Prose Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2015, ISBN: 978-1-936419-48-7 $14.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Told in prose poems, Buick City is a coming-of-age tale about growing up in the deindustrialized Midwest – about trailer park kids…
On Wednesday December 4th, at 7pm, Josie Kearns, author of The Theory of Everything (Mayapple Press 2009) will read from her works at an Ann Arbor celebration for the Poetry In Michigan Michigan In Poetry anthology. Josie will be joined by David Cope. Tom Lynch, Laura Kasischke, Keith Taylor and Linda Gregerson. The reading is…
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…
Zilka Joseph, author of Lands I Live In, appeared on the pilot episode of “The Living Room” on Michigan Radio. From the show’s website: The Living Room is a one hour exploration of a theme through stories, song, and writing. In this episode, host, storyteller, and songwriter Allison Downey takes a look at how stories…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 28pp. $12.95 plus S&H 2008, ISBN 978-0932412-607 These humorous, moving and sometimes even philosophical poems revolve around Christ’s love for writing, his exploration of faith and knowledge, and above all, his admiration for his audience. An adventurous journey through Christ’s imagination. Read a review of Philip & the Poet in 360…
Paper, saddlestitched, 60 pp $12.95 plus s&h 2007, ISBN 0-932412-45–9 This expanded edition replaces the original chapbook, which is out of print. Little League by Larry Levy The fathers always called us “men,” and drilled by growling “hey” and “hup” and, for any hurt, shrugged “rub it up.” After pre-game prayer, I prayed again for…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 98 pp $16 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-31-9 This selection, reaching back twenty years, establishes John Palen’s quiet eloquence in poems which convey a deep, straightforward honesty about the fumblings, failures and occasional radiance of human life. Prurience by John Palen “It’s like playing the slots,” my doctor says. “The right allergens…
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 32 pp $10.00 plus s&h 2005, ISBN-0-932412-33-5 Oboe by Conrad Hilberry Your lips move moist around my double reed, and I feel the sad wind rising through your throat. Some child of yours is lost. If I were your psychiatrist, I’d listen, nod, prescribe. Instead, I take your breath, shape it,…
Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2004, ISBN 0-932412-26-2 Christine Hume comments: “For Hinrichsen, paradox is a way of knowing. He enacts this philosophical stance in the quick yet attentive movement of his lines…. Hinrichsen’s unhinged singing lets momentum have its way. Yet we are moved in the old sense–by empathy.” Message to…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62pp. $10.00 plus S&H 2004, ISBN 0-932412-28-9 Based loosely on the Catholic Rosary and other devotional prayers, this collection of poems is quiet and intense, walking the mysterious line between sacramental and sacrilegious. Sleeping with Grief by Martin Achatz I don’t know what to do with my wife’s grief, How she…
