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. Women's Studies. WILD ROSES explores the ravishing complexities in the lives of women from the 18th through the 20th centuries, revealing how society's boundaries did not prevent some women fr
Fiction. THE STARGAZER'S EMBASSY explores the frightening phenomenon of alien abduction from a different point of view. In this story, it is the aliens who seem fearful of Julia Glazer, the woman they
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
Poetry. Latino/Latina Studies. Translated from the Spanish in a bilingual edition by Carolyne Wright. In 2008, Seattle-based poet Eugenia Toledo revisited her native Chile to reconnect with places and
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. With IN WHICH WE SEE OUR SELVES, Eric Torgersen begins with the formal structure of the ghazal as popularized by Agha Shahid Ali and unapologetically makes a more American thing of it, arguing
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. 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. SOMETHING AN ATHEIST MIGHT BRING UP AT A COCKTAIL PARTY explores what it means to encounter crisis in a godless world. The poems range from lyrics to dramatic monologues, and while they do not
Poetry. Science Fiction. Hybrid Genre. Veteran poet David Lunde's newest work, ABSOLUTE ZERO, paints an always fantastic, often tender, and occasionally frightening portrait of humanity's place among
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. In ENGLISH KILLS AND OTHER POEMS, Monica Wendel challenges and explores the norms of adulthood. Her speaker, teetering on the edge of marriage and pregnancy, weaves together the real world and
Poetry. This is a book of false memories and myth—and recollection and revelation excavated out of the author's unconscious, the pieces laid out and puzzled over. This is the moment's archeologi
