These poems take careful note of the methods by which humans are destroying the Earth, as well as the ways in which the planet is fighting back.

Men, the poems argue, want a goddess to sleep with, but in doing so may create a mother, and that terrifies them.

Hickman often sets out to compose her poems with the kind of sobriety that a surgeon has to maintain during an operation.

Tender Buttons Press is most suitably named for/after a text by that great poetry momma of modernism: Gertrude Stein. The Press’s “Founding Editrix” Lee Ann Brown describes

Duplan continues to probe authenticity throughout the book, specifically what it means to be a “real” woman.

Joy Ladin faces the relentlessness of our most vexing riddles with grace, musicality, and wry humor.

Over the book’s ten sections Hix employs a slew of voices to do his bidding: some destitute and despondent, others liquored-up and looking to fight.

Pulitzer Prize winner Stephen Dunn’s new book of poetry, Whereas, comes out of a life examined but also beckons the reader to examine their own life, asks us to believe “the future has a chance.”

Where the speaker exposes her vulnerabilities, the reader must connect and piece together. There is intimacy in this kind of exercise, for the act of reading is also a process of marking and being marked by language.