Poetry. Kelly Cherry's background in philosophy and classical music are the pillars of her poetry, although she seeks ways to keep them in the background. BEHOLDER'S EYE, her eleventh book of poetry,
Poetry. LET'S SIT DOWN, FIGURE THIS OUT, Grant Kittrell's debut collection of poems, contains multitudes. From furry, whimsical fables of broken logic to personal meditations saddled tightly to failin
Poetry. From flashcards and sonnets to long poems that stretch over pages, varied and adventurous in form, Cathryn Hankla's eighth collection of poems, GREAT BEAR, strikes a mature note in terms of to
Poetry. Jack Christian's charming follow-up to his debut Family System (2012, Colorado Poetry Prize) reads as if compiled of epiphanies had while vacuuming. Weird and profound, and often weirdly profo
The poems of Julia Johnson's third book, SUBSIDENCE, speak on personal, geological, and metaphysical levels about subsidence, both as a concept and as a fact of the slowly dissolving American Gulf Coa
Poetry. AS A FLOCK OF GOATS, a collection of poems in miniature, negotiates the strange terrains of promise, space, longing, and origins. Using just a few painterly strokes, Quill culls images from th
Poetry. 7,000 SPARROWS is a meditative long poem addressed to Rafal Lemkin, the Polish-born linguist and lawyer who gave name to the crime of "genocide" and assured its irrevocable place in the framew
Poetry. In her stunning debut, ALMOND, EYELESS, Karen Meadows explores the complex interaction between internal and external landscapes, and the powerful influence of context on experience. Through ri
Poetry. SOUTH is a book that defies description. It is not a book of fiction. It is not a book of history or mythology. It is not a book of poetic prose. If W.J.'s Cash's book The Mind of the South we
Poetry. Music. The poems in Howard Nelson's new collection are often two or three pages long. They are meditative, digressive, and carefully crafted. The natural world and cultural history are equally
Poetry. In Susan Hankla's debut poetry collection, CLINCH RIVER, Appalachian women can dirt in Mason jars, push husbands down wishing wells, and try to read the signs on Hostess cupcakes. This landsca
