"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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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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“Many poets write about the natural world - few poets write while acting directly to defend the natural world like environmental activist and attorney Will Falk does in When I Set the Sweetgrass Down. The natural world speaks, Falk insists, in these biophilic poems written from the frontlines of land defense campaigns. These poems are a record of what Falk heard from the natural world in places like Thacker Pass, Nevada where Falk set up a protest occupation in a beautiful mountain pass set for destruction by an open pit mine and Hawaii's Mauna Kea where Falk helped to blockade telescope construction from desecrating the sacred mountain. At a time when the destruction of the natural world is intensifying, When I Set the Sweetgrass Down will help readers find the courage they need to - and remind them why they must - act to defend the source of all life: the natural world.”
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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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A chapbook of reconstituted fairytale poems.
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“Through the streets of Buffalo, Olmsted’s parks, Forest Lawn, Soho, and Crescent Street, Montreal, Jennifer Campbell’s word images never cease to accost the reader with their freshness and vulnerability. In fact, perhaps this is the main thread that weaves her poems together: what fragile creatures we are in our search for comfort and self-expression. A true lover of language, Campbell seeks to discover, by softening “everything mundane into beauty,” phrases that help us rise above it. And while the ghosts, dreams, and demons in her work are not “easily deleted,” Jennifer Campbell, the woman and poet, never shies away from confronting conflicts and loss, creating fresh images like her “custard moon,” and peeling away more layers of language, like the pages in this complex volume of remarkable poems.” - Perry S. Nicholas, author of What the World Sees
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“Reading the subtle lyrics of this book, we can hope to be thus drenched-and with acceptance.” - David Landrey
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