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James Ralston, in his debut collection, delivers with an edgy honesty and complex humor the difficulties of loving and being loved. His poems explore sex and separation, the highs of intimacy with someone that devolve into something lesser, and yet he says, 'Don't think of us as failed or sad./As love drops down into its grave,/finally deep enough,/imagine us as brave at last.' There's a fierce precision like that evident throughout, a poetry that dares and distills, and is exquisitely heard, his ears providing a music that authenticates as it makes us wince with the pleasure of recognition. ABOUT THE AUTHORJames (Jim) Ralston lives on three and a half acres between Rocky Gap Creek and Evitts Creek outside of Cumberland, Maryland, a post-industrial town still trying to find its way forward. This land and this Appalachian town are the settings for most of the Lyrics for a Low Noon. Ralston teaches English and Theatre at Blue Ridge Technical and Community College, Martinsburg, West Virginia. He has also taught at Shepherd University (Shepherdstown, WV), Frostburg State University (Frostburg, MD), and Central Michigan University (Mt. Pleasant, Michigan), with a few other short stops along the way. His publications include The Choice of Emptiness, a series of essays that also works as a novel; The Appalachian Grammar Shop; and, over a span of 35 years, numerous essays and poems in The Sun: A Magazine of Ideas. As well, his work has appeared in various other journals and newspapers, including the Utne Reader and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. For fifteen years, between 1990 and 2005, he was a regular columnist for the Charleston Gazette, West Virginia's state paper. He has written four plays, acted in some of them, directed some of them, most recently "35 Folds to the Moon" at the New Embassy Theatre in Cumberland and the Apollo Theatre in Martinsburg.

A poignant journey traversing love, loss, memory and renewal, Tin Coyote is rooted in the inner landscape of the heart as well as the physical landscape of the poet's beloved Oregon. The Oregon Coast, Warm Springs, Siuslaw River and Lake Paulina, among other iconic destinations at home and abroad, are vividly rendered backdrops to reflections and self-explorations. 'Light reflects, refracts/creating space and possibility.' Janice Rubin is a keen observer of self and environment.Janice D. Rubin is a counselor and educator. She received her M.S. from the University of Oregon and her B.A. in English Literature. Her poems have been published in the Austin International Poetry Festival Anthology, Tiger's Eye Poetry Journal, Glass: A Journal of Poetry, Arabesque Journal, The Quizzical Chair Anthology, (Uttered Chaos Press) the Anthology It Demands a Wildness of Me (Uttered Chaos Press) and other journals. She was nominated for the Pushcart Poetry Prize in 2008. She's taught at Oregon State University and currently teaches at Lane Community College. She's the author of Transcending Damnation Creek Trail & Other Poems (Flutter Press 2010). Tin Coyote is her second book of poems.

A young man, the start of a promising career, a loving wife and a new baby daughter - then, an embolism. In The Nell Poems, I've watched as the poet forged these poems out of a mother's shock and grief, carving them into something beautiful for her granddaughter's legacy. It's a stunning achievement.Karin Hoffecker has an MA in English Literature from Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan. Her poems have appeared in Penumbra, The Comstock Review, The MacGuffin, Mona Poetica, Passager, and Peninsula Poets. Fascinated with the visual arts and the natural world as subjects, she explores them often in her poetry. She is a retired teacher who is devoted to the practice of yoga and spending time with her granddaughter Nell, for whom these poems were written. She lives in Birmingham, Michigan.

Bold, fresh, painful, and charged with spiritual energy, Garcia's A Rope of Luna pulls us through the cycles of life with insight, passion, and "the stubbornness of a heel ground into the dirt." Poignant and sweet in its intimacy, this collection of poems immerses us in the raw wound of life as an immigrant child, as a daughter of a dying mother, as an estranged child of a faraway father, of a determined poet capturing the beauty of life in its "new botanical garden where I choose the order of petal and plant." Vividly painting the experience of leaving her native land and of being immersed in a place where her ethnicity, her language, and the prejudice of local institutions mark her as the despised and the disposable, Garcia evokes an eloquence both powerful and incisive, describing her laws of survival as "You bury screams in the dirt, and can't move….An unseen raptor….bites off the appendages of all you once knew to be true." A must-read volume!Lisha Adela García is a child of the immigrant streams that form the Americas. She is a border mongrel with Spanglish, Mexico and the United States in her psyche and in her work. She has an MFA in Creative Writing from the Vermont College of Fine Arts and currently resides in Texas with her beloved four-legged children. Lisha also has a Master's degree for the left side of her brain from the Thunderbird School of Global Management. Her first book, Blood Rivers, was published in 2009 with Blue Light Press of San Francisco. Her chapbook, This Stone will Speak, was published by Pudding House Press in 2008. She has numerous publications in journals including Crab Orchard Review, Mom Egg Review, Boston Review, Border Senses and many others. Lisha is also a literary translator, editor and teacher.