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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...

Like Shining From Shook Foil: Selected Poems by Cathy Smith Bowers, award-winning Poet Laureate of North Carolina, brings together selections from four collections of poetry and 19 previously...

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,...

Miracle Boy and Other Stories represents a body of work eighteen years in the making. Benedict's last short story collection was the critically acclaimed The Wrecking Yard, published in 1992 by Nan A...

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...

In mid-1950s Memphis, Tennessee, twelve-year-old Molly Flanagan struggles with double vision, family drama, piano lessons, and her own self-confidence, all while feeling pulled between the religious...

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:...

Kelly Kathleen Ferguson needed to know-was connecting with her lifelong heroine the key to knowing herself? She decided to find out. Kelly donned a prairie dress and retraced the pioneer journey of...

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

My Sisters Made of Light follows three generations of a Pakistani family as they make their way through life in the political, social, and religious maze that is their motherland. This novel pulls...

Dannye Romine Powell's marvelous new collection gives us a generous offering of poems that document the tender mercies of a woman ruminating on the cusp of endtime. Shockingly insightful, the poems...

"Michael Kardos's soulful stories take place in that hard-luck corner of New Jersey where rock and roll dreams crash into blue-collar reality. One Last Good Time is a remarkable debut collection,...

Poems by North Carolina Poet Laureate Shelby Stephenson, dedicated to his wife Nin, and to Fred and Susan Cheppell.Author: Shelby StephensonPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Apr 16, 2018Number of...

"These stories are magic: luminous evocations of the sorrow and joy and mystery of everyday life. Poignant, heartfelt, and gorgeously written, Out Across the Nowhere introduces Amy Willoughby-Burle...

Reading Kathleen McGookey's latest collection, Paper Sky, reminds me why I love prose poetry. Sublime, profound, and deeply felt, each poem is like a crystal gem. It's as if she has taken her...

Eloquent, wistful, and inventive, Jenny Sadre-Orafai's first book proves "everywhere is an atlas." She enlarges moments of wonderment and sadness into poems that map radiant intimacies and flickering...

In Rebecca Foust's splendid book-length sonnet sequence, Paradise Drive, we come upon a Pilgrim contemplating the deadly sins while hiding out in the bathrooms at some of Marin County, California's...

Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions introduces a cast of characters both strange and strangely familiar. . . .while also reminding us that what some may call "fantasy" often tells the truest...

Author: Lindsey RoycePublisher: Press 53Publication Date: October 04, 2019Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413128ISBN-13: 9781950413126

Richard Garcia's Porridge is a fractious mash-up of fairy tales, nursery rhymes, cartoons, games, dances, popular songs and the Bible-with an occasional nod to the greatest hits of English literature...

"Katie Chaple is a poet of passionate detail. The poems in Pretty Little Rooms display a writer wholly engaged with the world and its characters, objects, and creatures. Charlie Chaplin and Mme Du...

Prose poems by Mark CoxAuthor: Mark CoxPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Mar 28, 2018Number of Pages: 67 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941209785ISBN-13: 9781941209783

Thirty-nine years after her first collection of poems, Maria Ingram Braucht brings us Red Clay Gypsy, a collection that spans her life from childhood to womanhood, from home to around the world and...

"Using dark arts of incantation and understatement, Isabel Zuber makes poems that draw us into their spaces-allusive stories of Thens, Nows, and Nevers, haunted by spirits of Always." - Sarah...

Poet Jacinta V. White shares poems inspired by her travels to African American churches and cemeteries in the south, from North Carolina to Texas.Author: Jacinta V. WhitePublisher: Press...