Martin Achatz (Marquette, MI)
The Mysteries of the Rosary

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 62 pp
$10.00 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-28-9 

Based loosely on the Catholic Rosary and other devotional prayers, this collection of poems is quiet and intense, walking the mysterious line between sacramental and sacreligious.

Nancy Botkin (Indiana)
Parts That Were Once Whole

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-49-1 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-492

Beautifully honest and heartbreaking, Parts That Were Once Whole boldly exposes the human psyche. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous image of what was once whole.

Don Cellini (Michigan)
Translate into English

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 70 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-911

Translate into English is framed with grammatical instructions from a turn-of-the-century Spanish lesson book. Possessing a rare elegance and integrity, Cellini’s poems are intelligent and clever while capturing subtle emotions. From the compelling concept to the fine execution of these poetic vignettes—each work, each poem, every page is necessary to the whole. And the whole is a unique and beautiful experience.

Andy Christ (Michigan)
Philip & the Poet

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 28pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-607

These humorous, moving and sometimes even philosophical poems revolve around Christ's love for writing, his exploration of faith and knowledge, and above all, his admiration for his audience. An adventurous journey through Christ’s imagination.

Garnett Kilberg Cohen (Illinois)
How We Move the Air

Publication date: July 15, 2010

Short fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 110 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-935

How We Move the Air tells the story of musician Jake Doyle’s suicide and how, over time, it affected those who knew him. In seven linked stories, Garnett Kilberg Cohen explores the complex ways in which people choose to remember—or not remember—the past.

Diane Shipley DeCillis and Mary Jo Firth Gillett, eds. (Detroit)
Mona Poetica: A Poetry Anthology

Poetry anthology. Paper, perfect bound, 114 pp
$16.50 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-36-X

The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art. It continues to inspire reproduction, parody and countless theories. We see facsimiles of it everywhere: on buildings and mugs, on computer ads, in cartoons. In honor of her 500th birthday, 2003-2006, Mona Poetica celebrates not only the painting but also inspiration and creativity. This rich and varied anthology includes work by: Stephen Dunn, Grace Bauer, William Blake, Edward Hirsch, Natasha Saje and many others.

George Dila (Ludington, MI)
Nothing More To Tell

Trade Paperback. 100 pp. 
$15.95 plus s&h
2011, 978-1-936419-05-0

Nothing More to Tell brings together short stories that reflect the combined effects of history, family, and society on the men and women of Michigan's small towns and big cities. Dila's prose presents us with a view of middle-aged, middle-class men that is at once ruthlessly honest and understanding. Their lives are tightly woven chains of successes and failures, which culminate in episodes that are sometimes comic, often catastrophic. The pieces in this collection will sometimes cause laughter, sometimes outrage; but they are unflinching in their demand for compassion.

Hugh Fox (Lansing)
Strata

Poetry.Paper,saddlestitched,28 pp 
$5.50 plus s&h
1998, ISBN-0-932412-12-2

"The poetry of Hugh Fox suggests a sort of mythical exploration of experience, how a particular moment can serve as a coming together of the eternal -- cross cultural and cross experiential...” -- Mahlon Coop

Joy Gaines-Friedler (Michigan)
Like Vapor

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 64 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-652

In these poems we are assured of humanity, our existence and our eventual extinction, with a grace and comfort that uplifts our spirits and encourages our own consideration of life.

Alice George (Illinois)
This Must Be the Place

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-7136

Alice George's poems meet the threats of everyday life with a lifted chin, a jaundiced eye and a sense of humor.

Chris Green (Illinois)
Epiphany School

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-807

Epiphany School, penned with all the wonder and curiosity of a wise child, is not a book for the timid, the slack-minded, the duped or sleeping. These are poems that hold us in their headlights and tap our backs in the dark, that beg us to notice life and death, the big and small moments of illumination in our lives. The poems range from gut-wrenching to heart-breaking, but, throughout the book, a sense of humor prevails. Each turn of thought and phrase arrives unexpectedly with a poignancy that touches on the revelatory. This is the Green movement we've been waiting for. . 

Chris Green (Illinois)
The Sky Over Walgreens

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-546

Chris Green is a wonderful poet of contemporary American life.  Compassionate, candid, funny and smart, these poems explore things we know but are often unable to say about our everyday lives. Encountering other poets, books, animals, marriage, family, even the suburban strip mall – the experiences created by these poems are sources of surprise, light and shadow. 

Mariela Griffor (Michigan)
House

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 56 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-539

House is a love affair between the poet and and Chile. While making real the struggles of war, becoming an expatriate and the alienation that accompanies the immersion in a new culture, Griffor also conveys the beauty and nostalgia she feels for her home country.  She commands our attention, and we share her sadness, compassion, anger and hope. Influenced greatly by the American lyric tradition, Mariela’s poems play softly and skillfully; the smooth strum lingers in the readers ears.

Al Hellus (1958-2008)
a vision of corrected history with breakfast

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp 
$5 plus s&h
1995, ISBN 0-932412-08-4

These are edgy, raunchy, funny and powerful poems.

William Heyen (New York)
The Angel Voices: A Poem

Publication date: April 15, 2010

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-881

In this visionary and prophetic work, Heyen searches through images of grace and beauty as well as the grotesque, such as furrows dug to “drain off / human fat / the pyres congealed / with firefolk / villages of them / cities of them….”

Conrad Hilberry (Kalamazoo, MI)
The Fingernail of Luck

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 32 pp
$10.00 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-33-5

These poems are based on the spooky ability to make odd, though rarely surreal ,connections. The poems move with quiet authority from the observation of a particular, and of the possibilities surrounding it, to exploration of what might happen next. The miracle is that they do this without arbitrariness.--Henry Taylor

Chosen as a May-June 2005 "Pick" by Small Press Review

Conrad Hilberry and Jane Hilberry
This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 58 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-82-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-829

What this wonderful little book does is to set in parallel some of the poems of father and daughter—poems which were not written to be read in tandem, but which for that reason are all the more subtle and powerful in their conversing. The poems give upon each other in certain inescapable ways: one sees from different vantages the constellation of a family. Arranged by quiet turns in this slim and generous book, the poems make public the private: the late afternoon inquiries, the depth of pleasure, the relentlessness of memory.

Dennis Hinrichsen (Lansing)
Message to Be Spoken into the Left Ear of God

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-26-2

Christine Hume comments:
“For Hinrichsen, paradox is a way of knowing. He enacts this philosophical stance in the quick yet attentive movement of his lines.... Hinrichsen's unhinged singing lets momentum have its way. Yet we are moved in the old sense--by empathy.”

Allison Joseph (Carbondale, IL)
Voice: Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-751

This enjoyable collection further demonstrates Allison Joseph’s uncanny grasp of language and image, along with a kind of playful and soulful voice that makes her poetry accessible to all.

2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award Winner!

Zilka Joseph (Calcutta/Chicago/Detroit)
Lands I Live In

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-47-5

In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest.

Josie Kearns (Clinton, MI)
The Theory of Everything

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-744

These poems discover the answers to the fantastic questions of the world: the value of divining rods and other inventions, termite love, a Babylonian god, or what types of things can be found in Loss Universe.

Elizabeth Kerlikowske (Michigan)
Dominant Hand

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 64 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-584

Dominant Hand is a world filled with the pantomime of love, the trickster coyote, and the conflict between widowed father and concerned grandparents. These poems are set in the seemingly ordinary places of life, but they are not ordinary; here Kerlikowske reveals profound truths that shock and amaze, and put smiles on our faces.

Judith Kerman & Amee Schmidt, eds. (Bay City, MI)
Greenhouse: The First 5 Years of the Rustbelt Roethke Writers' Workshop

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-683

The Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Workshop/Retreat was inspired by the work and life of Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), who was born and brought up in Saginaw, Michigan. The Workshop has met each July since 2002, providing experienced writers with a comfortable, egalitarian atmosphere of peer (teacherless) workshops and public readings. This anthology was published during the centennial year of Roethke’s birth as part of the year-long Roethke Centennial celebration. It showcases the work of all participants in the first 5 years of workshops. Enjoy the variety of poetry, short fiction, flash-fiction, experimental fiction and creative non-fiction from authors who came from as far as Texas, Massachusetts, New York and the Caribbean to work together in Roethke’s home landscape:

Gerry LaFemina (West Virginia/Michigan)
The Book of Clown Baby/Figures from the Big Time Circus Book

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 60 pp. Color and b&w illustrations.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-50-5 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-508

Special Pop-up Edition $19.95 plus s&h

This is a double collection of playful and surprisingly moving poems on themes of clowning and circus life. The Book of Clown Baby relates the fantastic character of Clown Baby, occupied by visions of trick horses, parades and high-wire acts, to the common reality where he finds himself. Figures from the Big Time Circus Book captures the wonder of the big top, as imagined and recreated in children’s play.

Gerry LaFemina (WV, formerly Roscommon, MI)
Zarathustra in Love

Prose-poems.
Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2000, ISBN 0-932412-18-1

Taking on everything from Persian prophets to Bigfoot, Jim Nabors to UFO's, Berlitz tapes to the George Foreman grill, these prose-poems elevate the notion of unpredictability and delight.

Larry Levy (Midland, MI)
I Would Stay Forever If I Could and New Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 60 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-45-9

This collection of poems is informed by history and place, by Jewish immigrant parents, by love, loss and baseball - all by a practitioner of rhyme so skillful you hardly notice its presence until it rings again in memory.

Adrienne Lewis (Saginaw, MI)
Coming Clean

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 30 pp.
$8 plus s&h
2003, ISBN 0-932412-21-1

The poem as a form of prayer is one of poetry's earliest traditions. In the lyric poems of this strong first book, Adrienne Lewis explores the nexus of faith and sexuality as experienced in the dilemmas of marriage and family life.

David Lunde (Oregon, formerly Western New York)
Blues for Port City

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp 
$5 plus s&h
1995, ISBN 0-932412-07-8

Science fiction poems which are truly science fiction and truly fine contemporary poetry, "written" by an inhabitant of the demimonde of a space station. Includes Rhysling-award winner "Pilot, Pilot."

David Lunde (Oregon formerly Western New York)
Instead

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 82 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-48-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-485

David Lunde's second title with Mayapple Press, Instead, is a collection of the various ways memory is evoked. Lunde finds similarity between a man and his dog-headed cane, the reconstruction of an ancient building and the uneasy integration of two cultures, and his toddler and a communist country. Each memory is provoked by a singular, vibrant image. Lunde's craft is one of images woven together with his uniquely whimsical voice.

Judith McCombs (MD, formerly Detroit)
Territories, Here & Elsewhere

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp
$6 plus s&h
1996, ISBN-0-932412-10-6

“This poetry full of living detail, and within the detail is an ongoing motif of adventure, risk and survival. McCombs is a pleasure for me to read.” --Alicia Ostriker

Patricia McNair (Michigan)
Taking Notice

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-560

Patricia McNair’s poems combine an earthy honesty with consistent alertness to the beauty of everyday life, especially in family and nature.  She explores the resonances of her life in a voice which is humorous, comfortably familiar and uncomfortably direct.

Pamela Miller (Chicago)
Recipe for Disaster

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp
$12 plus s&h
2003, ISBN 0-932412-19-X

A collection of tough, extremely funny poems by a woman whose imagination never runs dry. Quirky, edgy, sometimes poignant and sometimes uproarious.

Judith Minty (Muskegon, MI)
Letters to My Daughters

$5 plus s&h
1981, ISBN 0-932412-04-3

This collection of poems by a leading Michigan poet explores, through the daily life of women, the relationship between a poet/mother and her two daughters.

James Owens (Indiana)
Frost Lights a Thin Flame

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-553

Owens's poems direct our attention through fantastic metaphor coupled with a kind of precision in language that brings the sounds and sights of his natural and mythological world to the reader’s senses.

John Palen (Midland, MI)
Open Communion: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 98 pp
$16 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-31-9 

This selection, reaching back twenty years, establishes John Palen's quiet eloquence in poems which convery a deep, straightforward honesty about the fumblings, failures and occasional radiance of human life.

John Palen (Midland, MI)
Staying Intact

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp
$6 plus s&h
1997, ISBN-0-932412-11-4

These poems, as with any real poetry, make us see in new and deeper ways. Most of the works involve common feelings or occurances that we do not normally deem significant or beautiful. John's elegant use of words brings out that beauty (not always a pleasant beauty).

Lynn Pattison (Kalamazoo, MI)
Light That Sounds Like Breaking

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp
$16.00 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-40-8

In these richly sensuous poems, Lynn Pattison explores the natural world, body politics, the life and work of Marc Chagall, Asian cultural influences filtered through an American sensibility and more, within an overall sequence loosely structured as a journey. The book’s stunning imagery and musicality lead us into a world both artistically beautiful and emotionally resonant.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee

Johanny Vázquez Paz (Puerto Rico/Chicago)
Poemas Callejeros/Streetwise Poems

Poetry - bilingual. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-46-7

These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago's concrete and broken glass. In Spanish and English, with translations by the author.

Jane Piirto (Michigan/Ohio)
Saunas

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 100 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-645

From the frozen landscapes of her Finnish forebears to the ice-clear rivers and cold fields of Michigan’s Upper Pennisula, Jane Piirto paints a personal and extraordinary picture. These deeply moving poems are like chants celebrating what sustains us, reminding us of the wonder and mystery in the everyday.

Skip Renker (Midland, MI)
Sifting the Visible 

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 36 pp
$6.50 plus s&h
1998, ISBN 0-932412-13-0

Skip Renker's poems are grounded, quiet and elegant, reflecting the thoughtful, humorous and meditative style of the man himself.

John Repp (Pennsylvania)
Fever

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp.
$11.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-52-1 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-522

The poems in Fever sweat through the discontents of a love affair, a childhood, a marriage, a malfunctioning farm, the speaker’s aging father and his own illness.  Dream and the gritty details of life flow together in the hallucinatory and yet grounded language of these short, sharp pieces, which form an integrated sequence with both unity and emotional range.

John Repp (Pennsylvania)
White Doe

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 40 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-27-0 

In these musical poems, John Repp's Zen eye and moral sensibility transform the landscape of American home places and human relationships.

Sophia Rivkin (Michigan)
Naked Woman Listening at Keyhole

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 978-1936419-043

Sophia Rivkin's poetry simmers with visceral energy and surreal leaps. It is made of the dark soup of her Russian heritage, the light broth of her word play, and the sustaining whimsy of her artist's eye.

Sophia Rivkin (Michigan)
The Valise

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 38 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-720

Rivkin's keen and unblinking eye, great verbal energy, and wry wisdom confront her subjects with continuous, genuine surprise.

Helen Ruggieri (Western NY)
Glimmer Girls

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 40 pp.
$8 plus s&h
1999, ISBN 0-932412-16-5

Poems that evoke the author's blue-collar, rock 'n' roll young womanhood. Sharp, gritty, honest and well-crafted.

Susan Slaviero (Illinois)
Cyborgia

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-904

Melding the language of sci-fi and sensuality,Susan Slaviero’s redolent, ambitious debut wallows delightfully in its rhythm and vocabulary yet remains sharp and meticulous. In this lyric guide to cyborg feminism—complete with robosexuality and teledildonics—Slaviero traverses traditional female tropes, including fairy-tale heroines, mermaids, and brides. Full of lucent wit, imagination, intelligence, and a scathing playfulness.

Douglas M.Smith, Melody Vassoff and Karen Woollams, eds. (Chelsea, MI)
In Drought Time: Scenes from Rural and Small Town Life

Poetry/art anthology. Paper, perfect bound, 114 pp
$24.95 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-37-8 

Poems and artwork concerned with rural and small town life in Michigan. Our first publication with interior color artwork.

One of our Best Sellers!

Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
The Art of Ruin

Novel. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp.
$18.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-78-2

Mayapple Press's first novel. Stamell "is a conduit for disparate urban voices, jamming characters who probably should be kept away from each other into situations where interaction is a demand.... The voices of her people are true to the ear and to themselves."

Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
Detroit Stories

Short Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp.
$18.50 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6

Mayapple Press's first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, "All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit" can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling to love and be loved.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee

Angela Williams (Michigan)
Live from the Tiki Lounge

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-706

Angela Williams brings humor, sensuality, a wise eye and a clear voice to poems reflecting her life in Northern Michigan.

Angela Williams (Beulah, MI)
With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country

Nonfiction with poetry, fiction, photographs.
Paper, perfect bound, 130 pp
$17.95 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-41-6

Cherries are to Northern Michigan what oranges are to Florida! In this highly personal view of Michigan's cherry industry, Angela Williams cooks up a delightful confection of reminiscences, poems, recipes, facts and photos. The book features poetry, memoirs and fiction by Michigan writers Anne-Marie Oomen, Norm Wheeler, Conrad Hilberry, Jackie Bartley, Linda Nemec Foster, Gerry LaFemina, David Sosnowski, Mary Ann Samyn and others.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee