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Animal Magnetism, by Colleen Wells is a think piece on the natural world and our place in it. Are we masters of the planet? Abusers? Supplicants? Prey? In this collection of thoughtful poems, the...

The fierce women in Marie Gray Wise's family did not have to wait for Gloria Steinem to show them the way. These strong women were not afraid to work for what is precious to them and not afraid to...

Another Morning: Poems by William Minor embodies a premise stated in the first line of one of the poems: "All our lives begin and end / with music." Several poems address this theme directly...

Author: Joan Wehlen MorrisonPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Aug 07, 2020Number of Pages: 50 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646622588ISBN-13: 9781646622580

Any Closer to Home is a song of bewilderment, a body searching Earth for the beat beneath the turmoil so it can dance nevertheless. There's a jig for blistered fists, a naked waltz in a laundromat,...

Of Joan Baranow's Aphids in the Rose, poet Alicia Ostriker affirms, "This is a book every woman who has had-or might have-breast cancer, should read and cherish." In this chapbook Baranow charts her...

Of Joan Baranow's Aphids in the Rose, poet Alicia Ostriker affirms, "This is a book every woman who has had-or might have-breast cancer, should read and cherish." In this chapbook Baranow charts her...

The poems in E.G. Cunningham's Apologetics explore tensions of deep ecology in relation to subjective consciousness. Lyric fragments accrete and break to produce several possible readings regarding...

Author: Jeremy FreedmanPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 22, 2017Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163534378XISBN-13: 9781635343786

Author: Kate PadillaPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 30 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 164662193XISBN-13: 9781646621934

What is a poem in post-atomic America? What is the use of poetry? These poems record a lifetime of searching for answers to these questions. Sometimes lyrical, sometimes philosophical, sometimes...

Farouk Goweda's poems as translated from the Arabic by Walid Abdallah and Andy Fogle give us an open and bleeding Earth, a world and a language begging to be healed, and by each of us. Goweda's poems...

Author: Lisa KatzPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Sep 16, 2016Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635340209ISBN-13: 9781635340204

Mo Corleone's brilliant debut collection Around the Lake begins boldly. The scorching poems that follow-ghazals, pantoums, abecedarians, nonets, and others-capture the energies and sounds swirling in...

The lyrical, often elegiac poems in Arrivals & Departures, written over many years and set in locales in both America and abroad, explore the phenomena of arriving and departing physically,...

The lyrical, often elegiac poems in Arrivals & Departures, written over many years and set in locales in both America and abroad, explore the phenomena of arriving and departing physically,...

ART SPIRITS. If Steinbeck were traveling with Charley today, looking at life through the creative eye of the heart, these are the sort of poetic portraits he might be collecting and sharing.Author:...

In Artificial Sweetness, Carter utilizes free verse, haiku, list poems, and experimental forms to create a short collection of poems that examine lust, love, and heartbreak from a queer...

Author: Constance WrzesniewskiPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jul 13, 2018Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163534588XISBN-13: 9781635345889

As We Forgive Those stumbles over a young mother's grief, a grief that comes in many forms as a girl and during the early years of motherhood. As old beliefs die, acceptance, clarification of...

Reading through Mike Matthews' collection, Ashes, I'm reminded of the central figure in Eliot's The Waste Land, who says of the crowd crossing London Bridge, "I had not thought death had undone so...

Author: Rebekah BloydPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Feb 08, 2019Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635348420ISBN-13: 9781635348422

At Some Appointed TimeAuthor: Catherine HarnettPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 15, 2017Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635343720ISBN-13:...

Lina's poetry inspires us to read her words aloud, vibrantly celebrating beauty in the world we love, by tasting her delicious words as they roll off our tongues, luring us into images that...

Author: Tom PlantePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 02, 2016Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1944251774ISBN-13: 9781944251772

Aurora Uteralis blurs the lines between the plant and the body as poems deliberate on sexuality, autonomy, and the different facets of emotional intimacy we carry. The poems simultaneously live...

Author: Ceridwen HallPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Dec 04, 2020Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646623819ISBN-13: 9781646623815

The poems help us to travel the string of life: memories and daydreams, moving from love to loss, being consumed by everlasting grief, relishing in the touch of loved ones, and being lovingly stroked...

Author: Anne AverytPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Oct 07, 2016Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635340470ISBN-13: 9781635340471