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If 'You say your house is burning, / I say mine is sinking'-and so the games begin. As its title suggests, in Girl into Fox we are never permanently sure who is becoming predator or prey. Etched with...

Talya Jankovits' fierce, sexy, tender, searching poems chart the serpentine course of moving through life in a female body, and all its attendant frustrations and perils and sweetness and deep...

How can we not admire the "girl discovered" within Frances McConnel's richly imagined and moving poems, who takes us on such intimate inner journeys, proving herself to be passionate, defiant,...

In Toni Ortner's Giving Myself Over to J.S. Bach, intensely lyrical poems interweave grief and love (sexual, family, even love of a pet) The voice of the poems is intimate, consistent, fluid and...

Author: Andr?s Amitai WilsonPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Apr 11, 2022Number of Pages: 36 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800905ISBN-13: 9781639800902

GolemsAuthor: Tina HackerPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: June 18, 2021Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353634ISBN-13: 9781954353633

Ruhani guides us through first loves, friendships, legacies, and adulthood...with writing that is alive, moving, and human. - Xiao Yue Shan, Author of then telling be the antidote "Fizzing with...

Judith Prest's luminous book about families opens quite simply: Wherever I go/I bring a crowd along. Grafted Tree follows the treasure map of her rich experience in only the way this gifted poet can...

Maggie Yang is a writer and artist from Vancouver, Canada. Recognized by The Poetry Society and the League of Canadian Poets, her work has been published in The Florida Review, Split Rock Review,...

This is a book of stately but subtly rebellious poems about racism in America. Ulee, "The Thinker" is a black janitor who holds his tongue while cleaning up after "the white people's children." In...

Author: Diane RaptoshPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Jun 22, 2022Number of Pages: 38 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639801316ISBN-13: 9781639801312

Hands of YearsAuthor: Riley BoundsPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 12, 2021Number of Pages: 40 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800379ISBN-13: 9781639800377

Author: Sally Anderson Bostr?mPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Sep 20, 2021Number of Pages: 42 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800336ISBN-13: 9781639800339

Joseph Murphy's Having Lived leads us quietly through a land of his memories, giving us glimpses of family, friends, streets, towns, ships, and events large and small that have shaped his life. The...

He Is Walking WiderAuthor: Ellen Pober RittbergPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: July 03, 2021Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353723ISBN-13:...

Eugene Stevenson's Heart's Code is a work of true wonder. Ever since my introduction to his poetry, I have awaited his first collection and it is nothing short of magnificent. With deft precision and...

Precise and compassionate, Joanne Corey weaves a tale of her mother's dying. The poem "Lemon Pizzelles" chilled me with "It depends how fast you pray" after sections of the Ave Maria. She inhabits...

About the Editor Donald Zirilli is a Healthcare IT manager with a BA in English Literature from Drew University. He was the editor of Now Culture for over a decade, the art editor of The Shit Creek...

The reality of life on (and off) the high seas during the Golden Age of Piracy comes alive in this finely crafted collection of swashbuckling sonnets. While each can easily stand alone, together...

Her Imaginary MuseumAuthor: Pamela Hobart CarterPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Nov 21, 2020Number of Pages: 46 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1952326656ISBN-13:...

In Here and Now, There and Then, John Darretta's linguistic abilities are forefront. His poetry brings the flow of nature and passing of the liturgical year to a picturesque life. In "All Things" the...

In Benjamin Chase's poems, we find a world capable of rich epiphany in what he calls this curious place / we've always known. If you would like to experience this world-or feel it afresh, this...

I dare you to enter Kara Dorris' brutal and astounding HitBox, where we begin "curled up, practicing crash / positions, hearts cradled by claws & wings." Part fairytale, part video game, part...

Where will the accumulations of the daily joys go? asks the still and tender voice in Angela Hoffman's Hold the Contraries. The answer, this collection suggests, depends-not on our ability to control...

Arthur Ginsberg is a physician specializing in neurology and also a gifted poet. In combination, he has created a truly unique book, a hymn to the human body in all its sacred aspects. Here you will...

Author: Kim MalinowskiPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: March 06, 2021Number of Pages: 87 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353154ISBN-13: 9781954353152

Home and Other Duty StationsAuthor: Emily Lake HansenPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Mar 18, 2020Number of Pages: 79 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950462838ISBN-13:...

HonkAuthor: Tony GruenewaldPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: Oct 26, 2021Number of Pages: 68 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1639800484ISBN-13: 9781639800483

Hotel PacoimaAuthor: Michael Caylo-BaradiPublisher: Kelsay BooksPublication Date: May 27, 2021Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1954353332ISBN-13: 9781954353336

In Hours of the Desert, Roxanne Doty leads us through a "blind land," from academic conferences to brutal stretches of desert, to downtown Phoenix, where the unhoused dance, share their apples, and...