Poetry. Women's Studies. Populated by the quotidian events and things that punctuate our days (air travel, medical exams, bathrooms, phones, etc.), the poems in Niina Pollari's DEAD HORSE are anything
Fiction. LGBT Studies. "Spontaneity, Accuracy, and Mystery are the three things Elizabeth Bishop says make a great poem. I am applying her three markers to Runkle's stories today, perfect in
Poetry. "Keiran Goddard's poetry throws light on the things you're not supposed to notice; the fear and the beauty in a lover s handwriting, a snapped vine, an uneasy friendship. FOR THE CHOR
Fiction. May-Lan Tan's first published story appeared in Zoetrope: All- Story in 2011, and her long- anticipated debut collection,Things to Make and Break (CB Editions), is poised to become a cult hit
Fiction. Walter Farnham is on a mission. Only he doesn't know it. Living above the garage of his former wife and her new husband, Walt has never been one to finish things, not even a divorce. In fact,
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. "In San Francisco, Austin and Buffalo a chiel's among ye taking notes. David Hadbawnik like James Boswell has a knack for capturing all the things we wish we had said, as well as the street ta
Poetry. "I never set out to write a poem. I will jot things down in my notebook, sometimes ideational, sometimes not, sometimes picked up from the environment, or misheard, or from a dream, and occasi
Poetry. Women's Studies. The poems in this collection move into the past with her mother and father and also explore the present both with family and culture. The poems range in quick flourishes of co
Poetry. Is it possible that anything you can conceive, with any combination of words, can, in the fullness of time, manifest itself materially? Some such thought will be prompted by the reading of any
Fiction. Short Stories. A set of linked stories with some of the same characters from PERSO and a lot of new ones and the world is the same but different from the world in PERSO and the stories
Literary Nonfiction. Women's Studies. LGBTQIA Studies. The original 2012 essay collection, redesigned and with four new essays by the author.LEGS GET LED ASTRAY is a provocative collection of essays t
Aging. Self-Help. Health. Translated from the German by Michael Eskin. Learning to live with one's own aging is the new task: making an art of what once was a given—growing older; turning our society'
Literary Nonfiction. The most brilliant writers occasionally stumble with grammar and punctuation, and the rest of us can learn from their missteps. THE GOTHAM GRAMMARIAN is a book of rules and guidel
Fiction. Ten Women is George Bowering's brand new collection of short fiction. Each of these stories offers us a portrait of a woman with whom he may or may not have had either an intimate and/or a me
Poetry. Brian Henry takes the blank, desolate canvas of snow and searches "for a river of color buried." With calm precision he sways from physical to abstract, from stasis to motion. The ba
Poetry. 2014 Snyder Prize winner. "THE GENOME RHAPSODIES opens with Gregor Mendel's question: 'What is inherited, and how?' Like strands of DNA, the syntax in these brilliant and moving poems
Poetry. EAST HOLLYWOOD: MEMORIAL TO REASON is a long poem-memoir. The reader walks with Harry through the streets of East Hollywood as he shares his life with us in language that is joyful, sorrowful
Poetry. "In a channel surfing acoustically explosive mash-up of socio-cultural commentary, Morris' pun-drenched HIT PLAY is a witty tour-de-force of juicy jouissey jewy jouissance. Pulsing with t
Poetry. "Preverbs are not so much assertions as events. Read on the page or, better yet, spoken, each of Quasha's lines is an occasion for becoming aware of meaning in the making. Releasing words
Fiction. Twenty-one new authors evoke the painful and beautiful realities of life. Whether the struggles of a recent immigrant to support his family, a young daughter dealing with her mother's mental
Poetry. "With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, THE DAUGHTER'S ALMANAC is a masterwork, a deftly crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with
Fiction. Translated from the Ukrainian by Vitaly Chernetsky. In the 1990s, Karl-Joseph Zumbrunnen, an Austrian photographer with Galician roots, travels repeatedly through Ukraine. The chaos of the tr
Poetry. Fiction. With collages by the author. Doren Robbins' unique voice of existential disgust and cynicism comes through in a relentless damning of our culture, politics and state of being. And yet
Poetry. "Lesley Wheeler's new volume of poems, RADIOLAND, spellbinds with the gorgeous sounds of its poetry: 'Drag belly over gravel on a cave-lip / into the TV and sleep in it,' one poem opens.
Poetry. "Startlingly fecund, culturally shrewd, grounded in bright particulars and sly juxtapositions, Anis Shivani shows us with diamond brilliance what happens when language takes leave of its
Drama. It's Labor Day weekend at the Trailerville Mobile Home Park in Ouachita Parish, Louisiana. Merdelle Harris's husband of forty-one years is rapidly deteriorating with Alzheimer's. She is determi
Poetry. Driven by the rhythms of everyday language and filled with details only a lifelong outsider registers, Gloeggler sheds light on a world habitually ignored. Covering the 35 or so years the poet
It is the fiery pinnacle of autumn in New York's Hudson Valley when Lola, a troubled recluse, reports her newborn kidnapped from outside a seedy bar. But no one's seen Lola with a baby, or even heard
Poetry. "Though I disprove it with all the days of my life, / who am I to deny / this blade of a faith, / surfacing"—Chloe Garcia Roberts writes in the title poem of her debut collec
Poetry. "In ORPHAN MACHINES, Carrie Hunter stages a kind of cyborgian theater where ideology is brilliantly dismantled to unmask the real. With each startling construction, spaced across aera
Poetry. "This is a collection of extraordinary range and depth, with acute sensitivity and insight throughout. Ruth Handel's gardens are 'no site for sentiment,' but they are sites of visitat
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Allie Marini's 2015 collection of love poems."Allie Marini warns the reader: I'm bracing up to get my heart wrecked. We walk with her to the clif
Poetry. California Interest. Women's Studies. Cassandra Dallett's 2015 collection of poetry."These poems speak of love, sex and relationships in the way they are actually lived, with all the
Poetry. Art. In this lambent collaboration, visual artist Marina Adams echoes the spareness of Norma Cole's language with delicate lines that contour muscular negative spaces, sometimes stark and dens
Poetry. The time: creeping toward the millennium, yet before Y2K panic inspires everyone to stockpile bottled water and cheap wine. The place: a Midwestern metropolis with echoes of Chicago, Cleveland
Poetry. "Antigone enters. Pesticides, eco-cide, a guiding conversation with Leslie Scalapino and the beloved dead. The drone poem and the brain-body of the dancer. Brenda Iijima gets at the h
Poetry. SHIPBREAKING is a stunning book about being awake. Robin Beth Schaer spins her readers through the wires, storms, and electricity between us—with great precision of language and line. This is
Literary Nonfiction. Art. Sculpture. With commentary by Jon Wood. In 1972, artist Garth Evans welcomed the opportunity to create a public sculpture in Cardiff, Wales, as part of the Peter Stuyvesant F
