Poetry. "Banishing poets from the well-ordered city did not prevent the creation of fictions: SHAM CITY is the capitol of fictitious capital, a no place of evaporating value where things sue for 'dama
Poetry. On Kirsten Dierking's collection of poems NORTHERN ORACLE: "Kirsten Dierking's poems often focus on the small things, the unnoticed natural world around her, 'the unknowable swimmers' in the w
Poetry. "A BRAND NEW BEGGAR is all about what and how it is to be open, in the field, to things that are all but imperceptibly piercing—the stuff that awakens us in passing, guiding our passage from o
Nonfiction. Literary Criticism. In this 2010 Grand River Forum Lecture, Ted Chamberlin describes how stories give shape and substance to the things we believe in, from scientific theories and sacred t
Poetry. Film. Music. "Jamie Townsend's SHADE attends to 'lust, lost, friendship' with a rich, expressive desire for the 'solidarity of raw physical closeness,' for something 'beyond subjectiv
Fiction. California Interest. "At the last dusty town in a line of dusty towns," Clementine's story begins. In OH MY DARLING, Cate O'Toole has constructed a winding narrative with ma
Cultural Writing. Social Criticism. Translated from the Italian with an introduction by Pasquale Verdicchio. "It is hard to think of a better point of entry into Gramsci's thought than his es
Poetry. Jessica Piazza's THIS IS NOT A SKY begins with the seed of ekphrastic literature, then yawns, then stretches, then bursts beyond those bounds. Each of these 18 poems borrows a title from the g
Poetry. "Rachel Guido deVries's The Brother Inside Me seduces with poems celebrating nature's beauty in New York. Exploring the paradoxical permanency of desire and loss, deVries writes convi
Poetry. Brittany Cavallaro and Rebecca Hazelton began with the proposition that the opposite of a dream song might be waking speech. Or a sleepless anthem. Or wakeful silence. Then they reversed that
Literary Nonfiction. A self-guided tour of ten places in Greenwich Village, New York, associated with the Welsh poet and author Dylan Thomas who visited New York four times and died in St Vincent's Ho
Poetry. Inspired by nineteenth-century Webster's Dictionary engravings, ENGRAVED explores a fantastic land at the edge of obsolescence and loss. The poems teem with whaling schooners, passenger pigeon
Poetry. "'By dint of / positioning,' these poems unfold a lyric voice with few certainties but, rather, positionings, juxtapositions, movements across and over, settlings then movements again. Hushed,
Magazine. Poetry. Fiction. Art. Literary Nonfiction. An interview with Billy Collins about his new book, the unconventional sketch art of W. Craghead III and the black and white paintings of Victor Ek
Poetry. "I regard Joseph Lease as the best poet of his generation. This is a poetry filled with stories that are built to last. This is a poet who will become a major voice in American poetry."—David
Poetry. "Harel writes with such grace, lacing his preoccupations with such a light touch of humor, that you often forget THE BODY DOUBLE is cut from the same big questions that keep us all up at night
Poetry. Richard Vetere's poetry is built on a beautiful, spare language that keeps him always on point. At times, bracing and revealing, Vetere is also capable of infusing his poetry with a good dose
Fiction. The year is 2212, the weather is out of control, and Seattle is being rebuilt with electricity generated from negative human emotion. In a strange and turbulent world fueled by secrecy and vo
Poetry. The poems in Judy Halebsky's SPACE/GAP/INTERVAL/DISTANCE, winner of the Sixteen Rivers Press 2011 Poets-Under-Forty Chapbook Contest, combine memory and depth of feeling with luminous observat
Poetry. HALLELUJAH, GIANT SPACE WOLF offers both an irreverent and sincere exploration of desperation and hope. Bailey's poems pair the personal with the mythical and traverse many linguistic quadrant
Poetry. THE GNAT'S WINDOW consists of textual-visual poems, based on the form of a window with words in it hovering over a mantric text-block. Highly innovative poetry that can be read in many directi
Poetry. LGBT Studies. "In both the historical and popular imagination of outlaw culture, the pirate occupies a central place as a swashbuckling, rogue seafarer driven by banditry and greed for treasur
Young Adult Fiction. GHOSTS OF THE PACIFIC, the fourth volume in the best-selling SUBMARINE OUTLAW series, begins with Alfred and his crew of Seaweed the seagull and Hollie the dog undertaking a harro
Fiction. A work of highly unconventional literary fiction, BIG MAN WITH A SHOVEL is a modern-day John-Henry fable in which a powerful laborer befriends a young worker only to find himself pitted again
Poetry. "Zach Savich's THE MAN WHO LOST HIS HEAD wrestles with the irrational rationality of life as we dimly perceive it. Yet these poems elicit, like the ambiguity of life itself, our most fervent a
Poetry. "In spirited kinship with the poems of Frank O'Hara and Gertrude Stein's notion of the continuous present, WONDERBENDER presents a vibrant, textured world of 'mysterious kindness,' 'a magnific
Fiction. "EVERYTHING FACES ALL WAYS AT ONCE by Zulema Renee Summerfield takes fiction apart with the hammer of poetry, forcing her astonished readers to 'defy all expectation,' as she suggests in the
With his loyal crew of a dog and a seagull by his side, Alfred sails across the Atlantic in his home-made submarine and enters the Mediterranean in search of the fabled lost island of Atlantis. Ziegfr
Cultural Writing. Inspiration. With a foreword by Laura Huxley. SOUL SEEDS, an inspirational book of succinctly-expressed philosophical insights, accompanied by a series of intuitively imaginative dra
Poetry. African American Studies. "How lucky I am to have my good humor! Without it I might / have been blue instead of delighted enough with my life/ and the two baby house plants I've just brought h
Poetry. Drama. "A collection of three literary actions written to be performed. The great thing is they can be performers with aplomb on the stage of the mind: although I would recommend to any perfor
Fiction. "AFTER THE GAZEBO is a wonder: complex, compelling, beautifully told. Jen Knox writes with a deceptively quiet fierceness that will sneak up behind you and grab you by the throat, cl
Poetry. African & African American Studies. Women's Studies. Revised and reissued in 2015, originally published by Belladonna* in 2006. In this book, which begins with a love poem and is encas
Poetry. Trilingual Edition. Translated from the original English into the Italian by Chiara Curtoni, and into the Sicilian by Nino Provenzano. With engravings by Michael McCurdy. "Truly an ho
Poetry. Edited by Katy Bohinc, with contributions from: Bernadette Mayer, Shanna Compton, Brenda Coultas, Dodie Bellamy, Carole Wagner Greenwood, Jen Hofer, Sophie Seita, Hoa Nguyen, Julie Patton, Kyr
Poetry. Translated from the Estonian by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov. Katlin Kaldmaa's ONE IS NONE, translated into English by Miriam McIlfatrick-Ksenofontov, will dazzle readers with its frank, ero
Poetry. Translated from the Slovene by Barbara Jur?a, with Laura Solomon, Travis Jeppesen, and Bridgette Bates. Jana Putrle Srdic's poetry is widely published in both her native Slovenia and abroad (s
Poetry. "Sarah Heady's NIAGARA TRANSNATIONAL is an epic American travelogue, but don't expect mythic vistas and fruited plains. Heady, our 21st-century Virgil, propels us with gutsy, erotic, punky apl
