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Author: Rhonda Browning WhitePublisher: Press 53Publication Date: October 12, 2019Number of Pages: 158 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413071ISBN-13: 9781950413072

"Steve Mitchell's stories seem to play out in dimensions that fluidly interconnect our palpable and dreamy selves. Whether they "stroke waves of heat into [our] flesh" as in "Dandelion," or happen...

This valuable little book is a collection of six essays by and four interviews with Georgia Poet Laureate David Bottoms. Edward Hirsch, author of The Living Fire: New and Selected Poems, says, "This...

The Origin of Doubt is a collection of flash fiction that represents the best of the genre. Each story is a gem, a glimpse into moments of yearning and unexpected perception, instants that many of us...

It's a rare treasure that a debut collection is published in a poet's ninth decade, but this is exactly what Miles Coon has achieved with The Quotient of My Self Divided by Myself. Once a successful...

In Steve Mitchell's third book, The Reason the Dress Is Yellow, he allows us to see the world through his characters' eyes, hear their thoughts, and feel their joy, sorrow, and pain. Of Mitchell's...

[I]magine my glee when I came upon Shivani Mehta's memorable new collection [of prose poems], The Required Assembly. In these minimalist beauties Mehta proves that the tiny is enormous as she...

The Seven Stages of Anger and Other Stories in the first winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, selected by Kevin Morgan Watson, Publisher, and Christine Norris, Fiction Editor. Carol Guess,...

Winner of the Press 53 Award for Short Fiction, this collection of eleven short stories takes readers on a journey both scientific and spiritual. Kevin Morgan Watson, publisher at Press 53 and judge...

"In The Waterhouse, Jubal Tiner traces the intersecting fate of three boyhood friends as they navigate the world of masculinity and its discontents. These are stories bristling with a fierce wisdom,...

"Sometimes a new poet appears who has a generous field of vision, a craft at once well-honed and extravagant, and a unique point of view, with narratives that could belong to no one else-a poet who,...

"When an avid reader of contemporary poetry discovers a book so full of warmth and eloquent exactitude, she is grateful and excited to read more by the author. This was my first experience of reading...

This Miraculous Turning is a book that turns from nothing-the daily, the domestic, the little epiphanies. These poems are conversational, profound, narrative, and leavened with inimitable humor,...

Poems by Willie James KingAuthor: Willie James KingPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Jan 15, 2019Number of Pages: 74 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1941209955ISBN-13:...

Author: Michael HettichPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: September 06, 2019Number of Pages: 78 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413136ISBN-13: 9781950413133

Sara Ries Dziekonski's poems take readers into this world of service and the friendships that develop between customers and those who are feeding them at her family's Woodlawn Diner in Buffalo, New...

In this marvelous collection of poems by one of our very best storytellers, time slows like the light does at the end of the day. Nature drives a hard bargain. We milk a dead cow to save her newborn...

Commemorating a love story, a marriage, the moments of a shared life both large and small, the poems in Jim Peterson's Towheaded Stone Thrower: The Harriet Poems flicker through the delights of...

Kelly Cherry's tenth work of fiction delivers twelve compelling stories about women of the American South. These are women struggling to find their way through the everyday workings of life while...

A collection that begins with this line..."Once we even used bacon grease-" is one that gets your attention quickly. Readers realize soon that this collection tells the story of the diagnosis,...

Hedy Habra's Under Brushstrokes is a rich tapestry of images, sounds and meanings. Like any tapestry the complexity of weaving, the craft and artistry are often under or subliminal to the larger...

"The marvelous prose poems in Shivani Mehta's debut collection live at the intersection of language and imagery. Even if you won't be losing your head anytime soon, Useful Information for the...

"This debut collection is a constant surprise. There are tender, lyrical stories about longing and dogs and sick mothers and disoriented geese, and short pieces with jagged edges and daring rhythms...

"Reading Felicia Mitchell's stunning collection, Waltzing with Horses, is like spending a few life-changing hours with one of those wise women we read about in fairy tales. She knows the names of...

Author: Jennifer S. DavisPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Aug 29, 2022Number of Pages: 236 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413497ISBN-13: 9781950413492

"The characters in Welcome, Anybody stand absolutely still in the middle of their lives while the world spins around them, chaotically and often dangerously. There is an intensity of vision here-both...

Author: Robert ScotelarroPublisher: Press 53Publication Date: Sep 15, 2020Number of Pages: 134 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1950413268ISBN-13: 9781950413263

In 2011, Press 53 challenged their email subscribers to write a 53-word story in response to a prompt. Fewer than twenty subscribers responded. Thirteen years later, the free and monthly 53-Word...

"Bonnie ZoBell's linked novella and story collection, What Happened Here, made me feel as if I'd lived all my life in San Diego's North Park, whose inhabitants live and work in the long shadow of the...

Poems by international poet Glenis Redmond, reaching back to her ancestors and her immediate family, from picking cotton, to picking paths, Redmond leads readers on a journey of the soul.Author:...