Kelsay Books

Weeping in the Promised Land is, on one hand, a meditation on our troubled, fractured nation at this deeply contentious, historic inflection point, and, on the other, a deeply personal evocation of...

Peter Waldor is the author of nineteen books of poetry, including Door to a Noisy Room which won the Kinereth Gensler Award from Alice James Books, Who Touches Everything, which won the National...

What the Gargoyle SeesAuthor: Gene TwaronitePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Dec 27, 2020Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326869ISBN-13: 9781952326868

In his debut poetry collection, Paul Bernstein takes stock of a life, experiencing the richness and despairs of this material world and anticipating his soul's inevitable transmigration to the next...

We walk together gathering the coming darkness with both hands. In Sandra Noel's What the Pain Left, the poems crystalize through the lens of grief, each poem sharpened by images, story, and insights...

Author: Frank C. ModicaPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 14, 2021Number of Pages: 52 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800263ISBN-13: 9781639800261

What We Learn From Birds is more than a stunning debut of poems; it is a collection of a woman's many selves-punk librarian, scorned lover, gentle mother, glitter-clawed bitch, worried daughter,...

To read the poems in Gregg Friedberg's WHAT'S WRONG is to discover a voiceunlike any other in its dizzying ability to address serious matters-love, desire, loss, belief and radical un-belief, to name...

Author: Anita NahalPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: 9-Aug-21Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195435388XISBN-13: 9781954353886

I bow down to the astonishing, utterly powerful poems of Myra Shapiro. Having always loved her voice, and now encountering it further along the path, is a gift beyond measure. Life and beauty, death...

Author: Susan OleferukPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: May 05, 2022Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639801421ISBN-13: 9781639801428

Caleb Delos-Santos's poems uncover hidden streams of delight as they move from the peace of rare rains in California and Arizona, snow in Colorado, and a startling elegy to pencils, to the healing...

When You Get HereAuthor: Shutta CrumPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 03, 2020Number of Pages: 70 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462862ISBN-13: 9781950462865

In his new collection Where That Leaves Us, the poet Michael P. Hill displays a folksinger-like gift for unearthing, from everyday moments, both the seedy and the sublime. In so doing, he embodies...

Author: Richard JacksonPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 29, 2021Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326907ISBN-13: 9781952326905

Author: Bill ChristophersenPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 26, 2020Number of Pages: 109 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462854ISBN-13: 9781950462858

Author: Jeffery FranklinPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Aug 27, 2021Number of Pages: 112 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353952ISBN-13: 9781954353954

Wherever This All EndsAuthor: Leeland SeesePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 17, 2020Number of Pages: 51 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462870ISBN-13: 9781950462872

In a time when immigration stirs up so much angry debate, it's refreshing to read Mary Haines's level-headed poems about her Polish ancestors putting down roots in America. Who Are You from Home? ...

A wise adage tells us that not all who wander are lost. Who Owns What Here? weaves a golden thread through country fields, brackish creeks, and neon bars, knitting a precious and wild loneliness that...

Poet and educator Curt Curtin has crafted classroom-ready poems that lead young readers on a journey of discovery. We learn what happens when trees sneeze, how to talk to vegetables, which cat is the...

If you were to cross the poetry of Ursula K. Le Guin and that of Mary Oliver, you might very well get Sara Letourneau's Wild Gardens. These poems possess the type of exquisite experience of nature...

There is a pleasing formality and richness of detail in the poems of Elizabeth McCarthy's Wild Silence. Many of her best poems in this chapbook are memory poems, casting back to girlhood when she and...

Barbara Loots, one of America's best light verse poets for several decades, shows us her more reflective side in Windshift. Both her meditative poems and her witty poems display craft, love of music...

Amy Losak spent most of her life in Queens, New York, and now lives in New Jersey. She is a healthcare public relations consultant. Her mother, Sydell Rosenberg, was a teacher and published writer,...

Author: Mary Beth HinesPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Nov 04, 2021Number of Pages: 102 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 163980045XISBN-13: 9781639800452

Winter In HalifaxAuthor: Thomas DeFreitasPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 01, 2021Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800425ISBN-13: 9781639800421

Sherri Wright's collection, Winter of My Life, is infused with the "swift glide" of memories, from "biology lessons in the front seat of your souped-up Studebaker" to "with my little mini, I will...

Wonder ElectricAuthor: Elizabeth CohenPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 03, 2021Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195435357XISBN-13: 9781954353572

Words for Things Left UnsaidAuthor: Corie RosenPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: May 11, 2020Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462811ISBN-13:...