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This volume of poems will make your heart swell and your voice erupt in unexpected laughter. It is filled at once with the joy and the pathos of life as we dance on the rim of life at Seabury Retirement Community. Rennie McQuilkin captures the spirit and the hope-filled days that lead us into our future. And when you read, read silently and aloud as well. It will be a life-touching experience.

The sonnets of Betsy Hughes take us all over the world, from antiquity to now, from the horrors of mass shootings to the serenity of a forest. These journeys offer, in the elegant sweep of her verses, a captivating new vision of our environment and ourselves. You will never look at things in the same way or feel the same way about your life once you read this book, for you will have traveled to the depths and the heights of the human heart.

Brooke Herter James' Spring Took the Long Way Around is a beautiful collection, each poem resonant with the strum of country life. These are poems of gentle reverence, skirting on the "dark edges of... wildness, " the awareness of shadow giving each moment depth. They speak of family, of nature, of adolescent angst - she deftly captures this in the tone-perfect "Southbound, Maine Turnpike, Labor Day" - of illness and death. These quiet, skillf...

Linda Spock's gracious gathering of poems offers each of us a lifeline. Here, in the midst of life's challenges, much joyful solace is found. The power of love is always present, not least of all in Lifelines' central group of poems about a much anticipated grandson, who offers all of us the same delight, laughter, and revival felt by the author. Like the spider in "Spider Woman, " Linda Spock knows how to make her lines "dance rather than bre...

The Fire in Hand is a gorgeous, complex collection of poetry, and what an extraordinary eye for detail Karen Torop has. Whether she is praising the beauty of "two / high-seated tractors, " exploring the essential contradiction of loving both her cat and the beautiful rose-breasted grosbeak killed by the cat-"the rose-red / on its breast a bib of blood"-or watching her mother approaching death, her "bones loosely covered, mean as spokes, " Toro...

A chronological series of poems depicting the life of a cancer patient in the first year of his male breast cancer treatment. Moving, often witty, both reverent and irreverent, the book is a praise song written with courage and good humor. Eamon Grennan has called it "a wonder." He goes on to say, "With undaunted courage, insight and an always ready, irrepressibly generous humor even in the face of mortal illness, these poems are brief, brilli...

After completing several writing projects, Connecticut Poet Laureate Rennie McQuilkin was ready to "sell his camel, " as the Bedouins say. But poems continued to rise up, at first sporadically and then in March of 2017, more insistently, perhaps incited by the twenty-fifth anniversary of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival, which he founded, and a "strangely sanguine sense of mortality." From then until late in the year, he wrote a poem per day,...

The poems in Alexandrina Sergio's OLD IS NOT A FOUR-LETTER WORD are as expansive of heart as they are witty and energetic.Danielle Pieratti writes: "With wisdom, candor, and witty defiance, the poems in Sandy Sergio's Old Is Not a Four-Letter Word observe life through eyes simultaneously prudent and fresh. Hers is a world viewed with earned distance, where ordinary encounters-a visit from a solar salesman, a chance meeting with a biker, a glim...

Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet who grew up in a suburb of Chicago and earned degrees in literature from Stanford University and Yale University. This collection of poems records how her ancestry, education, early childhood and work experiences changed her understanding over many decades of the impact of white privilege on her understanding of race relations. Her poetry appears in dozens of journals and anthologies. This book joins her other pu...

By turns joyful, melancholy, angry, and hopeful, Snow Raining on Glass presents honest, vivid, sensual poems that are revelatory and replete with startling images. They reward multiple readings but are eminently accessible, avoiding needless obscurity. Lois Mathieu's poems sweep through the mystery of life's table of sorrows and take to a playing field where abundant joy and sorrow are shed of illusion.

In her splendid fourth collection, poet Ellen Rachlin explores what she calls the "Permeable Divide"-the breach between the living and a loved one lost to death, the gap between confidence and hesitation, the gulf between banking and art, and perhaps most devastatingly, the chasm between freedom and habit. Rachlin combines her deliciously unique talents and background to speak about the differences between money and value. She crafts aphoristi...

Because Sarah Glaz sees "a streak of mathematics in almost everything, " this book of poems is a work of alchemy. Light rays in the sky, lines of gold, become x and y axes. The square root of 2 becomes a symbol of the irrationality that drove her family from Romania to Israel. Small stones stand for the calculus (in Latin) and the integral sign is a snake (in Leibnizian). The transcendental number e covers three pages laced with equations, fir...

This is the definitive collection of poems by Rennie McQuilkin, Poet Laureate of CT and winner of the CT Book Award. His17th poetry collection and winner of the Indie Book Award for Poetry, it contains his best work from previous books, demonstrating a love of the natural world and management of the worst life can throw at us. The day after their expulsion from Eden, he writes, Adam and Eve get dressed for work and consider "what to plant / in...

Tonesmith is Al Basile's second collection of one hundred poems, following 2012's A Lit House. As in that book he often writes about experiences of his earlier life, often acknowledging the change in perspective brought about by the passing of the years. As Rhina Espaillat notes: "These poems include autobiographical rites of passage, regrets and celebrations, personal and family memories, immigrant folklore, travel impressions, encounters wit...

In 1976, Jane Schapiro and her sister bicycled across the country. Carrying their packed bikes over the rocky shore of Seaside, Oregon, they dipped their rear wheels in the Pacific. Eleven weeks and 3500 miles later they arrived at Crescent Beach, Florida, where they dipped their front wheels in the Atlantic. In between, they crossed the Rockies, pedaled into the Texas Panhandle's cold winds, and faced both the warmth and bigotry of the Deep S...

New and Selected poems by Don Barkin, a poet whose last collection was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Awards. These poems are both domestic and accessible, including many in rhyme and meter (the late Poet Laureate Philip Levine wrote that Barkin's poems show "wonderful skill"). These poems, written over a quarter century, have appeared in some of the country's most prestigious literary magazines, including Poetry, The Virginia Quarter...

Recently nominated for a Pushcart Prize, "Laura Mazza-Dixon's Forged by Joy is a test of light against time, from innocence to loss, a spiritual autobiography seen first through a girl's eyes that behold wonder in everything, including stones - 'sea-polished ovals, green trapezoids laced with gold' - and forged through a life of art and love and loss, arriving at the question, 'Can joy weigh more than grief?' These are graceful, softly cadence...

Eamon Grennan writes that the poems in A Quorum of Saints may comprise "the most unusual and entertaining Lives of the Saints ever written." Grennan goes on to say this: "Rennie McQuilkin has composed a spirited set of short, often humorous biographies of energetic, eccentric men and women caught up in and confronting-whether in legend or fact-the toils of their own times, from the First Century A.D. to the present day. With the down-to-earth ...