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  • Rituals

    Rituals

    By Kiriti Sengupta

    Change is inevitable and Sengupta himself sets out as a wandering minstrel to bring out...

    $9.99
  • Brute

    Brute

    By Emily Skaja

    There is no doubt that these poems are brutal—harsh in their insistence on wanting to...

    $16.00
  • Stories in the Key of Me

    Stories in the Key of Me

    By Michael C. Keith

    Carefully crafted tales of the supernatural, thought-provoking introspection, and relentless black humor can be found...

    $15.95
  • Zoom

    Zoom

    By Susan Lewis

    In this beautiful poem, almost a personal creed, Lewis brings together science, nature, and our...

    $17.00
  • Excess—The Factory

    Excess—The Factory

    By Leslie Kaplan, translated by Julie Carr and Jennifer Pap

    But again, the underlying sense of the collective is layered in as well: we are...

    $16.00
  • Kill Class

    Kill Class

    By Nomi Stone

    Language is always an essential agent in the construction of imagined war scenarios and political...

    $17.95
  • Doomstead Days

    Doomstead Days

    By Brian Teare

    What sprouts from his burned bracts is the realization that the environmental disaster we have...

    $17.95
  • Running Home

    Running Home

    By Katie Arnold

    What Arnold’s memoir is really about, however, is family. The running is secondary, an access...

    $27.00
  • To the Bones

    To the Bones

    By Valerie Nieman

    The tense and atmospheric story, enlivened by Celtic lore, Appalachian legends, and killer zombies, captures...

    $19.99
  • The Tradition

    The Tradition

    By Jericho Brown

    What’s more, Brown’s development of the “duplex”—a sonnet-like repetitive form, whose name recalls apartment-style housing—showcases...

    $17.00
  • Nevada Days

    Nevada Days

    By Bernardo Atxaga, translated by Margaret Jull Costa

    Bernardo Atxaga (1951-) is unquestionably Basque Country’s most prominent author in terms of editorial success...

    $16.00
  • Age of Glass

    Age of Glass

    By Anna Maria Hong

    Hong's literary landscape is the sonnet. All but three poems riff on this form. Hong's...

    $16.00
  • Adorable Airport

    Adorable Airport

    By Jacqueline Lyons

    Ultimately, we are left with an existence, the poet seems to suggest, that hovers between...

    $16.95
  • The Trailhead

    The Trailhead

    By Kerri Webster

    The body knows, can achieve this knowledge through mythic journeys and discipline, but there’s a...

    $24.95
  • Near/Miss

    Near/Miss

    By Charles Bernstein

    Instead, lines, and the rhetoric that they contain, shuffle forward and back, make progress...

    $25.00