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The poems in The Dark's Humming find countless ways to settle in your bones, and then in the deepest parts of the psyche. In this collection, poet Megan Merchant, exquisitely brings us to the ledge of ourselves, in intricate ways. There are resonant poems about the delicate and remarkable journey of motherhood. The poet's images and language show us how to walk carefully among the realities of our own shadows. The works guide us to the undiscovered rooms of our own stories, and how to find the symphonies within. Merchant finds ways to intertwine the complexities of mother earth to those tied to her own relationship with her children and her family. We are taken to lilacs in a flood, to birds and branches and the "just tilled earth." By immersing yourself in these poems, you will be "diligent in keeping your body's promise./The only thing it could reasonably desire would be to stay filled." -- Connie Post Poet Laureate Emerita of Livermore, CA 2005 to 2009 Author of Floodwater, winner of the 2014 Lyrebird Prize

Pirene's Fountain's tradition of excellence in writing and thought continues in this special double-feature edition. Features, interviews, reviews, and brilliant works of poetry are brought together to inspire and nurture the creative spirit. The voices in Pirene's Fountain create a meaningful and lasting dialogue for all lovers of exceptional poetry and writing.

A collection of finely crafted, deeply imagined shorts from a prize-winning master, Fred McGavran's latest are his best yet. Drawing on a life of experience as top lawyer, on his calling as Episcopal deacon, and on his service as Vietnam War vet, these compelling narratives veer from fable to genre-bending country-club-horror-comedy. McGavran surveys the human condition--whether a financial advisor atop an office tower in Middle America or a tennis player nose-to-nose with water buffalo on the Ganges--with an eye for the absurd and an ear for the arresting phrase. Like Dickens or George Eliot, his writings pose moral questions that haunt the reader long after the last page is turned. Recommended for fans of John Grisham, Chekhov...and Job.--Michael H. Hoffheimer, Professor of Law and Jamie L. Whitten Chair of Law and Government, University of Mississippi School of Law

Representing a breadth of renowned contemporary poets, with varying aesthetics, this volume of the Aeolian Harp Series showcases the talents of ten poets as they revel in the fierce joy of writing. In this anthology Robbi Nester, Joan Colby, Mary B. Moore, Marcia J. Pradzinski, Tim Suermondt, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Lynne Thompson, Vince Gotera, Pam Uschuk, and Meg Harris reveal the best of their work and their underlying philosophies.

Craft-savvy and intelligent, Lynne Potts displays a deft lyrical hand in The Relentless Pronoun. Her ability to inject fresh language through beautiful imagery, as well as her natural ear for musicality, shows her appreciation for the subtlety of craft. Perfect rhythmic control reinforces her keen grasp on how two images put together in succession instantly creates meaning. Strings of concrete scenes tell a tale of the greater whole, as she ruminates upon images that seize, moments that claim, in the transformation of memory. Rich rural settings draw the reader into lush meditations on fish and water, creature and birds, nature and the ever dominant palette of blue. Atmosphere effortlessly paints a seamless dream, a complete and utter submersion into text. All the while ordinary objects are cast in new light, rendering even the "Green glazed diner vinyl counter top" beautiful or the ladder's "stretch to high barns / of hay scent, mouse hair, soft landings" as profound.

"In these brilliant poems, Michael Meyerhofer explores the complex and crazy world you and I wake up to every day. He writes about superheroes and poverty and death and Carl Jung and parallel universes and dictators and what you can see and hear while sitting in a bar where they're mourning a dead woman named Lynette. And what makes all of these things jump up and shout is Meyerhofer's love and curiosity. He's the poet who wants his eyeballs to always be open, always take in and hug the things most of us are too busy looking for the next Starbucks to see."--John Guzlowski, author of Echoes of Tattered Tongues

"All things break and fall against this life, /and this life gathers the shards and makes song," Julie Babcock writes in this dazzling poetry/hybrid collection. Here, the gaps, ellipses, and erasures are like the clefts across which synapses fire. The cleft is between life and death, and the fire comes from Babcock's language and fearless structure. This book is a song, a fugue, a state of both being and becoming - and it will rearrange your mental furniture." -Sue William Silverman, author of If the Girl Never Learns

Nothing is more anticipated, more fraught, more loaded, more parodied, more remembered, or more desired than a love poem. In this bold new collection, J.P. Dancing Bear manages, rather remarkably, to evoke and invoke some of the great romantic gestures of poetic history while simultaneously charting entirely new poetic territory. At one moment, his rich aquatic imagery recalls Walt Whitman or Pablo Neruda while at other times his voice feels utterly new, as though he has invented a landscape for his language alone. Cephalopodic is a thoughtful, compassionate, honest, and lovely collection of poems that in our tenderest moments, I plan to tell my wife I ghostwrote . . . -Dean Rader

Wendy Barker's new collection, Shimmer, sparkles with arabesques of image, deft swerves into insight. The two discrete series that make up this volume together comprise a meditation on mortality by focusing on the phenomenology of mourning, the "radiant" surface of things: a Chinese scroll the speaker deciphers; the heirloom (sometimes plated) silver she has inherited.These poems "gleam in the light" of Barker's lyric precision, and radiate powerfully with the "primal force" of an ancient female wisdom "within the earth," which Barker channels. Shimmer bewitches. Cynthia Hogue, author of In June the Labyrinth

Because of the dignified, restrained, and at times, stoic treatment of the subject of breast cancer, the reader of this collection, Walking Toward Cranes, finds herself in the hands of a skilled poet and an admirable human spirit. As readers, we can't help but compare our emotional lives to that of the speaker. But this speaker measures her identity by expanding metaphorical margins to include many objects in the natural universe. How is she like or not like the leaf, the maple tree, the snow? These kinds of items become iconic by the end of the book. Perhaps Small-McKinney's greatest gifts are the unexpected images in her work i.e .."..we are not maps, nothing leads us to each other," or ..".When my daughter was born, I opened into a basin, received her, cool water." How gratifying to find a collection of poems which beckons us to read and reread it, always finding new and complex layers of meaning. --Kathleen Sheeder-Bonanno, Winner of the Beatrice Hawley Award for Slamming Open the Door

"I am alive," Lori Desrosiers asserts at the end of her harrowing, potent, and necessary chapbook, Inner Sky, which details a cage formed by domestic-abuse. In poem after poem her fluctuating pronouns expose blurred boundaries (between self and other, beloved and despised) typical to the abuse-dynamic. Her re-visitation of past tragedy and its players comes at the reader forcibly-in the form of "wire cutters," "bitter beets," an "ice crow," and "the dark of the pantry." This is the shedding of rotten images and masks. Yet, what else can a woman do to heal from domestic-abuse but "clean him from her mind"? Desrosiers goes one step better by offering us this book which bravely "lends a hand/ to others mired in storm." Jennifer Jean

"Figures of Humor and Strange Beauty explores the permeability of dream and reality, tapping the wellspring of inspiration that arises from meditative engagement with the mysteries of the natural world. These figures posed and given back to the ocean are akin to previous and developing selves--selves attuning to the boundarylessness of outer and inner, listening to what speaks 'into the silence between sounds.' The tasting and taking of stones is a communing with moon and sea, recalling the creation myth of swallowing whole, the wild, indecipherable life force. This journey that begins by descending a stairway to the sea, becomes the living poem poet Kath Abela steps into--dark lines on the page as organic as the patterns in sand drawn by waves. This magical collection, 'Through the white open door to dream' and 'crossing the shadows of birds, ' carries readers aloft to reflective, heavenward realms, plunges us into invigorating, glittering depths.'--Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of Four Quarters: an homage to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets

Mary Peelen's spare poems pulse with what they contain and describe--in both the imagistic and the mathematical sense of the word--harnessing the power of the sciences to navigate the chthonic worlds of illness, loss, and desire on both personal and planetary scales. Peelen denies the divisions of mind and body, art and science, precision and ardor. Her poems resonate with allusion (Lady Lazarus's hair as a supernova) and sound (copernicium, ununoctium). Peelen unveils new ways to make sense of our complicated, contradictory world.-- Elizabeth Bradfeld, naturalist and author of Once Removed

In Sonja Johanson's new collection, the burgeoning world, the natural and human worlds mingle in gorgeous, often unsettling ways. From lush to bare, the landscape she presents us with is so intertwined with and impacted by our actions that we realize the two have always been one. Johanson paints quietly self-assured portraits of what seems, on the surface, outside us. But nothing is truly outside us. "If I stretched out my hand / would it raise a tidal bore / would it empty reservoirs". Imaginative, lucid, haunting, the burgeoning world is a heartfelt reflection on recognizing light as it filters down through "branches, brachia, arms" to splay across our troubled faces, to plant "messages in the soil". --John Sibley Williams, author of As One Fire Consumes Another

Susan Berlin's poems demand to be read from the first page to the last in one seemingly breathless sitting. Here the domestic is dangerous. This poet makes a music of loss and despair that catches us off guard. Her rhymes, rather than bringing closure or relief at a poem's end, leave us vulnerable, a little wounded, recognizing our own sins of omission, the ways we've shut down to life. Berlin interrogates that numb place and, by the act of creation, reminds us what it's like to come back from the loveless place, to breathe in life and be more. --Anne Marie Macari, author of Red Deer

These candid and graceful poems form an intimate weave of inner and outer form. In five short lines they support a multitude of realities: snow, cloud, applause, seed, friend, longing, sex, music, the dead... yet, how light they are! In them, earth-nature and human-nature see eye to eye, heart to heart. These are poems to be received into the body, like breath. -Anne Valley-Fox (How Shadows Are Bundled, Point of No Return)

The question of resiliency, of learning how to survive and to not just bounce back from life's blows but to thrive, is a central concern of Allison Joseph's work. In her chapbook The Purpose of Hands she ruminates upon such ontological questions. How can identity form when crippled by self loathing, self-doubt? Yet what is a narrative of the Self but a story in which the obstacles placed before us are broken as we arise? It is striking how self-aware she is and what lessons she's had to learn in order to inhabit this world as both a woman and a woman of color. Femininity is much cause for celebration and joy while also being a crucible to endure. Her deliberate phrasings threaten the security and steadiness of knowing oneself by cementing the turbulence of grief and goodbyes. But love is redeeming as much as it is revelatory, and the art of craft is what is required to breathe. Lyricism and musicality offer the saving grace of lightness, a soul scorching relief."

"Cindy Hochman's Habeas Corpus is one of the most original and exquisite books of poetry I've read this year. Irreverant, yet tender, fiercely candid, she is a joyful juggler of wordplay, and her poem "Legs" in this collection is a perfect example of this poet's great talent." -Laura Boss Author: Flashlight (Guernica Editions)and Editor, Lips

Christina Seymour's generous, insightful When is a Burning Tree shines its brilliance on the unexpected lyrical connections between the human world and the natural one so that under its influence we recognize even "the earthworm, with its two sexes and five impossible hearts" or "the tiniest snail gripping rock-face" as fellow travelers exactly as humble as ourselves. --Lisa Lewis, author of The Body Double and Burned House with Swimming Pool

The Coincidence of Castles is a traveler's guide for those who travel best in the mind. I've never been to Ireland. Tobi Cogswell writes a series of poems here that does more than just hit the fringes and highlights of a country. Cogswell speaks of the luggage it takes, literally and in the soul, to fully feel the breath of Ireland - then she transcends the earthly things, even the grudges, loves, and memories we carry for strength. The Coincidence of Castles is a full life through the eyes of a too-humble poet. Tobi Cogswell is a joy to share words with in this quiet world. -Clifford Brooks, author of The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics, Georgia Author of the Year nominee and Pulitzer Prize nominee

In a derelict hotel in small-town Iowa, Mrs. Warner hides from a past she dare not reveal. When one tenant murders another, she is forced to confront the burden of her own story. She first confesses anonymously to a stranger, but soon seeks solace in a new friend who will carry her secret to the grave. Through the spirit and compassion of another, Warner realizes her own path to freedom must lead to a confrontation with her past.

Pirene's Fountain's tradition of excellence in writing and thought continues in this special double-feature edition. Features, interviews, reviews, and brilliant works of poetry are brought together to inspire and nurture the creative spirit. The voices in Pirene's Fountain create a meaningful and lasting dialogue for all lovers of exceptional poetry and writing. This special "Silk and Spice" anthology issue features fourty-four poets from around the world, as well as interviews with Joseph Fasano, Vandana Khanna, and Kalpna Singh-Chitnis.

"Megan Merchant's Grief Flowers exposes with unsettling accuracy what loss would look like if we could subject it to an x-ray or place it under a microscope; its irregular divisions, its unforeseen growth, its pain emanating from ever-shifting and unpredictable locations. These poems are most alive and present in their absence, in the spaces Merchant skillfully creates between what we are grateful for, what we will never have, and what we have lost. Through language delicious and disruptive, the body and its many failings are compared to the natural world--how it protects and betrays us, nurtures us with hope and herniates our hearts at the turn of seasons, kills its leaves and splits its trees: '... the botanist said the seeds will sprout, but might / never bloom', the author discloses when trying for another child, before the title poem grieves another baby's loss while still inside its mother: "I know already, if it does not pass-- / slip into the toilet to be flushed, / they will lace my veins with a syringe /of dreams and clean house." What we know of the unspeakable nature of grief is made manifest in this collection, and laces our veins with visions of what we cannot conjure in our own lives. --Amy Strauss Friedman, author of Gathered Bones are Known to Wander and the forthcoming The Eggshell Skull Rule

These poems are of a seer - unwrapping time, being, the Change we are igniting. The considerations are hard-won -- who we are, what is coming upon us in this age, the passage we are entering and the exit - the seer knows it. There are no exhortations, no longings or forecasts, only the seeing, and the forthcoming Being that envelopes us more and more, "until all that is left of us." We need this wisdom book, clear elixirs from the Source. True mind-beauty, carved with Humanity - beam, everyone must touch this volume in order to traverse the present age. Bravissimo!--Juan Herrera, 21st Poet Laureate of the United States

Pirene's Fountain's tradition of excellence in writing and thought continues in this special double-feature edition. Features, interviews, reviews, and brilliant works of poetry are brought together to inspire and nurture the creative spirit. The voices in Pirene's Fountain create a meaningful and lasting dialogue for all lovers of exceptional poetry and writing.

Bill Yarrow continues to push the boundaries of modern poetry and the results are always astounding. He always delivers the literary goods with consummate bravery and a serious searching for beauty of form. A real treat for anyone who enjoys the company of a very alive and creative mind. Full of fun and exploration, his works resonate long after you've turned the page. One of the hardest-working poets in the business. Be thankful you've stumbled upon his new book.Your luck just took a remarkable turn for the better. --Darryl Price, author of The Ferocious Silence, editor of Olentangy Review