George Dila, author of “Nothing More To Tell”, will be reading at Brilliant Books in Traverse City, Michigan, tonight October 25th. He’ll be joined by Angela Williams, author of “Live From the Tiki Lounge” and “With a Cherry on Top” George and Angela will be joined by authors John Mauk and Mark Hughes. Brilliant Books…
PROSE, POETRY, MUSIC Saturday September 22nd at INDI GO Two East Central Illinois writers and a singer-songwriter perform Saturday night at Indi Go Arts Co-Op, 9 E. University, Champaign. Roxane Gay, Lania Knight and John Palen will read from their works in the 8 p.m. event. Jeff Arrigo will sing and play guitar. There is…
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…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 81 pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2011, ISBN 978-1936419-029 In response to the unexpected death of her sister Katharine Washburn, Mary Winegarden has taken on the challenge of translating their lives into living language. Using phrases from Washburn’s work as her foil, Winegarden creates a moving meditation on the bonds of sisterhood.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 86pp. $14.95 plus s&h 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-11-1 The 52 lyrics that make up William Heyen’s newest collection of poetry are at once a nod to the progenitor of American poetry of sexuality and the body, Walt Whitman, and a communication addressed to the late Frank O’Hara, famed member of the New…
Memoir. Paper, Perfect Bound. 104pp. $15.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-10-4 The Russian Writer’s Daughter by Lydia S. Rosner is a collection of lively autobiographical stories about growing up in a Russian-American Jewish household in the stifling political atmosphere of the Red Scare. At the center of these memories is Lyduce’s father, whose complex personality…
Fiction. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-09-8 Small Economies’s short stories and flash fictions are economical in narration but comprehensive in their suggestion of the past, present, and future lives of their characters. The moments they contain are set against the background of diverse public spaces: the institutions, stores, factories, restaurants,…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2012, ISBN 978-1-936419-08-1 The pieces that make up Kibbe document a life spent journeying “Between Two Worlds”: the author’s America and the Lebanon of her family heritage. In Porterfield’s vision, people and places long departed can be conjured back through memory and language; “the land of the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $13.95 plus S&H 2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-07-4 Susan Kolodny draws on her work as a clinical psychoanalyst in her first collection of poetry, After the Firestorm. Kolodny’s evocative style arises from an imagination both sensory and analytical. The poems suggest the unity of love and suffering, and walk a difficult line…
