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Nuanced yet aggressive, EARTHQUAKE CAME TO HARLEM is a tour-de-force of NYC poetry. From Harlem to Bensonhurst, from a budget hairdresser to the junkie under the corner scaffold, Sheeler (a lifelong...

Poetry. Kris Bigalk's second full-length collection, ENOUGH, traces the interplay between the experience of codependency and the myths of Echo and Narcissus. Lyrical, raw, and honest, these poems...

The Ancient Mariner buttonholed the Wedding Guest for the telling of his story. In Douglas Treem's Everything So Seriously the poems and their denizens seek to tear the world a new buttonhole. They...

Poetry. FAMILY PROMISES is a collection of poems that are like prisms that reflect Laura's unique blend of humor, irony and clarity. Her signature style of irreverence and honesty are in full display...

Poetry. In FIFTEEN STONES, Craig Czury traverses multiple continents, dimensions and decades. It is a magnetic web of words, woven from fish scales, seaweed, handlebars and tire treads, reaching...

From summer's blonde height of swarming sunlight, through autumns gentle falling, and into the dark spell of winter of 2012, Emily Vogel both endured and reveled in the pregnancy which brought her...

Poetry. FOCUS is a collection of poems by Donald Lev written for the most part after 2012, and is intended as a sequel to his collection published that year by NYQ Books, A VERY FUNNY FELLOW, whose...

This is a gathering of essays, poems, and recollections dedicated to the memory of poet, scholar, teacher, and political activist, Enid Dame [1943 - 2003]. The rich array of contributions were...

FOR THE STAR THAT MAY HAVE DIED is Nicole Andonov's first full-length book. Collecting numerous chapbooks and 81 years of life experience this book shares intimate moments of her life as an immigrant...

Ardent, intimate poems by a bold poet of sensual and spiritual life . . . Miriam Levine's Forget about Sleep portrays the gifts and perils of aging as she remembers lost lovers, friends, beloved...

Ghost on 3rd is riddled with love, latent violence, humor, and prison life. Critics who said that his last collection kicked "like an old pump-12 gauge" will be happy to find the barrels sawed off in...

Poetry. "For decades, a certain photograph--I don't know who took the picture--has been lodged in my mind of an ash-smeared, half-naked, crazed-looking man peering through a thicket of brambles in...

In his first full-length collection, GRUEL, Bunkong Tuon documents the lives of Cambodian refugees and explores the poetic landscape of a Cambodian America. Written tenderly, with honesty,...

Mather Schneider's second full-length collection of poems, HE TOOK A CAB, takes the reader on an unforgettable ride of a lifetime. With each poem, Schneider propels the reader into a mindset of...

Amanda J. Bradley's debut book of poems takes the reader on an inward journey from a place of disturbance to a recovered equilibrium. These poems probe intense scenarios and emotional states then...

these poems are uniquely about everyday life: getting up in the morning, sitting in the kitchen with pets, buying buttons and meeting a salesman, politics, polio, christmas, about time lost, love and...

Author: Fred YannantuonoPublisher: NYQ BooksPublication Date: Oct 21, 2021Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1630450707ISBN-13: 9781630450700

Poetry. John Amen's ILLUSION OF AN OVERWHELM offers four distinct series: Hallelujah Anima, in which the poet explores desire, self- inquiry, and ambivalence, as well as the torturous journey of...

In the title poem, the dying mother asks: "Will my daughter be able to come and go with impunity?" Stenhouse's ironically titled collection plays against the backdrop of this mythic riddle. Privilege...

Kevin Pilkington is a widely published and award-winning poet. In his newest collection, In the Eyes of a Dog, published by New York Quarterly Books, he takes the reader on a vivid explorative...

Poetry. Emanuel di Pasquale refers to IN TRUTH as "his little book of poems." The book may be small, but the poems are far from little. Going beyond connecting the reader to nature in a lyrical and...

Author: BARRY. WALLENSTEINPublisher: Nyq BooksPublication Date: Feb 11, 2022Number of Pages: 128 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1630450820ISBN-13: 9781630450823

Poetry. A subtle centrifugal force drives this collection. By turns witty, solemn or capricious, the book moves outward from private, often lyrical poems about childhood and memory on into the realm...

In his new collection, JUST BEAUTIFUL, Tim Suermondt writes poems about the present, the past and the future, poems dealing with the glories and follies, the tragedies and triumphs of the human heart...

The twin ravens, Thought and Memory, of Norse myth are reborn as American crows to fly an interweaving pattern or remembering and forgetting through the pages of LAPSE AMERICANA. Born out of the...

Ledger Domain shepherds the reader on a journey from birth through adulthood to the likelihood of an afterlife, an expanse that blurs the boundaries of life. Interweaved are experiences of family,...

Written in the first years of the poet's marriage, inspired by a magical yard at their first apartment, the poems in LIVING WITH YOU explore mysteries of beauty and decay, love and sex, ecstasy and...

In Man at the Railing, the 2022 winner of the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Award, Edwin Romond explores how "joy and loss join hands across our lifetime." Drawing upon his family experiences, his four...

In MARKED, Stephen Herz's poems of the Holocaust, we see through a prism of linked poems the unfolding horror, terror, and despair of this dehumanizing bloody time of cruelty, evil, and death. Here...

In MARKED, Stephen Herz's poems of the Holocaust, we see through a prism of linked poems the unfolding horror, terror, and despair of this dehumanizing bloody time of cruelty, evil, and death. Here...