Authentic and natural, the poetry collection "Cage of Bone" engages the discomfort of confronting every part of one’s story. In Irena Praitis’s poetry collection "Cage of Bone", the human body is a container for haunting tragedies... Read More

Part memoir, part biography, part found poetry, the moving work in "Next Time You Come Home" reveals the daily moments that make up a life. Lisa Dordal’s engaging and emotive cross-genre collection "Next Time You Come Home" transforms... Read More

The musical poems collected in "Roads to the Interior" honor truth and beauty while reflecting on the self and nature. In W. Hans Miller’s poetry collection "Roads to the Interior", nature is the fulcrum between reflecting on the self... Read More

The poet shares his work in any number of ways once it’s conceived, primarily from page to reader. But Rolly Kent shows us that his poems have always existed in our hearts and minds and that it is only necessary to discover them,... Read More

Sometimes the muse makes a big ask. Revisit the death of a brother, for example, and explore how that painful memory gathers momentum as one’s own son comes of age. Muses, Erin Malone knows, are expert button pushers. A Coniston Prize... Read More

We can never be quite sure what powers a poet draws upon, where exactly she gets her mojo. Chelan Harkin discovered it the hard way: at the bottom-most point of mental and emotional suffering she was mystically blessed with creative... Read More

Between. Not here, not there. Not this, or that. Somewhere but not someplace. Not easy to put your, wrap your, place your—but confidence, and masterful touch with language, is what makes Esteban Rodríguez a credible, incredible even,... Read More

Care, from carry: as happens mysteriously in utero; from what was once her single-selfed existence, the poet assumes the burdens of maternity—a carrier‘s nine-month care package that stretches into motherhood and beyond. In "Each... Read More