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Queer HagiographiesAuthor: Audra PuchalskiPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 10, 2020Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733534555ISBN-13:...

Riddle's poems of loneliness, love-loss and love re-encountered might be anybody's story. As the author notes, "'It Gets Better' was not a governing idea when I drafted these autobiographical lyrics,...

Routine BloodworkAuthor: Colleen McKeePublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 20, 2020Number of Pages: 54 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733534547ISBN-13:...

Saturn coming out of its Retrograde is a beautiful and sweeping slideshow of textures and colors and feelings. A heart ripped open and poured out onto the pages, it comes at you fast and before you...

Every seed-each pinprick of promise in this green world-is a masterwork. And this Seed, this most recent collection of Janice Gould's poems, is unmistakably the work of a master. Arising from deep...

Marissa Higgins' Shopgirls celebrates the grotesque with unexpected delight. Higgins' precise syllables and subtle alliteration will make you hungry. Flesh, bone, and expectation, Shopgirls is...

Sarah Caulfield's work is inspired-in the antique sense of the verb inspirare, to impart, to instill, to breathe life into. Fully inhabiting the fragility and messiness of ailing bodies and anxious...

WINNER OF THE 2018 CHARLOTTE MEW PRIZE Nicole SantaluciaAuthor: Nicole SantaluciaPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: Nov 02, 2018Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Sticky is pungent, viscous, alchemical, a laying on of hands. It is a sensorium of beeswax, turpentine, blood, yeast, coconut oil, melted buttercream, Crisco-rubbed into surfaces and crevices of...

Winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize The poems in Teeth & Teeth risk simplicity-of the line, of language, and ultimately of desire. Language here is not fantastical or flexed, but quiet and intentional,...

Tender AgeAuthor: Luiza Flynn-GoodlettPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 16, 2020Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1733534520ISBN-13:...

Winner of the Charlotte Mew Prize "Whatever she wants/is never too much" begins the title poem of this sensuous, incantatory collection. As the speaker woos her beloved, the reader is wooed alongside...

Home is the structure you build when nowhere else will have you, writes Ann Tweedy in this gutsy, no-nonsense collection of poems built on a precarious and often tender journey through homes no...

Strongin's language is muscular, challenging, disarming, and utterly unexpected as she journeys through childhood illness to the demands of age, circling, looking back, returning always to the body's...

Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize Janice Gould carries us through the challenges and triumphs of her life with such carefully observed detail, such immediacy. At the end of one poem she writes...

In The Great Scissor Hunt, Jessica K. Hylton showcases emotions on the edge. This is a collection full of turbulent inner dialogue-a war within the poet's mind-stuck straddling the fence between lust...

The History of a VoiceAuthor: Jessica JoppPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 25, 2021Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1735823627ISBN-13:...

The Salt And The SongAuthor: Virginia PetrucciPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: Oct 26, 2018Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0999593064ISBN-13:...

The Things We Bring with Us: Travel PoemsAuthor: S.G. HuertaPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 13, 2021Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

The Vanguards Of HolographyAuthor: Annie ChristainPublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1735823643ISBN-13:...

The Water Between UsAuthor: Gillian EbersolePublisher: Headmistress PressPublication Date: January 19, 2021Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 173353458XISBN-13:...

Tiger laughs when you push / She already has dirt with her donut / and knows the cage is cardboard. The poems in Tiger Laughs When You Push are full of wit, lyric ingenuity, and imaginative acuteness...

Week/End is a portrait of a break-up. With any break-up, with any loss, we're left to tend to a dissolved intimacy, the empty space where closeness was. With equal candor & imagination, Duncan...

*Finalist for the Charlotte Mew Prize These poems have an incredibly beautiful and painful landscape. The body becomes the field splayed open, as does memory, as does love, as does language. The...

Risa Denenberg's Whirlwind @ Lesbos is a collection chronicling one life echoed in many lives, real and imagined: girlhood loves, activism, friendships ravaged by AIDS, a lover lost to suicide, a son...

Foley's writing may appear sparse and reserved but it harbors a subtle power. The poet's greatest strength is her acute sense of observation. She possesses the ability to thread sensuousness into the...

Winner of Sappho's Prize in Poetry With sharp and delicate exactness, Elizabeth Wilson gives us glimpses of desire in the poems of Windowpanes-pressing down hard with her words, as with small...