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"In these stories, Jeffrey Condran deliberately addresses the tensions and promise of our post-9/11 world with courage, intelligence, and empathy. His characters are often world-weary, but they...

"Set in the vast and sometimes violent landscape of contemporary Brazil, this is a gorgeous collection of stories-wise, hopeful, and forgiving, but clear-eyed in its exploration of the toll taken on...

In her fourth book-length collection of poems, A Lake of Light and Clouds, "Terri Kirby Erickson, to adapt a phrase from the epigraph by Sharon Randall, reflects the light she has been given. A...

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...

Like birds blown off course, the characters in these stories need a place to roost-somewhere to settle long enough to repair their ragged hearts-and they find it near the banks of the mythical...

In 1956, Shirley Deane, a young professional musician, turned her back on a recording contract and TV appearances to work her way around the world. She traveled to 67 countries, became the first...

Dave McIntyre of the Washington Post said of the first edition of Angels, Thieves, and Winemakers: Wine Poems, "...a must-have for all wine lovers. No ideology here, just perspective. Mills has 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 Anson County, Joseph Bathanti's generous heart turns the local into universal praises. Radiant as a welcome sun after rain, his reverence for people, places, and things fashions rare and...

"In her terrific debut, Baby's on Fire, Liz Prato pulls off the ultimate balancing act: the stories are at once beautifully written and tremendously compelling-not to mention filled with characters...

"Bastard Blue is a first book but there's more than promise on display within its pages. This collection introduces us to a fully realized talent. Murray Dunlap's voice is confident, his characters...

"What you feel first is the simplicity-of sentences, of tone, of description-but then before you know it, complexity has crept in on every level, and by the end of each of these stories you are left...

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...

John McNally, author of After the Workshop, says of Best Road Yet, "Ryan Stone understands the yearnings of people down on their luck, those longings and desires that his characters keep to...

Blood a Cold Blue is James Claffey's debut story collection that Ronlyn Domingue says "spans the distance of continents and the gulf between memories. At times beautifully surreal then painfully...

Blood Clay tells the story of Tracey Gaines, who has moved to rural Saul County, North Carolina, to escape the wreckage of a divorce and becomes a teacher at an alternative school. She devotes...

"What is this creature Wendy Willis calls Blood Sisters of the Republic? Let me offer a few excited observations: a compendium, an almanac, a miscellany. A genealogy both personal and broadly...

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:...

"John Thomas York has long been known as the Yadkin Bard. But he is also a poet of the vast reaches of the night sky, of deep memory, of wonder. His voice is distinctive, fresh, bringing to life a...

Robert Morgan's welcome Collected Early Poems presents in one volume the contents of his first four full-length books, which appeared in steady succession over the course of a decade. His remarkable...

The eleven stories in Gerry Wilson's debut collection, Crosscurrents and Other Stories, span three generations of women-wives, mothers, daughters, sisters, friends. Starkly real yet sometimes...

Damn Sure Right, the "wonderful, dark, unforgiving" (Frederick Barthelme) debut by Meg Pokrass, "conveys entire worlds that are touching, haunting, funny, moving, and strange in the most beautiful...

"Dreaming of the Rain in Brooklyn marks the debut of a poet of deep feeling, one who filters the 'pear light of hope' through daily existence and who recognizes each 'odd hour... pressed by love.' In...

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

A Tom Lombardo Poetry Selection that Luis Alberto Urrea, author of Queen of America, says is "dark and lovely and full of a deep organic pulse. Like the landscape of her beloved Louisiana, her work...

"Just as the title Elegant Punk promises, this is a collection full of contrasts, surprises, and strange revelations. Embedded in the gritty realism, there is poetry of the highest order, and grace...

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...