Where Water Meets the Rock

by Lindsey Martin-Bowen

Overview:
In her fourth collection, Where Water Meets the Rock, poet Lindsey Martin-Bowen explores loss and recuperation in three sections: Erosion, Frenzies, and On the Shore, where re-seeing and re-building a life heal the psyche and the spirit.

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The Life and Times of José Calderon

by José Faus

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The Life and Times of José Calderon — compiled from papers he left behind and the cryptic asides he made to the few acquaintances he let into his musty house on Independence Avenue in Anytown, USA, where he lived with a rambunctious cat and a majestic harp — follows This Town Like That, the debut volume of poetry by José Faus.

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Striking the Black Snake
Poems from Standing Rock

by MG Salazar

Overview:
Striking the Black Snake by MG Salazar is a wild and raw book in equal parts manifesto, testimonial, how-to-manual, and confessional. Written during the winter of 2016-2017 after Salazar's "calling" to travel to the Oceti Sakowin Camp in North Dakota to be a water protector and prevent the construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline, the poems chronicle the struggles and trials of the protesters, look deeply at those behind the crop dusters and riot gear, and speak to the children of the future, for whom the water must be preserved.

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A Secret History of the Nighttime World

by Jason Ryberg

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Reading Jason Ryberg is like driving a pick-up truck across Kansas on shrooms, and his imagery, as fresh as a midnight S curve, takes the reader on a journey from city streets to wheat fields, navigating through a landscape bright with the "five-battery-flashlight of a moon." A Secret History of the Nighttime World, the twelfth book of poetry by Ryberg, delivers one great breath of fire directly from his heart onto the page.

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Black Girl Shattered

by Sheri Purpose Hall

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Black Girl Shattered, the third book by spoken word artist Sheri Purpose Hall, effortlessly weaves her spirituality, black consciousness, and femininity into a tapestry of fully poetic words that are part memoir, part Black Studies thesis, part feminist manifesto, and part sacred text.

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Desolate Country
We the Poets, United, Against Trump

edited by j.d.tulloch

Overview:
Desolate Country represents an amalgamation of defiant work by established artists and those who, as a result of Trump's election, were inspired to write in protest. It aims to give voice to believers in the power of art as both a spiritual catharsis and a manifestor of change and to those who are morally opposed to saying, "Trump is my President."

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Novel Cliché
Aphorisms

by Jeanette Powers

Overview:
Poet Jeanette Powers, well-known for her quips, presents her first collection of modern maxims. Novel Cliché: Aphorisms is a book of simple thoughts, or micropoems, that range from humorous to potent to pointing, and each adage is memorably quotable.

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Corazón y una lengua peregrina

by Latino Writers Collective
edited by Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

Overview:
Corazón y una lengua peregrina es una antología atípica que recoge en sus páginas a escritores de diferentes meridianos literarios. Es un compendio de historias en que la realidad y la ficción se mezclan para crear un mundo alterno que surge de la problemática social de sus protagonistas.

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Prompts! A Spontaneous Anthology

edited by Jeanette Powers & j.d.tulloch

Overview:
In June 2016, a social media call was sent out egging on the open mic artists of Poetic Underground to request a prompt: a short, personally crafted phrase intended to be the inspiration for NEW SHIT! to spit at open mic night. But other folks, many of whom were unable to attend open mic, wanted to be part of the shenanigans; so, the idea of a prompts book was born.

Prompts! A Spontaneous Anthology represents the outpouring of new work by both fledgling and established writers and artists, which was engendered, simply, by the offer of a prompt.

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Ghost Sign

by Al Ortolani, Melissa Fite Johnson, Adam Jameson, JT Knoll

Overview:
Ghost Sign represents honest work that is both lyrical and painful while simultaneously joyous and sad. It is rooted in folklore and mystery, and its place is informed by powerful imagery: sunlight on the crater of a strip pit, the shadow of an owl at Camp 50, junkyard mechanics, railroad men, and a grandfather at a piano plunking out Methodist hymns.

Published in partnership with Spartan Press.

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Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler

by Hugh Merrill

Overview:
Hugh Merrill, the printmaker, has a dirty little secret: for many years, he has been covertly writing … poetry. His debut book of poems, Nomadic? Rover by Days Singing These Gang Plank Songs of the Ambler, reflects the intense and unguarded energy of a vital artist and natural storyteller who has deep connections to both historic and current movements.

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Gender Treason

by Ryan Wilks

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Gender Treason, a series of portrait paintings by Kansas City based artist Ryan Wilks, chronicles his latest exhibition, which debuted at Leedy-Voulkos Art Center on July 1, 2016, and includes interviews with the artist's subjects, providing a rare glimpse into the lives of queer people living in the Midwest.

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