Gold Wake Press Collective

With his debut poetry collection, A Stranger's Heart, Philip J. Cozzi joins the ranks of physician poets, enhancing this tradition and offering fresh perspectives of the patient and the curer. These...

Joshua McKinney: "I had not thought death had undone so many," Dante said upon entering the underworld; six centuries later, Eliot quoted him in The Waste Land. In Blood Eagle, Adam Crittenden traces...

Glenn Shaheen's Carnivalia reads like a firework display: the stories explode, dazzle, and you never know what's coming next. Fast stories that will stick with you a long time. -Mat Johnson, author...

My hour with the therapist / is not practice for a stand-up career, I am told, asserts this book in its opening pages. But humor is never far away in Brandon Amico's Disappearing, Inc. If Karl Marx...

Down and Out is a heartfelt, hilarious novel about the dilapidated America we live in--not some imagined place where the dream remains alive. How Briseno manages to leave us feeling hopeful is...

It's the untold dream and unsent letter everyone wants to read: secret, ecstatic, idiosyncratic moments that are not quite complete without a recipient. You, reader, are the recipient of this...

Bird as beast. Bird as beauty. Bird as spectacle. In Every Living Species, Stalcup looks zoological impoverishment in the eye and refuses to blink. Instead, she turns loss into an exhibition of...

Sarah Strickley's work is bold, honest, and confident. Her language is the perfect combination of lyricism and directness. Fall Together is remarkable for its inventive stories that carry the reader...

There are so many ways to measure time, to wish ahead and to dream backwards. Here, with grace and deep, echoing wisdom, Cynthia Reeves yields the generations of an Italian family. Loss follows...

Billie R. Tadros's Graft Fixation is fascinated by what comes together after a break-it's never quite the old form, but it's not fully a new one, either. The poems work around a car crash and...

Even the smallest of these poems is a noisy engine of the kind that might have powered an ocean liner from the shores of New England to Henry James's Europe and back again. You feel the heat of the...

In his third collection, Montesano continues his textured exploration of primal American fear and violence--not to glorify, but as an attempt to see through pain into a landscape lit with the fire of...

How Far I'Ve ComeAuthor: Kim MagowanPublisher: Gold Wake Press CollectivePublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 192 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737780828ISBN-13:...

Kyle Flak is like Doc Brown from Back to the Future because he actually believes that by arranging all of his holy junk and ugly love into the right shape and allowing lightning to strike he can...

Talia Bloch has published poems in Copper Nickel, Pleiades, Prairie Schooner, The Southern Review, Tupelo Quarterly, and elsewhere. Her essays and feature stories have appeared in The Brooklyn Rail,...

KeenAuthor: Erin StalcupPublisher: Gold Wake Press CollectivePublication Date: 1-Oct-21Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1737780801ISBN-13: 9781737780809

I take deep pleasure in these poems, wishing to park in front of them--sexy and larger than life as they are--with my feet up and a big bowl of popcorn. In a collection peppered with odes to films...

Zach VandeZande is a keen interrogator of the family, of romantic relationships, of masculinity and parenthood, with an eye for the ways in which we're animated by our worries, by our joys, by how we...

Mary Quade, our lady of broken birds with still beating hearts, of the haunts within a covered bridge, is in love with things (empty dresses, sticks and branches, county fair food), with animals (a...

Opening these pages is like stepping through a secret doorway to discover a menagerie of wonders, impossibly beautiful. There are sentences here so fine, so perfectly worded, they made me gasp...

Justin Bigos' Mad River is a wide-eyed, sensitive, haunted book of poems--one so delicately and lovingly descriptive and incanted, it's nearly miraculous in the clarity of vision it achieves...

Monster Movie is a collection of scenes aiming to show "slices" of American movies and it blends coming-of-age tale, rom-com, noir, sci-fi, and horror, all rolled into one, all within a blind of...

Melissa Barrett's first book of poems, Moon on Roam, is an exploration of language and its possibilities that will keep you flipping the pages to discover what juxtaposition, inversion, or...

Oblivion - 9781637527818Author: Robin HemleyPublisher: Gold Wake Press CollectivePublication Date: Jun 01, 2022Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1637527810ISBN-13:...

A photo and poetry book that teaches us about pumas of Chile.Author: BrookePublisher: Gold Wake Press CollectivePublication Date: Jan 05, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Churches are fixed structures that enable intangible beliefs. In Some Churches, Tasha Cotter gives words similar power to transform. Each poem in this collection is like a penance, a salve when "we...