The Watch
Sometimes the most ordinary object can open a door to life’s greatest mysteries. For Paula Sager, it’s a wristwatch—one that takes on a life of its own after her father’s death, prompting questions concerning synchronicity and the nature of relationship. Paula walks alongside her father to the threshold of life, bearing witness to every step. […]
Seeing Things
With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages of dementia and of a mother whose daughter is struggling with depression. These poems also witness a woman juggling her own memories of abuse and survival who lives in a world […]
The Unfolding
In The Unfolding, Rosemerry Wahtola Trommer startles us with the wonder, beauty, and sacred connection that blossom out of living wholeheartedly. Here the aching heart goes dancing. Written after the deaths of her son and father, these poems embody paradox—simultaneously somber and playful, brokenhearted and uplifting, even solemn and sexy. Trommer wades heart-deep in the broken […]
The Long Invisible
Waiting inside each of us are lives we can’t imagine living or even wanting—until upheaval or loss or what appears to be a profound mistake—means we must become these people and live these lives, after all. Here are poems for those days when we wake up inside some raw, unchartable place. Some trembling songs to companion us in the […]
Soul Kindling
With playful and poetic depth, Soul Kindling: Ignite Your Sacred, Creative Heart invites you to embark on a journey of discovering your creative, sacred self. Drawing on her alluring artwork, poet and artist Ally Markotich beckons you—with wit and imagination—to rekindle your inner spark and open yourself to the love of the Divine Feminine. Through […]
Honest to God
Dive into the heart of a riveting spiritual journey with John Hamilton and Honest to God, an exploration of faith, excess, success, and the search for transcendence. This book takes the reader on a raucous ride from the splintered stages of overflowing, firetrap rock clubs where liquor flowed freely and cocaine was ever-present, to the […]
Love Calls Us Here
The divine meets us in the real world and nowhere else, Anderson suggests in these poems, coming without fanfare and often startling us with its presence. When and where should we look for these encounters? Here and now. In our ordinary lives. In those everyday moments, now and then, when something suddenly stirs within us, […]
Space That Carries Light Forever
These days ‘nature poetry’ is often disparaged as irrelevant in modern society with the presumption that poets should be writing poems about humans: our suffering, our problems, our wars, prejudices, and injustices. In our culture of money, nature is mostly devalued as scenery or as an exploitable resource, a place to cut timber, extract minerals, […]
The Ping Pong Player and the Professor
Most Americans view ping pong as either a basement recreation or the focus of a fraternity-party drinking game. Yet ping pong is an Olympic sport and one of the most popular athletic activities in the world. The Ping Pong Player and the Professor is a quirky memoir about the adventures of a Jewish anthropologist and his son, […]
Refuge for Cranes
In Refuge for Cranes, Jerome Gagnon writes at the intersection of inner and outer landscapes, finding refuge in nature, art, and awareness itself. These are poems of wonder and alarm, in awe of the natural world yet full of concern for the harm we do to it, and to ourselves. They range in topic from climate […]
