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In the Bone-Cracking Cold
Publication Date: March 2025
With a voice that is both striking and unpretentious, Seigel's poems remain hopeful regardless of uncertainty and curious despite the threat of apathy, inviting readers to connect with a landscape as iconic as it is misunderstood.
What Can the Matter Be?
Publication Date: August 2024
Together, these nuanced and often surprising works urge empathy and call out in sorrow, love, and hope for the world.
The Second Stop Is Jupiter
Publication Date: September 2023
Titles like "The Death of Olympiaand "The Three Sulasset the tone for this collection to manifest a Pan-Africanist poetics entwined with themes of Classical Romanticism.
House and Home
Publication Date: February 2023
This is poetry that grounds us, brings us home, so to speak, while initiating us into the magic that brightens and coheres our intimate lives.
Far Company
Publication Date: May 2022
Often melancholic but never sentimental, this collection belongs with any reader who seeks out literature in the organic world.
Gun/Shy
Publication Date: August 2021
Daniels's accessible language, subtlety, and deftness make this collection one that belongs on every poetry reader's shelf.
The Shape of Regret
Publication Date: October 2019
The Shape of Regret is a wonderful place to either start or revive one's love of poetry.
Come See about Me, Marvin
Publication Date: September 2019
Readers of poetry and lovers of Motown will embrace this love letter to a local legend.
Teacher/Pizza Guy
Publication Date: August 2019
Teacher/Pizza Guy is a funny and relatable collection for readers, thinkers, educators, and pizza lovers everywhere.
Saint Peter and the Goldfinch
Publication Date: April 2019
Readers of poetry who enjoy wrestling with life's big questions will appreciate the space that Ridl allows for these ruminations.
Ragged Anthem
Publication Date: March 2019
Fans of Dombrowski's past works and newcomers alike will bask in the poet's firm yet relaxed approach to the shaping of language.
Field Recordings
Publication Date: March 2018
From poetry readers to poets, music fans to musicians, this collection will undoubtedly appeal to a wide audience.
Eco-Dementia
Publication Date: October 2017
Readers of modern and experimental poetry will treasure this collection.
Harborless
Publication Date: June 2017
This collection accomplishes that task through history and imagination, producing lake lore that will speak to historians and those interested in ships, poetry, and the Great Lakes.
Rowing Inland
Publication Date: February 2017
Readers of contemporary poetry with a regional persuasion will enjoy this collection.
The Bird-While
Publication Date: January 2017
These well-crafted poems will be easily accessible to any literary audience, with a more particular attraction to readers of contemporary poetry sensitive to the marriage of an Eastern sensibility with contemporary American settings and scenes.
Lying in the River's Dark Bed
Publication Date: April 2016
Those interested in conversational poetry and environmental writing will be enthralled with this stirring yet soothing collection.
I Want to Be Once
Publication Date: April 2016
Readers with an interest in poetry and social commentary will be drawn to this engaging collection.
Heathen
Publication Date: February 2015
This is an extremely satisfying collection of poems that invite the reader to return to it again and again.
Until the Full Moon Has Its Say
Publication Date: February 2014
All readers of poetry will treasure this powerful volume.
Privacy Issues
Publication Date: January 2014
Privacy Issues is an emotionally and intellectually stimulating first book by the winner of the 2014 Naomi Long Madgett Poetry Award.
The Light Between
Publication Date: February 2012
Students and teachers of writing and fans of poetry will enjoy this beautifully crafted collection.
Allegiance
Publication Date: February 2012
Poetry lovers will appreciate this exciting debut collection.
To Embroider the Ground with Prayer
Publication Date: February 2012
Readers interested in contemporary poetry will be grateful for this profound collection.
At the Bureau of Divine Music
Publication Date: March 2011
Fans of Heffernan’s writing and readers interested in poetry will enjoy At the Bureau of Divine Music.
The Dropped Hand
Publication Date: January 2011
With patience and wisdom and, above all, with love, she crafts the vessel that counters dissolution."
Jonestown
Publication Date: January 2011
Readers of poetry will appreciate the questions of religion, race, nationality, power, civil rights, sexuality, and identity that Gillespie engages through the enigma of Jonestown.
The Golden Underground
Publication Date: February 2009
Fans of Butts’s previous work as well as general readers of poetry will enjoy this vital and insightful volume.
If the World Becomes So Bright
Publication Date: February 2009
General readers of poetry, as well as fans of Taylor's other work, will enjoy If the World Becomes So Bright.
Wide Awake in Someone Else's Dream
Publication Date: February 2008
Fans of Liebler’s work and general readers of poetry will enjoy Wide Awake in Someone Else’s Dream.
Poetry's Playground
Publication Date: February 2007
This book will be of interest to poets, scholars of poetry and children’s literature, as well as students and teachers of literary history, cultural anthropology, and contemporary poetry.
A Different Image
Publication Date: September 2004
A CD featuring selected readings from each poet's work accompanies the text.
The Last Good Water
Publication Date: December 2003
This collection is an important addition to the library of the creative, the ecocritical, and above all, the outdoorsmen and women of the Midwest.
Bobweaving Detroit
Publication Date: December 2003
Readers of poetry and lovers of the arts, humanities, and athletics can recognize and join Jackson's conversations—his "bobweaving"— with Langston Hughes, Julius Caesar, Mozart, Duke Ellington, Archie Moore and Marianne Moore, William Shakespeare and Willie the Pimp, Coleman Hawkins and Coleman Young, Malcolm X and Malcolm Boyd.
Abandon Automobile
Publication Date: September 2001
The exciting range of voices represented in this collection will appeal to anyone interested in poetry, regional literature, and urban life.
Letters to America
Publication Date: December 1995
The poets in this anthology include Gwendolyn Brooks, Charles Bukowski, Joy Harjo, Langstong Hughes, Sharon Olds, James Wright, Etheridge Knight, Gary Soto, Garrett Kaoru Hongo, Audre Lorde, David Ignatwo, and others.
Hatshepsut, Speak to Me
Publication Date: June 1992
Hatshepsut, Speak to Me represents a culmination of Ruth Whitman's series of groundbreaking narrative poems written in the voices of other extraordinary women—Lizzie Borden, Tamsen Donner, Hanna Senesh, Anna Pavlova, and Isadora Duncan.
Punching Out
Publication Date: March 1990
Opting for blunt, straightforward language, Daniels does not try to "poeticizethe factory but rather injects the factory into his poetry.
