Azaleas on Fire, by Gabrielle Langley

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Conceived “in the month of pearls” as she tells us in her poem “Birthstone,” Gabrielle Langley is a poet of true luminosity, stringing her “English words like pearls” across continents — from Paris and Milan to Katyn and Istanbul, Lebanon and beyond. I find her to be a remarkable imagist of postmodernity. In Azaleas on Fire, she leads her reader through gardens of flowers rescued from romantic tradition through irony where the fragrance of narcissus and gardenias meets charred wood, “the burn of salt water rising to swallow small children.” She weaves delicacy with strength, a floral lace that is beautiful, tough, untearable.

Pause, by Sandy Roberts

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With gentle imagery and language, Sandy Roberts explores her own spiritual roots and survival of growing up in the deep South of 1940’s Texas, and the pain and hardship of the changing physical and political landscape.

Emily Dickinson kept at her side the two same books that were prominent in Sandy’s own childhood home – the dictionary and the bible.  Perhaps those books were enough to plant the seed to love words, language, and the images and the connections.

Conjoining, by Heidi Czerwiec

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In this age of truths coming to light, Czerwiec’s Conjoining shows us who the monsters really are and in her poetry — fierce and precise wielded deftly as any surgeon might their blade — she dissects the body politic. We hope you will join us in celebrating and lifting Czerwiec’s important voice in the contemporary literary landscape.

Nowhere to Go, by E.M. Satterley

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Can Tim, a returning Vietnam veteran, prove his innocence or will his life take a torturous turn for the worse? His fiancée, Katy Wilson, is the only one who believes in him and together they make the best of a horrible ordeal. How does it all end? Hang on, dear reader, for a fast-paced and compelling murder mystery that will keep you guessing to the final sentence.

RED SKY | Poetry on the global epidemic of violence against women

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Red Sky: Poetry on the Global Epidemic of Violence Against Women is an anthology of work featuring poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, Tony Hoagland, Thylias Moss, Fady Joudah, Jaki Shelton Green, Hélène Cardona, Zeina Hashem Beck, and 100+ poets in response to the global epidemic of  physical, psychological, emotional, and systemic violence against womxn. Red Sky is a collection of work by established and widely published poets as well as new and emergent voices around the world.

Eating the Light, by Mary Barbara Moore

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In Eating the Light, these new poems of Mary Moore ‘s new poems offer a feast for the reader.  On subjects both natural and human-wrought, her eye is the painter’s: vividly clear.  She creates an appetite for looking and a fulfillment of seeing.   Moore’s perceptions are sensuous, intelligent, and the world in the poems is a world transformed both physically and emotionally.  Her metaphors illuminate and satisfy, and having dined with her, we begin to glow, sated on such delectables. These poems embody a kind of mystical sensitivity to the sources of life:  immediate, continuously perishing, making its considerable mark in these gorgeous lines.

Holy Ghosts of Whiskey, by Marty Silverthorne

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Holy Ghost of Whiskey is a beautiful commitment to the god-force of memory. Marty Silverthorne reminds us over and over again how poetry strengthens our root. These deep evocations of language and ghosts create pathways that charm us into honky tonk heavens. From beginning to end these poems offer a haunted awareness of the joys, sacrifices, and sorrows that are singing in the hinges of three room shot gun shacks. These poems lift up the roots and reveal well-crafted tenderness and emphatic imagination that bears witness to the longings and challenges we all have confronting our angels, our ghosts, loves, and losses.

Return, by Cristina Albers

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This collection is a powerful testament to the ebb and flow/ highs and lows of early recovery. Return provides a glimpse into a process seldom seen. The process of recovery skillfully woven into a poetic style of descriptive precision. Return is a snapshot of body bags, key tags, 90 day intervals and the triumph of that first year of freedom. For this poet, this is only the beginning.

Terror’s Identity, by Sarah Maury Swan

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Starting a new high school is tough enough, but sixteen-year old Aidan Knox is about to have his world turned upside down. In a strange new town under the witness protection program due to his father’s career investigating domestic terrorism, Aidan wants to make friends but isn’t sure whom to trust.  He’s also worried that he can’t keep his mother and sister safe.

Terror’s Identity will keep you on the edge of your seat, pulling for Aidan and his family.