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In this debut collection of poems, Marjorie Moorhead writes about survival; our relationship with the Planet and with others as we navigate life in the Anthropocene. Surviving AIDS in its early years; going on to become a mother and wife, and eventually a poet, Marjorie's work explores her love of the Northern New England environment, with it's four seasons, her concern for the future of our planet, and how to celebrate the joy in each moment.

A Vessel of Furious Resolve deals with the anguish life can throw at any of us and how we do our best to persevere-even triumph over it. The poems explore shame, abuse, death, family, courage, and love with honesty and a splash of humor.

Grasp This Salt is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore what it means to be a mother and the complexities of trying to understand our own mother's experience of mothering us, while following the life and trial of Susan Smith, convicted in 1995 for the murder of her two young sons.Nestled inside the sins of a woman who would kill her own children is the voice of a young mother grieving multiple miscarriages while her toddler named Erin keeps playing at drowning. The young mother is haunted by Smith's crime as it's recounted by a flock of lake birds, Medea of Greek mythology, and the imagined black man Smith claimed kidnapped her children before she was found guilty. Grasp This Salt brings to light with startling urgency what it means to love another, to grieve violent death, and to bear a lifetime of guilt.

An award winning poet, Pacific Northwest native Avis M. Adams captures the essence of living in and hiking the trails of her region. She shares poignant glimpses into the joys, beauty, and struggles of everyday life amidst this rugged, rural setting. The language in this poetry conjures powerful imagery that feeds the imagination with contemplative visions and a captivating energy. The full array of true human emotions lace the lines of these poetic stanzas, each telling its own short story of Quilcene.

In Abbie Copeland's debut poetry collection, A Brave Crescendo, she explores what it means to be a woman navigating family and relationships as a mother, lover, daughter, and sexual abuse survivor. Helen Fremont, author of After Long Silence, writes, "Abbie Copeland's A Brave Crescendo presents a fresh poetic voice - strong and thrilling in its courage and accomplishment. Charting the dangerous territory of sexual abuse, family, and fraught relationships, these poems are sharply observant and brilliantly controlled." Dina Paulson-McEwen, author of Parts of Love, writes "Familia is commemorated, a no-judgment zone where lineage is agent. Embodied memory welcomes an effortless reader."

A bittersweet and peculiar exploration of love, loss, and pop culture set on the fringe of Appalachia, Where We Let Go illuminates the beauty of grief even as it wallows around in the heaviness of love. This is a bold, visceral portrait of the landscape of grief; it tackles the things we collect and the graceful and ugly ways in which we live among these objects. It catalogues the small rooms and wide-open spaces in which we live with and love each other, and it mourns the moments and memories we're left with when we're the last ones left behind.

In her debut poetry collection, Firefly, Ellen Austin-Li tells the intimate story of her own descent into alcoholism/addiction and subsequent recovery. These poems are inhabited by light and shadow, flying insects and cocoons, the woods and the water-each one a brush stroke on canvas. Taken together, these poems form an impressionistic painting of what it is like to struggle with alcoholism/addiction, as well as what it is like to learn how to live sober. Ultimately, the peace this poet seeks is found within the natural world: "I've heard the woods can heal you...." The deep inner strength she discovers is mirrored in the experience of viewing a partial eclipse: "yet marveled at the power of sun, who gave so much light with the smallest fraction of herself." In the end, this poet comes to realize, "I am not a low hum, but, oh, so much more luminous than I once believed."

My Father and the Astros tells the story of a girl in a family of troubled men and how their troubles affected her as she grew up in the Lower Ninth Ward of New Orleans. Maceira chronicles, in these lyric poems, a journey from childhood innocence through trauma to survival and resilience. The book reveals the deeper effects of addiction, prison, and suicide on the family members of those afflicted, a topic not often enough addressed. From difficult beginnings, Karen Maceira has managed to earn an MFA at Penn State in midlife and has had over 40 poems, essays, and reviews published in well-known journals.

The National Frontier Trails Museum is a fixed place, but its stories have lived everywhere in the world, handed down by families that lived them and in the news of those living them today. Wherever we start or start over from, across different centuries and cultures, humanity has always been a race of pioneers and refugees. These poems address the great need for kindness and empathy in the world.

10048 is THE 9/11 book. In the tradition of Benét's John Brown's Body, Reznikoff's Testimony, Rukeyser's U. S. 1, and other poetry of history, 10048 does more than tell the story of the construction and destruction of the Twin Towers, it celebrates their place in American culture. It is OUR 9/11 book. Edward A. Dougherty was a volunteer at a peace center in Hiroshima, Japan, and has been granted the SUNY Chancellor's award in Scholarship and Creative Activity.

It Started with the Wild Horses is a book of poems about wildness and inspiration, love and memory, family and motherhood. This collection explores how our experiences and relationships become memory; how encountering the wilderness outside our doors shapes us; and how a sense of place tells us about who we are. Ingrid Keriotis's first collection of poetry is rich with the sense of being alive today in all its pain and joy. Readers travel from Greece to California, from the Sierra Nevada to the rivers of Washington, from adolescence to parenthood, from classroom to orchard, from grief to hope. Ultimately, through personal themes, we are taken into a world celebrating our common humanity.

"Water Shedding" is a chapbook of poems committed to a vision of marriage and family life that is real, sometimes even deeply lost and uncertain. The images do not avoid problems, do not create a façade in the way of our social media personas. Instead the poet journeys through the aging of her children, her marriage, and her sense of self with an awareness of missteps and a sense of joy for the small moments she can claim.

Slippery Surfaces by Donna Spruijt-Metz takes an unflinching journey into personal history, the lies and truths we tell each other and ourselves. The poems show us the illusiveness of memory, mix lyricism with humor to excavate secrets, and to examine love, death and divinity. What are the stories we tell ourselves to get through, and how do they change with time? How do we stand in the physical world as it crumbles around us? How does love build us and change us? These poems return again and again to our relationships with each other, with parents, children, loved ones, and with God.

Traversing the sparse and sometimes rugged territory from Stevensville, Montana to the Flathead Indian Reservation, Bitterroot poignantly witnesses the complex intersections of Native and non-Native culture in Montana. A testament to the spirit of the land and those shaped by it, this collection reveals the ways in which the West remains both fraught with tension and modeled by beauty. Narrated by a young teacher with unexpected ties to the children in her classroom, each poem unfolds another layer of mountain life- from hauling wood and making fire to navigating a blizzard and grieving the loss of a student. Page by page, life presses closely against that which is raw and wild, lending individual moments a sense of urgency: "What I remember/ from Ovando, though, is stars. Stars and ice/ and the shock of our short inward breath." Attentive to a long tradition of tough Montana poets, Jessica Jones pays homage to giants such as Richard Hugo and James Welch while befriending contemporary writers like Jennifer Finley Greene and Robert Lee. A runner-up with Open Country Press and honorable mention with Cutbank at University of Montana, Bitterroot is essential for any avid reader of Western literature.