Gloved Against Blood
Gloved Against Blood explores the fraught relationships of four generations of women against a backdrop of the patriarchal textile mills of 19th-century Lowell, Massachusetts, that were fueled by the...
View ArticleWORKS
WORKS honors the longtime Long Shot magazine, credo of "Writing from the Real World." This collection of poems traverses a course from the swamps of New Jersey to the endless possibilities of the open...
View ArticleSee the Wolf
Set against the cultural milieu of the 1980s, See the Wolf tells the story of violence against women and girls through retold traditional fairytale and myth as well as the specific narrative of a...
View ArticlePracticing the World
The delights and conflicts of a long and loving marriage are revealed in these luminous poems written as the poet’s husband is diagnosed with cancer, endures treatment, and dies, all within months....
View ArticleMy Oceanography
Levin plunges into psychic depths to confront desire, fear and loss. These poems expand borders as her language strives toward transcendence. The life and work of post-minimalist sculptor Eva Hesse...
View ArticleRewilding
Rewilding, a relatively new ecological term, means to return an area of land to its original state. Reveling in letting go of the damaged and broken parts of ourselves while celebrating renewal and new...
View ArticleSweet World
Sweet World reveals a 21st century life in the midst of an epidemic. It’s not about hating, battling, or even ultimately surviving the ravages of the epidemic as much as it is an homage to a life that...
View ArticleCracked Piano
Margo Taft Stever acutely observes and describes human society, past and present. From her compelling and beautiful descriptions of life inside a nineteenth-century private insane asylum to her...
View ArticleThe Body at a Loss
Cati Porter’s mother began chemo on July 19, 2012, Cati’s 41st birthday. Throughout the process, from diagnosis through treatment and recovery, Cati became her mother’s patient advocate, attending...
View ArticleWithout My Asking
In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking takes its cue from Psalm 90’s petition— “teach us to number our days.” That biblical sense of limits—of what we can know and not...
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