Written On Water: Writings About the Allegheny River – Edited by Helen Ruggieri and Linda Underhill  – (with bonus CD!)
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-30-2 $19.95 About “Written on Water” Note: this book includes a bonus CD! The Allegheny River is the easternmost west flowing river in the United States and was a major thoroughfare for early settlers. This anthology looks at the Allegheny historically, and as both a recreation area…

This review was published in Prick of the Spindle (www.prickofthespindle.com) Volume 7.2 The Poetry Cheerleader: A Poetry Review Column Miss Unthinkable by Pamela Miller Reviewed by Kathleen Kirk, The Poetry Cheerleader Mayapple Press, 2013 ISBN: 978-1-936419-26-5 Perfect bound, 53 pp., $14.95 I can’t help but be an enthusiastic cheerleader for Miss Unthinkable by Pamela Miller,…

Candidates for Sainthood and other Sinners – Don Cellini
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…

Lillie Was a Goddess, Lillie Was a Whore is one of the first reviews at Your Impossible Voice. Daniel Shank Cruz is the reviewer. Your Impossible Voice is a new “literary project dedicated to advancing literary arts by supporting writers and poets, encouraging readership, and promoting academic literary scholarship.”…

Notes for the Novice Ventriloquist – Gerry LaFemina
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…

Miss Unthinkable – Pamela Miller
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…

Feeding Wild Birds – Robert Haight
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…