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Dominic Albanese is back with something completely different - a surreal road trip veering wildly from psychedelic nightmare to idyllic dream, an utterly new experience. 101 Elsie St is a riveting jaunt through a fading time - the beginning of US involvement in Vietnam, the awakening of the counter-culture of the sixties, and one man's journey through the hell of addiction, prison and self-doubt to the realization of the healing nature of fell...

Dominic Albanese is back with something completely different - a surreal road trip veering wildly from psychedelic nightmare to idyllic dream, an utterly new experience. 101 Elsie St is a riveting jaunt through a fading time - the beginning of US involvement in Vietnam, the awakening of the counter-culture of the sixties, and one man's journey through the hell of addiction, prison and self-doubt to the realization of the healing nature of fell...

The latest collection by award winning poet Jeff Weddle (There's More to It Than That) showcases the poet's astounding observation of the rapidly deteriorating human condition. Whether watching a cat or ruminating on a relationship writ large, Weddle's poems pull the rug of comfort out from the reader to send us crashing to the floor to look for scattered crumbs of hope. This is poetry that makes us look at what we are. It's beautifully imag...

Can poetry save us from ourselves? At turns angry & contemplative, hilarious & philosophical, the unique voice of Dominic Albanese rambles through a world turned inside out. Ride along with Dominic and his cast of lovers and brawlers as he tries to make sense of our headlong rush to oblivion, as we PREPARE FOR WORLD FLIP-OUT! "Dominic Albanese writes like a Benedictine monk who kicked a cocaine addiction and picked up a poetry habit." --...

These are stories that set you down in the middle of a nowhere that feels like an uncomfortably familiar somewhere and then ask if you know what's going on - no answers, only pointers. Haggblom is a writer who makes you think and wonder.

Jeff Weddle - author of Dead Man's Hand and Good Party - returns with a new collection of poetry packed with his keen observations and trademark humor. The reader is always struck with a sense of wonder at Weddle's, and our, slightly off-kilter ordinary world. This is poetry for today.

Glints was conceived by photographer/writer/artist Kris Haggblom as a series of archival photographic chapbooks. Originally published by SpiNDec Press (now the design division of Poetic Justice Books) over a period of three years, 2016-2018, the chapbooks were individually printed to archival museum standards and hand bound. Each book was ten pages, actually eight pages with a fly-out, of heavy paper printed in stunning quadtones, hand stitche...

I need to know how much I have to undream to get back to what's real.A legendary writer plays tour guide to a struggling poet on his misguided search for a muse. It doesn't help that she's appropriated his new camera as a sex toy.

When death became the flower of hisdreaming faded to blunt silenceWhen the words he had writtenwere all that remainedWhen death came to his bull heartno one knew him and still some weptAward winning (2007 Eudora Welty Prize) poet, Jeff Weddle, returns with a new collection of work aimed at the confusing disarray plaguing our minds.

Ahmad Al-Khatat, author of Wounds from Iraq and Grey Revolution, returns with a collection of poetry inspired by love and relationships.It is the perfect time to kiss me [...] Feel free to kiss me more than once, twice [...]

In her latest collection, award winning Nigerian poet and thinker takes a look at the question of suicide. By examining the reasons for such a drastic response to life's problems, Osuoha points out the path to resolution, a more hopeful way.

Marion Lonestar Welch's classic tale of loneliness, lust, liquor and love in 1950s Chicago. The story of star crossed lesbian lovers, desperately in love yet destined to violently part.This edition restores Lonestar's original text and illustrations.

Truth and illusion that's what we have here. Faith and fantasy and despair. Doesn't sound like a good mix.Frankie, Marion Lonestar 's brilliant creation - a sort of Ojibwa everykid - is desperately seeking meaning. To escape from an uncaring, sometimes abusive adult world, Frankie finds solace in baseball and her beloved Edy Swamp. What happens when her peaceful place is violated?

Award winning writer Amirah Al Wassif's long awaited collection of children's tales and poems, The Cocoa Boy and Other Stories, is finally available!Stories to delight and mystify, full of colorful characters and lessons imparted in Amirah Al Wassif's unique voice and wonderfully illustrated by Sarah Hussein.

Al-Khatat's poetry is a poignant knife. His words sing off of the page into your heart with the voice of a blade.-- Adam Levon Brown Ahmad Al-Khatat is one of my favorite poets! I have found no one else who is as masterful at building a poem about the most sad and disastrous circumstances, and yet frame it with such lovely phrasing, so that one is drawn to the poem again and again. May he long continue his magnificent constructions.-- Linda Im...

Acclaimed Nigerian poet and thinker, Ngozi Olivia Osuoha turns her sharp eye on the celebration and misappropriation of Christmas - from the madness of the markets to the loneliness of the forgotten, from the joy of family to the meaning of the season.

I didn't knowwhere I was goingat that age, justthat I was traveling fastAdam Levon Brown's latest collection of poetry, Growing Up Holy and Alone, is a heartbreaking paen to love and loss. This is poetry that embraces the reader with a kick and a comfort. Everyone should read Adam Levon Brown.

Well ya know what? No. I'm done. I'm not hiding anymore. I'm not afraid of death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities. I'm through. Lane Mochow's sharp observation of modern cultural issues speaks directly to the heart. This is a poetry meant to devour.

It was in 1959 when I first met Miss B. I had been skipped over 6th grade and sent to Jr High, Mark Twain Jr High on Neptune Avenue in Coney Island. She was my 7th grade English teacher. That I fell madly in love with her is not really an issue here, but I for sure did. It's a long way from Brooklyn to Vietnam. Through a surprise package of fifty-year-old letters he explores in Dear Miss B, Dominic Albanese (re-)discovers a road that bridges t...

It was in 1959 when I first met Miss B. I had been skipped over 6th grade and sent to Jr High, Mark Twain Jr High on Neptune Avenue in Coney Island. She was my 7th grade English teacher. That I fell madly in love with her is not really an issue here, but I for sure did. It's a long way from Brooklyn to Vietnam. Through a surprise package of fifty-year-old letters he explores in Dear Miss B, Dominic Albanese (re-)discovers a road that bridges t...