Linda McCarriston mobilizes feeling, thinking, and narrating simultaneously to create works of music, insight, and passion. With characteristic honesty and energy, she draws from the lives of fellow h
Since its founding at Northwestern University in 1964, TriQuarterly has remained one of the most widely admired and important literary magazines in the country. Under the editorial direction of poet S
A deeply moving collection from a poet who crosses bordersNew York City poet Meena Alexander was born in Allahabad, India and divided her childhood between India and the Sudan. From her cross-cultura
A stunningly mature and confident debut collection, The Manageable Cold showcases Timothy McBride's mastery of a wide range of forms and subjects, combining consummate craftsmanship with emotional ric
As if convinced that all divination of the future is somehow a re-visioning of the past, Kwame Dawes reminds us of the clairvoyance of haunting. The lyric poems in City of Bones: A Testament constitut
A woman meets a man and falls in love. She is sixty, a writer and lifelong New Yorker raised by garmentos. She thought this kind of thing wouldn’t happen again. He is English, so who knows what he thi
This thoroughly original volume collects three short stories and a powerful novella by the Cherokee-German-English poet and prose writer Diane Glancy. Glancy's tales of Native American life explore t
Arguably the greatest African-American poet of the century, Sterling Brown was instrumental in bringing the traditions of African-American folk life to readers all over the world. This is the definiti
A contemporary of John Berryman, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, William Meredith shared neither the bohemian excesses of the Beats nor the exhibitionist excesses of the "confessional" poets. Ra
Honorable Mention, 2006 The Society of Midland Authors Adult Fiction AwardFor decades, Richard Stern has been acclaimed as one of the American masters of the short story. Almonds to Zhoof: Collected S
