Ghost Gospels
The winner of the SCE's Women of Resilience poetry chapbook contest.
A testament to thriving in the wake of anorexia. Cost: $10.00.
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Flutterby The Butterfly
Emerging from a chrysalis, Flutterby floats into a loving world full of supportive creatures. Yet Flutterby is too absorbed with nature to embrace their love until she experiences the power of their friendship to transform her life. This is a parable of physical and spiritual metamorphosis. The author was dedicated to serving special needs children. Even when she was struck down in mid-life with cancer, she saw life as a great wonder and an adventure. Surrounded by supportive friends, she embraced the fullness of life. This book is her gift to future generations of children as a reminder of the miracle of life, the beauty of the world, and the importance of friendship. All proceeds from this book will go to support Autism Speaks.
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Tell Me Exactly What You Saw and What You Think It Means
Tell Me Exactly What You Saw and What You Think It Means is a collection that makes good on its title. In these searching poems of vulnerability and courage, a queer man wrestles with the complicated gift of surviving the plague wrought by AIDS in the 80s and 90s. Along with the deep love and familiarity of a long partnership, here we find desire even in the face of potentially difficult death, “And me the river—all the wet / hollows of the earth, opening.” Though in this world, “even the snow won’t tell the truth,” Steve Bellin-Oka will, and he does.
Jessica Jacobs & Nickole Brown
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Jessica Jacobs & Nickole Brown
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Athena Departs: Gospel of a Man Apart
"Athena Departs: Gospel of a Man Apart" is Clifford Brooks' second full-length poetry collection. His wide-ranging poetry draws on his meandering personal journey from his youth to middle age and the real and mythological beings he meets along the way, as well as on music and literature, in an unmistakably Southern setting.
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Exiles of Eden
Exiles of Eden is a chapbook of poems from the life and imagination of a man navigating his way through an American South he is both in love with and at odds with, in search of meaning and belonging as an outsider.
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The Draw of Broken Eyes & Whirling Metaphysics
Nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and Georgia Author of the Year, Clifford Brooks's first book of poetry captures the southern experience with poems that Dinty Moore calls "a jazzy, aromatic, and spirited poetic mandala."
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Things I Wish I Could Tell You
Things I Wish I Could Tell You is a heartfelt and heartwarming book in which Casanova Green uses everything he knows of American vernacular and black storytelling. These poems tell like secrets. This is a book interested in forgiveness and salvation.
Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition
2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Poetry
Jericho Brown, author of The Tradition
2020 Pulitzer Prize Winner, Poetry
Something Kindred
Through the spare beauty of haiku and the fineness of belles-lettres, Nicole Tallman pens an evocative and stirring account of grieving that echoes with ache in our hearts, but also soothes us with the understanding that love is immortal despite our losses.
RICHARD BLANCO,
2013 Presidential Inaugural Poet
RICHARD BLANCO,
2013 Presidential Inaugural Poet
dreamterludes
A poem is a kind of dream; or, a dream is a kind of poem. Or, at their most memorable,
they blur image, strangeness, emotion. In Monica Kim’s dreamterludes, the boundaries
between waking and dreaming are blurred, where the space between “conscious
waking” and “subconscious dreaming” is “magic.” It is not the innocent, parlor trick
magic of the child but rather, an alchemy of space, language, and meaning. Active
shooter, climate crisis, surveillance state, the female body, these are among the poems’
concerns. At times, the language is straightforward, and at others it is lyric infused
with drawings and images, white space, and punctuation as interruption to animate
the poems. In dreamterludes, we experience new truths and new questions. This is a
stirring and compelling voice. These poems are artful, revelatory, and unforgettable.
What a joy to read, experience, and dream alongside them.
---Lee Herrick
Poems for The People
In this ambitious yet graceful collection, Nicole Tallman is quick to tell (nay, show) us what she is about. Uncommonly confident, Tallman asks what happens when we “wade out way too far” while in the same breath lauding the “plain talk” of poems, the girls she “wanted to hug a little too long.” Written with a deft hand, these elegiac and tender poems promise “permanent day or never-ending night.” Buy this book, support this impressive outing: “where I come from, it’s also about the merchandise.”
--- MICHAEL CHANG,
AUTHOR OF BOYFRIEND PERSPECTIVE & ALMANAC OF USELESS TALENTS