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These poems speak to struggle stemming from both the internal and the external-a collection deeply rooted in the human experience, life philosophies, identity politics, faith, shame, pride, trials, and triumph. The common thread throughout is identity and asks: Who are we? Why are we made to sometimes feel "sub-human?" How does this feeling impact our overall wellness from a physical, emotional, social, and spiritual point-of-view? And most importantly, how do we strive to see the light in people and in ourselves, despite such turmoil-this dichotomy between light and dark.EARLY PRAISE:"Never before have I been so taken by onomatopoeia-do not simply read this collection, but instead listen. - C. M. Tollefson, Cathexis Northwest Press "As if Coltrane and Marcus Aurelius shared their secrets, Carroll's meditations express free and bold cathartic verse." - Samuel Griffin, founder, The Esthetic Apostle "This marvelous collection navigates the desires of humanity with rhythm, repetition, and grace, demonstrating an ambitious orchestration of form on the page." - J. David, poetry editor for Flypaper Magazine

A young boy grows up in a small steel town along the Ohio River between 1963 and 1968, while another boy's suicide overshadows the community. These poems tell their story.Excerpt from poem titled, "Concentric Circles": To know what it feels like to be suspended between a steel town and a steel blue sky, I climb. Perched on the gallows' branch, I reach out, touching the remains of the frayed knot woven into an abandoned bird's nest. Praise for Many Sparrows:"These poems by donnarkevic, emotionally riveting and often deeply disturbing, are pure marvels. Ordinary, conversational speech is entwined with powerful symbols and indelible historical images, to create work that is nothing short of revelatory."~ Dr. Sandy Vrana, Professor Emerita Alderson Broaddus University, West Virginia

Call My Name by Heather Wyatt is a collection of poems from the voice of a small-town southern woman working through relationships with her family and discovering who she is along the way. She writes of loved ones who have departed and her sometimes broken spiritual life. From pimento cheese sandwiches to walks in nature, this collection is inherently southern. With moments of both humor and heartbreak, she not only shares her struggle with body image, but takes us on a journey of love and loss, with each poem revealing the story of a woman simply wanting someone to call her name.EARLY PRAISE:"In Call My Name, Heather Wyatt shows herself as a lyric poet daring enough to show her true faces to the world-faces that reflect wonder and humor and joy and anger and loss."-Jason McCall, author of Silver, I Can Explain, and Dear Hero "With humor and precision, … [Wyatt] gives us the real details, the key images that resonate."-Greg Pape, author of Four Swans, Montana Poet Laureate, emeritus "Wyatt conjures snapshots from memory that prove that we see ourselves best through the mirrors others provide us…. This beautiful work invites us into the mysteries and paradoxes of our humanity with humor, candor and deep vision."-Ashley McWaters, author of Whitework

A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Selection Twenty-six Mexican migrants were discovered in the Sonoran desert near Yuma, Arizona. Twelve of them were wandering around the desert, delirious and dying of thirst. Fourteen were taken by pickup truck to the morgue. The deceased became known as the "Yuma 14." These poems tell their story.

In The Very Rich Hours, Gregory Loselle recounts experiences, in childhood and later, in and around his grandparents' house on Grosse Ile, Michigan, an island in the Detroit River near the mouth of Lake Erie.Loselle's mastery of various poetic forms parallels the way in which memory is a formal reconstruction of events. Throughout the collection, readers will enjoy triolets and rondeaux, as well as a ballade, sonnet, ghazal, villanelle, sestina and even an Anglo-Saxon caesura, all beautifully executed to bring these cherished stories to life.Take a walk down memory lane and open the door to a houseful of stories, from watching Grandpa shave to sifting through a crateful of old photographs that "call us to forgotten places" and remind us "what we were and meant to do" in the very rich hours of our lives.EARLY PRAISE:With a haunting and contemplative voice, Loselle employs rhythm, word-play, and richness of language line after line. Through rhyme, narrative constructs, and repetition, he crafts poems that are admirably controlled and precise, and reminds us that what William Carlos Williams writes is true: "A poem is a... machine made out of words." Loselle's beautifully spun poems continue to reverberate long after the last light's been switched off. - Janée J. Baugher, author of The Body's Physics and Coördinates of YesGregory Loselle's poems offer memory illuminated by a remarkable astuteness and strong craft. In his hand, the quotidian becomes extraordinary, uncommon, and wonderful. The poet investigates with an unrelenting intelligence and an astonishing clarity. -James Najarian, author of The Goat Songs

Accompanied by keepsake broadside of LeHew's poem "Thermals", with QR code for scanning to access the publisher's website and audio of the author reading the poem.

Based on true events, Shoebox is an epistolary, poetic narrative, blending actuality with fiction, about Juliana who was adopted from Russia.

This collection of poems is a trajectory of one life-from girlhood to womanhood-with all the complications of family, the joy of friends, grief and loss, and ultimately finding lasting love. Meltvedt poetically weaves her experiences growing up as a doctor's daughter in California in the 1960s and 70s with the cultural expectations of women (and their reproductive lives) in the past and still today. Building a Woman also gives tribute to how we often find worth within prescribed family lives, but maybe more so through long-lasting female friendships. "Meltvedt's words ring out like bells and call to us like a friend, urging us to come visit; stay a while; enjoy." -Anara Guard, author of Hand on My Heart "...arresting images and precise language that chronicles a woman's journey to self-acceptance and love. -Jan Haag, author of Companion Spirit"Her writing takes my breath and rearranges me-in all of the best ways." -Jodi Angel, author of The History of Vegas and You Only Get Letters from Jail