The Long Invisible

The Long Invisible by Michael Dechane

A Last Syllable Book Award finalist! 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 […]

Soul Kindling

Soul Kindling by Ally Markotich

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

Honest to God (John Hamilton, 2024)

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

Space That Carries Light Forever (Robert Rice, 2024)

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 […]

Meridian

Meridian is a collection of poems that reflects the poet’s deep and abiding love affair with the natural world. The poems draw on the alchemy that binds the visible and the invisible, capturing moments with people, places, and things that cannot be reduced and therefore diminished. Written over a span of years, the poems reflect the […]

The Invisible Fugue

At a time darkened by war, Ellen Hinsey’s The Invisible Fugue returns to questions of our endurance and what it means to be human. Like Czeslaw Milosz’s Treatise on Poetry, The Invisible Fugue lyrically reflects on the natural world around us, the possible celebration in the encounter with the other, our confrontation with time and the mysteries ever-present in […]

Heart Centered Business

Mark Silver Heart-Centered Business

In Heart-Centered Business, visionary entrepreneur Mark Silver presents a stirring and novel perspective on the business world. The effects of global business have helped to destroy the environment, undermine culture and family, and have left our hearts yearning for something very different than strip malls, strip mining, and pipelines. We yearn for beauty and real vibrancy […]