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This volume of visionary poetry by an Oregon poet showcases his unique style of streaming periodicity combined with wide-ranging intellect.

Haskins offers a practical guide to the poets life, including chapters on getting published, finding ones writing style, and learning how to lead the life of a poet.

This volume contains a selection of Kuzmas longer poems written between 1988 and 1995.

Ray presents an anthology of his new and selected poems.

Brings Plenty has come into his own power with this new book of poems. These are the poems of a hardcore rez visionary who is '. . . map(ping) the spirit world . . . .' Each poem carries a light born of struggle, and like vision, each illumination has its cost¿Personal history is utterly tied to the historical DNA of family, a place. Through the journey of these poems, a map emerges. In this map, you will find a way home."—Joy Harjo, Mvskoke p...

Culture's cloud chamber and its millions of random vectors drive Aaron Anstett's INSOFAR AS HERETOFORE. 'Whatever scintillants' he calls them in 'One Theory, ' an exclamation that's half-prayer and half come-and-get-me bravado. The poems catch our socio-linguistic lightning flashes, at times fusing the erotic and the spiritual. This book is original and beautiful."—Michael Heller

With unflinching stanzas threaded through with grief's relentless lyric, THE DAUGHTER'S ALMANAC is a masterwork, a deftly crafted illustration of the myriad ways beauty collides with pain. Succinct and utterly memorable, these poems take hold of the heart and tug it toward an insistent light. We are washed alive in that light. We are changed by it."—Patricia Smith, 2014 Backwaters Prize Judge

Zeina Hashem Beck crafts a multifaceted portrait of the people and the streets of Beirut. Part love-letter, part elegy, Hashem Beck's debut collection keeps the city from becoming 'a shadow of a memory, / the memory of a shadow' for poet and reader both, offering us instead 'labyrinths / in which we get lost on purpose.' This collection is as vibrant and sensitive as its subject¿the city that 'understands / not being tired of being.' Join me i...

In COME NOW, Rodger Gerberding reminds us of just how necessary the modernist's dogged desire to employ everything in the world: philosophies, myths, ideologies, art, snippets of conversation, jokes, the detritus of popular culture, to lyric effect has been for denizens of the so-called information age. These poems reflect a probing intellect and an emotional candor that position Gerberding as a poet who is utterly convinced by the urgent need...

amazing poems of sheer, narrative abundance" / Naomi Shihab Nye

A master of surrealism presents his first full-length collection.

Intense nature and family poems about the poet in relationship to the things of the world.

Intense nature poems and poems about spiritual journies in relationship to nature.

Angry at how her grandmother erased the past, Susan Eisenberg, in these plainspoken, not-for-the-faint-of-heart, resists the historical amnesia and denial American culture propagates."--Eleanor Wilner, author.

2017 Nebraska Book Award  This new collection by Nebraska poet Marjorie Saiser explores the notion of witnessing. Particularly in our technological age, when we have access to international news as it happens, the question comes up: what responsibility do individuals—including those living in relatively quiet middle America—have in regard to world events? The poems in I Have Nothing to Say about Fire reference autobiographical elements: marria...

DRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in our technological and digital age. Written from a variety of perspectives and personas, it explores the human, animal, personal, and domestic aspects of the wars being fought by the US for incomprehensible reasons with indefinable outcomes. Swift and wide ranging, these poems explore experiences of soldiers, military families, prisoners, immigrants, and more.

2002 Nebraska Book Award Widely-known Nebraska poet Marge Saiser's unique poems deal with love and loss through a lifetime of careful reckoning.

The first collection of poems by a man who has been around the block, rough-edged working class poems.

Winner of The Backwaters Prize for 2005, this is the story of a Jewish mother and son in Detroit, told in a variety of voices and with crisp narrative lines. The saga unfolds with Sadie's life in a peasant village near the Black Sea, continues through live's ambitions and disappointments, and ends with her death.

Distant Engines is one of the three winners of The Weldon Kees Award for 2005 from The Backwaters Press.