“Pathfinder, Selected Poems, Essays and Tales” by Robert Love Up On Big Rock Poetry Series, a Shipwreckt Books imprint, Winona, Minnesota, 2023 ISBN:978-1-7376685-9-6. By James Ross Kelly I go to Montana about every other year, and my wife goes every year, as her mother lives there—she’ll be flying out thereContinue Reading
Poems for Vincent Van Gogh Louis Martinelli $17.95 – Purchase online Louis Martinelli’s grand performance in language guides us through the psyche of Van Gogh, surrounds his sorrow, illuminates his achievement, exalts in the ecstasy of painting he gave the world. I will savor these poems and for a longContinue Reading
Delta Eddy Sparks $17.95 – Purchase online Full disclosure: I knew Delta Eddy when she was Gary. The dedicatee of her elegy “Student,” Anthony Piccione (d. 2001), who is a central presence in Sparks, was an English Department colleague and close friend of mine. Delta writes, “I keep / walkingContinue Reading
Steve McCown Debut Collection Ghosting $17.95 – Purchase online When Steve McCown finally gathered together the pages for this book he was probably a bit surprised to realize he had been a poet for the better part of his life. What possessed him all those years? A courage and curiosityContinue Reading
new poems by Joyce Benvenuto $17.95 – buy a print copy onlineContinue Reading
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Justin Watkins New and Selected Poems from Land and Water by the author of the award winning chapbook Bottom Right Corner. $17.95 – buy a print copy online “Justin Watkins’ poems always surprise, and I have long admired them. They are imperial messages, and contain the secrets that arrive fromContinue Reading
Steven Schild the award-winning author of Eros in Autumn $17.95 – buy a print copy online When the poems in Steven Schild’s new collection are at their best (and his batting average is pretty darned good), they tackle our primary work: ‘being human,’ something that too often these days seems toContinue Reading
Nicole Borg $17.95 – buy a print copy online. In her debut collection, All Roads Lead Home, Nicole Borg convinces us that poetry is the way our most important experiences may be best understood. Her voice has resonance and clarity, speaking not just for herself as woman, mother, wife, teacherContinue Reading
Rob Hardy Poet Laureate Northfield, Minnesota $17.95 – Buy a print copy online Available at Content Bookstore in Northfield Amazon Reviews— Carrie L. writes: In these beautiful, reflective poems, Domestication is a collection to be savored. As I read each poem, the words of Rob Hardy’s generous, intimate introduction resonated.Continue Reading
Molly McDonald Debut collection from Iowa Poet $12.99 – Buy a print copy online “Sometimes, when I’m not thinking, I think it’s the future or 5th grade when I was the last kid to stop wearing sweatpants and I got a standing ovation when I finally wore jeans or theContinue Reading
Steven Schild Click to buy print copy online. The rather raw curiosity at the heart of Eros in Autumn, by Steve Schild, is among the many reasons you’re going to admire the short poems you are about to experience. Rather than wither and retire into some social stereotype of whatContinue Reading
Anne Barngrover $12.00 – Buy a print copy online the look like / buckshot in our shop girl’s eyes / the time he grabbed my wrist like a play / in football, his body taut up & over / our fried chicken. If I just learned / to keep my goodContinue Reading
Haley Thompson $10.50 – Buy a print copy online Here is what acclaimed poet Dora Malech, author of Shore Ordered Ocean and Say So, has to say about Haley Thompson‘s poetry: Haley’s poems shimmer with the intimacies of memory and place. They weave the consolation of sparkling specificities throughContinue Reading