"In Nopalito, Texas: Stories, David Meischen is attuned to the quiet crises upon which a person's life turns. In clear, poignant, and often poetic language, we see the residents of a small South Texas town--daughters, sons, mothers, fathers, neighbors, friends, outsiders--pushing against the limits of their lives. Stubbornness, devotion, confusion, pride, and anger see them through the internal upheavals and seismic shifts of loss and grief. And at the end, you'll sigh deep and long and wonder at having held so much life, so much humanity, in such a slender volume." - ire'ne lara silva, author of flesh to bone
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"To see the world through Cameron Walker's eyes is to see the beauty, grace, and humor in everyday life. In this delightful collection, she reflects on subjects ranging from snails to chess to parenting to procrastination, finding the extraordinary in the ordinary and reminding us of the endless wonders at hand." - Michelle Nijhuis, author of Beloved Beasts: Fighting for Life in an Age of Extinction
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"‘Be yourself without exception’ is an order that rings thrilling to any reader, and is something that Fern Beattie achieves effortlessly in her writing. Fern writes with the kind of soft precision that has the reader lost in the poetry of life. Seven Women of Saturn is a beautiful book." - Charlie Brogan, Co-Founder of The Rally
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"Meischen conjures the hackberries and mesquite, the cotton harvests and 'rainless earth' of his rural Texas homeplace with meticulous reserve, clarity, and crisp music. A work of abiding love and questing memory, this new volume provides the stirring pleasures of a family album while nimbly skirting sentimentality and reflexive nostalgia in favor of well-earned insight, jubilant celebration (mornings aglow like 'carnival glass'), and able compassion. The highest compliment that I can pay Meischen is that his German-American family chronicle brings to mind James Agee's indelible and legendary 'Knoxville: Summer of 1915.' Caliche Road Poems is a vibrant contribution to the literature of Texas." - Cyrus Cassells, Texas Poet Laureate, 2021, author of Is There Room for Another Horse on Your Horse Ranch?
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“In Pentimento, Joshua Garcia fuses the sacred with the secular, moving from churches to karaoke, from Jesus at the gastroenterologist to John the Baptist cruising in a state park, all the while revealing a self and world riven by loss and the remnants of a broken faith. A master of radiant detail, he takes us beyond what we think we see, returning, again and again, to his deft layering of art and myth, to the grace of heartbreak, to the body as first wound and source of all desire. This is a beautiful book and an exciting debut.” —Bruce Snider
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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. Sloat
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The 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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“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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“When memory fails, what can take its place? Speculation, Brigitte Lewis suggests, other ways of knowing: myth, history, science. Imagination. The quicksilver of language itself. The result is a memoir about what it means to re-member a life. Hybrid in form and lyrical in style, Speculative Histories is driven by an authentic voice and singular intelligence. This is a mind on the page, a story unfolding. To read it is to fall in love with what writing can do.” - Beth Alvarado, Jillian in the Borderlands and Anxious Attachments
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Poetry and the immediate: A collection of sensed spaces collates poetry written in notebooks, journals, computer documents, and on postcards over the span of two transformational years of the writer's life. There are several pages within this book that offer space for you to contemplate, play, explore, and create. There is also space for personal contemplation at the end of the book as you engage directly with the concepts and imagery you perceive.
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A lyrical retelling of the myth of Daedalus and Pasiphaë, the poetry of the forgotten, the designs of yearning, and the threads of desire.
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