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Wolf's poetry views life through the eyes of a lifer in prison, a homeless woman, a rock with centuries of experience, a mother spider, a flag in need of some rest, a mother who as lost her son, a community protecting its own, and many more; all enriching the reader's mind and heart. Her comfortable writing style enhances the understanding of these gripping poems.

This new poetry chapbook by Carolyn Clark, Choose Lethe: Remember to Forget (Finishing Line Press, 2018) is a mirror image to Mnemosyne: The Long Traverse (Finishing Line Press, 2013) and an Irish twin to New Found Land (Cayuga Lake Books, 2017) but also stands alone. Evoking powerful memories ranging from adolescence to family dynamic and beyond, it ultimately finds shared solace in the simple-sacred: rural landscapes, horses, indelible winters. Humorously self-pejorative, exploratory, visceral, visual - these are words that come to mind as the poems unfold stories and entertain our minds with twisting, turning rides that end with simple, armchair advice: be still, listen, let go and love.

Tangled in the Light marks Elizabeth Threadgill's poetry debut. These micropoems explore fauna, landscape, and life in rural Texas. The title of the book comes from a poem in which Jim Harrison writes, "In truth each day is a universe in which / we are tangled in the light of stars." Tangled in the Light follows a day from the glow of an early morning through to a night in which stars shower overhead. The poems in Tangled in the Light juxtapose the smallness that can be observed in the natural world with the largeness and mysteriousness of the universe.

World, Composed takes exquisite aim at the universe of physics in a voice of scientific authority and poetic innovation. The poet speaks across time and space in conversation with the ancient Lucretius, who first wrote of atomic theory in verse two thousand years ago. From ether to entropy, from the mind of god to the doubts of mathematicians, from relativity to a comet's debris in the night skies over an Indiana farm, Jessica Reed questions the idea that the world is composed only of atoms and void, exploring the elusive nature of matter and the myriad textures the void takes in the human imagination.

Black Eye presents domestic violence witnessed by a child and its impact. Alternately dramatic and surreal, the poems also lend insight to a complex African American identity.

In this bold and exhilarating collection, much-published and award-winning poet Sandra Anfang invites us to tag along with her on a whirlwind tour of out-of-the-way places, among them: Jamaica, the Mayan ruins of the Yucatan, Costa Rica, Tunisia, and the American south and southwest. You'll experience what it's like to work on an archaeological dig, photograph polar bears north of the Arctic Circle, and eat Buffalo fish at a café in Memphis. These poems dish up the flavors and textures of each adventure, and simultaneously track her evolution as a young and middle-aged pioneer trying to find equilibrium in new and often startling settings. Road Worrier showcases her most vivid and nuanced writing, and shimmers with the colors and landscapes of each locale she visits.

Personal and intimate poems that meander through life's paths of loss and joy via loves and losses, childhood memories and familial stomping grounds. This collection begins on an adult journey, and then turns back to childhood, the details which shape the yearnings and realities of the future. These poems are woven together by relationships with loved ones, the land, and ghosts of the past.

"I am America in the early 21st century. I am a watcher of footage. I see horrors done to children. I long to witness instead of staring at screens. I want to respond, not despair." Graves Too Small to Be Red addresses our nation's dilemma in times of heart-breaking violence and disaster. It's poetry spun out of the awkward silence that follows a tragedy, particularly the death of a child. It pushes past our terror and hopelessness offering a response that moves grief to the protected realm of mystery. Graves Too Small to Be Red is a book of hope and healing in a troubled world, required reading for anyone who believes that small lives matter.

ORANGES WON A JUDGES CHOICE AWARD FROM THE ONTARIO POETRY SOCIETY, AND THE CLOTHESLINE RECEIVED AN AWARD FROM THE INTERNATIONAL DANCING POETRY CONTEST. OTHER POEMS FROM THIS CHAPBOOK HAVE BEEN SELECTED AND FEATURED AS PART OF THE YEARLY PAINTED POETRY EXHIBITION AT THE SURF CITY LIBRARY, IN LONG BEACH ISLAND, NEW JERSEY.

The Stopping Places is a collection of narrative poems reflective of life's journey and its seasons. It uses brief snapshots to display love, loss, growth, and other universal experiences, alongside nature and portraits of everyday people. The poems are strong in accessible imagery that reflect the poet's desire to create pictures for readers that can see clearly in their minds' eyes'.

Happenstance and Miracles examines the nature of daily life by looking closely at the invisible aspects of objects we touch, houses we inhabit, and streets we use every day. An ancient demon trap bowl may have a practical use for a 21st century reader. Buttons have their own desires and sense of duty, and a pot of lentil soup may conceal some genuine anger. This is a world a reader can recognize. The people in these poems sometimes find the weight of the invisible challenging. An older woman is afraid of her stairs at night, and is sure the light switch has moved to a new location. She knows how many people have died from falling. A young woman, deeply in love, cooks chopped liver and apple crisp for a New Year's Eve feast she plans to share. Yet even apple crisp contains a hidden narrative of Biblical poetry and the narrator's need to contradict some of those voices. It's a book where the well known becomes unfamiliar, and the world is more dangerous but also more beautiful than one ever suspected.

New York City native Dina Paulson-McEwen's debut poetry collection, Parts of love, (Finishing Line Press, 2018) was a 2017 finalist in the Finishing Line Press New Women's Voices Chapbook Competition. Parts of love explores interstices in loving, delving into themes of relationships, living, the body, and desire, and includes prose and lyric poems. "Paulson-McEwen plays with paradox, excavating moments of hope amongst the seeming ruins, "that signal you sent - / a dagger of fire / amongst all the black - / will bring me home /". These poems are not merely to be read, but to be dissolved into with a whole and vulnerable spirit," writes author Robin Richardson. Parts of love speaks to (an) experience of love from/within a woman's body. Author Marthe Reed writes, "Simultaneously site of desire, sexual fulfillment, ritual, and reproduction, the girl body [in Parts of love] is figured also as site of disobedience, investigation, erasure, trauma of the medicalized self. Paulson-McEwen's response? Go into dream, into ritual, into love-making and self-love, resistance writ as love-cum-beloved...Tantric, celebratory, bewitching, Parts of love takes l-o-v-e as a new divine/beloved, site and center of worship, ecstatically evoking love's manifold quotidian forms against any and all erasures."

Dawn Marar's chapbook, Efflorescence, includes poems chosen as a finalist for The Pablo Neruda Prize for Poetry; Orison Anthology Awards for Poetry; Chautauqua Literary Journal; and a Pushcart Prize nomination. This collection draws upon her personal connections to the Middle East and her experience as an American, a woman, wife, mother, and activist.This collection of poems reflects Dawn's commitment to human rights and social justice-- concerns in both national and international spheres. She fearlessly takes on military occupation; war, including drone warfare; and contemporary imperialism. She does this with inventive language and form; and with deep humanistic values --with love, compassion, and humor. She challenges her own culpability as a citizen of the world. Through poetry, Dawn confronts the influence of consumerism, religion, and nationality as she travels throughout the Middle East. Through decades of experience, Dawn's poetry celebrates the resiliency of the human spirit.Dawn has lived in Jordan and travels extensively. This collection recounts her travels to the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Syria, Turkey, Morocco, and Egypt. Her poetry takes the reader from the top of Mount Nebo, to the banks of the Jordan River, to Taksim Square in Istanbul during a tense May Day celebration.Some of Dawn's poems are experimental. She invented her own poetic form, the pronghorn, inspired by the classic poetic form, the ghazal. Her work references poetic traditions of form (haibun, ghazal, ekphrastic); literary traditions (Arabic folktales) and poets (Wallace Stevens). Dawn has studied with the poets Major Jackson, Bernadette Mayer, Alan Shapiro, Kevin Young, Rebecca Wolff, and John Montague. Her poems explore language; incorporating Arabic words and phrases.The reader accompanies Dawn, her husband (who was born in Jordan and raised in Baghdad) and their children as they partake of the everyday life of Jordanians, and other Arabs. The reader is afforded an intimate look at how families everywhere share the same concerns for health and safety.The time frame of the poems extend from 1981 through 2017. The work addresses the Iraq war and the Women's March on Washington. The collection spans a wide geography: from a village in New York State to the banks of the Jordan River. She explores spiritual, religious, historic, and Biblical places.The chapbook's title, Efflorescence, invites readers to consider the role of the United States in the world at a seminal point in our history. The work challenges readers to reflect upon the effect of culture and national identity in shaping our lives and the world we live in. The poems reveal an individual life as citizen of the greater world.Dawn's poetry is not a diatribe, but a meditation on one's role in shaping a better world for all. Through language simple and direct, Dawn paints "winged sumac, scarlet oak, sugar maple leaves [that] burst into flames" when seen through tears. (from "Working Out"). She captures the irony of life: "A fig tree housed/in winter bears fruit, despite/a new world order." (from "Sparkles) And the painful irony of being in Istanbul during a government lock-down, while back home, in the States "marchers protested the death/of Freddie Gray following injuries/sustained in police custody" (from "Mayday Mayday Mayday). Ultimately, Dawn speaks truth to power when she cites the Twitter account of a foreign leader notorious for silencing writers.Dawn earned a Bachelor's degree from Skidmore College and a Master's degree from Columbia University. She worked with social justice and human rights groups as a planner and community organizer.

Heidi Seaborn started writing poetry in 2016 and has quickly gained national recognition for her fresh voice and the lyrical quality she brings to writing about to life's experiences. With her debut poetry chapbook, Finding My Way Home, Seaborn explores what it means to be lost, to feel loss and to undertake the journey to find the people,history and place that embodies home. With her mastery of verbs, embedding action into her writing, these poems will take you places. In her Pablo Neruda Poetry Prize semi-finalist poem "Family Secrets," Seaborn has us climbing trees, crawling over driftwood and digging to China. We don't just learn how to hold a heart and how to survive hypothermia, we experience heartlessness, the burn of coming back to life. In these poems, we feel the loss of a father and the end of a marriage, the wail of childbirth and death of small creatures. The duality of pain and pleasure, cruelty and humor, beauty and violence are threaded throughout Seaborn's poems. Finding My Way Home is a poetic roadmap for the heart's journey through loss to discover home.

Dream's Hold, by Emily Saunders Nguyen, is very much a 21st century undertaking. Aware of the fragility of our existence and probing consciousness in any way she can, the poet turns over and over in her mind the nature of both day dream and night dream. A psychic review of the last few decades--not for some blend of trends composite, but for a single very alive human deeply influenced by new-wave as well as old-wave Asia, and from the actual, not the mythical, Midwest. Influenced by late 20th c. Korean Drama as well as Japanese lyric and Vietnamese lyric and narrative poetry, these poems have close links with the three major outlying cultures surrounding China. That is to say the heart, at least, is intact, the mind subtle. David Sten Herrstrom writes "...a great experience, exhilarating, moving, disturbing"; "lyric probing wonderfully alive, wise, and canny". "In this deeply distinguished manuscript, the transience and permanence of identity and experience as well as visions of the natural world rise like holographic images, evanescent and arresting before our eyes. Emily Nguyen has married eastern and western attitudes and philosophy and combined her insights with profound and long study to create a volume of poems that is both unique and unforgettable. (Elizabeth Anne Socolow)

Set in the natural environment of the American West, the poems in Desert Meditations advocate immersing oneself in the natural world as a way to reconnect to that inner core which sustains everyone. Offering an alternative to the hectic pace of contemporary life, these short and accessible poems acknowledge the restorative effects of reconnecting with nature. They suggest that seeking stillness and solitude and cultivating an awareness of the complexity of the natural world are essential to living a complete and satisfying life.