Chapbooks that sing.

Geoffrey Gatza

In The Night is a Bridge, we find Geoffrey Gatza at the height of his poetic powers, having perfected a deceptively simple style that, in fact, is not simple at all. He defamiliarizes the everyday through sheer willpower and sudden metaphoric leaps, often forcing us to look at the human condition with new eyes.  […]

Peter Johnson, author of While the Undertaker Sleeps

Sara Mullen

Sara Mullen finds joy in the minute, and excels at pared-back, exacting detail. The poems in Cassata are moving elegies to a near-past, as well as paeans to life’s glories. Like her foremother Eavan Boland, Mullen’s poems are home-bound, celebrating all that is meaningful in well-lived, complex lives. These are delicate, beautiful works and Mullen is truly a poet.

Nuala O’Connor, author of Menagerie

Kara Penn

[…] Like the birds she contemplates, these wise and generous poems evoke grief’s burying and a mother’s protective dive, but they also dig for joy – and deliver it – in the poignant, spiritually charged ground of midlife womanhood.

Sarah Green, author of The Deletions

[…] The intelligence of the poet’s voice, an exacting attention to the lushness of the natural world, and her resilient heart guide us, her readers, through this tender emotional territory.

Jane Hilberry, author of Still the Animals Enter

L.J. Sedgwick

Glimpses Beneath is a privileged door into the remarkable world of L.J. Sedgwick where nothing is ordinary and everything she sees spawns strange adventures. Wonderful thoughts, beautifully expressed.

Conor McAnally, author of Bullets in the Water

[…] L.J. Sedgwick has a gift of observation, of finding the heartrending and the darkly comic in the daily minutiae of life. An extraordinary achievement.

Katherine Mezzacappa, author of The Maiden of Florence