In the best of poetry—unmistakably present and resonant to the reader—we find the physical embodiment of wordcraft: sound, rhythm, music. What Roy Scheele creates on the page is poetry’s equivalent to the enlightenment of the... Read More

A new poet commands spontaneous attention. What never existed is suddenly, irrevocably secured between Ellie Sawatzky and reader because of the power of her work. This debut collection follows Sawatzky’s receipt of the CV2’s 2017... Read More

We can convince ourselves that we know Midwestern soil, a stream bank, the stillness of a cedar fence post, but Ted Kooser shows otherwise in this collection of eighteen poems, his fifteenth collection. He is a Pulitzer Prize winner,... Read More

With wry humor moistening the margins of her poems, Jenny Davis showcases how her Indigenous people have become experts in sorrow and seethe. Director of the American Indian Studies Program and a citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Davis is... Read More

Introducing something precious to the world is hallowed work, and we imagine Ingrid Andersson derives slightly more pleasure from fulfilling her midwife duties than those of a poet. Her study of German, Swedish, French, and English... Read More

"Unanswered Questions" is a compendium of still unresolved queries into the events of September 11, 2001. Ray McGinnis’s journalistic text "Unanswered Questions" investigates lingering doubts about the official accounts of the... Read More

In the entertaining fantasy novel "Hourglass", a half-ghostly team is recruited to stop the malevolent designs of a formidable foe. Daniel James’s fantasy novel "Hourglass" is a carnival funhouse of ghosts, demons, secret agents, and... Read More

"The Depresso Trilogy" is a fun, thrilling, and humorous superhero riff. O. W. Láav’s three-part fantasy novel "The Depresso Trilogy" follows the exciting, funny, and provocative adventures of a unique superhero. "The Depresso... Read More