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This book contains three long poems about three road trips made in 1999, 2000, and 2001. They are part travelogue, part historical (describing meetings with other poets such as Todd Moore and A.D. Winans) and part personal musings on the nature of things. The first poem describes a trip to San Francisco to meet a number of small press poets. The second is about a trip across the desert to meet Todd Moore in Albuquerque NM and how it becomes a spiritual quest as I relive a previous trip through the same country. The last poem details a 1300 mile journey to Seattle that was undertaken just before 9/11/2001 and it describes the experience of being so far away from home during this national crisis.

This is the first published collection of short stories by RD Armstrong aka Raindog. Known mostly as a poet and publisher, RD has been writing short stories for about ten years. These stories are not for the faint of heart, as they deal with the seamy side of life and are written in a style that is reminiscent of "film noir" and pulp fiction (especially the title story). If you are a fan Charles Bukowski's stories, then you'll find that El Pagano and Other Twisted Tales is a must read.

This is the second volume of poetry written in the last 15 years by RD Armstrong. This volume covers the years 1999 to 2007.

In Benninghoff's Whose Cries Are Not Music she asks "Don't we in dying reveal who we are?" With a steadily dealt hand, somewhere east, in a "tinseled diner" she reveals fortune's deck of splintered seasons; the stray surprise: deer's blank eyes, a summer gull's pierced solitude. These poems "shine brightly. They take the stars away." Maureen Alsop Linda Bennninghoff is scrupulously attentive to the underpinnings of living one's life, whether she's watching gulls filling the empty sky like numberless dreams ("Gulls") or capturing the isolation and tenuous connections of relationships, to absorb the many facets of the human condition and give it back to the world with lyric precision. Her work runs wide and deep. Barbara Southard

39 contributors recall the influence of the cofounder of the Outlaw Poetry School on their lives. Contains poetry, essays, short remembrances and personal photographs.

The book contains over 80 poems dealing with ambiguities and paradoxes in experience, especially how impressions of certainty and doubt affect everyday life. Ed Nudelman (author) has tried to call on influences in his vocation (he's a cancer research scientist in his other life) as well as child and adolescent memories, and hopefully mixed in some humor and poetic metaphor.

Hard Landing is the second volume of poetry by Rick Smith, published by Lummox Press. In a sense, it is the story of life as told by the Wren, but not necessarily wren as a small defenseless bird, but more as wren as metaphor. As you read these poems, you may begin to see yourself or someone you know in them.

Reading through this monumental collection of Henry Denander's poems I realize that he has taken his place in my pantheon of favorite contemporary American poets, alongside such as Charles Bukowski, Ron Koertge, Edward Field, and Billy Collins . . . and, astonishingly, he isn't even American-he's Swedish. But he has somehow mastered our conversational idiom, our easy humor, and our perennial subjects: childhood, children, friends, a second home (Greece), reading, eating, drinking, jazz, the simple pleasures, the inevitable battles with illness and aging. No one speaks in a more relaxed style. He isn't "just" a poet either: he's a prized illustrator and watercolorist, an accomplished prose storyteller, a perceptive collector and publisher. I'm sure there are many more to come, but these alone would constitute a life's achievement. These are quite simply great poems. Additionally, he has been, from the start, a loyal friend . . . and I have never even met him. Gerald Locklin Modest Aspirations

Catalina begins on America's east coast, where the "dense woods are full of secrets/full of children with their heads ducked against the weather." The book's first poems (in the "Coast" section) explore a gradual coming to awareness on that right coast. The book's second section ("To Coast") takes the long journey west to the Pacific, "through the great rippling heartland, a bridge between Oceans," with an accompanying focus on the mysteries and conflicts that vie for our attention as we lose the momentum of youth and settle in to our real lives. The third set of poems ("Being Here") celebrates the present moment, the self as a bridge between generations, as a conduit of the life force. The poems of the fourth and final section ("Looking Out") study the view out beyond the continent one has crossed; to what is next, the possibility of flight into other worlds beyond the rituals of everyday. There, out in the "endless churning ocean" is the next body of land, an island that is "where to go next, where not to go." The book's poems calmly open the doors to reveal magic and tragedy and make the case for looking out while staying put. These are poems of the restless American spirit--"We ache for shuttling further, for the oblivion of the new"-- and the peace that comes with the recognition that there is nowhere better to go.

A lot of people don't understand the premise of this book. They want to know why there isn't any Bukowski in a book about Bukowski. Well, that's just it...it isn't about the legendary Bukowski, it's about the influence of Bukowski on a generation of writers who followed him into the trenches to write in their own particular style. Before Bukowski became the legendary Bukowski, when he was just another schmuck writing the not-so-great American novel, when he had a snowball's chance in hell of catching a break, he was like some of you; living with his dreams and enjoying the fruits of his low-life, with no discernible future, hand to mouth, paycheck to paycheck...the writing more of a distraction than a way out. I'm sure that some of you readers know exactly what I'm talking about (I can't be the only one left who hasn't been sucked into the great American Myth machine).

With the many forms of entertainment and distraction open to us, National Public Radio and PBS television may be the ones most favored by writers. The quiet confiding voice of radio sees us through our commutes, educates, and amuses us. We feel that we know the hosts on such shows as All Things Considered, RadioLab, This American Life, Prairie Home Companion, Snap Judgment, and that they could be friends, sharing our interests and sensibilities. Their voices accompany us as we go about our daily business, fixing breakfast, drinking our coffee, driving in to work, and they are there for us again when we return home, welcoming us with news of what has unfolded while we were otherwise occupied. For its part, Public television becomes a trusted sanctuary from crass commercials, laugh tracks, unfunny comedies rising in volume as they grow more empty in content. We start with shows like Sesame Street, Electric Company, Mr. Rogers, Reading Rainbow and continue on to Frontline, The Nightly News, and the many guilty pleasures of adult Anglophiles, such as Masterpiece Theater and Mystery. Our national tragedies and triumphs, the odd idiosyncratic stories of individuals, the stuff of our daily lives and explorations all appear here, care of the diligent reporters of our national media. It is wonderful to realize that in some sense we are all one, listening or watching alone in the dark, but part of a larger tribe. This may be the closest thing we can experience to unanimity and belonging in this fractured land. Robbi Nester (Editor)

Mike Adams moved on, on Sept. 26, 2013. While he walked this earth, he touched many lives, both with his writing and with his actions. This collection of poetry by his friends demonstrates the power of Mike's presence, even now as the dust settles...it is a loving remembrance of his life. Here's to you Mike!

Linda Lerner has approached the Nursery Rhyme from a 21st century position and interpreted them through poetry in a whole new way! Along with the illustrations by artist Donna Kerness, Lerner unleashes a new twist on the old, worn-out stories of humpty dumpty, the pussy in the well, Rip Van Winkle, Jack Be Nimble, Friday's Child, Ring Around the Rosy, and London Bridge Is Falling Down. It's a modern take on the ancients.

Rick Smith's two previous books dealt with the diminutive Wren...wren as metaphor, wren as symbol for our own frailties and neuroses. Wren was a delicate bird that must be handled with care. But now, it's a new game and Smith comes out swinging! The gloves are off and he takes on the human condition in a "no-holds-barred" re-match that has been years in the making. In "Whispering in a Mad Dog's Ear", Smith shows that he isn't just a one trick pony. He writes about things that are near and dear, about harmonica players and having the blues, about drug addiction, about old lovers and adventures, about psych wards, about madness and redemption, about love and loss; in short, he writes eloquently about the wonders and horrors of life. Take for example, the poem entitled SWANS: Sure, there are swans, silver swans, coupling swans, swans so ominous they remind us of something pre-natal when we were tiny and subject to the counter-clockwise thrill of conception and likewise to the troubling possibilities of gravity. Swans on Silver Lake near where a body was found floating, a hollow swan on our bureau, once filled with cuff links, rings and small change. A pond near the house on the cape where one swan bedazzles herself in early Spring three years running. We watch from distance, counting the times reflection has failed us. There is a haunting beauty here, a suggestibility that doesn't need to go into detail because we already know instinctively what's going on. Such is the poetry of Rick Smith.

A look into the health care system for poor Americans and how Diabetes impacts the author's life.

Steel Valley is poetry that illuminates the soul's travelogue. You can feel with all senses the steel wheels of Mike Adams' Pennsylvania steel mill and railroad boyhood pulse in every word; his clear, generous breaths open the heart to the wide expanses of the poet writing down his life. These tough, tender-eyed poems and prose pieces are at once blue collar and bohemian, homages to the drinking and the working life juxtaposed against a long poem about cooking green chili. There are disappearing riprap trails and epic family narratives that haunt and exhilarate. It is hard to find a geography worth its weight in memory that doesn't resonate with the blood and spirit of its inhabitants. Mike, like Ed Abbey before him, left behind the Wobbly Joe bars, mills, hills and scarred valleys of Pennsylvania for the boisterous outback of the comparatively wide, wild open West. Steel Valley is fine writing, epic and intimate. John Macker

John Bennett writes about life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness in this collection of shards (flash fiction & non-fiction) and poems. Bennett has been a small press fixture since the early 60s, you could almost call him an American Standard...

Modest Aspirations brings small press veteran, Gerald Locklin, and newcomer Beth Wilson together in this new collection of poems and short stories. Fans of Locklin's poems will not be disappointed by these "new poems" -- he is at the top of his game here. And complimenting the poems are eight short stories by Beth Wilson. They have never been published before, so this is Wilson's debut.

A chapbook series of little books with distinctive red covers, each one the size of a quarter sheet of paper, this series began in mid 1998 with the publication of "Fool's Paradise" and "El Pagano" by RD Armstrong. By the end of 2008, 59 titles had been published, with more planned for 2009. Some of the small press' most notable poets have taken part in this series, published by the Lummox Press.

Seven poets who represent some of the best writing that the underground small press has to offer. The poets included here are not from a particular school, at least not one that has been invented as of yet. What connects these writers is obviously not location, or even style of writing, but more a spirit that I feel shines through in the work of all involved. All the poetry contained here is accessible without being mundane, well crafted without being academic...Poetry for people who might not realize they like poetry. The authors collected here are writing some of the best poetry out there right now, period. (from the introduction by William Taylor, Jr.)

We never see things in themselves, only things as they appear to our own particular sensibilities, moods, and associations. Nowhere is that clearer than in poetry, and nowhere in poetry is that clearer than in Pris Campbell's new book, Sea Trails. Part travelogue and part poetic narrative, the book brilliantly counter-poses poetic revelations of the speaker as she moves from "in love" to "out of love" and prose descriptions of a journey down the American Intracoastal Waterway, including details of the physical workings of the journey and of the landscapes which sustain her. An emotional, sensual, and visceral joy to read. Scott Owens

For thirty years Todd Moore has been working on an epic poem about John Dillinger, a poem so big that it must be published in sections. In this particular section, Moore examines the fabled "wooden gun" that Dillinger supposedly carved in order to escape from the Crown Point jail .

A collection of poetry that spans thirty-eight years of writing by poet John Yamrus.