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INTRODUCTION Nearly all of the poems included in Riversong are new. They are expressions of personal love, transcendental realization, and my deep involvement with nature and music. STREAM. . .RIVER. . .FLOW, that starts off the FOREVER SONGS Section, for example, is a journey from youth's first realization of the power of music, when as a nine-year-old boy, lying in bed, I held a plastic radio up to my ear, listening to "The Grand Ol' Opry, "...

We can create a new civilization with our dreams, thoughts, feelings, and actions-and many of us are already doing so. Our current civilization is beyond saving because it is totally unsustainable. Gaia needs us to listen, to learn from our elders who lived, and even flourished, for billions of years through her ever-changing ways and ages. The rocks, trees, insects, and the millions of species that call Earth home have wisdom of tremendous v...

I met James shortly after starting work in Yosemite National Park. Meeting James was a fortuitous event in my life. We began meeting at Degan's Deli for morning lattes and began conversations that continued for months and then years. We talked about myriad topics including philosophy, politics, music, literature, and poetry. His depth and ease of conversation was enlivening and eventually lead to beginning Poetic Matrix Press. James had been c...

Cloudbreak is an act of San Francisco, kaleidoscope of fog and hills, wooden back stairs, relic garden plantings, monterey cypress and redwood trees. Heather Estes has created an intricate portrait of place quite separate from the version that appears in popular fiction. This is a recognizable 'tetris'. -Kim Shuck 7th Poet Laureate of San Francisco EmeritaHeather Saunders Estes shows, through Cloudbreak, the capacity to live and work at someth...

The first book in Campbell's critically acclaimed trilogy saw him as the country's first law student to argue a case before his state supreme court. The second book witnessed him convict (and then free) an innocent man as a prosecutor in Washington, D.C. The current volume returns Campbell to the defense, tracks his transition to teaching in California, and culminates with his defending his wife and others in "California versus Drusilla Campbe...

Nearly all of these poems were written in2020, the year in which covid-19 moved from China, to Europe, to the United States-an amazing series ofmovements that changed our lives. Infections. Deaths.Face masks, distancing, personal isolation. Racialprotests. Civic chaos. Global instability.The burdens were great, and still are-thelingering deleterious effects of Trump's corruptadministration and his non-functioning Senate. Thecovid-19 pandemic. ...

In an obscure time, in a past clear and clouded at the same time, a small group of friends formed in a spontaneous manner, bent on a simple premise, to explore the world out there, in rocks and trees and hills, and in here, in the complex and felt world of the magical psyche. They christened themselves 'The Rainbow Brothers' to honor those virtuous qualities of the spirit that make up all of us and which are available to our edification and us...

This is what truly great writers - the great journalists, novelists, poets, playwrights - always do: They know their communities from the inside out, as full members, and they tell the truth about what they know. This collection of poems is a memoir about Alabama that transcends but does not neglect the public ugliness, the "tired old men who've made up their minds" and set against everything "young and swift." It is a family story filled with...

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I look back at the deep sighs expressed in these poems, sighs of love and longing that we share in the same spirit breath. My short sojourn here, embraced by this great, generous being Earth, asks of me to "give back one speck, one jot, of all / you pour into these marrowed bones" (from Meeting Light , in this book). Beauty is one way of doing this, as are tending to plants, caring for animals, and participating in our own communities. There i...

Lateef McLeod writes some of most daring poetry I have seen. This is poetry that is finely crafted and, oh yes, clearly has something to say. The best poets, to be sure, have something to say, they are artist and philosophers.Langston Hughes, Let America be America Again O, let America be America again-The land that never has been yet- And yet must be-the land where every man is free. The land that's mine-the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, MEN...

In Home Plate Was The Heart & Other Stories, Joseph Milosch deftly accomplishes the poetic economy and emotional epiphany that writers of flash fiction regularly strive for but only rarely achieve. There is an earthy authenticity to Milosch's work, bone-true and honest. These are stories about tough working class people with frangible souls: a truck driver's wife dying of cancer wonders if her husband truly loves her when he's gone so much, re...

With the poems of Out of the Underworld, Patricia Nelson transports her readers through many realms, from the myths of ancient Greece to tales told by the Tarot. Nelson deftly employs lyric language and assumes personas that immerse us in the "weighted land of words." Invoking disparate voices, ranging from Dante to e e cummings, Nelson is our steady guide out of the underworld.-Jodi Hottel, author of VoyeurFor all her precision and her perfec...

Chronicles in Passing is a collection of formal and free verse poems about the incredible, enduring power of the written word to capture and preserve thoughts, emotions, and events. The word chronicles, associated with being a factual written account of history and record keeping, is used for contrast with classroom early reader words like "see Spot run, " yet both reflect the times they were written. We remember encountering Beowulf, Canterbu...

The technical expertise in this poetry is often striking, beautiful-but not the main gift. It is a book on how to live in a world of war and fear and money without defensiveness. The silence the words come from frees you from your masks. You descend into an unfolding center, each expression leading inward. Boldly tender and clear-sighted, Conjugal's voice dissolves categories-political, lyrical, magical, technical. It is the voice of an interc...

Joan Baranow's powerful new collection of poems, In the Next Life, reminds us that it is our passage through this life that constantly shapes the next. Our place in and passages through the natural world reflect both the questions of childhood and those few wisdoms we hope to share as adults. Always, the speaker of these poems ("closer to the end/than to birth, dreaming of death" she says) recalls a boy's question: "How does light climb the tr...

What he has assembled here is a set of poems written in the aftermath of a divorce. I like this book so much that I am almost grateful for the divorce, because without it, I doubt we would have such a window into this gentle soul. Here there is pain, and joy, and something that straddles them, what John at times refers to as "beauty." The poetry is disarmingly mature. He's not trying to impress the grownups because he knows he is one of them, ...

(CarolSmallwood's) greatest strengths lie in her own original content, and in that respect, A Matter of Selection soars not only as a follow-up to her past collections, but also as an independent entry into the modern poetic landscape. Be it the personal touches inside the profound, "The Universe, " the sensory allusions of "A Chemo Visit, " the domestic snapshots shaping "The Sewing Box, " or the startling social commentary beneath the short ...

The Forgotten Shore is a fascinating volume of poetry, and according to the author, represents a kind of "archaeology of emotions" to be excavated and explored. At times, the language is difficult and confounding, as J. P. Linstroth often references Greek mythology and archaic speech. Yet, there is something profound about his poetry that draws the reader toward an inextricable communion with his personal emotions and his unique observations o...

Poetic Matrix Press' 20th Anniversary Authors' Anthology So Many Voices. With material from our 60 books and 45 authors (including new pieces from many) this is a true reflection of So Many Voices that we have had the privilege of publishing. This is an interesting and beautiful compliment to our publishing efforts. With editorial assistance from John Peterson, James Downs and Joe Milosch and Forward from James and John and cover art from Moll...