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Linda Lerner has approached the Nursery Rhyme from a 21st century position and interpreted them through poetry in a whole new way! Along with the illustrations by artist Donna Kerness, Lerner...

Dog-whistle politics, also known as the use of code words, is a term for a type of political campaigning or speech making which employs coded language that appears to mean one thing to the general...

Seven poets who represent some of the best writing that the underground small press has to offer. The poets included here are not from a particular school, at least not one that has been invented as...

John Bennett writes about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in this collection of shards (flash fiction & non-fiction) and poems. Bennett has been a small press fixture since the early 60s,...

A look into the health care system for poor Americans and how Diabetes impacts the author's life.Author: Rd ArmstrongPublisher: Lummox PressPublication Date: Nov 11, 2010Number of Pages: 188...

This is the first published collection of short stories by RD Armstrong aka Raindog. Known mostly as a poet and publisher, RD has been writing short stories for about ten years. These stories are not...

The first of a two volume set of poetry by RD Armstrong, owner and operator of the Lummox Press, member of the American Small Press community and unofficial Poet Laurette of the L. A. Harbor. It...

Hard Landing is the second volume of poetry by Rick Smith, published by Lummox Press. In a sense, it is the story of life as told by the Wren, but not necessarily wren as a small defenseless bird,...

You never know what words of wisdom are going to carry with you over the years. I was about 14, and was just starting to show my efforts at writing and drawing/painting. It was terrible stuff really...

A lot of people don't understand the premise of this book. They want to know why there isn't any Bukowski in a book about Bukowski. Well, that's just it...it isn't about the legendary Bukowski, it's...

Modest Aspirations brings small press veteran, Gerald Locklin, and newcomer Beth Wilson together in this new collection of poems and short stories. Fans of Locklin's poems will not be disappointed by...

This book contains three long poems about three road trips made in 1999, 2000, and 2001. They are part travelogue, part historical (describing meetings with other poets such as Todd Moore and A.D...

We never see things in themselves, only things as they appear to our own particular sensibilities, moods, and associations. Nowhere is that clearer than in poetry, and nowhere in poetry is that...

Steel Valley is poetry that illuminates the soul's travelogue. You can feel with all senses the steel wheels of Mike Adams' Pennsylvania steel mill and railroad boyhood pulse in every word; his...

Reading through this monumental collection of Henry Denander's poems I realize that he has taken his place in my pantheon of favorite contemporary American poets, alongside such as Charles Bukowski,...

With the many forms of entertainment and distraction open to us, National Public Radio and PBS television may be the ones most favored by writers. The quiet confiding voice of radio sees us through...

A chapbook series of little books with distinctive red covers, each one the size of a quarter sheet of paper, this series began in mid 1998 with the publication of "Fool's Paradise" and "El Pagano"...

For thirty years Todd Moore has been working on an epic poem about John Dillinger, a poem so big that it must be published in sections. In this particular section, Moore examines the fabled "wooden...

Mike Adams moved on, on Sept. 26, 2013. While he walked this earth, he touched many lives, both with his writing and with his actions. This collection of poetry by his friends demonstrates the power...

The book contains over 80 poems dealing with ambiguities and paradoxes in experience, especially how impressions of certainty and doubt affect everyday life. Ed Nudelman (author) has tried to call on...

Rick Smith's two previous books dealt with the diminutive Wren...wren as metaphor, wren as symbol for our own frailties and neuroses. Wren was a delicate bird that must be handled with care. But now,...

In Benninghoff's Whose Cries Are Not Music she asks "Don't we in dying reveal who we are?" With a steadily dealt hand, somewhere east, in a "tinseled diner" she reveals fortune's deck of splintered...

39 contributors recall the influence of the cofounder of the Outlaw Poetry School on their lives. Contains poetry, essays, short remembrances and personal photographs.Author: Rd ArmstrongPublisher:...