Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-29-6 $14.95 This collection of poems explores the thin line between saint and sinner. The poet asks the reader to consider, “Who is the saint here? Who is the sinner?” A few well-known people appear in poems as well as a few genuine saints, but mostly the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 78 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-28-9 $15.95 Perhaps it is best to picture this book as a gallery space, for in Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist, Gerry LaFemina curates an exhibit of the curious and quirky. Surrealist art, big foot, magic shows, mythological creatures, love in all its manifestations hang side by…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages $14.95 plus S+H 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-26-5 Who is Miss Unthinkable? In this latest collection from Chicago poet Pamela Miller, she’s a shape-shifting sorority of mysterious, funny and wise female characters who don’t let anything get the better of them—from undependable husbands and lovers to breast cancer, aging or even…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-27-2 Feeding Wild Birds is a collection of poems rooted in the Michigan landscape, as seasons and lives undergo their seamless and subtle transformations. These are meditative poems in spare and simple language that examine the energies in animals, woods, lakes, land, weather and…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-25-8 A serious treatise on sacred sex. A history of prostitution. A chronological-geographical-psychological survey of contractual copulation. The uncensored autobiography of an articulate whore. The innate and irreverent humor of humping. How women survive. These are the stories told in this series of connected…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-16-6 Nola Garrett’s 2nd full-length poetry collection, The Pastor’s Wife Considers Pinball, meditates on the variations of grace within chaos, creation, time, death, the domestic, games, and literature. In a voice that mixes sadness and humor, sometimes as the I of the author and…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 94 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-15-9 Marjorie Manwaring lives in Seattle, where she is a freelance writer/editor, co-editor of the online poetry and art journal the DMQ Review, and editorial board member for Floating Bridge Press. Her poems have appeared in a variety of journals and anthologies, including 5…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72pp $14.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-14-2 Edythe Haendel Schwartz is the author of “Exposure,” Finishing Line Press, 2007, a nominee for the California Book Award. Her poem “A Natural Phenomenon,” won first prize in the 2012 Friends of Acadia Poetry competition, and her poem “Resist” was a winner in Persimmon…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages $14.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-13-5 As part of the Wisconsin Writers Awards, “Somewhere Piano” was awarded the 2012 Posner Poetry Book Award by the Council for Wisconsin Writers Somewhere Piano featured at the Snowflakes in a Blizzard blog Praise for “Somewhere Piano” Strike motherhood off the list of…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-12-8 In Fierce This Falling, Betsy Johnson-Miller writes with the hard won honesty of the seer who has walked through the fire. Her poems chart the course of mortality through nature and the body, creating a fragile world balanced always on the verge of…
