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The poems in Last Run Before Sunset are immersed in the California sea and desert landscapes. This is where the poet merges her internal and external worlds as she pursues a life well lived. The reader will be drawn to the desolate highways and sun-soaked shores of her journey, every place infused with joy and loss.

Our Ghosts Wait Patiently invites the reader into the world of family and Eastern European heritage. We carry within us the lives of those who came before and this breakthrough collection of poems gives voice to reverberations through the generations. Each poem is a simple meditation, beginning with the silence of a basement kitchen and ending with the experience of visiting an Old Town Square. In between are poems of personal recollections brought to life where we meet and understand the universal. In these poems we find moments of meeting one another amid the complexity of relationship-rarely simple-at times through a lens focused on the past, at times through a clear looking glass on the present.

Those living in Vermont can easily identify with Rob Hunter's poems in his newest book, Wild in the Dawn. Humorous, eloquent, realistic, they portray the small dramas of day-to-day life in a town surrounded by mountains, forest, and their animal inhabitants. If nature is always present, so are people, and often there is tension between the two. Yet these poems are not confined to place, as they touch on universal subjects such as love, beauty, loss. Something memorable is encapsulated in every ending stanza. All speak to our humanity, all satisfy.-Alice Wolf Gilborn author of Apples & StonesThese poems startle one with their certain honesty and humane gravity. All the small fears and daily events that engulf us are here. A torrent of visions and dreams broken in the cold dawn of mice and crow. Houses that are homes and the home that is our body. These poems are not simply to visit, but to inhabit. Rob Hunter makes you welcome.-Greg Joly author of Village Limits

In Miss American Sky, Chad Hanson's third full-length collection, places turn into people. Men become birds and women will themselves into the shape of coyotes. Or maybe they were creatures all along? In Hanson's work the rational vision of life shares the stage with one where impossibilities fit neatly inside of the everyday. The lines that separate the familiar from the uncanny begin to fade, and in the space that opens up between, we find insights on the state of our humanity.

In these vibrant poems of nature and identity, Owens exhibits a true talent for imbuing natural detail with authenticity, layered meanings, and austere beauty. But Thaw is so much more than that; it's also brimming with deep longing and the kinds of contrasts that speak to larger human truths. Filled with rich and accessible language, these poems are intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging, written by someone with clear eyes and an open, curious heart. -John Sibley Williams, author of As One Fire Consumes Another

In his first full-length collection, Minasian stretches poems into seasons, everyday moments into epics, and encounters with the natural world into portals to a reimagined Greek Mythology. Beginning in 2019, and splicing between the narrator's past in California and present in Ohio, he explores the dichotomy of the two environments and the division in the country around him. Part memoir, part social commentary, Vestiges charts the months that become the storm before the storm, the fractures widening into canyons.

Women Bones is a poetry collection exploring women's issues and adornments in the twenty-first century. Poems primarily focus on the disorder anorexia nervosa, deconstructing the idolization of thinness. Works also discuss the effects of secrets, women left behind, and women seeking peace. Stories of admiration for beauty, strength, perseverance, and recovery are also told. The collection is written in free-verse with influences of both ancient folklores and contemporary abstracts, and often uses the natural world to find answers and connections.

Each poem begins with a museum tag as one might see next to an artwork gallery, but these poems examine everyday objects given to the author by her family and friends. "On Jolly Holiday" (about an umbrella connected to the children's classic Mary Poppins) was nominated for a Pushcart Prize.

Uncertain Seasons reflects on the passage of time through distinct periods of the year as well as stages of life. From "December's Encompassing Silence" to signs of "Rebirth" - from "Late Summer, Open Field" to the falling leaves of "Northern Ash," these poems offer original perspectives on the world just outside the door. Authentic emotion and a passion for detail color these observations. A readers' guide is included, making this collection of interest to book groups.

The Last Runners is an imaginative journey across dimensions and time. Striking images punctuate this cri de guerre for a new generation of Quebecers and a voice for a country in full transition. It is an intense adventure laden with liminal spaces and a quest for novel human origins born from the rhythm of our breathing.

The poems in Telling Signs tell compelling stories with a long perspective: historical, Biblical, archaeological even to an "unimaginable future when time has swallowed us too." Evoked voices enact the randomness and unfairness of war in stories told by soldiers of the Hebrew Bible and those of both Union and Confederate soldiers of the American Civil War. The poet's intense personal engagement with the natural world begin as a child lulled to sleep by roaring waves and extends to adventures in woods and fields as an adult with a dog companion. Personal histories explore the youthful discovery of what work is, and mature, rueful awareness of how the past eludes closure. Intellectually stimulating and emotionally engaging poems are written in plain, even austere language

This poetry cycle was written in a single calendar year. The author had just gone through two very chaotic years of life, including divorce, finding a new home, and figuring out how to start the next chapter of his life. The self-reflection within these poems includes thoughts about memory and the past, life, death, and what makes living worthwhile, as well as the common experiences that unite all people.

If you resist Marie Kondo and Swedish death cleaning, Under Glass is the poetry collection for you. Victoria Woolf Baily is the Pied Piper of Stuff. She celebrates the child peering from a garage sale frame, dead butterflies, and pickled poke. A 1933 photo of an insurance salesmen's convention reminds her that no one can say any longer what happened. Her flute takes us on our own journeys with stuff and all those connected to it. This is a poignant and human book that you won't put down.-Gail Chandler, author of Where the Red Road Meets the SkyStuff, stuff, stuff. We all have it. Unique collections, found treasures, yard sale must-haves, "pictures of big-eyed girls", "window frames." Things we hold onto like lost relationships, old memories-the beautiful, the bizarre. The poems in Under Glass by Victoria Woolf Bailey are like etchings on smoked glass. They make transparent the force to gather the discarded, the lost, what we may use some day, even a glimpse into the world of true hoarding. Bailey lets us peer into the inexorable light of a need without obscuring our ability to see "we are always searching for something we have lost."¿-Georgia Wallace, Green River Writers poet, author of The Coming Fall Victoria Woolf Bailey's Under Glass is crammed with Things and stirs in the reader an urge to rush to the nearest Salvation Army store, dump, or up to the attic and start digging. These poems illustrate the sometimes-illusive truth that treasures wait everywhere, ready to be discovered.-Mary E. O'Dell, author of A Dangerous Man and Poems for The Man Who ¿Weighs Light

Earthen offers poems meditating on grief and passion, their interrelations, their beguiling renewals. Charting an individual path from experiences of death and divorce, through childrearing and teaching, to rediscovery of love, these poems seek our common ground in quiet, moments of lyric reflection. With a keen attention to the histories of words, places, and selves, the poems in Earthen environ us.