This Must Be the Place – Alice George
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp. $12.95 plus s&h 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-7136 Alice George’s poems meet the threats of everyday life with a lifted chin, a jaundiced eye and a sense of humor. Exploring materials from folklore and fairy tales, politics and science within the matrix of her clear lyric, she invites us into an…

Poemas Callejeros / Streetwise Poems – Johanny Vázquez Paz
Poetry – bilingual. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-46-7 These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago’s concrete and broken glass. In Spanish and English, with translations by the author. 2007 PEN Beyond…

Taking Notice – Patricia McNair
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 60 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 978-0932412-560 Patricia McNair’s poems combine an earthy honesty with consistent alertness to the beauty of everyday life, especially in family and nature. Whether noticing the ordinary miracles of the suburban backyard, remembering her Oklahoma girlhood, or struggling with the difficulties of divorce and illness,…

Out of the Garden – Kathryn Kirkpatrick
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 76 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007 ISBN 0-932412-51-3 ISBN+13 978-0932412-515 In a dark world of loss, betrayal and regret, Kathryn Kirkpatrick powerfully reveals experiences that we find recognizable yet surprising. These poems weave together the obsessions of a woman’s mind with the physical passion she experiences. Finalist, 2007 SIBA (Southern Independent…

Lands I Live In –  Zilka Joseph
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp. $12.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-47-5 In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest. These poems capture in evocative and specific ways the living-in-two cultures of America…

Parts That Were Once Whole – Nancy Botkin
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-49-1 Beautifully honest and heartbreaking, Parts That Were Once Whole boldly exposes the human psyche. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous…

With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country – Angela Williams
Paper, perfect bound, 130 pp $17.95 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-41-6 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country by Angela Williams Do you know: How maraschinos are made? Why there aren’t any pitless cherries? What makes a great cherry margarita? Cherries are to…

The Secret Box – Kathleen Tyler
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-43-2 Why I Left Florida by Kathleen Tyler One Saturday afternoon at the bowling alley when I was eight, I ran off. Shrieking with cleverness, I hid behind racks of shoes, flashing pinball machines. The thunder of balls rolling down lanes, smashing into pins,…

Detroit Stories – Rhoda Stamell
Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp $18.50 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6   “Detroit Stories” by Rhoda Stamell is available on Kindle. Click to download from Amazon Mayapple Press’s first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, “All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit” can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling…

The Futurist’s Mistress – Lorraine Schein
Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp $13.00 plus s&h 2006, ISBN 0-932412-39-4 Enid Dame says, “Playful, anarchic, often hilariously funny glimpses of the world we know from a skewed, sophisticated angle.” 2006 Pushcart Prize nominee The Queen of Velcro by Lorraine Schein The Queen of Velcro is fuzzy and black on one side, and has sharp…