Stories

By Swan, Gladys

Finalist, For the Eric Hoffer Award Nine stories...skillfully track time's toll on the ability to live and love fully. -- Publishers Weekl...

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Wayne's College of Beauty

Poems

By Swanger, David

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Colleen J. McElroy ...

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Necessary Lies

Stories

By Bakken, Kerry Neville

Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Hilary Masters Winner, of the Devil's Kitchen Reading Prize ...

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Fence Line

Poems

By Bauer, Curtis

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Christopher Buckley Poetry. "FENCE LINE is a terrific first book by a young poet with a uniquevoi...

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Book of the Rotten Daughter, The

Poems

By Friman, Alice

Finalist, Georgia Author of the year Poetry. Women's studies. Alice Friman's THE BOOK OF THE ROTTEN DAUGHTER contains "astonishing poems which fearlessly...

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Beyond the Reach

Poems

By Cummins, Deborah

Poetry. "Cummins is a poet with both hands in plain sight. No manipulative literary affectations, no illustrations oftheory, no personal mission other than to address us directly, with clarity, authenticity, and above all, with generosity"--Ted Ko...

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Circe, After Hours

Poems

By Kallet, Marilyn

Poetry. "Through vivid characters, she examines Jewish life in the American South, in New York, and in the death camps of Europe. She employs the historian's tools in 'speaking the past,' and then, through these poems, the past speaks to us"--Robi...

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Logic of a Rose, The

Chicago Stories

By Lombardo, Billy

Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Gladys Swan Finalist, Society of Midland Authors Prize These moving yet ...

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Streetfighting

Poems

By Donaghy, Daniel

Finalist, Paterson Poetry Prize Streetfighting is a racy, sobering book about the vicissitudes of an urban childhood. Every poem has the ring of authenticity—the obs...

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Feast, The

Prose Poem Sequences

By Bargen, Walter

Winner, John Gardner Award for Fiction Poetry. Writer Debra Di Blasi calls The Feast, "a work of subversive genius, particularly relevant ...

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I'll Never Leave You

Stories

By Francis, H.E.

Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Diane Glancy Review Fiction. This collection of short stories explores the inner lives of characters who ...

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Lake Erie Blue

Poems

By Grimm, Susan

In Lake Erie Blue, Susan Grimm has created a vibrant and haunted city of desire lying along a great lake that ripples with mystery. She sings of the one place we know more and less about than any other: home....

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Prayer Against Famine

Poems

By Knoepfle, John

Poetry. In this moving book of poems,John Knoepfle transforms a search for his Irish roots into a meditationon human suffering and survival. The whole book is a prayer againstfamine and the gratuitous cruelty inflicted on the innocent, both theIri...

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Bed of Nails

Stories

By Tanner, Ron

Winner of the G.S. Sharat Chandra Prize for Short Fiction, Selected by Janet Burroway Winner, Towson Prize for Literature, Maryland Fiction. "[...

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Escape Artist

Poems

By Blackhawk, Terry

Winner of the John Cia...

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Difficult Women

Stories

By Duhrssen, Alfred

By difficult women, the writer doesn't mean hard to seduce but women who are bad tempered, quarrelsome, and treacherous. She: You made me this way. He: That's what a difficult wom...

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Adirondack

Poems

By Mitchell, Roger

[Roger] Mitchell gives us a history of the Adirondacks, with the Indian languages, travelers' accounts, songs and dances, diaries, museum artifacts, and the poet's own deeply rooted personal experience. It is a book t...

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Alibi Café, The

Stories

By Troy, Mary

Finalist, William Rockhill Nelson Award Fiction. "What virtually all the characters share is a profound sense of ironic detachment that ke...

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Dissolving Island, The

Poems

By Rigsbee, David

Poetry. "The work of a raconteur of the spirit, a splendid storyteller with just enough jaunty language to make you feel you'd want to hear almost anything he had to say. He is elegiac and disciplined, rapturous and suspicious, but more than anyth...

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Blue Beat Syncopation

Poems

By Banks, Stanley E.

Poetry. African American. "Along with his mentor Langston Hughes, Banks is one of the few po...

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Eye

Poems and other Retina Prints

By Goldring, Elizabeth

When artist and poet Elizabeth Goldring found a way to use technology for visual art, the images she captured on her damaged retinas became "frozen traces of seeing, the memory of words that move and flow into meaning...

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Kentucky Swami

Poems

By Skeen, Tim

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, Selected by Michael Burns Poetry. "Tim Skeen's John Ciardi Prize-winning collection reveals a distanced compa...

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In the Knees of the Gods

Poems

By Reeves, Trish

Poetry. Gay / Lesbian. "Compressed as these spare lyrics are, they open to an unmistakable amplitude: the life of feeling honored, observed, sung. "...luck could sing from every word on this page," Trish Reeves writes; these moving and genuine poe...

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Father's Mechanical Universe

Poems

By Heller, Steve

In Father's Mechanical Universe, the American Dream is a quart low and the Kellerman family has to use all its ingenuity, wit and love to keep its motor running. Steve Heller has written a touching, elegiac book that ...

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Playing the Word

Poems

By Jaffe, Dan

Poetry. "Dan Jaffe's celebration of jazz is so vivid and passionate I could hear the tunes and see the smoke. It was 3 a.m. and I had no thought of going home until the last note was played. This book is a great work of love" --James Tate. ...

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Iris Rising

Poems

By Woessner, Warren

"In Woessner's world, it's the humans that often form the background to the nature that is so present and alive, you'll discover yourself looking around as if you've never been here before--a survivor who must learn to read the signs of birds, tre...

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