Finishing Line Press

Twenty QuestionsAuthor: John DelaneyPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jun 27, 2019Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635349699ISBN-13: 9781635349696

A sense of the precariousness and preciousness of life shape the poems in Twenty Ways of Looking, Miriam Weinstein's debut chapbook explores themes of memory, home, family and social concerns.Author:...

Lana Issam Ghannam's poems bridge the gap between the two cultures she was raised with-Middle Eastern and American-through her use of language and deeply-rooted imagery. Her poems have been nominated...

Author: Laurel BlossomPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2020Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646621727ISBN-13: 9781646621729

Uncertain Seasons reflects on the passage of time through distinct periods of the year as well as stages of life. From "December's Encompassing Silence" to signs of "Rebirth" - from "Late Summer,...

Cindy Glovinsky has an unmistakable presence and voice. The poems in Unclenching chronicle the responses of a fervent consciousness taking on whatever the quotidian has to throw at it in the form of...

Under Glass, a collection of 29 poems, follows the journey of physician Mary Lachman through her diagnosis and treatment for breast cancer. Along the way she shares her challenges as well as insights...

If you resist Marie Kondo and Swedish death cleaning, Under Glass is the poetry collection for you. Victoria Woolf Baily is the Pied Piper of Stuff. She celebrates the child peering from a garage...

Natalie Marino's chapbook Under Memories of Stars is a collection of lyric poems that use the symbolism of stars to represent what is unreachable but ever present. Involving California's natural...

These poems look for and celebrate small moments of beauty amid the daily struggles of motherhood, particularly the parenting of a neurodiverse child. They encourage us to slow down and pay attention...

Author: Connie ZumpfPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 20, 2020Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646621832ISBN-13: 9781646621835

Author: Ben WestliePublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Jan 06, 2017Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635340853ISBN-13: 9781635340853

Kathleen Gregg's debut poetry collection, Underground River of Want, is a frank and unflinching account of devastating loss, bad choices, divorce and growing self-awareness. Be prepared to be...

A journey from birth to adulthood focusing on a speaker's relationship with his mother, other women, and fears of losing all of them in a world inevitably filled with death.Author: Matthew W...

Loosely following a linear timeline from childhood to old age, Adler's story-like poems highlight the emotional core that lives within life's ordinary moments. Illustrating the delicate yet complex...

Even though the penultimate poem swears that it's not about Newark, Parents, Religion, or Longing, each poem in this collection gets to the heart of one child's experience of the profound and lasting...

To read Unfinished Spaces is to catch glimpses of a woman's life, seen through memories that are not always "stubborn puzzle pieces" refusing to fit together, but often full recollections of "mist...

Among the several themes considered in his first collection of poems, Broken Borders, John L. Holgerson wrote about the landscape of the heart and the often shattered boundaries found there in the...

Unrequited Love and Other Things of Equal Importance, Alejandro Ruiz del Sol's debut poetry chapbook, explores how a voice can find love for others and self-love in a bent vision of reality. Set in...

Marianne Brems writes of many unsung offerings with the poet's eye for telling detail; the glory of dandelions reviled by gardeners but with myriad unexpected talents and uses, the hidden gifts of...

Author: Shyla ShehanPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 25, 2022Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646628063ISBN-13: 9781646628063

Author: Erica BodwellPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Mar 03, 2017Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1635341620ISBN-13: 9781635341621

Up North, in a series of poems, looks back at the author's experience of living in the North Country, close to the Canadian border. It speaks to family, relationships, single life, and rural living...

In beautiful, thoughtful, and sensitive lyrics, UPSTREAM offers an enthusiastic encounter with a winter journey paddling up the Mississippi River. This sequence of meditations follows in the...

Author: Natasha DeonarainPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Oct 07, 2022Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 164662873XISBN-13: 9781646628735

Natasha Deonarain paints a vivid post-pandemic landscape that takes the reader on a journey of love, loss and fragility. While peeling back disturbing layers of our dystopian lives, she nevertheless...

Author: John FinduraPublisher: Finishing Line PressPublication Date: Sep 23, 2022Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1646629752ISBN-13: 9781646629756

I am stunned by these poems. Joanne is fearless in carving out a place where, as a woman, she was told she didn't belong, where she worked building and maintaining substation equipment, climbing in...

In his collection Vacationland, Michael Bross takes the audience on a tour that spans decades, recalling memories such as his daughter mimicking animals or his father's physical decline. After all,...