From Lightning’s Strike – Juana Karen Peñate – Translated from the Ch’ol Language by Carol Rose Little and Charlotte Friedman
SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE $18.36 + S&H - From Lightning’s Strike is a collection of lyric poems rooted in ancestral Ch’ol Mayan culture and animated by vivid images of the natural world. Written by Juana Karen Peñate, winner of the 2020 Indigenous Literatures of the Americas Award, and translated from the Mayan Ch’ol…

Oleander Marriage – Eleanor Lerman
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2025, ISBN: 978-1-952781-29-2 $22.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Oleander Marriage is the eighth collection of poetry from acclaimed author Eleanor Lerman. The poems in this collection ache with longing for days…

Secular Audacity – Joy Gaines Friedler
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 66 pages - 2025 -21.95 + S&H - - - Just as it is audacious to stand up for justice, it is audacious to write a poem. It is audacious to read poetry. This collection of poems looks at life through a secular—albeit Jewish—lens, recognizing, even celebrating mystery, awe, joy, humor, justice and injustice without assigning divine authority.…

Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them – Ellen Stone –
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 88 pages - 2025 - Poetry gathers our lives, containing everything we hold inside. If poetry is a container, a place to gather what keeps us alive, what feeds our joy, and eases our sorrow, it is a communal basket, and it is often held by women. "Everybody Wants to Keep the Moon Inside Them" is a collection of poems exploring what women hold, what they keep, and how they let go— of sorrow, loss and grief. Using the natural world as buffer, Ellen Stone writes poems exploring motherhood and mental illness, sexual assault, marriage and parenthood—as well as how loss filters down through family generations. The poems investigate daughters leaving home while trying to carry home within them. The moon is the mother in the book, waxing and waning, but always there, always coming back around. …

How Many Hands to Home – Lisken Van Pelt Dus
"How Many Hands to Home" is a journey of compassion, traveling through fire, war and displacement to arrive at a place of acceptance and embrace of the expansive human spirit. The many voices of the poems engage with both individual and shared experience, exploring the two sides—the challenges and the sweetness—of forging home in our communities and on our planet. Though the poems engage head-on with the various ways in which humanity fails its promise, their movement is towards love—not blind or saccharine, but knowing and inclusive.…

A Wolf Comes to My Window – David Michael Nixon
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 40 pages - 2024, ISBN: 978-1-952781-22-3 - $ 18.95+ S&H - For over sixty years, David Michael Nixon has worked and played at poetry. He has had six collections published, four small, two full-length. David's work has been mostly as a self-employed housecleaner, yardworker, artists' model, poet, and singer. By reading and hearing many poets, writing and performing his own poems, and being part of poetry, music, and peace communities, he has developed his art. "A Wolf Comes to My Window" collects some of his tiny poems, each three lines or less. A rabid badger, black castanets, the aardvark dark, when dandelions roar--see how these poems become small worlds.…

Slim Blue Universe – Eleanor Lerman
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 68 pages - 2024, ISBN: 978-1-982781-17-9 - $20.95 “Lerman’s poems pulsate on the page; she writes in a refreshingly triumphant and celebratory tone while remaining unflinchingly honest… Her descriptions are creative and alive… A heartfelt rallying cry from an acclaimed poet.” — Kirkus Reviews…

small mammals – Cati Porter
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 74 pages - 2023, ISBN: 978-1-952781-15-5 $19.95 + S&H In Cati Porter’s fourth collection of poetry, small mammals, maternal love is extended to an assemblage of creatures big and small, with a focus on those most misunderstood of mammals, the human teenager. Everyday encounters become sublime: a conversation with a Rite Aid drugstore clerk, watching a documentary about ants with her son, a Sunday drive to look for wild burros. With equal parts curiosity and concern, small mammals takes an up close and personal look at the complexities of mothering teenage boys. It is the “What to Expect…” book you didn’t know you needed, bearing witness to what it means to be tender, vulnerable, and alive.…

The Game Café: Stories of New York City in Covid Time – Eleanor Lerman
Short stories - Paper - Perfect Bound - 160 pages - 2022 - ISBN: 978-1-952781-13-1 $22.95 + S&H The nine stories in The Game Café focus on people who live in New York City—or are traveling there—in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic. [...] While the stories are primarily set in New York, they are also meant to explore how living in modern-day urban environments in the U.S. unalterably shapes the fate of people going through difficult times. …