The Silver Birch Press SUMMER ANTHOLOGY is a collection of summer-related poetry, prose poems, short stories, essays, and memoirs from over 70 established and up-and-coming in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, Europe, and Africa.

Contributors include: Jeffrey C. Alfier / William Blake / John Brantingham / Julie Cadawallader-Staub / Anton Chekhov / Virginie Colline / Colleen Delegan / Kirsten Dierking / David Dondero / Paul Laurence Dunbar / Barbara Eknoian / Merrill Farnsworth / Paul Fericano / Chris Forhan / Susie Sweetland Garay / Jeffrey Graessley / Syed Afzal...

In this original poetry collection, Silver Birch Press of Los Angeles has gathered poetry chapbooks by 14 distinguished poets from across the United States and produced a unique anthology of verse. Poets of singular and diverse expression are joined together to celebrate the written word in one voice. The reader is treated to not just one or two poems by each author, but to a generous body of work self-contained in 14 separate and distinct chapbooks. If flight is a common language of birds, "Swallow Dance" is a celebration of poets on the wing.

The poets and their chapbooks included in...

Bukowski Erasure Poetry Anthology is a collection of erasure poems based on the novels, letters, and poetry of Charles Bukowski. The 41 poets who contributed to the collection have high regard for Bukowski's work and approached this exercise with respect and even awe. So, with love and appreciation, we dedicate this collection to Charles Bukowski, who has inspired so many writers to keep writing and so many people to keep living.

Contributors include: Suzanna Anderson, Tara R. Andrews, Beth Ayer, Jenni B. Baker, David Barker, Mary Bast, Alessandra Bava, Brinda...

Self-portrait poems from 67 poets around the world. The authors offer portraits of themselves that are, by turns, humorous, heartfelt, harrowing, honest, stunning, surreal, and full of surprises.

Contributors include: Kathryn Almy, Cynthia Anderson, Ivan Arguelles, Ronald Baatz, Suvojit Banerjee, Carol Berg, Alan Birkelbach, Eric Burke, Ana Maria Caballero, Mary-Marcia Casoly, Tobi Cogswell, Beth Copeland, Anthony Costello, Tasha Cotter, Kaila Davis, Rodrigo V. Dela Pena, Jr., Daniel Patrick Delaney, David Diaz, Barbara Eknoian, Adelle Foley, Jack Foley, Michael Friedman,...

""Windy City Sinners" is a freewheeling, wry and whimsical novel about the deepest human feelings and questions." PATRICK T. REARDON (patricktreardon.com)

Part crime caper a la Donald Westlake, part magic realism tale in the spirit of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, part John Kennedy Toolesque hijinks and high comedy, "Windy City Sinners" offers mystery and mayhem with fun and froth mixed in for good measure. The story takes place on the Far Northwest Side of Chicago, right on the edge of town where the cops and members of the Outfit live side-by-side in perfect disharmony. The unlikely...

Silver Birch Press decided to celebrate the year 2015 by asking 15 poets to each contribute 15 pages of poetry to a chapbook collection, which we've entitled IDES (released on the ides of October 2015). The result is a diverse mix of poetry by authors from coast to coast. Our poets hail from California, Florida, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, the Carolinas, and Texas-with one from Canada.

Featured poets include: Jeffrey C. Alfier, Tobi Alfier, Carol Berg, Ana Maria Caballero, Jennifer Finstrom, Joanie Hieger Fritz Zosike, Robin Dawn Hudechek, Sonja Johanson,...