Points of Entry by Amy Plettner
February 4, 2019
These poems by Amy Plettner are unique in the root sense of that word, which is to say they could only have been written by her. The vocabulary is simple and direct, the subject matter widely varied, the voice wholly Plettner’s. The poems make clear her love of nature and of her fellow human beings, sometim...
What Bob Says (Some More) by Barbara Schmitz
April 11, 2018
What Bob Says (Some More) is about pleasure and delight, talking and listening/not listening, sex on the porch, being right, giving up, God, hearts and wings, yogurt, books, sirens, red/blue ambulance lights, happily ever after. "Bob may seem impossible to anyone who doesn’t love him. He’s o...
The Flat Water Stirs: An Anthology of Emerging Nebraska Poets
December 1, 2017
The Flat Water Stirs: An Anthology of Emerging Nebraska Poets celebrates emerging poets for their talents, especially at the time of Nebraska’s sesquicentennial. This collection contains poems of various form and genre which express the diverse experience of living in or just passing through the great ...
Gathering Place by David Wyatt
November 28, 2016
The poet Charles Simic has a notion on the order of whatever pops into your head is thought materializing. David Wyatt s poems, though not experimental, rely on autobiography, collage, non sequitur, dialogue, dream, and a joke now and then, to get nearer perceived experience; they appreciate the c...
It’s as Good Here as it Gets Anywhere by Greg Kosmicki
November 21, 2016
"I am grateful for the small moments and big questions in Greg Kosmicki's poems. His voice amiable, celebrating, sorrowing speaks the truths we need to hear. A poet who writes, I can hear the cars go by in the street making / that car-goes-by-in-the-street sound // that I decided finally a couple year...
Waterborne by Janet Joyner
January 2, 2016
Janet Joyner's varied poems include lyrical descriptions of the natural world and draw deft portraits of people and the complicated connections between us. Waterborne is threaded with vivid images and insights. "Sometimes they are splendid, such as fallen leaves in such a mass / it seemed the sky ...
Plunk by Tom C. Hunley
April 23, 2015
Tom C. Hunley is a professor of English at Western Kentucky University, the director of Steel Toe Books, and the vocalist/rhythm guitarist for Dr. Tom and the Cartoons He is the author of three previous full-length poetry collections, two textbooks, and six chapbooks. He is the co-editor, with Al...
Lucifer by Richard Carr
March 17, 2015
Richard Carr's Lucifer is the devil everybody knows. Mick the Bastard and Juliet are frighteningly familiar, too. Lyric reflections on wild, willful abandon, Carr's latest sequence limns a dark, doomed life with only a hint of the silver believers pray lines blue-black storm clouds when they loom o...
Me & God by Michael Skau
September 30, 2014
“The God in Me & God is every person’s sidekick, at once a beer-drinking buddy and a conscious voice sitting on your shoulder. We learn that while God is imperfect, he enjoys baseball, horse races, meditation and Bob Dylan, shows respect for women, and dances to unheard music of the Eart...
Saving Singletrees by Leo Dangel
September 30, 2014
"Leo Dangel may seem to write about small matters, often connected to farming, but underneath these ordinary details lurk blossoming joy, ferocious pain, shock and sadness common to every reader. Always, he writes of what s worth remembering." —Linda M. Hasselstrom "What I most admire about Leo Dangel'...
Still Life Moving by William Kloefkorn
September 29, 2014
This book attempts to illustrate, with words and paintings, some of the connections that can be made between cultures even as they strive to keep their identities intact. Standing Bear said it best; "My hand is not the color of yours, but if I pierce it, I shall feel pain." But there can be joy al...
Undoing Orion’s Belt by Amy Plettner
September 28, 2014
“Deep-rooted in the visceral and spiritual, Amy Plettner’s poems possess an understanding of our hunger for physical contact with the natural world and with each other. Along with the corporeal is a tension between emotional fulfillment and insatiableness that reminds us how primal we are at hear...