Six Lips –  Penelope Scambly Schott
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 80 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-843 Six Lips is an imagistic and offbeat approach to the old standards of love, death, and the planet where they happen. The poems are feisty, thoughtful, fun to read; they riot with original and often dreamlike images: monkeys “who have learned to speak…

The Livelihood of Crows – Jayne Pupek
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp. $15.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-942 In Jayne Pupek’s poetry, we experience the slipperiness of language, of meaning, of life. She offers stories of mystery, luck, and particularly a humane understanding for the lapse in judgment and love. Her poems are filled with notes and reminders that you might…

Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems) –  Jeanne Larsen
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2010, ISBN 978-0932412-959 In Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems), Jeanne Larsen offers us poems filled with sustenance and surprise. In precise, meditative language, she investigates a full range of experience and feeling, from bodily desire to rage to astonishment at the wonders (and betrayals)…

Rain When You Want Rain – Betsy Johnson-Miller
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 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…

The Doors of the Body – Mary Alexandra Agner
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp $12.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-799 Mary Alexandra Agner’s The Doors of the Body travels through ancient Greek mythology to more recent folk tales to ascertain and exclaim in the vatic, sometimes fierce voices of women: Athena, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and even darling Clementine. Poems like “Sweets” and “Oh…

Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems – Toni Mergentime Levi
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp $15.95 plus s&h 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-836 With grace, intelligence and wit, this lyrical collection illuminates the emotional and psychological subtleties of deeply personal relationships. Potholder by Toni Mergentime Levi Lovely Olivia has made for me a potholder. I have hung it in the center of my kitchen and will…

The Blonde on the Train – Eleanor Lerman
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 164pp. $16.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-737   “The Blonde on the Train” by Eleanor Lerman is available on Kindle. Click to download from Amazon. From Greenwich Village in the ’60s to Woodstock, NY, to an airport in the Midwest, Eleanor Lerman’s stunning short stories explore the disenchantment of this world,…

The Theory of Everything – Josie Kearns
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 86pp. $14.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-744 These poems discover the answers to the fantastic questions of the world: the value of divining rods and other inventions, termite love, a Babylonian god, or what types of things can be found in Loss Universe. Vampires at the Laundromat by Josie Kearns All…

Voice: Poems – Allison Joseph
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 36pp. $12.95 plus S&H 2009, ISBN 978-0932412-751 This enjoyable collection further demonstrates Allison Joseph’s uncanny grasp of language and image, along with a kind of playful and soulful voice that makes her poetry accessible to all. Allison Joseph interviewed at LunchTicket Extraction by Allison Joseph If there’s a poem in you,…