We did not fear the father

Losing helen

Losing Helen is a moving and inspiring essay that tracks an adult daughter through the many complex phases of grief as she anticipates the inevitable loss of her elderly mother. Finding strength and guidance in the spiritual insights of writers, artists, Western religion, and Eastern philosophies...

The los angeles review no. 9

The los angeles review no. 8

Vocabulary of silence

Later the house stood empty

Last voyage

Last mojito, the

Vampire planet

Vampire Planet is an eclectic, witty, and often moving New & Selected collection of poems from a writer whom former US Poet Laureate Billy Collins calls “the wisest, most entertaining wise guy in American poetry.”

The traveler's vade mecum

Everyman's meets Twitter. Most anthologies gather poems already written. This is a crowd-sourced compilation of new poems, inspired by a tweet that linked the anthologist to an historical document. It's a compendium of new works by sixty-five poets, including some of the most celebrated working t...

Larenopfer

Lamp of the body

Glacier lily

The palace of contemplating departure

The size of our bed

In these poems are letters to a dead husband, Armenian, English/German ancestry, marriage, illness and death, recovery and the bloody spine of war, always war, with hard won wisdom, acceptance and protest.

Give over, graymalkin

The gentle man

Flip days

The ogre's wife

Fake city syndrome

The mighty currawongs

Both intimate and irreverent, The Mighty Currawongs taps into the small truths of what makes a life worth living—from the oddly hilarious to the cherished and pure.A collection of headlong tales by Oregon author Brian Doyle—exploring such riveting and peculiar topics as chess in the Levant, tailo...

The scarlet libretto

Dreadful wind & rain

Braiding together fairytale tradition and Old Testament stories in a narrative of connection and estrangement, Dreadful Wind & Rain tells the story of a girl’s struggle to break free, both from the brokenness of her family and from the confines of traditional narratives.

Once, then

Embers

On hurricane island

Earthquake i.d.

The red bowl

What does Diablo do after he becomes a telephone phone in the desert? Why is the smallest of the tarantulas frozen to the boulders after midnight, while the other spiders play baseball with the old man Jose? Who loved Scarletta better than angels? The Red Bowl is an archetypal fable in first pers...

Double moon

Oh, don't ask why

Offspring

Octavius the 1st

The meaning of names

2014 OMAHA READS SELECTION2016 ONE BOOK, ONE NEBRASKA WINNERStuart, Nebraska is a long way from the battlefields of Western Europe, but it is not immune to the horrors of the first Great War for Peace. Like all communities, it has lost sons and daughters to the fighting, with many more giving the...

Dog woman

Miracle day

A million mfas are not enough

Something is rotten in the state of American poetry.  With respect to audience and artistry, poetry has shot itself in many portions of its anatomy, and keeps blasting.  The fact that vast numbers of poems are published every year, and a large number of Creative Writing students and graduates com...

Memory and rain

Many ways to say it

The luckless age

Ludlow

A life above water

A halfman dreaming

When the world breaks open

In this poignant and unabashed self-examination, Seema Reza uncovers the lessons she learned through motherhood and a failed marriage, and how she used her discoveries to make a meaningful difference in the world.

When rain hurts: an adoptive mother's journey with fetal alcohol syndrome

Blood daughters: a romilia chacon novel

Still the animals enter

With deer breaking through fences and bears infiltrating the world of dreams, Hilberry explores our resistances to life, and ultimately offers an invitation: “You could be part of this.”

Stickball on 88th street

Speaking wiri wiri

Slice of moon