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Earliest Bird Calls

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The Low Pouring Stars

About my book,  The Low Pouring Stars….When I cannot talk I write, talking again. I don’t know.The image of a heart under a glacier—the ancient frozen person, undetected eons—still there—how did they...

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Crown

Reading Joanna Penn Cooper’s new collection of poems, Crown, is a lot like sticking your head out the window of a fast moving car: it’s exhilarating, turbulent, and a wee bit dangerous. Let’s go!...

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Scarlight

In the twenty four, beautifully-nuanced poems of Scarlight, Zachary Greenberg shares his complex vision for our spiritually-challenged times.   Whether his topic is personal alienation in the digital...

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Slower Than Stars

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....

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In the State I’m In

Rantala is a Pacific Northwest poet, heavily affected by indigenous art, the weather, the formerly ungentrified personalities of cities up and down the Pacific coast, but not regionally bound.  Here...

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Katana

The first American translation of this fine poetry collection by Marie Étienne, centered on the French experience in Indochina (Vietnam), first appearing in book form in the Lumière ouverte series of...

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by Land…

John Burgess first intersected with the Lewis & Clark Trail at Three Forks in 1978 when working as the third man on a three-man survey crew in the Gallatin Valley of Montana. Since then, he has...

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The Orphans of Thor Street

“Lovely, clever and strange,” a full-color art book documenting assemblages made from items found in thrift stores, reminiscent of Cornell, but largely emerging from the framing box — given titles and...

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Florid Victorian Ornament

If A.E. Housman could publish Last Poems while he was still quite alive, why can’t Renner release Florid Victorian Ornament in the 21st century? Forty poems–fully thirty percent of them entitled...

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Variations in an Emergency

Featuring a cover image by Robert Motherwell and distantly inspired by the structure of J. S. Bach’s Goldberg Variations, Variations in an Emergency is a poetic sequence about the way longing and loss...

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Acceptable Time

Tom Moore quotes Carl Jung’s description of a symbol as also a good definition of a true poem: a bridge ...

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Fingers Leak Their Way to the Heart

After his dad’s death, Philip Quinn inherited a large collection of photographs including a photo album created by his grandmother ...

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else as soons

In his third book from Ravenna, Gregory K. Cole writes some of his most emotive poetry.  His style of tight poetry plumbs for the soul of words in their combinations.Says Cooper Renner:  The emphasis...

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Triple No. 5

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Daphne and Her Discontents

A significant volume of poems exploring self through the Classic myths, transferring to poetry the power to transform.  Per Robbi Nester:  ”By giving her family saga this form, the poet subverts a...

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The Geese in Logic

Intriguing poems arising like white geese from an abandoned apple orchard in the east Cascade mountains.  Per Donald Revell (Colorado Review): Deep amid the din and barrenness of old, old voices, we...

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3 Letters & Julius

Starting out with three poems based on letters from Virginia Woolf to Lytton Strachey, from James Agee to Father Flye, from an unknown Finn with an unpronounceable last name to Bertrand Russell,  the...

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The Scene You See

The Scene You See is Joannie Stangeland’s third full-length poetry collection, lyrical poems reflected and enhanced by an immersion in ...

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Scrap; on Louise Nevelson

Poetic investigations of the art of Louise Nevelson and the fraught issue of being artist and mother simultaneously — Gard illuminates each at the same time, attracting us to both. Day GridIn lower...

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