"Kaci Skiles Laws is a skilled poet and prose writer who's every line uses unexpected word play to uncover what lies beneath that interesting rock on the shoulder of a dirt road; a road many of us wish to avoid." - Jordan Trethewey, City of Fredericton Poet Laureate
Read More“In one of the beautiful poems in the collection, Dor, Alina Ștefănescu writes of a "heart shaped like a shovel." Indeed, Ștefănescu's heart unearths the rich mysteries of an amalgam of Romanian and southern American culture in language deeply shadowed but attentive to the most telling of details. This is a collection that twists form and content into poems that are by turns tender or incendiary, or both.” - Erin Coughlin Hollowell, author of Every Atom
Read MoreBeard of Bees Press, 2016.
Read More“I can say this unequivocally — that Stories to Read Aloud To Your Fetus is one of the best poetry book I have read in the last decade — or more. Alina Stefanescu is a major talent and a new voice to rank alongside that of Anna Akhmatova, Sylvia Plath, and Anne Sexton.” –Sue Brannan Walker, Poet Laureate of Alabama 2003 – 2012
Read MoreChallenging and opening our perceptions of the city, this collection of poems, essayistic prose fragments, and images rounds out Darryl Lorenzo Wellington’s tenure as Santa Fe Poet Laureate 2021-2023.
Read More"According to poet, essayist, and collagist Uche Nduka, 'This splendid poet's concerns are aesthetically laid bare here—politics, love, philosophy, autobiography, homage. His commitment to his art manifests in chiseled language, brilliant imagery, varied forms, questions, affirmations, heartfelt rebellion...'"
Read More“Psalms at the Present Time displays many tools at Darryl Wellington’s command, including long, lyrical, and mesmerizing sentences, verbs that skip, leap, and scamper, and short, sharp phrases that land like percussion before lingering in the brain. Also part of his plentiful repertoire: thumbnail portraits of people, places, and things, the touch and tang of memories, and high-impact reflections rendered with a deft hand.” - Jabari Asim, author of Stop and Frisk: American Poems and We Can’t Breathe
Read More“Leaf and Beak: Sonnets is Scott Wiggerman's most recent book. The sonnets—seventy-five of them—flow so smoothly you can forget you’re reading a sonnet and just let the images take you in, the rhythms move you forward. The poems of Leaf and Beak are quiet poems, reflective poems, poems that ask you to walk in stillness for moments at a time, to absorb “the hidden in full view,” to appreciate “a lone green leaf / that hangs on like a weekend birthday, deaf / to bitter winds.””
Read More“In Presence, Scott Wiggerman uses an intransigent stain as an emblem of buoyant integrity in the face of intolerance and exclusion. In this new book, nimbly arranged by the elements, the poet, brandishing his trademark sass, humor, and candor, glories in local nature and limns the joys and trials of being a lovingly irreverent Texas gadfly, a proud and forthright gay man." - Cyrus Cassells, Lambda award-winning author of Beautiful Signor
Read More"Vegetables and Other Relationships is a collection of poetry that explores gay life style, intimacy, relationships and work from the perspective of an artist who cares deeply about the people in his world. He is a gardener and used the vegetables he grows as rich and delightful metaphors for the best and worst of us.”
Read MoreLike Whitman listening to Kraftwerk, Michael J. Wilson’s A Child of Storm fuses the incandescent pulse of the forest with vivid projections of the life of Nikola Tesla. These currents turn together, a luminous aurora of sap, electricity, biography, and ecology in this profound collection of poems.
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“It is an attempt at reconciling growing up in the shadow of the AIDS crisis with the realities of PrEP and 21st Century LGBTQ+ culture. It is about finding personal balance in the face of the limits of gender and sexuality. This is a book for anyone who has felt out of sync with mainstream cultures, queer or not.”
Read More“The Breath Capital records points of bodily contact in urban environments where eye contact is tacitly forbidden, but where we breathe each other's molecules in and out. The collection is haunted by 20th-century Europe, but it exists in the Unites States in the 21st century, amid the current drama of late-capitalist class struggle tied to the past and present racial and gender politics.”
Read MoreCo-authored with Ivana Percl, Po(jest)zija/Po(eat)ry is a poetry collection featuring art by Dunja Janković (SKC NS, Serbia, 2013).
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