Chapbooks
Pandemonium
Lenny DellaRocca
2025 $15.00
With tangible devotion to real people in surreal contexts, Lenny DellaRocca's poems invoke not so much the liquid logic of dreams as much as the startling clarity of waking before opening our eyes. This confidential diction reveals real life without the guardrails of logic. Every poem here is one you have never read before, every time you read them. —Richard Ryal, author of Writer, Editor, Educator
Those Last Few Moments
of Light
J.R. Thelin
2023 $10.00
"Part meditation on time and reality, part homage to an era that no longer exists, Thelin captures with narrative intensity the hold the past has on the present." —Pui Ying Wong
All Animals Want the
Same Things
Jeanne-Marie Osterman
2021 $10.00
"All Animals Want the Same Things packs a wallop of levity amidst gut-punching defeats." —Martha Silano
A Midwest Girl Thanks
Patti Smith
Pam Davenport
2019 $10.00
"The poems in Pam Davenport's debut collection, A Midwest Girl Thanks Patti Smith, are as earthy and spirited as the horses she describes. Whether it's a teenage girl longing to be "felt up," or the "flesh and pith and skin" of an orange, Davenport writes with honesty and wit about the nature of desire. Part coming of age story, part love song to appetite, these poems abound in rich physical detail. —Ellen Bass, author of Like a Beggar
Blue Velvet
Alan Catlin
2017 $10.00
"Using noir and dystopian sci-fi movies and TV series for his jumping off point, Alan Catlin’s latest collection, Blue Velvet, paints a picture of contemporary America’s anxieties, obsessions, and fears. Catlin is merciless in his depictions of the rot at the heart of our current social and political climate, as reflected in pop culture." —Robert Cooperman
The Function of Sadness
Nick Carpathios
2015 $10.00
"In The Function of Sadness, Neil Carpathios introduces us to his world, a world familiar to most alert citizens, but one that usually makes us avert our eyes: the maimed, the desolate, the abandoned and those who just plain hurt. In poem after exquisite poem, he makes their traumas ours, and unites us to all things frail and mortal." —John Skoyles
Town Crazy
John Cullen
2014 $10.00
"We all experience the daily, where there is "little romance," yet we continue to cast about for the sweet spot in a moment's gamble and relief. These are the poems of living, living with hope, living with crazy, living among the lost and the forsaken, always alive to experience life's essence." —Michele Lesko, Editor, IthacaLit
Three Crows Laughing
Moriah Erickson
2011 $10.00
"Three Crows Laughing, is full of luminous grit. Each poem has punch, is pungent with both the bitter and the sweet. Erickson is a squatter in her Minnesotan turf, has staked her lot and holds her ground in line after line with terrific firmness and force. Be it poems about family, children or childhood, each poem 'blooms into flame/gasoline on a spark of truth.' Erickson’s characters, alive with the strife of life, people an inimitable world, one readers will be reluctant to leave." — Elizabeth Kirschner
From the Age of Miracles
Davis Chorlton
2009 $10.00
"Chorlton is one of America’s finest poets and in this superb work he combines classical restraint with an impassioned meditation. He mourns the diminished present, the sublimation of the spiritual/animist in the material, and the loss of artistry, memory and meaning. The past speaks to the poet and he translates its myriad voices in sublime, graceful language. For purity and searing prophesy Chorlton is our William Blake." — Stephanie Dickinson
Your Whole Life
Douglas Goetsch
2007 $10.00
"Here is a poet who is fully engaged in the world and with language, and who makes no concessions to political correctness or the industry of consolation. Instead, Goetsch fearlessly explores the culture at large and his own emotions, zestfully exposing the thoughts we usually hide from others and even ourselves. 'Have you ever felt the world was full of edges?' Goetsch asks, and he can't keep himself from going right to those edges, whether he is writing about the entanglements of adult life, the cluelessness of childhood, or, as he so deftly does in several poems, both at once. The result is a poetry that is unforgiving, moving, and often very funny." — Jeffrey Harrison
Some Days it's a Love Story
Jason Irwin
2005 $7.00
Irwin's collection is spare and yearning, his characters desperate and driven. The poems center around a working class reality. Though he hails from NY state, Irwin manages a Midwestern scarcity, an immediacy in the lives of his characters that reveal a poet wise in voice but young enough to capture the fire of a 20-something looking down the long hall of a blue-collar career. —C.L. Bledsoe, Ghoti Magazine
Trading Futures
Nikki Roszko
2003 $7.00
Street-wise and hard edged, Nikki Roszko is a poet whose words jump off the page and crawl under your skin. Her poems are in the moment and out of control. They are charged with an uninhibited energy that rubs you raw and leaves you emotionally drained—but wanting more.
Much More than Time
Mather Schneider
2024 $10.00
Mather Schneider's poetry and prose have appeared in many places since 1994. He has 6 books available and lives in Mexico. "Much more than time, it is sleep that is the antidote to grief." —E. M. Cioran
Buddha's Not Talking
Robert Okaji
2022 $10.00
"Robert Okaji's poetry reminds us there is enlightenment to be gleaned in the terrible and the beautiful." —Charlotte Hamrick
Poems for the
American Brother
Max Stephan
2020 $10.00
Max Stephan's poetry and prose have appeared in numerous journals, ranging from the North Dakota Quarterly and Appalachia, to the Cold Mountain Review. "These are moving poems brimful with weight and virtue." —Marc Harshman
Exit Stage Left
Robert L. Penick
2018 $10.00
“Penick is gritty. Like the photographer who finds beauty in abandoned houses and cracked surfaces, his work makes the reader appreciate the sweat, dust and failure we brush against, then turn our minds from. He is the tour-guide of the ignored. He demands a broadening of our humanity and he does so with hope, precision, and humility.” —Cliff Wieck, author of Hagiography and Bestiary
Not All Fires Burn the Same
Francine Witte
2016 $10.00
"This is Francine Witte’s world. Weigh the odds, take your chances, put your money down. Take comfort in knowing that it may not always be pretty but–for once in your life–you can get the whole, clear view…rather than how we too often find things, spread out in a million different directions, all of them going nowhere." —George Wallace
Another Mistake
Nicole Antonio
2014 $10.00
"Nicole Antonio's chapbook, Another Mistake, is an absolutely breath-taking collection. These poems are urgent and immediate, visceral and gripping. There is an exquisite delicacy to Nicole Antonio’s poetry that is also both muscular and provocative as well. Don’t miss this poet or her remarkable, knock-out debut. " —David St. John
The Bones We Have
in Common
Sudasi Clement
2013 $10.00
"This collection is ripe with stories; beautiful, sad stories, hopeful dreamy stories, stories of wild wise boys, troubled men and resilient women, scenes brutal and beautiful, heartbreak, understanding, endurance and grace, the risks of love, dreams that feel like waking moments and vice versa. Sudasi Clement creates beautiful and shocking portraits with the camera of memory—these poems are rich with power and love." —Dave Morrison
The Real Politics of Lipstick
Mary Carroll-Hackett
2010 $10.00
Life and death meet in The Real Politics of Lipstick. Like a first kiss there are poems here you'll long remember after you turn your face from the reading. From Gaza or a soldier returning to Iraq for another tour of duty, things slip quietly into the world according to Caroll-Hackett. A few poems contain references to food, but the real nourishment comes from this Southern woman's ability to shake and bake on the page. Carroll-Hackett's poems smell with the urgency of now. Inhale with celebration. I already have lipstick on my collar." — E. Ethelbert Miller
Rescue Conditions
Carrie Shipers
2008 $10.00
"At once feisty and powerful, Carrie Shipers’s poems help us remember secret warnings we learn as children: to love hard against violence, to take what we get, to escape when we can, to remember every detail for a brilliant imagination to unpack and revive: 'stories they lived without learning/what they meant.' At last we have a poet to teach us what she learned, that 'what’s broken matters less than how it heals.' To read Rescue Conditions is to experience the pure joy of recovering family identities—as heroes, outlaws, lovers, and tender citizens— through art." — Hilda Raz
Behind Every Door
Terry Godbey
2006 $7.00
"How can such worldly want and wide-eyed craving to live fully finally ring so pure? Godbey's collection has real power...Her beautiful, quiet voice speaks loudly for women in a compelling vernacular that men, too, will understand and treasure." — Philip F. Deaver
Radio Dreams
Beth Anne Royer
2004 $7.00
Beth Royer writes like a master model-maker assembling snowstorm paperweights full of quirky domestic detail—a malfunctioning strip-tease platform, a dream-enhancing radio, golf clubs at the bottom of a parched lake. Her poems spin quixotic mirco-narratives into lyrical dream-shapes, like the stories of John Cheever run through a cotton candy machine. Radio Dreams is an arch and artful chapbook that ought to be read by everyone
What Language
J. P. Dancing Bear
2002 $7.00
Dancing Bear writes with an interesting mix of lyrical voice and underlying sarcasm, elevating the poems with language then toying with the reader in subtle, underlying tones. —Ace Boggess., The Adirondack Review