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In Moonglow a Go-Go, Smith gives the reader a sweeping biopic of an extraordinary and exuberant life written with heart and humor and insight as only Joan Jobe Smith can.Author: Joan Jobe...

MY OLD MAN WAS ALWAYS ON THE LAM is a blues memoir in verse. With brutal honesty and lyrical prowess, Tony Medina plays the changes in an intimate collection that sticks like a stinging Ali punch and...

Composed over the last decade, MY TRANQUIL WAR AND OTHER POEMS tackles head-on the question: What is the poet's special responsibility when terror becomes a general condition of dread, internalized...

In his second full-length collection, NYQ poet Christopher Goodrich explores the intricacies and intimacies of sex, marriage, and fatherhood. At times, funny and endearing, dark and devastating, his...

Nausheen Eusuf's debut collection, Not Elegy, But Eros, covers a range of styles and themes-elegies, love poems, poems of witness, poems of wit and wordplay, poems set in both Bangladesh and the US...

ON MY WAY TO BECOMING A MAN vividly takes the reader on a journey from boyhood innocence to adulthood. Winans speaks the power of truth as he takes us down a long road of political narrative,...

In On the Chicopee Spur, the haibun allows Ortolani to speak plainly in the bread of prose, and then slice the loaf with haiku. Many are not written in the traditional syllable format, but instead,...

Poetry. Award-winning poet Alison Stone draws from the tarot in her latest collection. These 78 poems range from the archetypal (The Fool, The Magician, etc.) to the everyday situations of love,...

Poetry. OUR ONE-WAY STREET is a series of poetic snapshots of a working-class neighborhood and its quirky inhabitants. Schumejda zooms the lens in and out on herself as well as neighbors trying to...

As Richard Kostelanetz says in his preface, "When I first heard the epithet afterimage as an honorific among visual artists, I recognized it as analogous to the strongest lines in strictly verbal...

OZ AT NIGHT lives up to its title: it is dark and fantastical, frightening and playful. A courageous looking is at the center of Bradley's poetic project, and in this her second book of poems, her...

Poetry. Al Ortolani's poems in PAPER BIRDS DON'T FLY are a mix of small town memories and present day realities. They share both humor and sorrow, longing and contentment, often in the irony of a...

Norman Stock's direct expression of gut-level feelings, surreal fantasies, and riotous humor, invite the reader to experience poetry in a new, more immediate way. The boring posturing of academic...

Poetry. In this debut collection, Marc Tretin explores how family is the loneliest place of all. Because of his gut-deep feelings of impotence and his permanent sense of dislocation, his lyrical...

Poetry. Fiction. Drama. Joel Allegretti's PLATYPUS presents the reader with, among other treats, a cento meant to be in the voice of Victor Frankenstein, a ghazal composed of the generic names of...

Poetry. PRICKLY is a medley of nonacademic, unprofessional poems written by a cantankerous, often drunken cab driver. They range from prose-like narratives to more lyrical poems. The subjects are...

Poetry. Women's Studies. QUEEN KONG opens with an autobiographical poem chronicling childhood through graduation from college. This not only informs the reader but also infuses subtle meaning...

RABBIT EARS: TV POEMS is a poetic tribute to the medium that has influenced America's tastes, opinions, politics, language, and lifestyles: television. Within its pages, you'll read narrative poems,...

RABBIT EARS: TV POEMS is a poetic tribute to the medium that has influenced America's tastes, opinions, politics, language, and lifestyles: television. Within its pages, you'll read narrative poems,...

Everything about REALLY HAPPY, Jim Reese's third full-length collection of poetry, is ordinary-focused on life all around us. But out of this ordinary the humanity of each of his characters comes to...

Long concerned with poetic invention, the indisputably avant-garde writer Richard Kostelanetz has recently been discovering new language forms not with words but within words. This new collection of...

From the early seventies when her first published poem appeared in Playgirl magazine, Lynne Savitt's explicit exploration of a woman's sexuality has always been primary in her work. Her poetry has...

Daring, contemplative, witty, and moving, the poems in Kris Bigalk's debut collection REPEAT THE FLESH IN NUMBERS unflinchingly examine human frailty from multiple perspectives, and ultimately arrive...

Gerald Locklin (1941-2021) was born in Rochester, NY. A prolific writer of both poetry and prose, he published over a hundred books in his lifetime, including The Firebird Poems (Event Horizon...

RIDING WITH DESTINY, Jayne Lyn Stahl's first published collection, is a high voltage volume of poetry that flirts with the boundaries between sacred and profane, self and other, the erotic and...

Poetry. The critical measure for visual poetry is, simply, the visual enhancement of language. With his latest book ROUNDELAYS, Richard Kostelanetz takes single English words and then animates them...

Poetry. Many of Ted Jonathan's poems are drawn from his experience in the Bronx where he lived until the year 1999. His poems are accessible rhythmic compositions. They're dark in the way real life...

Poetry. SALUTE THE WRECKAGE, Clint Margrave's second collection of poems, explores the universe within us and the universe in which we live. From the origins of stars to the strings of a guitar; from...

Author: Richard KostelanetzPublisher: NYQ BooksPublication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 138 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1630450758ISBN-13: 9781630450755

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