when animals are animals – Betsy Johnson
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 58 pages 2021, ISBN: 978-1-952781-02-5 $17.95 + S&H Wrong ticks on, and it feeds on silence. In her book, "when animals are animals", Betsy Johnson refuses to be “the quietest person in the world.” She names where the teeth are, gets closer to the kick she knows is coming, and makes her weary spirit take up the empty rucksack, because there is work to be done. That is the work of standing up to the “cloud monster,” of being an antidote, of finding hope in a knot of stones.…

What Is in the Blood – Ellen Stone
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-95-1 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What Is in the Blood is a poetry memoir about growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s and ‘70s with a bipolar…

Memos from the Broken World – Jean Nordhaus
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2016, ISBN: 978-1-936419-56-2 $15.95 & S+H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Taking her title from the kabbalist creation tale of the clay vessels that had to break so God’s light could scatter through the…

Book of Asters – Sally Rosen Kindred
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 62 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-34-0 $14.95 plus S&H The poems in Kindred’s second full-length collection look to daisies, goldenrods, sunflowers, ironweeds—all the members of the family asteraceae, or aster family of flowers—to explore family and memory, and to search the tender edges of marriage, infertility, and motherhood. Like the children in…

The Pastor’s Wife Considers Pinball – Nola Garrett
Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp $14.95 plus s&h 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-16-6 Nola Garrett’s 2nd full-length poetry collection, The Pastor’s Wife Considers Pinball, meditates on the variations of grace within chaos, creation, time, death, the domestic, games, and literature. In a voice that mixes sadness and humor, sometimes as the I of the author and…