The world is full of mysteries: things that appear on our path momentarily and then are gone. These poems pay close attention to both the surprising and the ordinary mysteries of life, responding with praise, longing, grief and gratitude.

In her thoughtful debut collection, Theresa Monteiro uses the scenery of domestic and daily life to call forth fear and loss: the magnitude of human experience seen through the details of the ordinary.

Prose poems seen and heard through Charles Springer’s Window over the Sink walk and run you down a road, skip you across a street and occasionally lift you up in an air with no airport in sight.

Nancy Thomas celebrates language-its sounds, grammar, quirks, and all that words can and can’t do. She plays with common figures of speech, celebrates relationships, and approaches growing older with courage and humor.

Dedicated to those suffering from mental illness

The poems in Lana Hechtman Ayers’ The Autobiography of Rain explore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is as ripe with beauty.

In Zebra Lashes, Rikki Santer demonstrates her knack to forge elements of surprise, philosophical meditations, and inventive renderings of subject matter.

Bornman’s poetry exudes a wisdom drawn from introspection and solitude that is reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s. Bornman’s poetry reveals what readers of scripture should have seen all along: motherhood is central to the biblical narrative.

Love chooses the people and things we name first. In these poems, Trina Gaynon attempts the more difficult task of seeking names for the new and unexplored. In the process she claims the roles of first-time home buyer, resident in the troubled town of Richmond, second language tutor, writer, and church member

If you can find a way to be simple and loving and a part of community that takes care with each other in a pronounced humanistic way, then everything else is superfluous. This book was written to bring you back into that.