Moonstone Press, 2022.
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“Ann Michael has found a vast universe in very small places, and every poem is a return to a much-loved landscape. One thinks of William Blake’s “To see a World in a Grain of Sand/And a Heaven in a wild Flower.” —Harry Humes, author of August Evening with Trumpet
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“With surreal creatures like blue lions and a parallel universe where radiation suits are normal everyday attire, Of All Stars the Most Beautiful gives life to the imagined reality of climate change and contemplates what role humans play in the galaxy. Using a variety of poetic forms and styles, Violet Mitchell asks her readers to consider what is possible within this universe as well as themselves.”
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“In this startling debut collection, Jason Morphew creates a world more real than the reality we think we live—his poems evoke landscapes and innerscapes at once recognizable and surreal, sensual and death-haunted, populated by vitamixes and mystics and canadian whisky and the American south and encounters at CVS. The quest to live without numbing oneself (through narcotics or love or sex or material accommodations) is a struggle at the heart of these saturated, vividly intelligent and often wryly funny poems. This powerful books of poems will accompany you into your best days and your mislaid days, capturing exquisitely that odd realization of adulthood: ‘What now? Am i really mortal?’” - Meghan O’rourke, author of Sun In Days and The Long Goodbye
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“"Everyone was hammered. / That was the dress code." In Order to Commit Suicide, by Jason Morphew, comprises such dry declarative lines through a range of subjects, from "Charlie Sheen" to the "Deepwater Horizon," even "The Death of Loved Ones." Morphew's poems do not mince their words, they do not tease, and they do not disappoint.”
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“A poet on fatherhood -- the good, the bad, and the scary -- up close in the thick of it and then the birds-eye view. Smart, candid, and often wickedly funny -- starting with a title that riffs Heidi Murkoff ’s best-selling pregnancy guide What to Expect when You’re Expecting.“
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Ghost Road Pub Group, 2006.
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“Taking up where A Mnemonic for Desire left off, with a song forming out of nothing, Steve Mueske's second collection, Slower than Stars, is by turns playful, irreverent, surreal, and deeply lyrical. His poems, often philosophical, are informed by writers such as Kafka, Joyce, and Nietzsche; artists Paul Klee, Andy Warhol, Man Ray, and Jan Groover; as well as the work of poets, photographers, and musicians.”
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“A lovely collection of divinatory symbols masquerading as poems, in Otherwise, Magic, Lauren Paredes beckons us into her world where the paradox of modern life combines with fairy tale. She shrouds us in beautiful language, gentle rhythm and a wide-eyed wonder. We, like the speaker, find spiritual meaning in ‘the only newborn to board this plane,’ ‘the taste of merlot and party-soft cheese’ and always, always, the celestial influence of the Moon and her metaphysical counterparts.” - Elizabeth Hellstern, author of How to Live: A Suggestive Guide & creator of the Telepoem Booth®
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“Powell's poetic master stroke is in the way she elevates her subject matter, not through over romanticisation, but through creating an understated luminosity.” - Daniel Harlow
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“Perez’s debut chapbook is an important contribution. It is a work unafraid of testing the capacity of the intricate to not only live alongside the simple, but survive it. It is work where one might find a place to live.” - Ben Bartu
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“Humbly and struck by awe, Kelly R. Samuels' poems tremble in sight of all that cannot survive an environment that warms and shifts and swallows up our once-was, our earth and its serendipitous creations. Samuels' pained and intricate noticing brings the elegy into a new, harrowing manifestion, as the death that is mourned cannot help but blame the mourner.... This is a book of stunning ethical and poetic heights, a necessary field guide for our threatened, and only, field.” -Katie Ford
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“Oblivescence tests the line between what we say and who we are…As a mother’s dementia progresses, memories grow motheaten and encounters slippery. But stripped of language’s pretense, the resulting flashes and fragments, the orphaned prepositions and double negatives bring us to the edge of what matters: inescapable material truths…and intimate experiences alive in moral detail, like the burying of a dead deer, part frenzy, part rectitude, part tenderness.” - Allison Adair, author of The Clearing
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“In crisply heartbreaking poems, Kelly R. Samuels speaks not so much to Alice as toward a recklessly hopeful younger self. Don't follow down the rabbit hole of hoped-for love. Wake up by the river. Forget the dreams. Hurry home before dark.” - William Stobb, author of You Are Still Alive
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Dancing Girl Press, 2023.
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“In these twenty-six poems – one for each letter – words that are infrequently used by some of us serve as springboards, prompting introspection and reflection.”
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“Zeena / Zenobia Speaks engages in the essential lyric task of giving voice to the voiceless. In these poems, the taciturn meets the turn of well-wrought lines that wring meaning from the quiet sufferings of Wharton’s iconic character. Wharton’s Zeena emerges in complexity and depth, her suppressed cry released and shaped in poems of potent imagery and clipped syntax that ‘can manage the weight of snow’ and the ‘threat of fire.’”
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“Fear pervades this book, as the title, geologic catastrophe or its inevitable potential, suggests. Before and after. Carrying ancient Old Testament misogyny forward with inevitability into current headlines or hospitals, overlaying the man-made with the older natural violences of fire and flood, a human female life knits together with intelligence, inquiry, and an imagistic eye, a “standing place,” for us all. A place of dread. You should read it.” - Linda McCarriston, author of Eva-Mary and Talking Soft Dutch
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“I too have lived on that glittering edge” Heidi Seaborn writes. Indeed. Seaborn’s voice is lively and urbane; vivid pains and pleasures abound on every page of this lush, glitteringly alive new book of poems.” - Deborah Landau, author of Soft Targets and Uses of the Body
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“Here in tingling verbs, are the noticed and unnoticed "bite marks" of a woman aging, of loss noticed in flesh, in body, in mirror, of body gouged, lashed and disappearing. In precise poems edged with grief, Heidi Seaborn inhabits and exposes, the self, the family, leading us to, in an almost perfect order of poems, a deepening forest of earth, of soul. These poems are beautifully written, perfectly on point, each poem a prism facet, glowing.” - Veronica Golos, author of GIRL
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