Literary Nonfiction. Memoir. Soccer balls putter down dusty streets, classmates forage through dumps for toys, while friends carry on inexplicably hopeful conversations in bread lines. This extraordin
Poetry. Jane O. Wayne's THE OTHER PLACE YOU LIVE explores "the world's slow unwinding" with insight and lyric grace. With characteristic intensity of language and a bounty of imagery, she reveals thos
Poetry. African American Studies. Tenea D. Johnson's poems are uniquely observant; they captivate and surprise from choreographing butterflies turned to dust, to Kentucky woods and suburbia. Johnson's
Poetry. In these snappy and unique poems, Katz views the world from some slanted perspective most of us aren't careful enough to see. Katz imagines Emily Dickinson rolling dice in an Indian casino and
Poetry. Imagistic language and unique imagination shape this stunning book. These musical, detailed poems capture the intricacies of Keyes' worlds: her family, childhood, Boston, Key West and even Gre
Poetry. Sophia Rivkin's debut collection, THE VALISE, embraces all of the terrors and joys of life from the harrowing world of her Russian grandmother to the fragile body of a dead field mouse. Rivkin
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish by Don Cellini. Poet Amanda Reverón maintains a blog. Her writing habit is to begin a new book of poems each January 1st and end it on Decemb
Poetry. IN A WHITE PAGE DEMANDS ITS LETTERS, Toni Ortner records the pain of divorce and other loss. The poetic cycle, "Dream Sequence," placed here in chronological order, has a raw intensity that st
Poetry. The various speakers of Nola Garrett's LEDGE talk with each other even as they confront their crisis decisions, well aware of the treachery, beauty, danger, and history that have brought them
Poetry. Jewish Studies. Middle Eastern Studies. Translated from the Yiddish by Zelda Kahan Newman. Bilingual edition. Rivka Basman Ben Haim's poems are witty and wise. Lyrical and personal, their leng
Poetry. DISTANT MUSIC inhabits a harsh Midwestern America of damaged prairies and inward-turning small towns, whose people are nonetheless touched by moments of grace. Unmarked paupers' graves in a ru
