“Ay, in the very temple of Delight / Veil’d Melancholy has her sovran shrine.” These lines from Keats’ “Ode to Melancholy” open the latest and third collection of... Read More

Marie Lawson Fiala’s thirteen-year-old son, Jeremy, suffered a massive cerebral hemorrhage smack in the middle of an idyllic, middle-class family life in Berkeley, California.... Read More

This book is said to read like a novel, and so it does. "The Red Canoe" is a narrative of Handlers marriage, and we learn to love and follow her characters through the pages of... Read More

This poet writes like a woman with a mission. Her collection resounds with an honesty that is at once brutal and determined. “You will not go hungry into a strange soil,”... Read More

These lively poems press deeply into their places and the meanings of place. The first section, shadowed by the mile-long piles of culm extracted from coal mines and the harsh... Read More