A New Yorker Best Book of 2025Flop Era reckons with the complications of being human, and therefore, with the consequences of being fundamentally flawed. It contends with failed potential and the certain uncertainty of the future, while interrogating the past for clues that might explain why, as the speaker bemoans, “there are never enough nails in the coffin of poor choices.” While Egger throws confetti on the quotidian, she disarms the reader wi...

Winner of Ploughshares’ 2022 John C. Zacharis First Book AwardWrestling with desire, shame, and the complications of attempting to resist one's own nature, How to Love Everyone and Almost Get Away with It offers a tragicomic tour of a heart in midlife crisis. Populated by unruly angels, earthbound astronauts, xylophones, wordplay, and glitter glue, these wildly associative poems transform the world line by line, i...

Joyfully melding knowing humour and torqued-up wordplay, Holbrook’s second collection is a comic fusion of the experimental and the experiential, the procedural and the lyric. Punch lines become sucker punches, line breaks slip into breakdowns, the serious plays comical and the comical turns deadly serious. Holbrook's poems don’t use humour as much as they deconstruct the comic impulse, exposing its roots in the political, the psychological and the emotional life of the mind. Many of these...

In Mindy Nettifee's second book Rise of the Trust Fall her poems possess a magic that can only come from a seasoned writer willing to share more on the page than she's comfortable with. Whether exploring the strange alchemy of healing the perils of self-actualization or the contemporary experience of womanhood the poems in this daring collection are gorgeous and vibrant bitingly funny and unflinchingly honest. Rise of the Trust Fall challenges more than our understanding of ourselves. It c...

Sixfold is an all-writer-voted journal. All writers who upload their manuscripts vote to select the highest-voted $1000 prize-winning manuscripts and all the short stories and poetry published in each issue.In Sixfold Poetry Winter 2022: Ana Reisens | Pam asked about Europe & other poems :: Krystle May Statler | To the Slow Burn & other poems :: Kristina Cecka | On Remodeling & other poems :: Belinda Roddie | Bless The Bones Of California & other poems :: Summer Rand | Alexander tel...

The accessible yet skillfully crafted poems of this collection will be enjoyed by newcomers to the riches of poetry as well as experienced readers. In this, his second collection of poems, Art Nahill writes about our litany of fears, about family and about redemption in language and imagery that speak plain truths. Each poems stands alone but like the starlings of his titular poem coalesce into a larger, surprising, and mesmerizing whole.Art Nahill is an American-born physician, te...

Unstressed is a chapbook of enticements. It invites you to move out of the "cradle cadence of wake and sleep" into the melodic and exotic. These 26 poems travel through the carnal into the contemplative without renouncing the ordinary. There are balls of light and bubbles of soap. Despair and hope. Forms and rhymes. Magic mushrooms and haunted bedrooms. This small book wants you to hear your own breath speaking the invitation "Tonight wear nothing but my words."

Enjoy hours of laughter with hilarious questions for kids that get harder as the book goes on. Who will win the competition for the best answers? Who will outsmart everyone?Laugh and learn with 160+ questions designed to make kids giggle, think, and figure out who's the wittiest (and silliest) of all! Would You Rather? Made You Think! Edition provides endless hours of fun for eight- to twelve-year-olds who love a challenge--and a good laugh.Wou...

A clear voice of her generation, Sierra DeMulder’s writing offers a gritty, sincere perspective on the subtle joys and modern pains of living. Her debut collection The Bones Below delicately carries the reader to a place of brutal, beautiful honesty. DeMulder’s personal revelations complete a touching portrait of the young artist and her fearless exploration of the human experience, bare in its rawest and most tender forms. DeMulder possesses the most important quality a young writer can h...

What am I Questions, Word Riddles, Puzzles, Games, Math Problems, Tricky Questions and Brain Teasers for KidsThis book consists of the best riddles of all time. These riddles are categorized to optimize your attention and reasoning capabilities. As you go along the book, riddles become tougher and more complicated. The easiest riddles are on the first chapter to warm you up. They are followed by the best 'what am I?' riddles and 'what is it?' riddles. These should ...

Watch out, parents!Hilarious jokes are coming your way! This Kid's Joke Book will turn your 10-year-old into a young comedian."Almost all creativity involves purposeful play." – Abraham MaslowThe ***You Laugh You Lose Challeng***e is a book designed for both single-player and to be shared and read by everyone in your household.But why not let everyone play? Gather your family around the fire, call them into the kitc...

The debut collection of a poet whose savage, hilarious work has already received extraordinary notice.Since his poems first began to appear in the pages of The New Yorker and Poetry, there has been a lot of excited talk about the fresh and inventive work of Michael Robbins. Equal parts hip- hop, John Berryman, and capitalism seeking death and not finding it, Robbins's poems are strange, wonderful, wild, and completely unlike anything else being wr...