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In joy and terror all at once, the shining elegies and buoyant lovepoems of I Tell You This Now by Daniel Lawless unfold. Lawlesshas the uncanny ability to create piercing elegies that behave liketender breakup poems. His love poems are no less sublime. (Afterminutely describing a farmer's vintage tools, he dissolves them tolingerie... The result is a love poem that ends both very far yet veryclose indeed to those historical implements.) One of the deeppleasures of reading I Tell You This Now is that you never knowquite where you're going until you get there. And getting theremeans getting it: the shock of gorgeous and gruesome recognitionin each upturned world in Daniel Lawless's remarkable poems.-Molly Peacock

This brief anthology covers six centuries and contains some of the most popular Hungarian poems in addition to many of the translator's favorites.

As the title implies, he ponders our destination while reveling in the journey, mixing the quotidian and thequixotic with his trademark quicksilver facility. Wondrous.

Gary Fincke's chapbook Them! is packed with poems prompted by films that range from the lowest of the B-Movies of the 50s to A-list horror to Biblical epics.

The thing about men is that there is no single "thing." The men featured in this story collection are fathers, sons, grandfathers, husbands, lovers, and loners.

A year in the life of a six-year-old Slovak boy being brought up by his grandparents in Soviet-era Czechoslovakia.

"As it moves back and forth over time, "Bathed in Moonlight" explores the ambiguity of what is lost and what is gained in poetry. While Vassiliki Rapti's poems certainly engage with the voices of her native Greek tradition they would also seem to be in dialogue with poetries beyond the borders of the western world. She tends to locate individual experience in the collective. And so, with intense lyricism and transformative, vivid expression, each poem creates its own separate world of emotional strength. These poems are fluent, vibrant, reflective, sensitive, open and brilliantly sensory. They reflect Rapti's wonder at the world, the cyclic nature of life and language. Her voice spins, floats, and whirls from spiral shells, floating lakes, the ever vigilant moon and calls through fragments of memory, the depths of the underground and the unspoken that hides between each line. Gonca èOzmen Poet/Translator"--

"Welcome to a world where there is no time for death. It is a place and a state of mind, both for the temporal and the spiritual with space for the mundane and the extraordinary. "No Time for Death" is Harris Gardner's fourth published collection; it is his first in fifteen years. This poetry collection is divided into three sections: An Argument with Time; Contemplating Mortality Instead of My Navel; and Negotiating for An Afterlife. These are serious poems with an undercurrent of humor pervading many of them. The subject matter spans the spectrum of the human condition imbued with faith, hope, and the occasional flicker of regret. It is engaged with the busy-ness of living. "No Time for Death" offers an overarching theme: Take a breath, a revitalizing pause; as for Mortality, slow down; enjoy the most of each day-to-day. What's the rush? Death can wait, can't it?"--

Her work has been published in over 100 international online forums, printed magazines and anthologiesacross many countries (USA, UK, Sweden, Australia, Israel, India).Alisa earned an Artist-in-Residence Scholarship in February 2019 andattended the AIR Litteratur Västra Götaland Program in Villa Martinson, Jonsered, Sweden. In 2020, she won The National Prize in Poetry, awarded by the Albanian Ministry of Culture.

"City of Stories is a full length poetry collection which explores the narratives we construct to shape our world. In three thematic sections, these poems observe the shared experiences of community, reactions to current events, and the imaginative life sparked by interactions with literature. Many of these poems employ formal conventions: Shakespearean and Petrarchan sonnets; quatrains, heroic couplets, the ghazal and the ballade."--

An ordinary neighborhood on the edge of the city comes to life in Karen Friedland's "Tales from the Teacup Palace"-its dogs, trees, houses, spouses, and people, living and gone.

“For some twenty years now, I have been truly blessed to call poet Simon Perchik my close friend.  We met by chance, or perhaps not.  Simon brought me and Gloria Mindock together.  Another blessing.  Si’s great sense of humor, his brilliance as a poet, and his deep compassion for the world help fuel me as person and writer.”— Susan Tepper, January 25, 2020