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  • Armor, Amour

    Armor, Amour

    By Amy Pence

    The poems of Armor, Amour reveal a serious mind wrestling with important subjects. The book...

    $16.00
  • Grains of the Voice

    Grains of the Voice

    By Christina Pugh

    This collection is, in essence, an act of singing. Each poem lilts, echoes, trills what...

    $13.99
  • Companion Grasses

    Companion Grasses

    By Brian Teare

    It is a distinct feature of [this] book that it impresses into service both logic...

    $17.95
  • Road Scatter

    Road Scatter

    By Sandra Meek

    Road Scatter, Sandra Meek’s devastating new book of poetry, aches with a sense of loss...

    $15.95
  • Imperial Nostalgias

    Imperial Nostalgias

    By Joshua Edwards

    There is a problem, however, with this Romantic undertaking: the American frontier has long been...

    $14.00
  • Small Porcelain Head

    Small Porcelain Head

    By Allison Benis White

    Small Porcelain Head is filled with beautifully crafted poems...which offer a thought-provoking relationship between form...

    $15.95
  • Sunday Rising

    Sunday Rising

    By Patricia Clark

    It is hard not to recall the deft turns of Mary Oliver in Clark’s work—both...

    $19.95
  • Second Nature

    Second Nature

    By Jack Collom

    "The fact that Collom invites the audience to take part in the work of the...

    $16.00
  • The Final Take

    The Final Take

    By Mario Susko

    In The Final Take, Susko seeks to record something that puts to rest the aftereffects...

    $8.50
  • A Penance

    A Penance

    By CJ Evans

    Evans’s A Penance, though not perfect, challenges readers in a way that requires them to...

    $15.00
  • The Fact of the Matter

    The Fact of the Matter

    By Sally Keith

    There is a set of instructions one should follow before reading Sally Keith’s The Fact...

    $16.00
  • Listening for Earthquakes

    Listening for Earthquakes

    By Jasmine Dreame Wagner

    This poet is an interdisciplinary artist and the visual presentation of Listening for Earthquakes is...

    $9
  • Four Chapbooks

    Four Chapbooks

    By Tracy Grinnell; Nancy Kuhl; Jenn McCreary; Susan Schultz

    In that layering of story and persona, these writers engage with the suppleness of female...

    $8-10
  • Grammar

    Grammar

    By Elizabeth Savage

    At turns beautiful and disconcerting, Grammar presents us with a thought-provoking portrayal of language as...

    $12
  • Rust or Go Missing

    Rust or Go Missing

    By Lily Brown

    The poems of Lily Brown’s debut full-length collection risk utterances that make belief an appealing,...

    $15.95