Scott LaMascus breaks his silence about the aftermath of boyhood sexual abuse. After fifty years, it is a courageous and stunning gathering of words held close and distilled into poems which speak difficult truths.

In lyrical, kaleidoscopic prose, Majestic Cut examines the divergent narratives families tell about the stories that define them.

After a messy struggle to reconcile witnessing loved ones’ battles with illness followed by their subsequent deaths, Roland fought through addiction to recovery, and with this collection offers a nod to a more hopeful future.

Lye poetically and thematically follows the ingredients of soap making-ash, water, and oil-to explore how one might wash their hands of a messy and traumatic past.

What is God? Through these poems, Liz explores that question as widely as their spirit will take them and invites you to do the same.

Embedded in the subconscious of these poems is the centrality of climate change and its disorienting and deleterious effects on all inhabitants—human and otherwise—of planet earth.

These poems were inspired by Patricia Fargnoli’s poem about clouds and the ephemeral nature of life, “Winter Sky Over Cheshire County, New Hampshire.”

Nicholas Skaldetvind’s In the Way of Things invites us on a coastal, irresistibly watery journey that spans from Italy to Greece to California and elsewhere.

These poems lead the reader through the struggles of both holding on and of letting go.

Carter intersperses bright, spellbinding images of natural beauty into poems and tales that explore various modes of human destruction from the heedless demolition of our planet to the systemic roots of trauma, isolation, and greed.