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"Harbinger" is a book of contemporary poetry invoking images and themes from history (such as the Salem witch trials), pop culture (from Seventeen Magazine to the Sopranos), the urban and natural world (from New England to Queens, NY, to southern California), and the domestic realm (the kitchens and dirty floors we all inhabit). These poems-one of which has been nominated for Best of the Net 2019-explore mental health, feminine roles, and the power of fear and how fear can germinate in the everyday. "Goldfinch," the book's opening poem, was nominated for Best of the Net 2019.

"Leaving Santorini" opens in the middle of a woman's story filled with sorrows-the death of her mother, the end of an abusive marriage-and turns it into a story of renewal, hope, joy, and rediscovery of her words, her powers, and her children. The poems in the book reveal the unfolding of sadness into joy, through the healing journeys of traveling to islands and learning who she can be in the world.

Brettanomyces is a memoir of time spent seeking the self in the marginal lands of America's agrarian foundations. From the dry, serrated edges of the New Mexican high desert, to the verdant tranquility of Virginia's young vineyards, these poems tell the story of looking for home amidst a sea of disparate, yet inextricably beautiful vistas. Connecting each work is a sense of food-as-place, and place-as-self. The making of wine becomes an act of connection and desire, while dry plateau treks become lenses of reflective depth, drawing parallels to mundane, modern problems. These poems speak to the emotive side of sustainability as it pertains to our food systems, to the brokenhearted toil of industrial production, and to the very literal cultural genocide of colonial advancement.

One Clean Feather depicts survival from illness and sexual violence, and also paints a portrait of the artist striving to find living, literary mothers and sisters. In poems "sharp as silver, clean and stunning" and locations ranging from the Midwest to Paris, Knowlton invites her readers on a flight from darkness into the light of autonomy, poetry, and hope- "the thing with feathers."

Waiting for the Wood Thrush, a first poetry collection by Ashley Memory of Asheboro, North Carolina, includes 23 poems united by the themes of love and longing, through the lens of nature. She invites you into her own back yard where you can relive the triumphant and sad life of a magnificent Northern Red Oak; hear the eerie and evocative song of the wood thrush; and even learn how to see a ghost. Take a trip through history and visit the Old Burying Ground in Beaufort, N.C., fall down the steps again with Addie Hash Warp, the stuntwoman for Vivien Leigh in the movie Gone with the Wind; and even travel to the Montmartre section of Paris, where you can rent the apartment of the mysterious Elisabeth still pining for an old lover. And if love is on your mind, read the love story of two donkeys torn apart and reunited or the unrequited love of a 1948 high school couple from Chapel Hill, N.C. These poems have placed in numerous contests, including winning first and second places in competitions sponsored by the North Carolina Poetry Society. Her work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and she has won the Doris Betts Fiction Prize sponsored by the N.C. Writers' Network twice.

Anticipation suspended in the moment before the first kiss. A mother singing to her unborn child. Lovemaking. A child exploring a playground. The aftermath of an argument. The poems in Claudia McGhee's Paperlight invite you into the everyday connections that form, exist, and dissolve between parent and child, lovers, friends. Even though love has no physical weight, and is, in fact, paperlight, these poems share the lived experiences that reveal the infinite weight of love's touch, and its inescapable imprint in our lives.

In Magnificent Desolation, the Moon is a promising, new frontier for a couple disillusioned with life on Earth. But when they abandon the third rock for the bright satellite nearby and the distance between their expectations and their reality widens, the speaker and companion struggle to adjust. The poems in Magnificent Desolation juxtapose the marvelous wonders of space with the burning questions that plague the speaker's mind. Is the Moon made of cheese? How long can two people survive-and survive each other-on the Moon?

The author's native rural village of Prices Fork, near Blacksburg, Virginia, is featured in this collection of poems. She profiles some of the pioneers who settled the region from whom the author is descended. Character studies, celebration of roots, reconciliation and forgiveness are common themes throughout the book. Price's writing is rich in imagery of nature and rural life and man's interconnection with the natural world. Quarry Song is the first book in a series planned by the author.

The Cavalcade is a collection of poems that explores what we think about when we think about historical figures. Here, Virginia Woolf explores a rich, inner-personal life-goes to the grocery store, shows desire, considers the literary canon, reimagines her own suicide. Here, the Chilean dictator Pinochet is given the opportunity to consider his actions from inside his casket. Weaving together personal narrative with global events, The Cavalcade truly is a processional of a different sort.

WHERE SALT AND HORSES LIVE WITHOUT MAN is a rite of Scandinavian passage, a rite of the sea folk. A graceful series of ocean episodes, these poems move through ancestry, history and childhood wonder - learning from elders, from culture and from a strange wilderness that is both magical and real.