Don Cellini
Translate Into English

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 70 pp.
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2010, 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.

Betsy Johnson-Miller
Rain When You Want Rain

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp.
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2010, ISBN 978-0932412-867

Writing about life’s absurdities, Betsy Johnson-Miller infuses her lines with a winning sense of eros. In this beautifully crafted collection, she explores the fragile grace that is earned by finding a necessary voice in contrasts: mother/daughter, husband/wife, humor/sadness, faith/skepticism, the world of the flesh/the world of the spirit, and so much more.

Marilyn Jurich
Reading the Eye Chart

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 120 pp.
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2008, ISBN 978-0932412-577

Defying the Eye Chart reaches beyond time to bring the mythic into our contemporary world. The poems in this collection focus on different ways of seeing, or not seeing, the fantastic in reality.

Elizabeth Kerlikowske
Reading the Eye Chart

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 64 pp.
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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. .

Adrienne Lewis
Coming Clean

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 30 pp.
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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.

John Palen
Open Communion

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 98 pp.
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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.

Jane Piirto
Saunas

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 100 pp.
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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.

Helen Ruggieri
Glimmer Girls

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 30 pp.
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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.

Rhoda Stamell
The Art of Ruin

Novel. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp.
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2009, ISBN 978-0932412-782

">Suliman grew up as a street kid in Detroit. In jail, he began to understand himself as a man who can change things with his hands and his sense of beauty.  When he meets Kate, an older woman who has always found her sense of worth in sexual relationships, she becomes his patron.  Although she is unable to free herself from her own rigid sense of how things are supposed to be, Kate helps Suliman to reinvent himself as a successful artist, finding beauty and vitality in the urban landscape of Detroit.