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In this collection of poems, Molly Beth Griffin approaches simple, everyday experiences with a sense of awe that gives them weight. That determination to find hope and beauty is then unleashed upon the larger issues of our time. In this way, she tackles both intimate and societal struggles in this collection, returning always to an honoring of the connections between people, creatures, and the natural world. Poems about parenting nestle in beside poems about politics, and both internal and external dramas, personal and public stories, are handled with the same deep reverence for life.

Visits and Other Passages is a short collection of short stories, vignettes, essays, letters, essays, flash fiction, free verse/formal poems: social commentary on visits and passages (psychological and geographical) of a mid-western contemporary woman. Various genre were used in the hopes of grasping the subtle aspects and shades inherent in the wide range of visits and passages one experiences-as in most things relating to humans, they are neither simple or straight forward. The collection is divided into: Part I: The Hearth; Part II: Slants and Other Perspectives; Part III: Capturing Words; Part IV: Conjectures. The foreword is by Su Epstein, PhD.

2018 Starting Gate Winner

The poems in How to Live in Ruins tell one couple's story of moving to Cleveland and raising a family there. This is a book for anyone who has ever loved a place that's a little bit rusty and tried to make it better.

Green River Road is Michael Levell's first chapbook published by a press other than his own home printer. The poems use the English language as blocks arranged through chance operations and intention and then rearranged through editing and erasure to make these startling and insightful works echo with both reference and the individuality of the poet. The sources used for original material combined with personal writing from the author bring incredible results with each turn of the page and further the conversation of both the sources being used and the poet's own mind to create something that is in between and alive on its own. At once strange and at the same time highly readable, Green River Road is a chapbook that can be experienced again and again with new results. Using traditional composition, cut-up, divination, selection, chance and collage techniques, these poems go beyond the intention of the poet, so when the reader creates the work anew with each read, the life of the poems are further enriched.