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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.
Spirography
Publication Date: April 2025
Writing from ten years after her father's death, she traces her experiences of becoming a stepparent, carrying on her dad's legacy, and, in unimaginable ways, bringing him back to life.
The Lake Huron Mermaid
Publication Date: October 2024
Through this poetic adventure, Dawn and the mermaid unearth a deeper understanding of sisterhood and the significance of growing up together, making sense of the world together, and fighting to stay together.
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.
Kin
Publication Date: August 2024
Kin is a tribute to forebearers, a beacon to those calling homes into being, and a strata of stories for children not yet born.
We Live Here
Publication Date: August 2024
These poems not only evoke a sense of spirit that transcends boundaries but they bear traditional knowledge, notions of the seasons, and conceptions of how the spirit is shaped by nature.
Diver Beneath the Street
Publication Date: February 2024
This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.
Irregular Heartbeats at the Park West
Publication Date: January 2024
Drawing on a depth of emotion, wit, and reverence for nature, this striking new collection captures the beautiful and often poignant complexities of the human experience.
Enough to Lose
Publication Date: September 2023
Deeren artfully illustrates the brutal realities of working-class rural life that are punctuated by moments of beauty, humor, and resilience.
What to Count
Publication Date: August 2023
What to Count is a remarkable collection of contemporary poetry—both a lyrical splendor and a contemplative account of lineage, silenced history, and identity.
The Orchestra of Wind Chimes
Publication Date: March 2023
Through these poems, Jacques has achieved a balance between form and function, allowing readers to embark on a rhythmic journey of expression, language, and human existence.
Divining, a Memoir in Trees
Publication Date: February 2023
While technology, screens, and the stress of the modern world directs our attention elsewhere, Dunphy brings the reader back to the trees right outside our windows.
Psych Murders
Publication Date: September 2022
Psych Murders adds a vital layer of lived experience of electroshocks and suicidal ideation to the growing body of literature of madness and mental health difference.
Stilettos in a Rifle Range
Publication Date: December 2022
Williams’s language in particular is an intralingual love affair that all will enjoy.
Hadha Baladuna
Publication Date: June 2022
This engaged stance is not a byproduct of culture, but a new way of thinking about the US in relation to one's homeland.
Raising Bean
Publication Date: June 2022
Comical and engaging, the essays in Raising Bean will appeal to readers of all backgrounds and interests, especially those with a curiosity in language, perception, humor, and the ways in which Native people guide their families and friends with stories.
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.
You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids
Publication Date: March 2022
A notable work in the landscape of Asian American literature as well as Midwest and Michigan-based literature, You Cannot Resist Me When My Hair Is in Braids features a clear and powerful voice that brings all people together in these political and pandemic times.
Gut Botany
Publication Date: December 2021
Readers looking for experimental poetry that takes up space in their brains and bodies will dive deep and fast into this queer ecosomatic investigation.
Grief's Country
Publication Date: October 2021
Those interested in the subject area of death and dying will find it useful as a book that bypasses recovery narratives, truisms, and "stages of griefto get as close as possible to the experience itself.
When Our Fathers Return to Us as Birds
Publication Date: September 2021
Fans of Markus's work and all of those who are caring for dying parents or grieving their loss will find comfort, kinship, and appreciation in this honest and beautiful collection.
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.
Mortality, with Friends
Publication Date: September 2021
Readers with a fondness for memoir and appreciation for art will be dazzled by the beauty of this collection.
When the Heart Needs a Stunt Double
Publication Date: April 2021
This collection will be admired by poetry lovers of all kinds, and those who enjoy modern and corporeal love poems.
How Other People Make Love
Publication Date: April 2021
These are stories for anyone who has ever loved or been loved.
You're in the Wrong Place
Publication Date: September 2020
Readers of contemporary fiction grounded in place need to take up this collection.
I Have the Answer
Publication Date: April 2020
Readers of contemporary fiction and short stories will enjoy mulling over the complicated feelings this collection evokes.
A Fine Canopy
Publication Date: October 2020
These poems will carry weight with all readers of poetry, especially those who are interested in ecopoetry and connecting with the world around them.
You Are My Joy and Pain
Publication Date: October 2020
Readers will identify with the hope and disappointment that Madgett presents in these poems.
Words Like Thunder
Publication Date: April 2020
Even young readers, especially students of color, will find parts of this book to which they can relate.
Black Indian
Publication Date: August 2019
But every family has its own truth, and Buchanan's search for hers will resonate with anyone who has wondered "maybe there's more than what I'm being told."
Know the Mother
Publication Date: March 2016
Readers of short fiction will appreciate this deeply felt collection.
Teacher/Pizza Guy
Publication Date: August 2019
Teacher/Pizza Guy is a funny and relatable collection for readers, thinkers, educators, and pizza lovers everywhere.
These Are Love(D) Letters
Publication Date: October 2019
As poetic as it is visually enticing, the book offers both an unconventional and queer(ed) understanding of the documentarian form, which will excite both readers and artists across and beyond genres.
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.
Shades
Publication Date: August 2019
Cintrón's stories capture the rhythms of language and the poetry of the people and will interest readers of fiction or poetry who seek to understand love.
The Desk on the Sea
Publication Date: June 2019
Sustained by an unwavering belief that words can help us fully occupy our lives, and that imagination and empathy can transform suffering into what John Keats called "soul-making,Johnson offers readers a raw look at love and loss.
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.
Premonitions
Publication Date: September 2018
This volume will be prized by lovers of contemporary poetry and literature alike.
Unblinking
Publication Date: May 2019
Unblinking is a short story collection for any lover of contemporary fiction looking for that strong pulse of feeling.
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.
Welcome to Replica Dodge
Publication Date: March 2019
Anybody who has ever felt like they didn’t belong will take comfort in this enchanting memoir.
Elemental
Publication Date: November 2018
Fans of nonfiction that reads as beautifully as fiction will love this collection.
Garden for the Blind
Publication Date: April 2015
All readers of fiction will enjoy the nimble unfolding of Fordon's narrative in this collection.
The Goat Fish and the Lover's Knot
Publication Date: April 2017
Lovers of contemporary storytelling will revel in Driscoll's skill and insight on display in this unique collection.
Night Manual
Publication Date: May 2019
Fans of contemporary poetry who want to believe in something again—who need a small dose of absurdity along with their suffering—this collection is for you.
Stiff
Publication Date: November 2018
Readers of contemporary fiction will enjoy this inventive and evocative collection of stories.
I Got to Keep Moving
Publication Date: November 2018
Readers of fiction, especially those interested in short fiction and African American fiction, will find this stunning and unique collection a welcome addition to their libraries.
States of Motion
Publication Date: May 2017
The profoundly emotional stories in States of Motion will interest any reader of contemporary literary fiction.
Sharp Blue Search of Flame
Publication Date: April 2016
Readers of poetry will savor this sensory collection.
