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In Robert Fagles' translation of Vergil, Aeneas, contemplating the Trojan War cries out, "The world is a world of tears, and the burdens of mortality to touch the heart." Laura Brylawski-Miller intuits the lacrimae rerum, the tears in things throughout her poetry, and it is not only a result of the classic education she received in her native Italy, but a guiding insight that directs her view of the world, the shape of her sou...

Lifetime activist and American Book Award-winning author, founder/editor of Eco-Poetry.org, Daniela Gioseffi offers humanity -- children of Mother Gaia, fellow citizens of home planet Earth -- a wake-up call in the face of climate crisis emergency "because you still have some hours left.

To Begin With, Feel Fortunate was written in part in the chaotic year running up to the election of the new president and is a passionate analysis of how we got to where we are as a nation, and what may be in store for us. As Peter has said in an interview, "You have to remember that even the poets who live in garrets are citizens, and I urge them to use their voices and partake in the actual goings-on of our country." Like William...

Gray Jacobik's The Banquet is a feast of opposites, a carnival of contraries. The highwire walker who has created such poems is perfectly balanced between heaven and earth. It is rare to encounter truth-saying that is so wholly sensual and philosophical, sexual and intellectual at the same breath-taking moment, so witty but also sober in its assessments, so utterly simple and complex. None have seen, smelled, tasted, heard and touched this wor...

A volume of poetry by Russell Streur, editor of The Camel Saloon.

Blogger Jack Cooper joins the ranks of Dorothy Parker, John Donne and Confucius with his haiku-esque witticisms: "ROMEO AND JULIET, EXPLAINED / You cannot live for love" [Monday, February 11, 2013], "WORDS FROM A STONE / Both terrible and vain / to have sought love // at a time one felt so little" [Wednesday, March 6, 2013]. No candy-coated sugar pills served here!It seems Cooper's systematic and objective distillation of his truth serves as a...

The heart is a chamber of ghosts, some who linger sweet and willing, some who are trapped and rattle sorrowful chains. In 'Cloverleaf, ' Geer Austin illuminates these specters of passion, their transparent skin illuminated by scent, smile, dream, and emotion. These are poems of beginnings and ends, almosts and not enoughs. These are poems of butterflies and ravens, a celebration of the joys and grievances of the golden thread that binds us tog...

COMES LOVE tells the story of three men caught in love's web as they struggle to share a life together with kindness and mutual support despite their differences in age and culture. The author recounts a decade of compassion and sexual obsession like watching a reality TV show, trying to make sense of their life together as they travel the globe. The three have joined in a love triangle, a kind of new age marriage years before the current flow...

This is the story of a man feeling his mortality, trying to make sense of his past and possibly his future as he receives the diagnosis of White Matter Disease. It records a year in the life of a writer fixed in history, doing his best to transcend life's challenges and achieve spiritual certainty. Haunted by a glamorous past and the love of his life who has died, it traces his mind's progress as he travels the world and his own internal geogr...

When one reads the exquisite short title poem of GUY WIRES, the temptation, of course is to assign Elisavietta Ritchie the moniker of Spider Woman. And how wonderful and potent that the stuff of which she spins her web is love. This is a very serious poet, who weaves her poems with the tensile strength of spider silk, greater than the same weight of steel, and with much greater elasticity. Her poems make remarkable connections between her m...

Creating a visual language of free-association and metaphor in the vernacular, Fires Eternal Morning is written to function on multiple layers of allegory, thought, and perception.It is a prose-poem landscape of dreams of the writer 's own childhood, set in a place called "Paradise Green." The schematic follows Dante: 1. the Inferno of a nuclear catastrophe, 2. the Purgatory of emotions and political intrigues, and 3. the Paradise of Mind and ...

Mass market, second and posthumous edition of the original debut limited-run, saddle-stitched poetry chapbook by Brant Lyon published by Poets Wear Prada in October of 2006. The original chapbook launched the Hoboken-based small independent literary press. This second special "tin" anniversary edition celebrates Poets Wear Prada's 10th year in operation. The new expanded volume includes three additional poems selected by Lyon for inclusion pri...

A new volume of work from the master of abstract poetry. "Often dense, often difficult, Perchik's poems nethertheless lead to strange, unanticipated conclusions that usually reward the pursuit." -- The Library Journal "A complex, lyrical vision of the commonplace. . . . exquisite imaginings." -- Mid-American Review "Simon Perchik's extraordinary lyrical talent is one of the best kept secrets in contemporary American poetry." -- Confrontation B...

A new chapbook of poems about the moon for poetry and moon lovers alike: "These poems remind all of us, whether we're poets or not, how much we need and desire the moon, which is always with us. I love how Held's moon takes on human attributes, sometimes amenable, sometimes not - perhaps best displayed in the ending lines of the poem 'Menses': 'Think I can't / influence the tides or drive / men mad? Ask my lovers.' This is exactly the type of ...

The debut collection of Diane Stiglich. Three interconnected short stories.

Hometown Santa Barbara explores the capital of the Central Coast and her neighbors like no traditional guidebook can. This new sibling of the bestseller Hometown Pasadena is like having a dyed-in-the-wool local five of them, actually introducing you to the most interesting people in town, telling you the most fascinating stories, and whispering in your ear where to find the best antiques store, oceanview restaurant, surf spot, art gallery, pea...