Donna Allard,Ashok Bhargava,Rachel Brady,Mohana Das,Mary Duffy,Angel Edwards,Dierdre Godwin,Danica Green,Shelley Haggard,Alan Hill,Kate Irwin, Candice James,Carol Knepper,Janet Kvammen,Bernice Lever,Preston Lim,Steve Locke,Melissa Mangin,Once Immortal,Valerie Parks,Samarendra Patra,DanielPatterson,Barbara Phillips,Rajan Rinzu,Stacey Rucker,H Sandhu,Cory Saran,Laurel Smyth,Lilija Valis, Eva Waldauf

This Anthology includes a varied cross section of poetry from poets: Virginia Ayers, Don Benson, Evelyn Benson, Selene Bertelsen, Frances "Mickey" Bickerstaff, Kersti Cull, Jemma D, Alan Hill, Candice James, Janet Kvamman, Franci Louann, Jacqueline Maire, Cliff Milne, Alejandro Mujica-Olea, Lucy Ortiz, Valerie Parks, Margo Prentice, Ariadne Sawyer, Kathleen Katon Tonnesen, Alexandra Zlotnik

The #1 New York Times bestseller that ignited a worldwide poetry movement, milk and honey is a boundary-breaking collection of poetry, prose and illustrations about survival. About the experience of violence, abuse, love, loss, and femininity.Written and illustrated while Rupi Kaur was a university student, milk and honey soon became a word-of-mouth phenomenon, topping bestseller lists worldwide. It remains a bestselling sensation, the poetry boo...

In Hard Light, Michael Crummey retells and reinvents his father's stories of outport Newfoundland and the Labrador fishery of a half century ago. Speaking through generations of storytellers, he conjures a world of hard toil and heavy weather, shot through with stoicism, grim humour, endurance, and love. This is writing that is supple and charged with intensity, language that vivifies --- electrifies --- whoever and whatever it describes. "Michael Crummey's lucid, dexterous writing shies a...

Dionne Brand’s hypnotic, urgent long poem is about the bones of fading cultures and ideas, about the living museums of spectacle where these bones are found. At the centre of Ossuaries is the narrative of Yasmine, a woman living an underground life, fleeing from past actions and regrets, in a perpetual state of movement. She leads a solitary clandestine life, crossing borders actual (Algiers, Cuba, Canada), and timeless. Cold-eyed and cynical, she contemplates the periodic crises ...

"Thoughts and Other Human Tendencies" is a poetry collection where stories of Aboriginal experiences are distilled into feelings and thoughts that are universal. Reneltta Arluk weaves the traditional and the contemporary together through the eyes of a young Aboriginal woman. She draws from the Aboriginal tradition of praising the land and the spirit, the realities of Aboriginal culture, and the concept of feminine individuality. Her poems, both sacred and secular, are written with the passion...

Lauded poet Christopher Merrill hatched a brilliant plan: invite six other poets to join him in four days of writing in Iowa City. The poets would write for 30 minutes, creating a poem of 15 lines, and then read it aloud to the group. As poets heard the poems, they noted memorable words, images, and lines, which they would borrow to insert in subsequent poems of their own. These rounds continued, until, in a process of call and response and unprecedented collaboration, 80 poems had been co...

A collection of writings from Kevin Matisyn, the former vocalist and writer for Evans Blue. This collection includes song meanings and extended writing for many previous songs as well as abstract writing on many different subject.

Much of this poised and luminous book is rooted in an idea of epiphany, an aesthetic of everyday incarnation; not the sudden and profound manifestation of essence or meaning, but the smaller steps taken toward it. The moments in which, as Joyce writes, “the soul of the commonest object…seems to us radiant.” If epiphanies are for theologians, perhaps the little steps towards them are for poets like Eve Joseph, and for all of us who attempt to see beyond the names we give things to the names...

"B-side" poems on topics including love, politics, TV news, cat care, gun control, religion and celebrity.Terry McCarty has written poems in, around and sometimes about Southern California since 1997. His poems appear in the anthologies So Luminous The Wildflowers(Tebot Bach) and The Long Way Home: The Best of the Little Red Books Series 1998-2008 (Lummox Press).

If David Lynch crashed into Franz Kafka in a dark alley, the result might look like The Politics of Knives. Moving from shattered surrealism to disembowelled films, these poems land us in a limbo between the intellectual and the visceral, between speaking and screaming. Finding the language of violence and the violence in language, Jonathan Ball becomes the Stephen King of verse.

Few poets have so artfully confronted American life as Louis Simpson. Persona speakers struggle with everyday issues against a backdrop of larger forces, the individual’s maladjustment to a culture of materialism and brutal competition, the failure of marriage under the pressures of such a society, the failure of the American dream. Simpson wages a lover’s quarrel with the world."Louis Simpson has perfect pitch. His poems win us first by their drama, their ways of voicing our ways ...