The poems in Lana Hechtman Ayers’ The Autobiography of Rain explore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is as ripe with beauty.

In Zebra Lashes, Rikki Santer demonstrates her knack to forge elements of surprise, philosophical meditations, and inventive renderings of subject matter.

Bornman’s poetry exudes a wisdom drawn from introspection and solitude that is reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s. Bornman’s poetry reveals what readers of scripture should have seen all along: motherhood is central to the biblical narrative.

Love chooses the people and things we name first. In these poems, Trina Gaynon attempts the more difficult task of seeking names for the new and unexplored. In the process she claims the roles of first-time home buyer, resident in the troubled town of Richmond, second language tutor, writer, and church member

If you can find a way to be simple and loving and a part of community that takes care with each other in a pronounced humanistic way, then everything else is superfluous. This book was written to bring you back into that.

In Freak Show Casey Killingsworth assembles poems outlining his own freakishness, the odd jobs and shifts that earned him his living, the difficulty trying to relate to other people, even how to love.

These poems will carry you through the undoing to the essence beyond. You will find here a faithful companion to buoy you in the lifelong voyage of becoming.

But There’s So Much DIY in IVF That We Can’t Be Sure brings together the story of two couples, finding overlap in the grief of infertility even as their lives are seemingly far apart.

The poet leads us on a journey riddled with puzzles, on a search for the narrator. Written, as the poetry says, in a “Braille of clean air.”