Subjects & Themes - Family
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Father Verses Sons: A Correspondence in Poems
$25.00 Add to cartWhen the global pandemic forced his ninety-six-year-old father into isolation, filmmaker Ari Gold became concerned that loneliness would kill his father’s spirits. As a prolific novelist who began wri
- Author: Gold, Herbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: March 26 2024
- ISBN10: 164428426X
- Language: English
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Love as Invasive Species: Poems
$21.95 Add to cartShame has kept so many women’s stories silenced, with a cultural lineage of lack that asks women to give up their own desire while simultaneously performing cultural expectations of desire for others.
- Author: Kombiyil, Ellen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: September 16 2024
- ISBN10: 196032960X
- Language: English
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An Authentic Life
$17.00 Add to cartAn Authentic Life is an exacting and fearless interrogation of the education one receives from the institutions of academia and family.
Sprawling yet urgent, meditative yet lucid, the poems in Jennife
- Author: Chang, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1556596995
- Language: English
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Elliott
$10.00 Add to cartElliott is a poetry chapbook that illustrates the delicate balance between beauty and pain in caring for a child with special needs. Brian Muriel encapsulates a caregiver’s profound fear and love for
- Author: Muriel, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 36
- Publish Date: June 15 2024
- ISBN10: 195552114X
- Language: English
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Matter / Mother
$18.00 Add to cartIn Earth-based cultures, Mothers are held at the center. As life-bearers, they are treated with the same care and respect as Mother Earth. However, in industrialized societies where the Earth is both
- Author: Tierney, April
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 100
- Publish Date: August 06 2024
- ISBN10: 195636899X
- Language: English
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Skip Tracer
$20.00 Add to cartBlending poetry and prose, music, and genealogy, Jive Poetic’s Skip Tracer is a memoir structured as a “hybrid sound system” (complete with “records,” “tracks,” “decks,” and “channels”), expertly cura
- Author: Poetic, Jive
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: July 23 2024
- ISBN10: 1324093161
- Language: English
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Recurrent
$19.00 Add to cartWhat if the connection, at the root of our existence, is in fact a connection and a severance? How does a sense of self form in relation to connections that hold within them such intensive ruptures an
- Author: Mottram, Darla
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 134
- Publish Date: May 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1959118986
- Language: English
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Was It for This: Poems
$17.00 Add to cartA hybrid new collection from the author of Three Poems–about London, terror, new motherhood, the Grenfell Tower fire, and how we live now.
Hannah Sullivan’s first collection, Three Poems, won the T.- Author: Sullivan, Hannah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0374612862
- Language: English
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Love Poems in Quarantine
$16.00 Read moreAn award-winning, multi-genre writer grapples with the pandemic, death of George Floyd, and other crises of our times in gnomic poems written from inside the purgatory (and sudden revelations) of quar
- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 31, 2022
- ISBN10: 1556596308
- Language: English
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Fierce Geometry
$20.00 Add to cartUnquenchable longings pulsate through Brancaccio’s version of a book of the dead. A recurring character-voice the poet trusts as “ghost girl” peels off and records layers upon layers of brutal human g
- Author: Brancaccio, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 01 2022
- ISBN10: 9798218063221
- Language: English
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Seeking Grace
$12.00 Add to cartSeeking Grace is a verse memoir narrated by the mother of a daughter in a religious cult. Based on a true experience in the ’80s, each poem reveals the choices and dilemmas of parents rescuing a child
- Author: Snider, Faye
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 48
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 195775527X
- Language: English
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A Plea for Secular Gods: Elegies
$17.99 Add to cartA plea for secular gods was written under the strain of spiritual crisis. The author lost his father and maternal grandparents over a short period of time between 2016 and 2017, which put him to worki
- Author: Price, Bryan Daniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 94
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 9798986625812
- Language: English
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Twirling in a Beam of Light: A Woman’s Life in Poetry
$14.99 Add to cartThis book started in the 1970s when I was a writer of poems, having graduated with a Master’s Degree from the Program for Writers at the University of Illinois, Chicago. I don’t believe any of the poe
- Author: Kirkwood, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 78
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1950495574
- Language: English
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Liontaming in America
$22.95 Add to cart“To disrupt the relationship of predator and prey, to reshape one’s relation to power, is to renovate the lived and living world,” Elizabeth Willis writes in her visionary work that delves deep into t
- Author: Willis, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 0811238636
- Language: English
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Signs, Music: Poems
$16.95 Add to cartStructured as a two-part sequence poem, Signs, Music explores the before and after of becoming a father with tenderness and care–the cognitive and emotional dissonances between the “hypothetical” and… [more below]
- Author: Antrobus, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1959030795
- Language: English
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I Don’t Smoke Enough to Quit: An Epic of Diminished Proportions
$17.95 Read more“Dreesen presents an unusual and welcoming memoir-in-verse, an epic colloquial journey through his childhood in a chaotic, eight-kid family as they ran a 24-hour highway truck stop and popular roadhou
- Author: Dreesen, Robert J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 221
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1589881710
- Language: English
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Late Wonders: New & Selected Poems
$29.95 Read more“Wesley McNair, an unassuming, avowedly regional pastoral poet from Western Maine, is writing the best poetry of his life-poetry uniquely capable of, and interested in, addressing our larger moment.”-
- Author: McNair, Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 1567927424
- Language: English
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Jasmines In Her Hair: Poetry For The Soul
$14.99 Add to cartFrom the mind of Kalpesh Desai, a successful tech serial entrepreneur who has used poetry as a medium to process his thoughts, breakthroughs and distinctions, comes a new collection of poems that take
- Author: Desai, Kalpesh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: December 22 2023
- ISBN10: 9948766016
- Language: English
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Voz
$12.00 Add to cartThe poems in Jennifer Jean’s new collection VOZ are a wonderful amalgamation of intelligent and historically aware formal pressures intertwined with an irrepressible joie de vivre animating the langua
- Author: Jean, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 38
- Publish Date: March 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1957755067
- Language: English
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Dead Dad Jokes
$16.00 Read more2022 Midwest Book Awards- Debut Poetry Finalist
2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Da Vinci Eye Finalist
2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Grand Prize Short List
2022 Eric Hoffer Awards – Poetry Honorable Mention
2019… [more below]- Series: Button Poetry
- Author: Schminkey, Ollie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 25 2021
- ISBN10: 194373593X
- Language: English
