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In Leslie Hodge's chapbook, Escape and other poems, we get to ride along with her from the Ozarks all the way to Southern California. A life from school bus days to "those who love . . . my...

Irritate an oyster and you get a pearl. Irritate a poet-and there have been a lot of irritations-and you get a poem-sometimes, a pearl. And I'm here to say I really like Nancy Dillingham's new string...

Author: Joanne LevaPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Dec 11, 2020Number of Pages: 106 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195232663XISBN-13: 9781952326639

Eventide - 9781952326509Author: Sally Stewart MohneyPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 23, 2020Number of Pages: 44 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326508ISBN-13:...

These are quiet, observant poems-explorations of doubt, promise, worry, grief, and unexpected hope that arrives in ordinary things-the whiskers of a little wolf, the blur of a ruby-throated...

The poems in Marjorie Moorhead's Every Small Breeze are attuned to weather and seasons, both those in the concrete world and in each person's interior realm. As I spend time with these poems, I feel...

Everyone A BellAuthor: S. B. MerrowPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Feb 23, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462714ISBN-13: 9781950462711

Exile'S ChoiceAuthor: E. Martin PedersenPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: February 20, 2021Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353200ISBN-13: 9781954353206

Claire Blotter's poems are vibrant and alive, rich in imagery and feeling, heart and soul and nature. She does the deep dive into who she is, uniquely, authentically, with insight and charm. -Anne...

Author: Florence FogelinPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: May 05, 2021Number of Pages: 77 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353553ISBN-13: 9781954353558

Waldor's captivating poems transport us into a realm where nature has majesty as well as solitude. Denizens of the mountains and forest, even fungi, take on a magical significance. Waldor reminds us...

Prepare to have your "hearts' batteries rebooted" with Family Rattlings. William Carey's well-crafted verse explores the varied and evolving landscape of family relationships with one's spouse,...

Angela Patten's fifth collection of poems, Feeding the Wild Rabbit, begins with a bravura sequence called "The Hidden Life of Words." Midway through this spellbinding meditation on language, Patten...

Why not fall on my knees, hushed / into openness? the seeker and visionary Maril Crabtree asks in a long journey through uncertainty toward transformation. For this poet, to praise is an option not...

First of PiscesAuthor: James Scannell McCormickPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 30, 2020Number of Pages: 62 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326249ISBN-13:...

The tragedy of language is that "words harden us until we are not / the wondrous thing we are when born." It's this tragedy that animates Anthony DiMatteo's Fishing for Family, a gem of a book. It...

In Fitting the Sixth Finger Gina Ferrara enters the poem with the same tenderness we come to see in the work of Marc Chagall. Each poem here is built on an armature of faith, each poem a belief in...

David Evans Jr. was born in Iowa and grew up in South Dakota. He studied at the University of Iowa. He lives in southern Illinois with his wife Lisa Marlow and teaches writing and literature at John...

Toni Ortner's chapbook, Focused Light from a Distant Star, is a collection of 39 ekphrastic poems and prose poems. Most were inspired by the works "created by women in the last two centuries," says...

In Fog Totem, Anne Mitchell takes us on a journey via poetic snapshots of ocean and fog, the pandemic, a divorce, loss of a beloved dog, knee surgery, a fledging daughter, and more...all with humor,...

Author: J. R. SolonchePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jul 25, 2020Number of Pages: 118 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462722ISBN-13: 9781950462728

For Art's SakeAuthor: Curt G CurtinPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: November 18, 2019Number of Pages: 85 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462455ISBN-13: 9781950462452

Marc Darnell is an online tutor and lead custodian in Omaha, Nebraska, and has also been a phlebotomist, hotel supervisor, busboy, editorial assistant, and farmhand. He received his MFA from the...

The terms meditation and contemplation highlight distinct yet interconnected cognitive activities, both of which are beautifully stimulated by Peter Waldor's compilation of 14 poetically embodied...

From ConcentrateAuthor: K. E. RobiscoePublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 02, 2021Number of Pages: 76 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326842ISBN-13: 9781952326844

Gentle Grasp boils with times past and passing time, as the opening poem counts, courts, and catalogs the many kinds of seconds that make up a life: "heavy second / fading second / Fighting to corral...

In revelatory verse in his haunting new collection, David Anthony Sam writes of a world steeped in mortality. The poems travel unflinchingly forth, from early perplexities over death to a stoic peace...

In the powerful and thought-provoking poems that make up Ghostlier Demarcations, Richard Stuecker establishes ethereal lines that mark the shadowy boundaries between the secular, spiritual, and...

Gifts of the Seasons, Autumn and WinterAuthor: Suzanne CottrellPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: May 25, 2020Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Gifts of the Seasons, Spring and SummerAuthor: Suzanne CottrellPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: January 13, 2021Number of Pages: 58 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...