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.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 88 pages - 2025 - SPECIAL ADVANCE ORDER PRICE: $17.56 + S&H -- --
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.
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"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.…
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.…
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…
"Sweet Malida" by Zilka Joseph - 60 pages, 2024 - $19.95 & S+H - Who are the Bene Israel Jews of India? Where did they come from? How did they survive in India? "Sweet Malida" is a moving, multi-layered, richly sensory and informative collection of poems and short prose inspired by this ancient community to which the poet herself belongs. Using various poetic forms, the poet launches on an imaginative journey, delving into the history, especially the food and culinary customs of this small community of Indian Jews, explores its special connection to the Prophet Elijah, while seamlessly weaving in memories, bringing to life the past and lost loved ones as well.…
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.…
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. …
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 92 pages 2022, ISBN: 978-1-952781-11-7 ///
Animals, horses, dogs, cats, and visiting wildlife are the gifts that bring me great joy, and so they appear in my poetry. Even rats and skunks are worthy of my poetry. As for humans, I focus on the downtrodden, and those living in slums and hollows---not to forget those living in our iron cities, our prisons. I mourn the deteriorating condition of the planet. I mock those who have elitism and greed at the center of their lives. I also poke fun at myself especially my struggles with aging. In terms of style, I try to balance the trend toward narrative with my love for the early imagists.…
Poetry. 84 pages, 2022, $19.95 + S&H -- Nancy Takacs is a poet in love with places, desert areas once home to ancient seas in the Colorado Plateau in Utah, and bodies of water, like Lake Superior, and the ocean she knew as a child growing up in New Jersey. These are personal poems with sensuous images that link the past and the present with a variety of tastes, smells, and textures. This collection surprises, wakes us up, and at times, soothes us. It includes poems that find strength in women’s relationships, that express the need to keep women’s voices strong and resonant. Also concerned with drought and its effects on animals, plants, and humans in this time of climate change, species extinction, and political upheaval, these poems breathe compassion for the dire situations in our world, and our own desire for wildness, wilderness, questioning our human-centered lens. Deeply connected to the natural world, both in Utah where she lives full time, and in Wisconsin near Lake Superior, where Takacs spends summers, these poems voice a need to protect and nurture, within and without, all of our fragile landscapes.…
