“In the Cage of Lit Glass, Charles Kell presents an unreal world and yet, these confines are not an imaginary. The cages are also not stable . . . We learn that if you wish to read a poem, you may as well carve the lines on your wrist. By creating such poems, the reader is separated from their comfort zone. And this is a marvelous feat. After all, awareness is powerful poetic.”
Read More“These poems, shadowed by Melville and Kafka, are also a history of one poet’s encounters with the inscrutable relentlessness of fate and the inevitable privacy of suffering.” - Susan Stewart
Read MoreOne of the winners of SurVision Book’s James Tate Chapbook Prize, 2019.
Read MoreThe Best Secret is a micro-chapbook of erasure poems about a love affair. Using Stephen King’s novella The Colorado Kid as its source text, the poems in this collection follow a couple over the course of a year as the seasons change from winter to spring and spring to summer. The poems track the couple from their first meeting, through the head-over heels honeymoon stage, and to the inevitable end of the relationship.
Read More“In New and Permanent, Klein bravely writes of motherhood and grief—chronic pain, negative pregnancy tests, and pill bottles piling up, the relentless purgatory of strangers offering unsolicited medical advice. Through all, Klein carries herself with a smirk: ‘By no means should the poem simply end / by refusing to change its bra / and taking the whole sleeve of Oreos to bed / but it will anyway.’ In this mournful display of one woman trying to live in her body against a cold and unaccepting world, Klein understands that a poem, just like life, should ‘also include one devastating stanza about a bower of white roses.'” —Rae Hoffman Jager, author of American Bitch
Read MorePaper View Books, 2023.
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"At turns serious, playful, and evocative, Kleinberg combines a distinctive voice with a signature style. Poetically, the accident of the enjambed texts appeals to the reader with a kind of inevitable sense. Visually, the torn paper is familiar, tactile and inviting, punctuated by shifting fonts and bursts of color. Reading Kleinberg is an entirely new experience." —Sarah J. SloatThe protagonist of J.I. Kleinberg's collection, The Word for Standing Alone in a Field, is unlikely: a scarecrow. But, as Kleinberg says in the opening poem, his work is “not crows or corn but sorrows.” This is no cartoon scarecrow, but a familiar, an empath, loved, mostly at a distance, by a speaker we see only in brief glances. A speaker, we suspect, who may feel safer in the presence of this “placeholder” than among the people and crows who show little sympathy for either. “We practice a kind of ventriloquy,” Kleinberg says in the poem “I have been writing about a scarecrow.”
Read More“With unpretentious clarity, guts and a bit of soul, Breakable Things has solidified Loren Kleinman as my favorite new poet.” - Kola Boof, The Sexy Part of the Bible
Read More“In this beautiful collection, Loren Kleinman writes about longing and loving, touch and loss, truth, absence, and ultimately, the soul. The poems are moving, the sentiment naked, and the language irresistible. I'm grateful to have been invited to into this writer's mind and heart and world.” - Beverly Donofrio, author Riding in Cars with Boys
Read MoreWinner of the 2003 Spire Poetry Competition.
Read More“Love stays with us far longer than we realize. Loren Kleinman's Stay with Me Awhile shows how our underlying love for objects, memory, sex, books, and nature have a lasting impact on our everyday lives. As the world decays around us, the only way we can preserve our presence is to stay, embed ourselves in the experience of living deliberately, to look at one another with lasting conviction to be.”
Read MoreThe essence of a miscellany of diverse things is not merely to catalog a wunderkammer of everyday objects, but moreover to hold up a double mirror: one to reveal the interior lives of objects, and another to reflect the depths of their creators and owners.
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“Philip Kobylarz’s enigmatic poems lead us into silences. “All views are interiors.” They also remind us that poetry is a tribute to Mystery. By elevating ordinary moments to the level of the Silence, Kobylarz validates every small and minute detail of existence.” – Ewa Chrusciel
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Translated and curated by Aya Kusch, Cats in Spring Rain pays homage to the cat through artfully curated Japanese poetry and prints.
Read More“The captivating poems in Dirty Words aren’t just a feminist journey through women’s issues. These essential poems represent women in the various mundane, necessary, and often unfortunate aspects of life throughout all the stages of a woman’s years, from young girl to mother. Poems about sexual violence, abortion, marriage, and motherhood are just some of the topics unearthed with passion and precision. Lilius brings together words that strike into our hearts and bodies through vivid imagination and eager images. The reader will see that feminism isn’t a dirty word after all, but rather a powerful and vital concept everyone should apply to the everyday, the universal.”
Read MoreDancing Girl Press, 2017.
Read More“‘I don’t know what to do with my electric hands’ begins Sarah Lilius’s Song for PTSD. Whatever the ‘I’ may or may not know, the poems still light up and claim, entering a labyrinth of trauma and raising their stark lanterns to moments of raw and startling, embodied consciousness. Here, through hours in the therapist’s office and moments of remembered violence, the body may be ‘shifting, beating organs,’ the mind can be ‘rocks/ in a cloth bag spinning/ through December air.’ These poems blaze, exquisite with heat, shaking and changing the darkness.” —Sally Rosen Kindred, author of Where the Wolf
Read MoreTraffic Girl is a micro-chapbook published as part of the 2020 Ghost City Press Summer Micro-Chap Series
Read MoreThe Path of Birds: Poets on the Rise (Flying Ketchup Press, 2023), co-edited by Polly Alice McCann and Samantha Malay, gathers bird-inspired work from twenty-five international poets and features the intricate narrative verse of Araceli Esparza and full-color art by Robin Moravec and Joha Bisone.
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