by Rebecca Kaiser Gibson

This collection features poems about female gender roles and growing up as a girl. The poems, including both impressionistic poems and discrete lyric poems, imitate the experiences they evoke. They tell of restriction and rebellion, silence and speech, appearance and artifice, and passion and repression.

Published by Bauhan Publishing (April 2022)

by Jennifer Martelli

In this collection, Martelli’s queens range from Geraldine Ferraro to Madonna, Nancy Pelosi to Molly Ringwald. The poems resist gender oppression, political sexism, and threats to reproductive rights while highlighting the strength of women.

“These poems are both beautiful and brutal, artful and angry, finely-crafted and fierce. Each poem proves the personal is political and that the same concerns about equity for women that were prevalent forty years ago are just as crucial today. In a magical sleight of hand, Queen of Queens captures both optimism and disappointment, the progress that had been made and the ways we have plateaued.”

—Jennifer Franklin, author of No Small Gift

Published by Bordighera Press (April 12, 2022)

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Clouds: love poems from above the fray has been a project of over four decades, containing poems influenced by Meyer’s traveling to 5 continents, giving lectures, and witnessing beautiful vistas in towns, cities, and above all, in nature. Thousands of the resulting photos are now contained in Meyer’s archive. He wrote over 700 five-line quintain poems down, from which he paired 64 with these photos for Clouds. The style evolved into short, post attention span poetry, i.e. quintains, that illustrate the inner and outer states of our environment. Opposite the poems, Meyer notes the adventure of finding the visual image.

Distinguished Favorite, Photography: Independent Press Award

In 2022, the INDEPENDENT PRESS AWARD had entries worldwide.  Authors and publishers from countries such as Australia, Canada, Germany, Ireland, Jordan, Puerto Rico, Switzerland participated.

Books submitted included writers based in cities such as Anchorage to Memphis; from Berkeley to Philadelphia; Calgary to Sydney; from Albuquerque to New York City; from Princeton to Santa Monica as well as others.

by Rebecca Starks

Rebecca Starks’s heartwarming, introspective full-length collection of poetry tells the story of her adopting, living with, and ultimately losing a dog named Kismet.

Published by Able Muse Press (November 26, 2021)

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She Speaks Tongues is a new collection of 25 asemic paintings by Karla Van Vliet.

Poet and visual artist Karla van Vliet’s bold, inspiring, and mediative new book, She Speaks Tongues, is in the great traditions of asemic writing, abstract and surrealist art, calligraphy and graffiti, Zen and American pastoral poetry. In this collection Van Vliet enacts how the art of the line (visual and poetic), like Mirtha Dermisache’s “Libro No 1,” is part of our aesthetic intuition, where we create meaning from the known and unknown spaces of our “blessings and despair.” . . . She Speaks Tongues is a kind of creation myth for our time. In this book I find solace and grace and a great generous spirit.

— Elizabeth A.I. Powell, author of Atomizer and Willy Loman’s Reckless Daughter

by Louise Glück

The latest collection of poetry from Nobel Prize-winning Louise Glück is haunting—featuring speakers that are human, spectral, and ancient.

"An exquisitely small collection—the way an atom that contains the world is small—that further solidifies Glück’s place as one of the eminent poets of our time . . . These recipes for winter offer a robust meal that feeds both spirit and soul, about the nature of life, and time, prepared by one of our finest poets."

—Mandana Chaffa, The Chicago Review of Books

"This is an intensely technical book and a work of extreme concision, in which complicated feelings have been pared down to their minimum and a life’s worth of experience reduced to strange, sometimes tender and sometimes ominous detail."

—Anahid Nersessian, The New York Review of Books

Published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux (October 26, 2021)

by Alice B. Fogel

This collection examines how disruptions to consciousness broaden our perceptions in an otherwise prescribed world.

In Nothing But, Fogel leads her reader into vital new ways of ‘seeing’ that translates as it muses, enlightens as it divines. With a parallax vision that combines her knowledgeable, complex ‘eye’ for both craft and aesthetic appeal, Fogel instructs her reader on how to appreciate abstract expression in both visual and emotional ways, to the point where ‘our eyes hurt when we look away.’ I can think of no other book like it.

 —Chard deNiord, former poet laureate of Vermont and author of In My Unknowing

Published by Spuyten Duyvil Press (September 2021)

by Margaret Gibson

The Glass Globe is the finale to a trilogy of poetry collections focused on Margaret Gibson’s experience of her late husband’s Alzheimer’s, preceded by Not Hearing the Wood Thrush and Broken Cup. It is a meditative and moving work about grief and healing, extending into the climate crisis and the endangered earth.

Published by LSU Press (August 2021)

Wally Swist’s 17th full-length collection of poetry draws upon his childhood memories, appreciates the natural world, and honors a friend of his who has passed. It also contains 26 translations, from the Spanish of Federico Garcia Lorca and St. John of the Cross as well as the Italian of Giuseppe Ungaretti.

by Kerrin McCadden

This collection, a 2021 New England Book Award Finalist, is about family, death and grief, apologies, and all kinds of departures. Like McCadden, it is nestled between New England and Irish culture.

“The poems, plainspoken distillations of origins and loss, explore histories, teasing at what we know without knowing, and know without remembering we know. A book of quiet, watchful radiance.” —The Boston Globe

Published by Godine/Black Sparrow Press (March 2021)

Danielle Legros Georges’s latest work is a translation of Haitian-French poet Ida Faubert’s poetry. Ida Faubert lived from 1882 to 1969 and is considered a Caribbean literary foremother and one of Haiti’s great women poets.

The poems in the collection are about nostalgia, nature, love, and longing.

Published by Subpress (January 20, 2021)

Object Lesson is a collection of lyric narratives and persona poems based on poetry workshops with sex-trafficking survivors through the Free2Write Poetry program and interviews with survivors. It was published by Lily Poetry Review alongside a guidebook designed to help sex-trafficking survivors, trauma survivors, or any beginning poet learn how to write poetry.

In Object Lesson, Jennifer Jean explores human-trafficking, objectification, pain, and survival with compassion, respect, and as a witness to women. This powerful and stunning collection dives deep and connects through stories where what is wounded is holy, is important, is surviving. Jean finds hope in darkness in honoring the lives of women and a life led: In the language of flora—/she is Regal. Sometimes called Spear/or Welted or Blessed—. These were poems I could not turn away from; poignant and haunting, I held their truth and their strength. This is an important book , one to be read by all—these voices need to be heard and Jean’s poems need to be in the world.

—Kelli Russell Agodon, author of Dialogues with Rising Tides (Copper Canyon Press)

In this collection, noted poet Karina Borowicz creates a world within a world. The poems range over many aspects of life, yet are connected by a sense of coherence, continuity, and deeper meaning. The first section, sometimes reflecting war and oppression in Eastern Europe, is the darkest. Yet even here, culturally rich images abound: fields of flax, warm fireplaces, Siberian cherries, red currant jam and bread. Later, we come into the light, and the themes unfold. We explore the natural world of yellow birch leaves, late-winter oaks, a swooping hawk, and the bold V of migrating geese. We visit St. Basil’s Cathedral and the ruins of a New England sea captain’s mansion. The sea in the immensity of its power is a recurring theme. The seasons come and go, but human relationships and a sense of nostalgia and wonder remain. To read this book is a rich and moving experience.

Published by Ex Ophidia Press, January 2021

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Lucid, smart portrayals of the “darker corners” of despair through scores of illuminating juxtapositions. Experimenting with many verse forms to give shape to the mind’s restless shifts and associations—sometimes absurdly funny, bracingly honest, and always sharp in thought and craft—the lyric testimony of Listen reaffirms the indispensable, if fragile, consolations of art.

Published by MadHat Press, October 2020

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As you delve into this poetic and photographic masterpiece, you are in for an inspiring double journey into the mysteries of Love and life. Outwardly you will travel through New England via the visual images of the mountain vistas, the riverbanks, and the coastlines. This stunning visual imagery captures all four seasons in New England as well as the whole diurnal and nocturnal span.

Awards and honors for Love Poems From New England:

2nd Place, Poetry: Feathered Quill Book Awards

Finalist, Interior Design: International Book Awards

National Award Winner, Poetry: Reader Views

International Finalist: Eric Hoffer Award

National Distinguished Favorite, Nature: Independent Press Award

Bronze Award, Inspirational: International Independent Publisher Awards [IPPY]

Finalist, Poetry: International Next Generation Indie Award

Finalist, Gift Book: International Next Generation Indie Award

In Birth of a Daughter, a collection of intimate and deeply emotional poems, Samantha Kolber reflects on her experiences with pregnancy and childbirth.

Published by Kelsay Books (August 17, 2020)

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by Allison Adair

Winner of the 2020 Max Ritvo Poetry Prize, The Clearing is “a lush, lyrical book about a world where women are meant to carry things to safety and men leave decisively.”

Luminous and electric from the first line to the last, Allison Adair’s debut collection navigates the ever-shifting poles of violence and vulnerability with a singular incisiveness and a rich imagination. 

Published by Milkweed Editions (June 09, 2020)

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by Chard DeNoird

In his latest poetry collection, Chard deNiord explores the paradoxical nature of unknowing.

Published by University of Pittsburgh Press

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by Matthew E. Henry

Named a Must Read by the 2020 Massachusetts Book Awards, MEH’s debut collection explores the challenges of being a Black teacher in a white system. The poems within are based on real events he has experienced or heard about.

Published by Main Street Rag (February 4, 2020)

by Dave Morrison

"With Blue, Dave Morrison deals out an entire array of moods, like a fanned hand of cards, offering intriguing insight into different lives, including the poet's own."

— Kristen Lindquist, author of Tourists in the Known World

Published by JukeBooks

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by Jon Meyer

Selected for the Burlington Free Press Wintertime Reading List

Winner of four awards from The National Readers Choice Awards (Reader Views)

This book serves as a treasure map to find the visual and poetic delights that give Vermont its reputation as a haven for the soul. Like the intensity of fresh love where the lover thinks of the beloved night and day, Jon Meyer’s Love Poems From Vermont: Reflections On An Inner And Outer State will last long after you put it down and prompt you to pick it up again.

This stunning book contains over 60 poignant poems, each embedded in a color photo image of a beautiful place in Vermont. The poems came first, then over the last 16 years author Jon Meyer searched for the right photo image of Vermont for each poem.

ISBN 978-1-7332328-0-7