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In The Coffin Makers, Heather Bryant Jordan turns a close and penetrating look at the unfolding daily experience of living through a pandemic. By turns elegiac, melancholic and hopeful, she explores...

In The Coffin Makers, Heather Bryant Jordan turns a close and penetrating look at the unfolding daily experience of living through a pandemic. By turns elegiac, melancholic and hopeful, she explores...

"The Color Between the Hours" speaks to romantic love flirting with disaster, loss beyond reason and crime (white collar and otherwise). Addressing the reader as "you," the work explores inner...

"The Color Between the Hours" speaks to romantic love flirting with disaster, loss beyond reason and crime (white collar and otherwise). Addressing the reader as "you," the work explores inner...

Author: Eve FortiPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 14, 2018Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348110ISBN-13: 9781635348118

Author: Sandra ThaxterPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Aug 24, 2018Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635346215ISBN-13: 9781635346213

The Commuter's Confessions is the expression of the quiet and heart-pounding thoughts that accompany us through our dutiful commutes. In the short span of time before we arrive at a destination, our...

The Commuter's Confessions is the expression of the quiet and heart-pounding thoughts that accompany us through our dutiful commutes. In the short span of time before we arrive at a destination, our...

Author: Brian C. MillerPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Oct 12, 2018Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635346754ISBN-13: 9781635346756

The Dark Diary: in 27 refracted moments explores the creative impulse and the possibility of personal change. These 27 poems are like images in a montage, different yet connected by a consciousness...

The Dark Inside My Hooded CoatAuthor: Mary LeonardPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 14, 2018Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348072ISBN-13:...

In this debut collection, Sarah Stoltzfus Allen takes us on a meandering journey through love, loss, grief, motherhood, and everything in between. She is not afraid to investigate the dark places of...

Author: Cathy PorterPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 11, 2022Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646627547ISBN-13: 9781646627547

The Laredo of R. W. Haynes' poetry is a troubled ground, simultaneously at the border of Texas and Mexico and the divide between the mythic and mundane, godly and profane. Sometimes the frustration...

The Laredo of R. W. Haynes' poetry is a troubled ground, simultaneously at the border of Texas and Mexico and the divide between the mythic and mundane, godly and profane. Sometimes the frustration...

Author: Howie GoodPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Sep 17, 2020Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646622871ISBN-13: 9781646622870

The Desert Speaks To The DreamerAuthor: Deborah BarrettPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 14, 2019Number of Pages: 28 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

"These poems are intelligent, heartbroken, tender, beautiful, and altogether true reconciliations between the self and the world. Their music is a way of thinking, remembering, hoping, dreaming, and...

"These poems are intelligent, heartbroken, tender, beautiful, and altogether true reconciliations between the self and the world. Their music is a way of thinking, remembering, hoping, dreaming, and...

The Distance FormulaAuthor: Jacqueline YoungPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Apr 05, 2019Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348706ISBN-13:...

Author: Chris WiewioraPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 07, 2020Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646621875ISBN-13: 9781646621873

There is an origin story that I cannot know; it is mine.There is an origin story that I must make; it is mine.The Dog with the Flute in its Mouth negotiates heritage and the new life it takes on in...

The Doppler EffectAuthor: Marla MelitoPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Aug 08, 2016Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944899782ISBN-13: 9781944899783

Author: Cynthia McCainPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 08, 2020Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646621980ISBN-13: 9781646621989

The poems which comprise The Early Days of This remind us of the impermanence of most things. Even the thick black curls of youth one day fall onto what becomes " ... a forest floor thick with moss...

The poems which comprise The Early Days of This remind us of the impermanence of most things. Even the thick black curls of youth one day fall onto what becomes " ... a forest floor thick with moss...

The Edge of the Sky's lyrical and narrative poems take the reader on a journey into the natural world: the awe and wonderment of birthing new life, the power of seed breaking through acres of land,...

Author: Rita AndersonPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 03, 2016Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944251936ISBN-13: 9781944251932

Somewhere at the heart of every event in the universe, there is an ever unfolding process indistinguishable from what we might call 'play.' In The Equalizing Jokebook, Rose Novick knows this. 'Who...