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In this collaborative poetic endeavour, Benjamin Goluboff (Ho Chi Minh: A Speculative Life in Verse) and Mark Luebbers (Flat Light) project the lives of eclectic and memorable people through speculative biography. Renowned in their use of this poetic style, here we see the likes Robert Frank, Bill Evans, Gerda Taro, Robert Capa, and others in imagined glimmers from their lives. In unique work that follows in the line of Spoon River Anthology, ...

Liam McIleveny, he is no saint, and through his unholy prayers we eavesdrop on the inner thoughts of an imperfect, middle-aged, human creature as Liam contemplates the big things: hope and heaven, sex and suffering, the value of our short time on earth, the origin of prayer, the power of prayer, what prayer-it actually is, peaches, kisses, authenticity, contradiction, grilled cheese sandwiches, orgasmic delight, and how and where a connection ...

Finlay's poems are the works of a person who has traveled the world in search of himself and his place in it. He is a Midwestern poet in the sense that his poems hide narratives that seek honesty above all else, and he is not a Midwestern poet in the sense that he doesn't apologize for the truth when it is found. Mammoths draws from his experiences and from a wide survey of human history to make us look at someone who isn't quite at home yet, ...

In the city of Laquan McDonald and in the season when some white Americans are beginning to learn that black lives matter, it would be absurd to set myself up as an apologist for the white gaze. I seek to describe its interiority, and to suggest something of what it's like to live within its limitations.

In a look at what makes a black man in today's society, Osayande brings us through central questions of belonging, love, and happiness in his native home of Detroit. In his largest collection of poetic pieces yet, the renowned Detroit performance poet, writer, and educator answers how one responds to a world seemingly stacked against. Whether with love, with the law, finances and even with ones own mental health, these are poems that illustrat...

Weaver's collection acts a prolonged meditation on death and the ever-present role it has on living. In these pieces the living play among the dead, reveling in death at times, and perhaps most importantly they search for understanding and meaning in spite of it. From a profoundly personal vantage point of the ways one might come to deal with the presence of death, Weaver explores the sacred and the profane from the viewpoint of those left beh...

In Mark Luebbers debut poetry collection, he frames his discussion with the condition of "flat light." A condition that makes it more difficult to see surfaces and details in contrast, distorts distances, and reduces color values. In order to see well in flat light, one must learn to see "without eyes." And in these poems Luebbers uses this more encompassing poetic vision to reconsider boundaries between wildlife and humanity, the depth of art...

In Gormans collection of haiku, tanka, and visual poems we recognize the new, the familiar, the unsaid. His work delivers an engaging visual and lyric pathway across our shared universe. Each turn, each line, each image a homage to the places we've been and the places we shall go. Here is our universe in clear images, lines, and voice. One that we recall playfully and in reverent awe. Hunting the universe through poetics we are brought through...

Return to the sweetness of lives lived through this series of epistolary short fictions by one of Souwesto's most gifted and important writers and storytellers. Nine Lives: A Reunion in Paris affords us a fictional look into how lives connect, how origins happen, and the role of fatherhood in light of the various ways that relationships unfold. Gervais, the great lyricist and storyteller unfurls a series of tales that pour forth over borders, ...

Welcome to seedier side of Saint John, New Brunswick. This working class city on the shores of the Bay of Fundy is home to postman and amateur poet Charlie White. Charlie is a hopeless romantic who rediscovers the woman he longs for with a chance run-in with Prin. When his buddy Eddie Smythe finds himself dangerously in arears to the wrong guys, Charlie and Prin are drawn into a dangerous game of survival in this city on the bay. Two hit men a...

When Erdem Çeliktas, a writer from Turkey, wakes one day to find he can no longer speak or understand anything but English, his life is overturned. While Erdem's native Turkish has always held him as father, author, and political activist in a familiar light, Erdem's English mind offers an altered perspective, awareness, even character. With no explanation or cure to be found, Erdem must find a way to reframe his thoughts, his work, even his m...

A horseback riding accident in June, 1973 leaves Buddy Scott, the central character in The Way to Go Home, with a broken body in a remote ravine. As he awaits rescue, thinking that his life is about to end, his mind wanders into his past. His journey began at age thirteen, when he was suddenly orphaned along with eight other siblings. Unable to keep their Wyoming ranch, Buddy and his older brother, Ray, stay with an uncle, which turns out to b...

In this compact collection of new short fiction we witness a spectacle of creation from the profound and the everyday. From the central position of video games in our world to free-roaming magical rabbits these enrapturing pieces of new storytelling afford us both mediatations of grand subjects as well as engaged and entertaining storytelling. Immerse yourself in one of the newest voices in fiction from the Rocky Mountain West.

Borrowing its title from astronomy, the counterglow is a faint light in the night sky that appears directly opposite the sun. Made up of interplanetary dust, this glow is difficult to detect unless one observes from a place without light. These lyric poems of Patricia Killelea speak from this darkness as she seeks a language of redemption- some kind of brightness to cling to, however faint. Spanning terrains of spiritual and literal hunger, wh...

In Black Magic Death Sphere: (science) fictions a young man cites his obsession with the creation of alternate universes as a rationalization for not answering his girlfriend's marriage proposal, James Franco travels to the edge of the universe where he meets a slightly different version of himself with whom he lives out the rest of his life, a man, snowed in at his hotel, meets a future version of himself who has questionable intentions, and ...

In the quaint shoreline town of Mystick, Connecticut, an ancient order has existed since the first violent conflicts between indigenous peoples and foreign settlers. Founded by gray-haired womyn who wanted to ensure that violence was never repeated, these Grays continue to run the town. Once you have joined them, you can't turn back. When Snowy Strangeways returns to Mystick for her grandmother's Gray funeral, she unearths information about th...

Plimsoll Lines are the marks on the side of a ship's hull to which vessels can be safely loaded. These words become lyric and capture the "unbearable lightness" of the poetic word coupled with the playful metaphor of floating. Mounsef utilizes both these individual poems and the overall collection to drift the reader around themes of wandering, water, and wanting. The collection argues in favor of a return to the word and cultural meditations ...

Explore new poetry and prose by the working writers that make the area around Windsor, ON Canada home. These are the stories, songs, and voices of those that have come to call the south shore of the Detroit River Narrows theirs. Discover the voices forming the roots of a thriving literary community that is now gaining its due attention in the literary world. Masterfully edited by Windsor poet Laurie Smith this collection showcases the breadth ...

From dreams to memories to the realities of life in the border cities of Windsor and Detroit, Smith's collection of poems brings us through the wonder and the questionable in our everyday lives. Hers is a strong voice that emerges from the places familiar to those who inhabit the region these poems call home. From the works of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera to New Year's Eve spent at the infamous Coach and Horses dive bar to the seeming simplici...

Lakeville has fallen on hard times. But don't tell that to the locals: There's the former blues guitar player who never opens his case. The snake wrangler who worries about the bad intentions of his wife's artsy friends. The firefighter who fears retirement more than death. And the grandmother who is determined to hike to the top of Fernridge Mountain. Their intersecting stories, a full stringer of unfulfilled dreams and missed opportunities, ...