Finishing Line Press

With images wrought in highly perceptive verse, David J. Bauman's poems speak eloquently of what we love, and what prevails over the artificial and transient. His sharp perceptions are attentive to...

Moordener KillAuthor: Paul GenegaPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 19, 2020Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646621530ISBN-13: 9781646621538

Author: Jenny BenjaminPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 09, 2018Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/American poetryISBN-10: 1635344336ISBN-13: 9781635344332

McCoy's poems mesmerize with numinous imagery of love, grief, and curiosity, from mythical sheep to a flaming oak to a disappearing island to smudges that take on the visage of the lost loved one...

Mortal BeingsAuthor: Cynthia TrenshawPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 10, 2019Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635349184ISBN-13: 9781635349184

Shawna Ervin's chapbook, Mother Lines, takes us into the complex and layered terrain of motherhood including helping an autistic child, meeting a birthmother, and learning to love after trauma...

Mother of 0 by Vanessa Ogle takes a deep dive into the dynamics of parenting and the mother/daughter relationship. The poet urges us to "remember when they tried/ to blame perceived/ flaws/ on...

Mother of 0 by Vanessa Ogle takes a deep dive into the dynamics of parenting and the mother/daughter relationship. The poet urges us to "remember when they tried/ to blame perceived/ flaws/ on...

In Mother Ship, we gather chantarelles and words in a Lithuanian wood. We watch snow fill Lenin's eyes, picnic in a burning field, and shake hands with "a feral future/just now beginning to snarl."...

This chapbook renders the loss of mothers through haunting sweeps of images rooted in childhood and hospital rooms, churches and birds. The poets' voices, augmented by those of two siblings, are...

"Mothers and Other People" is a poignant collection delving into themes of death, loss, estrangement, nostalgia, and family. From the ache of unspoken words to the weight of unresolved conflicts, the...

Motion Photos offers a sparse and haunting examination of physical deterioration and emotional loss. Using the language of trains, poems explore a father's psychological landscape in the face of...

Author: Alice TeeterPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 24, 2017Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635341515ISBN-13: 9781635341515

Mourning An Interior CountryAuthor: Aaron DargisPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 27, 2019Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646620631ISBN-13:...

Mouth Art of the Bald-faced Hornet explores the interwoven human and natural histories of a local creek and woodland through the process of colonial settlement to the present day. Juxtaposing lyrics...

Mouth Art of the Bald-faced Hornet explores the interwoven human and natural histories of a local creek and woodland through the process of colonial settlement to the present day. Juxtaposing lyrics...

Using Pacific Northwest images, the poems explore loving relationships, growing and being a Mom in these times while teaching about Hiroshima, witnessing Kennedy's assassination, Vietnam, 9/11, Iraq...

Author: Maria Castell- GreenePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Nov 18, 2016Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635340640ISBN-13: 9781635340648

The poems in Mums, the Tongue, and Paradise are beautifully constructed, often ironic, and always mindful of the poetic possibilities of language. Take, as an example, the first in the series,...

The poems in Mums, the Tongue, and Paradise are beautifully constructed, often ironic, and always mindful of the poetic possibilities of language. Take, as an example, the first in the series,...

These poems were inspired by various visits to the Art Institute of Chicago in preparation for one of the Poetry Foundation's Pop Up Poetry events, a series of 30-minute lunchtime poetry readings...

What are the familiar, vital connections that maintain community? What's at stake when those ties are strained to the breaking point by pandemic anxiety, climate disasters, and the politics of...

In this stunning volume, Janlori Goldman undertakes a searching expedition, on which some world histories are visited, and old traumas brought home and repossessed. The center of this journey is a...

My Blue Sweetie is an assemblage of poems that center around relationships with women involving romance, secrets, melancholy, desire, nostalgia, abandonment, and love, often told with humor,...

My Blue Sweetie is an assemblage of poems that center around relationships with women involving romance, secrets, melancholy, desire, nostalgia, abandonment, and love, often told with humor,...

Author: Megha SoodPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646626354ISBN-13: 9781646626359

My Burning City is the winner of the Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition, and the poems in this chapbook are part of a full-length collection, The Book of Redacted Paintings, that was...

The story of one family and of the country: the lives and deaths of the parents of a Jewish, second- and third-generation immigrant family beginning in Coney Island.Author: Susan E. OringelPublisher:...

My Father and the Astros tells the story of a girl in a family of troubled men and how their troubles affected her as she grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Maceira chronicles, in these...