Brazen, sincere, and refreshing, Purification in Queens welcomes the fracturing of faith as an invitation to reconstruct and develop a hope-filled, tenacious pursuit of a God who Sees. At times morbidly curious and strikingly comedic, Gill lays out her daring ambition to challenge the Christian Church’s ecclesiastical hierarchy and its collective fall from grace.

These supple, melodious poems address mortality with humor and wit as the speaker loses family and friends, survives her own heart event and surgery, and takes care of her wife as she undergoes cancer treatment during the Coronavirus pandemic.

Between the Joints & the Marrow is an imaginative guided tour of the Bible. These poems affirm the strange truth that the symbolic is the greatest opponent of the diabolic.

Be Radiant, a work in four movements, gathers together scenes of celebratory brooding in the loving eye. Jacob Riyeff’s second collection of poems hopes for home in a passing world, resting in what we’ve been given while awaiting a new heaven and a new earth.

From the shores of Australia to the concert halls of Wisconsin, Talbot’s poems steadily tease out life’s “joyful absurdity.” Here we meet unusual people caught in endearing moments of silliness or grandeur. Talbot captures the ephemeral feelings of connectedness we all have but seldom manage to put into words. The natural world comes alive, too. (from a review by David Southward)

The world is full of mysteries: things that appear on our path momentarily and then are gone. These poems pay close attention to both the surprising and the ordinary mysteries of life, responding with praise, longing, grief and gratitude.

In her thoughtful debut collection, Theresa Monteiro uses the scenery of domestic and daily life to call forth fear and loss: the magnitude of human experience seen through the details of the ordinary.

Prose poems seen and heard through Charles Springer’s Window over the Sink walk and run you down a road, skip you across a street and occasionally lift you up in an air with no airport in sight.

Nancy Thomas celebrates language-its sounds, grammar, quirks, and all that words can and can’t do. She plays with common figures of speech, celebrates relationships, and approaches growing older with courage and humor.

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