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In the Cantigas de Santa Maria, King Alfonso X of Spain told of an ideal kingdom. Knauss has adapted ten of these wonderful tales to share the joys and sorrows of medieval Spain with modern readers.

Tom Schmidt condenses a lifetime of teaching into a scattering of voices that hang in the wind like little leaves that refuse to fall in the dead of winter. I admire the way he allows his students to say their stories and speak their truths in these poignant poems. No condescending mockery here-Like, a Metaphor is full of love for the lost, the lonely, and the wayward. By the time you finish, you will have had Dr. Schmidt as your own professor as well. -Paul J. Willis, author of Somewhere to FollowThis remarkable record of encounters with students offers exquisite glimpses of the vulnerabilities teaching entails. Tom Schmidt renders those moments in poems that are not only lively, varied, and skillful, but deeply faithful to his own understanding of what he has been called to-not only to help students become better readers and writers, but to listen with compassionate intelligence to the words they find. Some of these poems are richly amusing, some disturbing, some moving. All of them remind us of how even a simple assignment can sometimes change two lives-the student's and the teacher's.-Marilyn McEntyre, author of Caring for Words in a Culture of Lies and Word by Word

Something evil is lurking in the streets of Port Essex, Maine. A missing girl. Violent attacks. It is up to Clay Wolfe, his partner Baylee Baker, and a colorful assortment of friends to get to the bottom of it all.

In Please Hold there's melody, jazzy dissonance, flashes of tonal change, freshness of sound and image. Consider "hummingbirds/ buzz like balloons' loose lips," and "what if/ from the ugliest mouth on the corner, love stuck/out its bent lightning tongue?" As old Bruce in "Sonnet on Air" says, "only motion and cognition matter." Please Hold is full of both, its music alive with the snicker of oboes, inspired puns, silvery thuds, cries and laughter, pain and disconcerting beauty. -Patricia Corbus, winner of the 2015 Off the Grid Poetry prize for Finestra's Window* * *Please Hold's scintillant wit and virtuoso imagination enliven and mourn pandemic's hermitage, its "slow kind of rain." When "you've gone a bit crazy...sequestered," "touch and go" have lost their meanings, when fear "thumbs glissandos/up your bone xylophone," gargoyles grow eloquent, God "contours love with dark," and truth produces its green heresies: "When we fall sick, the teeter totters, and weeds inherit the earth." As rumors and lies surround us, these eclectic, ethical poems push back-"it's a shady business, so here come the pines." -Eleanor Wilner, winner of the Robert Frost Medal for lifetime achievement

Bill Snyder writes lovely poems. They are subtly evocative, conveying feelings largely through meticulous descriptions of surroundings. The locale remains unnamed, a port town with a cathedral and steep hillsides where fishermen bring home octopi and women cook cabbage soup. Often the speaker is "we" though sometimes the other person barely appears. Yet even these are love poems, a sharing of experience. This is a moving and worthy collection.-Hunt Hawkins, author of Teaching Approaches to Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness and The Secret SharerWilliam Snyder's Hunger in a Cat's Yellow Eye, the latest of his chapbooks, is a trip to "where the sea curves far away ...," a land of octopus men and octopus urns, of "tilts and shadows ... felt in everything," a land where "...old coaches- /sides of slatted wood, netted racks/ above the open windows-trundle over/ sagging track..." These poems come from the able hands of a poet whose lines, thoughts, descriptions, and honesties won't disappoint. For all of us hungry creatures, Snyder's work "... returns us to (the best of) ourselves ... a basin filled with dance, with joy ..." -Sharon Chmielarz, author of The J Horoscope

A young man from Maine fights for social equality in New Orleans after the Civil War while pursuing a serial killer, becoming enmeshed in voodoo, and falling in love.

Peggy Moore learns that her parents created an Anniversary Box. Each year on their anniver-sary, they would write a message to each other to affirm their love and suggest ways to make it stronger.

Ten-year-old Hollis finds a strange medallion that turns out to be a powerful Navajo talisman the U.S. government has been searching for since WWII. Shady government agents are in pursuit, and are willing to kill to reclaim the Nilch'i.

Childhood friends, reunited after thirty years, reopen the cold case of their murdered friend. Against the backdrop of a beautiful but cold New Hampshire winter, they uncover secrets about their neighbors that have festered for thirty years.

Off Island imagines the painter Gauguin ran away to a different island, a rugged outpost off the coast of Maine. A hundred years later, another Maine painter struggles with loyalty-to his art, his family, and his home.