when animals are animals – Betsy Johnson
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages 2021, ISBN: 978-1-952781-02-5 $17.95 + S&H Wrong ticks on, and it feeds on silence. In her book, "when animals are animals", Betsy Johnson refuses to be “the quietest person in the world.” She names where the teeth are, gets closer to the kick she knows is coming, and makes her weary spirit take up the empty rucksack, because there is work to be done. That is the work of standing up to the “cloud monster,” of being an antidote, of finding hope in a knot of stones.…

The Man Who Loved His Wife – Jennifer Anne Moses
Fiction, short stories. Paper, Perfect Bound. 172 pages 2021, ISBN: 978-1-936419-96-8 $20.95 + S&H Jews being Jewish: that’s the subject of Jennifer Anne Moses’s new collection of short stories. Whether in Tel Aviv, suburban New Jersey, or the Deep South, the characters who populate the pages of The Man Who Loved His Wife grapple with God, their loved ones, fate, death, hope, Hitler, transcendence, and the 4000 year old history of Judaism. With a Yiddish sensibility born of passion, an eye for detail, and a deadpan sense of humor reminiscent of Singer, Salinger, and Tillie Olsen, Moses captures singularly Jewish and wholly human characters as they live and breathe through their stories Lovely, tender, and hard to put down, these are short stories that leave you yearning for more.…

The Way Through – Judith Kunst
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-98-2 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Author Judith Kunst’s writing has been compared to the playground game of tetherball: words and ideas fling out to the outer edges of…

What Is in the Blood – Ellen Stone
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-95-1 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What Is in the Blood is a poetry memoir about growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s and ‘70s with a bipolar…

Amateur Husbandry – Phillip Sterling
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 48 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-92-0 $14.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. How the narrator of Amateur Husbandry manages to maintain a sense of calmness and well-being as he deals with the rather unruly and…

Everywhere West – Chris Green
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 68 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-88-3 $16.95 S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. The poems in Chris Green’s Everywhere West stand in the light and dark of family life and are bowled over by the beauty of…

One Less River – Terry Blackhawk
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 64 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-89-0 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. In One Less River, Terry Blackhawk follows Hafiz’s injunction to ‘Greet yourself/In your thousand other forms/As you mount the hidden tide and travel/Home.’…

Notes from the Dry Country – Ellen Aronofsky Cole
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound 84 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-87-6 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What if your death was born with you when you were born, your shadow twin, and walks around with you wherever you go,…

English Kills and Other Poems – Monica Wendel
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 100 pages 2018, ISBN: 978-1-936419-84-5 $15.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. In English Kills and Other Poems, Monica Wendel challenges and explores the norms of adulthood. Her speaker, teetering on the edge of marriage…