Deborah Kahan Kolb was born and raised in an insular Hasidic community in Brooklyn, NY, and many of the poems featured in her debut chapbook Windows and a Looking Glass are reflective of her strict religious upbringing. Ultimately, she left the constraints of the community and has written poetry informed not only by her uniquely challenging past, but also by family and community, marriage and children, and shared histories and experiences. Windows and a Looking Glass is the poet's first offering - a gathering of anecdotes, snippets, and glimpses of characters and stories...

A finalist in Finishing Line Press's 2017 NEW WOMEN'S VOICES CHAPBOOK

COMPETITION, Slow Blooming Gratitudes is Vermont poet Sarah W. Bartlett's second

chapbook. Her poems invite readers into moments of transformation, healing and presence.

"These are no ordinary poems of love, loss, letting go, courage, and universality," writes

Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, publisher and editor of the Aurorean poetry journal. "Rather

... they are extraordinary poems ... masterfully crafted ... extending the hand of welcome

to each reader."

Ellaraine Lockie,...