“Lesley Clinton’s Calling the Garden from the Grave is a book of paradoxes, and of wishes. …

  “These are poems that probe and question, that glide from crystallized moments of daily…

  Journey with Janet McMillian Rives Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie where…

  Karol Nielsen’s new book sees the poet masterfully engaging with the question of how…

  Rick Henry’s little novel, Colleen’s Count, Wednesday, August 16th, 1933, has a Joycean air…

  Postcards from the Lilac City knows more than a thing or ten about hometowns…

  “Arresting.  This is the word that comes to mind after finishing Sarah Levine‘s, Take Me Home. …

  “The beautiful poems in Elizabeth Joy Levinson’s Running Aground do not blink. They swim…

  Like the shielded children in Emily Dickinson’s poem, from which this luminous first collection…

  “As seasons transform the land around us so does motherhood transform soul and body. Gestation by…

  In her new collection Naming the Invisible, Barbara Branch Bates tenderly guides the reader through…

  At first glance, Heather Sweeney’s Call Me California has the look of a primer…

  A “mild promise of heaven”—that’s what the characters in these marvelous poems seek to…

  Alexandra Gilliam’s Lightsheen (Subsea sheen) gives us revelation: she makes language alive, discovers language…

  “Once you read Me and Her Shadow, you are never going to forget it. …

  Memories, “[g]one like steam from the glass,” yet recaptured in Merrill Oliver Douglas’s calm,…

  “Minor Theodicies is a book of secrets, a cipher for seeing the skeletal undergirding of…

  “These compelling, proudly youthful poems directly and indirectly ask some of the basic, urgent…

  In poems “passion-scalded” yet evanescent as “the breath of moon through a chiffon curtain,”…

  A lovely chapbook, full of wise, startling, and tender moments. –Tania Runyan, author of…