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The Essential Travis Lane

by Karen Rigby

A sustained voice of unapologetic intellect holds this book of poetry together. "The Essential Travis Lane" features selections from the work of an American-born Canadian poet whose talent has remained—according to fellow poet and... Read More

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The Bird in the Stillness

by Peter Dabbene

This collection of poetry soars above, like the trees in the forest that inspired it. For anyone who’s ever pondered the secret life of a forest or aspired to be an unseen observer among the trees, Joe Rosenblatt’s poetry collection... Read More

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Dead Man’s Float

by Matt Sutherland

The fix is in: we are hopeless Jim Harrison fans, and his recent death moved our reverence beyond reason—he alone spoke our Mother Tongue. In a forty-plus year career, Harrison authored thirty-six books, most of them collections of... Read More

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Orphans

by Matt Sutherland

From the founder of CavanKerry Press, this delightful memoir in verse bears witness to a complicated family history of Ireland’s Troubles, devout Catholicism, fierce maternal strength, aging, death, bitterness, and love. That Joan... Read More

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100 Chinese Silences

by Matt Sutherland

All nature of tired, absurd stereotypes of China and her people maintain a hold on the minds of most Americans, even as China’s superpower ascendancy has dominated headlines for some twenty-five years. With weaponized pen, Timothy Yu... Read More

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Tiller North

by Matt Sutherland

The tough, rolled-up shirtsleeves, diesel fumes, and rural sensibility of Maine’s fishing villages separate Rosa Lane’s poetry from other super-talented, MFA-bearing poets from Sarah Lawrence College. No, effete is not a word to... Read More

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