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¿A queer love story in five acts, Dancehall follows the arc of a relationship from its earliest days to its final, somber conclusion. In these 60 poems, you will join the speaker as they navigate the highs and the lows, the tranquility and the turbulence, the euphoria and the despair that comes with giving yourself fully to another. Through language, imagery, and form at once universal and intimate, you are invited to take part in this l...

About The Prevalence of Mystery, Rennie McQuilkin's late-life poetry collection, the author writes this: "I present these poems as a sort of postscript remembering the long year following the departure of my dear wife, Sarah. I trust they reflect my enduring love for her, faith in the value of holding fast, admiration of the natural world, and profound respect for those who have shown me the way. Behind it all is the prevalence of mystery.

In her new poetry collection, Armed to the Teeth, Ellen Hirning Schmidt faces life's perils courageously, and being armed with the powers of family, the natural world, and a strong heart full of love, emerges victorious. Readers of this book will take heart from its victories.

In this harrowing and endearing collection of poems concerning his wife's dementia, Rennie McQuilkin pulls no punches but describes in stark and graphic terms the havoc that Alzheimer's can wreak in the life of the afflicted person and all those in her immediate and extended family. But he also shows that a deepening of love can grow from what might otherwise seem like total devastation. The gains described here make this an inspiring book fro...

While not shirking from the worst the modern world throws against us with its violence, its wars, and its racism, these poems offer a "momentary stay" against the personal, political, and environmental perils that afflict us in these desperate days. Always there is an upbeat, often witty tenor to the book, which suggests that the more we are challenged the more we find it in us to call on resources of love and courage that might have lain low ...

In her new poetry collection, What Glues Us Together, Nancy Manning pulls no punches, depicting the worst that life can hurl against her, both personally and globally, but she prevails against all odds through the powers of love, family, and the natural world. Readers will be inspired by her resilience, humanity, and generosity of spirit.

Gail Moran Slater's poetry collection At the Edge finds multiple consolations for the sadness at its heart: consolations of the natural world, works of art, mid-life love, and the joys of family.

The Holding focuses on the many ways we can overcome the perils that afflict us during an era of medical, personal, and political plague. At the book's heart is the Alzheimer's of the author's wife and the love it has called forth in him. Presented in roughly chronological order, McQuilkin's poems also address other crises. Subtitled "Love in a Time of Loss, " the book deals with everything from the premature death of a friend to the "de-pigeo...

Like a friend "who found light in the unlit corner of every room, " these are poems of illumination, appreciation and consolation found in the small moments of life sustained by love of the natural world.

Seventy-Two Labors, a metaphor for the interconnection of all lives, sentient and insentient, could easily be titled Seventy-Two Astonishments. Poet and Zen teacher Susan K¿D¿ Efird marshals the ordinary and extraordinary elements of our lives to send her readers in ever-expanding, ever-deepening directions. The book's three sections deliver imagination and compassion unbounded: a long poem about a radiant pot "awake on the stove, " short lyri...

In her book of poems, The Habit of Hope, Dawn Morrow celebrates hope as a saving grace in our desperate world. Her poems, written "for people who don't like poetry, " invite readers to take a closer look at the people around them, their stories of joy and sorrow, celebration and loss, and the many ways we are all made who we are.

the poems in Pastoral Suite welcome those in-between hours when we turn off the voices of radios and reconnect with a few solitary clouds. A master of suspended time, Muro removes us from a busy world and leads us into an abundant life thick with details of wind-shorn nests of lichen and leaves that hung like paper/lanterns or flecks of gold disgorged downstream over moss-softened stone. Pastoral Suite is a beautiful meditation that locates th...

In the passionate poems of another beginning, caitlin blackburn plumbs the depths of despair and describes a courageous battle to find safe ground and push off from it to experience joy in all its forms, including contentment in "the witnessing / of the sun on the water / or feeling the salty breeze on my face, . . . / the sitting, / the seeing / and the stillness - the 'just being.' " This is a book that will inspire anyone battling against s...

Although the range of this collection is broad-from childhood memory to present day social issues -there is, throughout, a profound gratitude for life as it grows ever shorter. That gratitude extends to the natural world, the gift of literature, friends & family, and faraway places visited by the author.

Lary Bloom's I'll Take New Haven is a sprightly book depicting the author's transition from a suburban community to total immersion in New Haven, CT. It is written with the author's inimitable wit and sharp eye for telling details. The book is a total delight!

How fortunate we are to encounter a book devoted exclusively to birds! In Navigating the Poet's Sky, Karen J. Ciosek takes us on a tour of the many species of birds that have enriched her life.

Winner of the 2022 William Meredith Award for Poetry, The Wages of Love is a splendidly wide-ranging poetry collection, delving into the mysteries of love, the complexities of relationship, the joy of family, and the splendor of the natural world. As Margaret Gibson notes, the book is "finely crafted and deeply felt . . . a harvest of richly remembered and embellished moments whose nature includes inquiry, affirmation, passion, tender remorse,...

The Unspoken of Our Days is a collection of poems describing the author's troubled childhood at the hands of an abusive father and uncommitted mother. It continues with poems about avoiding parental mistakes when the author becomes a mother herself. The poems recount travels with her husband and daughter as well as a variety of relationships, a love of the natural world, and dismay at environmental and political disasters.

There is magic in the incantatory, free-flowing poems of Martha Readyoff's Little Lives. In these poems, the natural world is both vibrantly real and enchantingly fanciful. And we find here a passion for all that is vulnerable in the world, the little lives of children and all natural creatures. Be ready for a wild and thoroughly enjoyable ride. It will change you.

In his new book, The Rounding, Rennie McQuilkin faces down the horrors of 2020-2021, seeing them clearly but focusing on ways in which he and other survivors have found ways to ride out the storm. The poet finds salvation in the natural world, the arts, gardening, and care for others. He clings to a precarious religious faith, just as he clings to the cliff of the troubled world, keeping his fingernails in fighting trim.