Glass Lyre Press

Becoming AppalAsian is a homage to Lisa Kwong's parents, ancestors, ancestral land, homeland, and chosen land. China influences the cadence through which she experiences all spaces, whether that be...

What happens to the rhythms of life when the body fails us? In Broken Metronome Connie Post composes using the erratic and irreducible language of loss. In this elegy to her brother's death by...

Sarah Stockton's collection of poems Castaway beautifully exhibits what the poet and naturalist Elizabeth Bradfield has termed "oceanic" thinking-a generosity of attention to connection between the...

Nina Corwin's Dear Future is a tour of the bright circus that awaits us. Humorous and somber, playful and dark, Corwin offers the future as preview, as marketing campaign, as something that might be...

A delicious fever, a fervent tapestry, a bone-bearingly honest epistolary journey-Allison Blevins and Josh Davis' fiery poppies bruising their own throats is a richly textured exploration of...

Author: Peggy DobreerPublisher: Glass Lyre PressPublication Date: May 05, 2021Number of Pages: 62 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941783767ISBN-13: 9781941783764

Author: Raymond GibsonPublisher: Glass Lyre PressPublication Date: Jul 01, 2016Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941783201ISBN-13: 9781941783207

Even the grass grieves in Amy Small-McKinney's heart wrenchingly honest collection of deeply felt wounds and the kinds of courage needed to face such traumas. In One Day I Am a Field, Small-McKinney,...

Martin Willitts Jr.'s new book, Rain Followed Me Home, is filled to the brim with imagery that encourages us to ponder our relationship with the natural world. The opening poem, Disquieting, reminds...

Selfie with Cherry is a delicious bite of fruit - forbidden and otherwise, bittersweet poems redolent of the natural world, peppered with disillusionment and lovers lost. And yet, this sobering sense...

Wendy Barker's new collection, Shimmer, sparkles with arabesques of image, deft swerves into insight. The two discrete series that make up this volume together comprise a meditation on mortality by...

In Silver Seasons of Heartache, Naoko Fujimoto walks a tightrope of language, making her way word by word across the chasm where hope can fall prey to heartbreak, the maybes and might-bes of life...

Speak and Spell takes its title from a favorite childhood toy-a mini computer that prompted the user into knowledge by helping with the spelling of new words. So does Allison Joseph in this mini...

In Sonja Johanson's new collection, the burgeoning world, the natural and human worlds mingle in gorgeous, often unsettling ways. From lush to bare, the landscape she presents us with is so...

Karen Neuberg's the elephants are asking is a brave, moving plea and testimonial, a sonorous cry out to the world to save the planet from the calamitous effects of climate change on all living things...

In a fearless love letter to his mother--a daughter of the Great Migration who dared to go West and never gave up in her ill-fated quest for companionship--and his ditch-digger daddy calling from the...

One part ode and one part elegy to the last shimmers of a disappearing world, the luxury names the wonder and ache of a planet on a collision course. These poems bear no titles or punctuation, their...

The question of resiliency, of learning how to survive and to not just bounce back from life's blows but to thrive, is a central concern of Allison Joseph's work. In her chapbook The Purpose of Hands...

Like e.e. cummings, Desrosiers writes about love and death. There is such sadness in her poetry, but beauty in her memories. She is carrying on in this life without her mother, father, and many...

What is a waspfish? Don't Google it. Just read these poems, and observe the waspfish as it moves through lagoons and the roots of fingers." As the waspfish wonders whether it is best to keep swimming...