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Ginger Murchison's debut poetry collection, a scrap of linen, a bone, is a must-read. As Tomas Lux says in his introduction: These are made poems. These are earned poems. These are poems of a...

Debut poetry collection by Maura Way, whose poems have appeared in numerous magazine, including Verse, Beloit Poetry Journal, Drunken Boat, DIAGRAM, and The Chattahoochee Review.Author: Maura...

In this new collection, Beadle lures us into a realm of fact and fantasy, of history and myth, where we are all-at once-both "native and stranger, neighbor and trespasser" . . . . nothing escapes the...

In this fifth collection, Terri Kirby Erickson's poems "take us to the mysteries of the natural world and the world of family and friends with magical sureness. The language is almost biblical in its...

Poems by Barbara PresnellAuthor: Barbara PresnellPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Sep 15, 2016Number of Pages: 86 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941209440ISBN-13: 9781941209448

In Broken Horizons, Richard Jackson?s lines are clouds of love, piercing the sky with enormous empathy, rolling in the azure, torrents of passion, and are arrows at the same time, reaching a peak...

Winner of the 2019 Press 53 Award for Poetry. A Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection.Author: Patricia Colleen MurphyPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Apr 01, 2019Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage:...

Author: Meg EdenPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: March 11, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413152ISBN-13: 9781950413157

In Elegies for Small Game, Shelby Stephenson continues his celebration of place, family, and memory. But here there is a new eloquence and authority of rhyme and ballad form, with laments for those...

Enigma is a stunning collection that works like good medicine. Endrezze is fiercely honest, bravely facing the terrors of history and our present world, but suffusing her vision with profound love...

In his sixth collection of poems, Joseph Mills offer us a collection of witty and thought-provoking poems inspired by Shakespeare's stage directions. "You don't have to be a Shakespeare nut to fall...

Rick Campbell is one of his generation that took to America's roads and byways, old cars, hitchhiking, The Greyhound, and just plain walking. Fish Streets before Dawn expands and contracts along...

Hard Toward Home is alive with cross-grained people caught between their pasts and futures and striving to outlast the harm they've done each other and themselves. Albin possesses all the...

Author: Anna ElkinsPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413217ISBN-13: 9781950413218

House in Need of Mooring pulls back the curtain on our natural surroundings and reminds the reader just what is at stake if we destroy our home. To surrender to this book is to face that naked...

How We DisappearAuthor: Tara Lynn MasihPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Sep 13, 2022Number of Pages: 164 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413454ISBN-13: 9781950413454

Hunger to Share might be called narrative poetry, but Bresnahan thinks and observes lyrically. She is full of a hungry love--for music, art, nature, and for disparate places and cultures (Woodworth)...

Debut story collection by John Matthew Fox.Author: John Matthew FoxPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Dec 01, 2017Number of Pages: 170 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Author: Dannye Romine PowellPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: May 01, 2020Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413225ISBN-13: 9781950413225

Author: Kathleen McGookeyPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: October 03, 2019Number of Pages: 84 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 195041311XISBN-13: 9781950413119

Mark Cox pulls no punches in these poems about loving, drinking, traveling, and screwing up his relationships and parts of his life. "Looking back for a low point marking the worst of my insobriety,...

Leopard Lady: A Life in Verse by Valerie Nieman tells the story of Dinah, an orphan child of Appalachia who runs away to a carnival, and the emotional, physical, and spiritual journey she embraces...

This wide-ranging, beautiful, and painful book reveals LaWanda Walters as a masterful, brave, and dangerous poet. As much at home with a disciplined free verse as with traditional forms, and as...

Winner of the 2017 Press 53 Award for Poetry, Lion Brothers, says poetry series editor Tom Lombardo, "presents stories freshly, with stunning surprises, while maintaining strong connections between...

With the awareness of a poet who notices not just the beauty she seeks but also the difficulties and modern detritus of the world, Herlong-Bodman visits each place with a deep yearning to understand...

Midlife Calculus : PoemsAuthor: Britt KaufmannPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Sep 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413829ISBN-13: 9781950413829

Milo/Allgera Wright was a poet, story teller, and artist, who was a constant figure in the Arts District and arts community of Winston-Salem, North Carolina. As a self-described, "Androgynous,...

Winner of the 2017 Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, Missing Persons is the debut story collection by Stephanie Carpenter of Upper Peninsula Michigan. Jim Shepard says, "These stories are piercingly...

Mr. Potato Head Vs. Freud : Lessons on the Craft of Writing FictionAuthor: Clint McCownPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Dec 01, 2021Number of Pages: 164 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

Author: Mohja KahfPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Apr 01, 2020Number of Pages: 90 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413195ISBN-13: 9781950413195