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Water can be incremental. Drop by drop, it falls or leaks. Yet water is the most powerful shaping force in existence. In the hands of poet Nina Clements, a nearby lake nurtures transformation. The...

The poems in Margaret Kean's Cleaving the Clouds are simply beautiful. The work here is grief work, but I can't help imagining beauty on top of death, in layers, like Mark Doty's quote, There are...

CloakAuthor: Susan Castillo StreetPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 16, 2020Number of Pages: 69 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462846ISBN-13: 9781950462841

Jeffrey Johannes's tender chapbook, Coffee Quiet, resonates with the meditative moments of morning fog and sunlight rising beyond the brim of his china cup in spare poems that evoke what he sees in...

Color and LineAuthor: Carole MertzPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 02, 2021Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195232680XISBN-13: 9781952326806

ColossiAuthor: David CappsPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Aug 27, 2020Number of Pages: 50 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326435ISBN-13: 9781952326431

With attentiveness, devotion and tenderness, Jo Taylor has created an intimate collection of poems filled with family, faith, song and community. I love how the poems invoke conversations with other...

How could I stand to be so dim where the light couldn't reach me asks the speaker in one of the opening poems of Jennifer Kelley's debut, Coming to Love My Darkest Places. With a fine-bone intellect...

With elegance and grace, the spellbinding poems of Cheryl Baldi's Cormorants at Dusk, reveal the ebbing and flowing of grief and memory inherent in mourning. Exquisite imagery and delicate tonal...

Coronary TruthAuthor: Diane Elayne DeesPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Aug 17, 2020Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326427ISBN-13: 9781952326424

Cheryl Boyer's Counting Colors speaks of "fire-born gold" on its dedication page-an apt description of this finely wrought love story, a testament to the particular grief of infertility as well as...

Author: Carolynn KingyensPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Nov 16, 2021Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800549ISBN-13: 9781639800544

Author: Leonard KressPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 26, 2021Number of Pages: 117 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326729ISBN-13: 9781952326721

Mary Junge's new collection begins with warnings, declarations, and questions: Are we born for pleasure? Can we ever go back in time? What can we save in this big world of ours? Then birds arrive,...

Author: Patricia BarnesPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: November 05, 2019Number of Pages: 103 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462420ISBN-13: 9781950462421

Author: Steven Dale DavisonPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Feb 15, 2022Number of Pages: 81 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800816ISBN-13: 9781639800810

Author: Patrick T. ReardonPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: June 28, 2021Number of Pages: 114 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353766ISBN-13: 9781954353763

Daughter TongueAuthor: Joanne MallariPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 28, 2020Number of Pages: 34 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326354ISBN-13: 9781952326356

Ann E. Wallace had to fight for language just as she had to fight for air in her journey with Long Covid, and the poems here are hard won marvels, full of insight and compassion and fiercely nurtured...

In Gene Twaronite's Death at the Mall, a wry and earnest take on the human predicament is everywhere apparent -our desires and follies, our great possibilities and perpetual undoing are all on...

Author: Mary K. O'MelvenyPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: 2-Aug-21Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353820ISBN-13: 9781954353824

Author: Rose Mary BoehmPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jul 13, 2022Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639801162ISBN-13: 9781639801169

Down the Grassy AislesAuthor: Aruna GurumurthyPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Aug 19, 2020Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326060ISBN-13: 9781952326066

An assured, accomplished and absorbing first collection, by turns earthy and sensual, savvy and strikingly perceptive, strikingly apt, loaded with lines and images that are almost poems in themselves...

Author: John David MuthPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 08, 2020Number of Pages: 87 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326117ISBN-13: 9781952326110

Author: Deborah FlemingPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 15, 2021Number of Pages: 101 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326826ISBN-13: 9781952326820

Bhupender Bhardwaj's stirring debut collection Ebullience and Other Poems is filled with an unbridled joy and wonder at the natural world and our shifting place in it. These poems are pastoral...

One of life's most delightful occurrences is being introduced to a world you didn't realize existed and certainly didn't understand. Kelly Sargent pulls the curtain back on the struggles and giggles...

Echoes in the Sagebrush, Betty Naegele Gundred's second chapbook, is a relatable, reflective human journey. Through grouping the poems Reflections, Resonance and Transformations, we are led to the...

Einstein's KnotAuthor: Phyllis StowellPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Feb 18, 2020Number of Pages: 79 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462684ISBN-13: 9781950462681