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  Dion Farquhar’s poems are driven by the desire to make sense of the experience…

  “I am a part of all that I have met.” This Tennyson quotation, which…

  “Dee Stribling’s fingers strike a gentle fire in this chapbook, Just Down the Road –…

  In Just Another Jack Michele Herman slyly enters the territory of seemingly simple nursery…

  “That centered place from which Ballard writes sonnets,… a spiritual journey that all serious…

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  In Junk Drawer, Corey D. Cook brings the poet’s eye and sensibilities to artifacts…

  You can’t read a Thomas Patterson poem without being moved by the language and…

  In Judy Garland is Not a Sunrise, E. F. Schraeder coaxes Amy Winehouse’s life…

  Laura Madeline Wiseman’s astonishing new full-length collection, Journey to Nowhere, is a meditation on…

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  Read Blurbs About John Hyde by Its Own Characters.   Stonewall Crabbe a High…

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    “These poems provide a compelling journey through a dynamic landscape.”   –Lawson Fusao…

  In JEOPARDY Toni Ortner explores grief and loss, and the path to acceptance, “It’s…

  Janus, the debut poetry collection from emerging Bay Area writer Esther Lim Palmer, is…

  Heather Corbally Bryant has given us the gift of traveling to beloved places and…

  Formally inventive and lushly written, these poems range from Maria Callas to the grocery…

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  With this striking sequence of “eastern winter” poems, Amanda Wochele’s lines pick you up…