Like the O in Hope

by Jeanne Julian

Tentative Release Date: August 1, 2019

The poems in Like the O in Hope take the reader on a journey, a quest from dark to light—both literally and spiritually, where revelations about the magic of place and of connection lead to contentment and even enlightenment.

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“Julian knows that no extended meditation on what brings light to our lives would be complete without the lighter side of life, humor and laughter. I look forward to returning to these poems. Shine on, Julian!”

—Malaika King Albrecht, author of What the Trapeze Artist Trusts;
founding editor, Redheaded Stepchild

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Abruptio

by Melissa Fournier

Tentative Release Date: July 15, 2019

A mother’s worst fear is realized at 23 weeks into the pregnancy, and a baby girl is born at the edge of viability. Melissa Fournier shares her profound grief for her daughter’s brief life in these intimate poems that reflect the power of grace to transform sorrow into resilience and hope.

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“This extraordinary collection of images, as spare as Japanese paintings, gives the reader a sensation of being in the poems and artfully conveys, not only what is in a scene but what is tragically absent; we fully realize what is kept and what has been taken away. With her sensual language, this poet has an astonishing ability to elicit the ache of grief, her skill with metaphor leading us to understand what is inherently incomprehensible.”

~ Joanna White, poet and music professor

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Gospel Gone Blues

by Jimmie Ware

Tentative Release Date: June 15, 2019

In Gospel Gone Blues, Jimmie Ware speaks directly from her soul to share her poetic truth—thoughts on the human condition alongside an intimate look into her personal life. Employing her talents as an acclaimed spoken word performer, she weaves the raw, the tender, the not-always-pretty side of life with the pulse of jazz and blues as a backdrop for her captivating poems.

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Call My Name

by Heather Wyatt

Tentative Release Date: June 15, 2019

Call My Name by Heather Wyatt is a collection of poems from the voice of a small-town southern woman working through relationships with her family and discovering who she is along the way. She writes of loved ones who have departed and her sometimes broken spiritual life. From pimento cheese sandwiches to walks in nature, this collection is inherently southern. With moments of both humor and heartbreak, she not only shares her struggle with body image, but takes us on a journey of love and loss, with each poem revealing the story of a woman simply wanting someone to call her name.

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Bee Dance

by Cathy Cain

Tentative Release Date: June 15, 2019

 

In Bee Dance, Cathy Cain offers a series of meditations on our relationship as humans with nature and with technology. She speaks from many perspectives, sometimes distraught, often playful or mystical, but always hopeful. She invites us in — to an intimate dance of sustainability, a shared dance that requires balance and care if we wish to honor not only our own brief lives, but also the natural world on which our lives depend. May this dance be filled with reverence and wonder, and may it continue.

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Impossible Ledges

by Dianne Avey

Tentative Release Date: Apr 23, 2019

A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize (2018) Finalist

Sometimes our lives are divided in two — the before and the after. Insert something in between that is so profound, and it feels as if your very molecules are rearranged. For Dianne Avey, this was the day her soul left her body in search of her deceased husband. Impossible Ledges takes the reader on her journey through illness, death, visiting her husband in the afterlife, and returning to her ordinary life that will never be ordinary again.

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