: 9798888388686

I don't think anyone has any business writing poetry unless they have the ability to see the world in an entirely new way. Lucy Tiven has this, and then some. (Plus she's really funny.) Juliet...

Exploring themes such as secrets, illness, and obsession, the poems in Each Darkness Inside lead the reader on an intimate journey through the overlooked and the unspoken.Author: Kristin...

Poems in Ear to the Ground remember Stratton's father and mother and draw from the lifestyle that like an album of fading snapshots backgrounds her upbringing on a Colorado cattle ranch. There, she...

Author: Elisabeth FarrellPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Aug 03, 2018Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635346142ISBN-13: 9781635346145

Kathleen McKinley Harris' chapbook, Earth Striders, (Finishing Line Press) centers on horses. Many of the poems are set in the Vermont of her growing up. She won the Ralph Nading Hill, Jr. Literary...

Enjoy a collection of meditative nature-based poems integrating internal and external realms through the Ayurvedic five elements of ether, air, fire, water, and earth. Let these poems transport you...

Earthen offers poems meditating on grief and passion, their interrelations, their beguiling renewals. Charting an individual path from experiences of death and divorce, through childrearing and...