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Rustin Larsons poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Iowa Review, North American Review, Poetry East, Saranac Review, Poets & Artists and other magazines. He is the author of The Wine-Dark House (Blue Light Press, 2009) and Crazy Star (selected for the Loess Hills Books Poetry Series in 2005). Larson won 1st Editors Prize from Rhino Magazine in 2000 and has won prizes for his poetry from The National Poet Hunt and The Chester H. Jones Foundation among others. A seven-time Pushcart nominee, and graduate of the Vermont College MFA in Writing,...

Join Scott Caputo on a pilgrimage where we are offered nothing less than the full measure of being human. Accessible, these poems are made from the whole cloth of experience. Caputo never shies away from his religion or the marketplace. Astonishment lies down with humor. In Holy Trinity of Chiles the wanderer and the word-lover find nourishment. Kit Kennedy, poet and host of Gallery Cafe Reading Series, San Francisco In Holy Trinity of Chiles, poet Scott Caputo is fully engaged on an inspired journey as guide and follower. These compelling narrative poems reflect themes of exploration and...

Mary Ellen Branan returns again and again to test what stands between us, never quite giving up on what might connect us. These poems are touching and well-traveled in the least facile sense of these terms. They cherish contact as well as the possibility of genuine sympathy, proving the tender spot between the self and the other, either human or animal.
These poems venture out to various points in the United States and Poland, not as a tourists appropriation of exotic places and creatures, but as the fragile words of a person in search of intimate communion, a bond made more precious by...

"Its terrible, / getting what you want, / because thats when you know youll always want / something different" confesses the speaker in Cradling Monsoons with a fabulously poignant bravado that keeps the reader tractor-beamed in thrall and enthralled within the light of these smart, funny, heartbreakingly gorgeous poems. Opening with a poem about a father who "cut down his family tree / to build a bridge from Kokomo to San Francisco thats still burning," the speaker in Sarah McKinstry-Browns poems conversely puts down roots and stays for the birth of a first child whose arrival sets the city...

There are sensibilities time cannot dull or the imperfections of memory degrade. In Dreams and Dreamers, Lynn Carroll Cohen offers her readers these. In her finest poems, she displays a rare gift-recollections that are tender and yet enduring, reflections that are deeply passionate and yet in possession of discernment and terrific grace. A bravura performance!
-George Wallace
First Suffolk County Poet Laureate

Lynn Cohens Dreams and Dreamers evokes a palpably inflamed sensuality that doesnt dissipate into the thin air of dreams, disillusionment, and the taut arrow of time because "In the...

Modern science has proved that the fundamental traits of every individual are indelibly stamped in the shape of his body, head, face and hands-an X-ray by which you can read the characteristics of any person on sight.

Modern science has proved that the fundamental traits of every individual are indelibly stamped in the shape of his body, head, face and hands-an X-ray by which you can read the characteristics of any person on sight.

"These poems have a lovely pacing and interior radiance." -Tess Gallagher
". . . superbly written, beautifully controlled, and yet continually freshened by a kind and fresh imagination. -Robert Bly
". . . such a beauty, so moving, so beautifully made that I have to tell you that it is one of the finest lyrics in the language." -William Carlos Williams
"These poems have a lovely, understated directness and restraint."
-Amy Glynn Greacen
"Daniel J. Langtons poems are a pleasure to read." -Paul Muldoon, poetry editor The New Yorker
"The poems I have known before are as fresh as ever. ...

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~~~~Christmas wont be Christmas without any presents, grumbled Jo, lying on the rug. "Its so dreadful to be poor!" sighed Meg, looking down at her old dress. "I dont think its fair for some girls to have plenty of pretty things, and other girls nothing at all," added little Amy, with an injured sniff. "Weve got Father and Mother, and each other," said Beth contentedly from her corner. The four young faces on which the firelight shone...

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