“This poet brings us the sea, the flower bed, small things dying, a heart – all alive and kicking, Heidi Seaborn is a poet of verbs: ice keens, land shoulders an island, clamshells splay and split, things flap and stack; there are fields of flamboyant pink; gardens snap and silos crest —a heart taken out, pulses…this is a remarkable debut of a poet to keep watching.” - Veronica Golos, author of GIRL
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“Give a Girl Chaos (and see what she can do) is a survival guide for chaotic times and lives told through poems that ache with violence, beauty and ultimately joy.”
Read More“I just finished reading Once a Diva by Heidi Seaborn for the third time and am still laughing out loud. These poems are funny, witty, naughty, irresistible and just plain fun. Oh...and extremely well-written! Hard to imagine anyone could begin the first one and not, immediately, read all the way through to the end—they are that engaging and enticing. Makaela Dokken's sassy illustrations punctuate the satire with an extra chuckle. Brava to the Diva!” - Lillo Way, author of Lend Me Your Wings
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“The ten poems in Christina Seymour’s debut chapbook, Flowers Around Your Soft Throat, raise everyday suburban life to the level of the sublime.” —Rebecca Foster, Small Press Book Review
Read More“In Christina Seymour’s splendid, delicate collection she uses images from paintings and natural landscapes to describe her own vivid interior life. The speaker of these poems tells us: “Any living thing is as good as a Renoir”; she knows “There’s only so much preparing / for the flood of acorns, their soft meat / crumbled in piles on the sidewalk”; she opens “a small attic window for truth.” Seymour’s poems are quiet, precise, and powerful.” - Faith Shearin, author of The Owl Question and Darwin’s Daughter
Gridiron Fables is a set of 16 'erasure fables', one for every week of the NFL season at the time the collection was made. The source text is a weekly montage of 'useless sound' bites from NFL postgame press conferences and analysis, compiled and curated by producer Billy Gil for their cliched, circular meaninglessness for The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz, a radio show formerly of ESPN.
Read More“Alex Shapiro doesn’t write of a fallen world. He writes of our consciousness, our environment, our vitality floating, achingly, mid-air. His words seek to chingar, pulse, photosynthesize, disrupt us. In Insect Architecture, we read of bodies reacting to their interior and exterior confines, we handle with care, we transform into the connectors that bind us–through the lens of a poet who grips us tight before letting us go.” - Natasha Mijares, author of violent wave
Read More“Unsuspecting Cinderella is what happens after the glass slipper slips on and the prince carries the poet off to the castle. These are pensive, incisive lines of deep hungers(I want you to want me like a fever breaking), and the Midas-like emptiness at the castle that leaves one curled into a ball and opening umbrellas on the inside. It's the cautionary tale of compromising our truest self for a life that is both more than enough and nowhere near enough. A chapbook that reads like a novel written on a silver matchbook.” - Teri Youmans
Read More“Smile, Child is a brief portrait of growing up in a broken home and society where abuse is normalized. Each poem illustrates a different aspect of what it means to limp through life carrying generational trauma and suffering major losses while navigating a sick nation and uncertain future. The confusion, grief, and injustice are palpable with each stanza revealing more about the author’s inner world.”
Read MoreI have memories of my dad telling me and my sisters ghost stories every other weekend after my parents divorced, being immersed in the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark books, and experiencing paranormal activity often at my grandparents’ farmhouse as well as poltergeist-like activity in my own home. My mother told me of a story when I was no more than a year old; I would refuse to go into this one house. I'd be kicking and screaming, hysterical. Not long after my episodes, the house burnt down. I have a tendency to be hypervigilant which might account for my extrasensory abilities, or perhaps it’s the other way around. It’s been said I'm highly sensitive and clairvoyant and haunted. It isn't uncommon for the running theme in the majority of my work to be about death. I became well acquainted with loss around the same time I began reading and my grandpa died in his house from lung cancer. After that there were two suicides in my family, one being my sister, Heather. I do mention suicide more than once within my collection, which also includes themes of transitions, growing up, family dysfunction, illnesses, trauma, and other bizarre, dark matters.
Read More"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.”
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