Padma Jared Thornlyre

Light Paperback (1 lb or less)

Poems 1981-1994

My Guru, My Midwife

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Jayson Iwen

Paperback (1 to 2 lbs)

A Poem

Winner, 2020 Miller Williams Poetry Prize Winner, 2020-2021 Northeastern Minnesota Book Award In this long poem—almost a novel-in-verse—Jayson Iwen examines the intimate thoughts and feelings of two would-be poets: Roze Mertha, a teenage girl growing up in a trailer park, and William Blud, a veteran navigating age and loneliness in an apartment he shares with an Afghan refugee. Deftly crafting distinct voices for these characters in the upper midwestern terrain they inhabit, Iwen explores the quiet heartbreak and tenderly treasured experiences of two apparently unremarkable people using poetry to understand a world that doesn’t make much space for them.

Roze & Blud

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Pablo Ramirez

Pilsen Heart Beats to Chicago Streets

An emerging figure in Chicago's Mexican Latino Poetry Scene, Pablo Ramirez shares his poetic exploration of 21st century Chicago's ethnic and working-class heritage neighborhood of Pilsen. Nearly every page is soaked in colorful imagery forming a powerful collage of tattoo, wall murals, pop culture and Chicano graphics. Pocho Love is written in English and some Spanish, resulting in a fully charged code switched on flow done with skill and humor. Ramirez brings his debut collection with passion for cultural expression amid life's pleasures and pains in 90+ large pages. Pablo Ramirez is both a visual artist and poet as well as an activist & curator for cultural events in the Pilsen community. His art is influenced by the likes of Carlos Cortéz Koyokuikatl as well as legendary printmaker Jose Guadalupe Posada. His poetry is inspired by the banging Boom Bap Era of Hip Hop and the Boricua/Chicano poets such as David Hernandez of Street Sounds fame. "Pablo Ramirez has created a gorgeous, dizzying, Chicano epic in POCHO LOVE. It's a wild ride. I love it.". - Luis Alberto Urrea, author of " Good Night, Irene" and "The Devil's Highway" "Pocho Love, is a love letter to the self. Stunning graphics, delicious, mischievous, and heartfelt poetry. A feast for the eyes and soul". - Diana Solis, visual artist, photographer, and educator.

Pocho Love

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Jerry Smaldone

Italian American Stories

Fatto a Mano

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Julia Oliver-Rajan

Irma Olmedo

Traducción por Irma María Olmedo

Cuentos Del Barrio y Más Allá

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Jorge Luis Borges

The seventeen pieces in Ficciones demonstrate the gargantuan powers of imagination, intelligence, and style of one of the greatest writers of this or any other century.

Borges sends us on a journey into a compelling, bizarre, and profoundly resonant realm; we enter the fearful sphere of Pascal's abyss, the surreal and literal labyrinth of books, and the iconography of eternal return. More playful and approachable than the fictions themselves are Borges's Prologues, brief elucidations that offer the uninitiated a passageway into the whirlwind of Borges's genius and mirror the precision and potency of his intellect and inventiveness, his piercing irony, his skepticism, and his obsession with fantasy. To enter the worlds in Ficciones is to enter the mind of Jorge Luis Borges, wherein lies Heaven, Hell, and everything in between.

Ficciones

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Guillermo Lazo

Bathers of the Med Sea and Other Stories

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Brice Maiurro

"Brice Maiurro shares the truths one can find if one looks closely. In The Heart is an Undertaker Bee, nature is venerated. Each voice is soft, gentle, respectful, and humble. These poems do not exploit nature as a subject. They acknowledge our place within the living world, "We are still under the tree, / beneath the everything." There is wisdom in these poems, like the saguaros who "...hold their arms/ straight up towards/ the open sky-/ surrender/ in reverence/ to one/ another. " -Huascar Medina, Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus, author of Un Mango Grows in Kansas "It is truly astonishing that a man who co-created an open mic named Punketry and led millions of people in organized howling could write poetry that is so good at capturing the quiet moments. Brice Maiurro's new collection is a testament to a life spent listening, sitting with the disaster while trying to make sense of it, it is a still pond reflecting back a forest fire. A sometimes-manic book filled with inconsiderate pop stars, countless trees, the occasional ghost, Congress Park and Colfax, talking animals, unanswerable questions, astral projection, ambitious flowers, dirt, hope, grief, and most importantly and undeniably-love. Not that generic love, the good honest blue-collar stuff. It's good poetry for the people, and it makes Denver Poetry proud." -Ken Arkind author of Coyotes and Denver ""I'm just so happy to see something alive," Maiurro writes, narrowly breaking the fourth wall as I read this collection, thinking the same. Black Mountain and Jack Spicer would be proud." -Barracuda Guarisco, author of It's Not a Lie If You Believe It (Voice Lux Press) "Brice Maiurro's new collection, The Heart Is An Undertaker Bee, is an encapsulation of escapable moments through this mortal coil, and a return on togetherness as loss. Maiurro gives us a mirror as words to enter a tangling place of living as long as trees extend their branches reaching high always dancing. There is the remembrance, the quaking, the sound of the bang, the music, the choir of hands, bringing us to an echo of sound and of motion, an instance that places us in each of these poems. The shapes of things that make these poems tether through time and age to remember the womb of the world. -Crisosto Apache, author of Ghostword (Gnashing Teeth Publishing) ""Take care of your grief," poet Brice Maiurro thoughtfully tells the reader towards the end of his fourth poetry collection The Heart is An Undertaker Bee. By that point the poet has explored the relationship between interior and exterior life, humanity's relationship with nature (from trees, lakes, cacti, and "mountains named after terrible men"), human beings' relationships with one another (of particular note is the moving love poem "Under the Tree, Beneath the Everything), and human days being boxed onto calendars. In this vivid collection, Maiurro explores many poetic forms and dimensions of human experience. His vulnerability to walk both up and down the stairs within himself (see "Sound Reverberated Off of Mountains") and share what he finds is inspiration for us all to be brave enough to keep on living and take care of ourselves (and each other) along the way." -Cristina A. Bejan, author of the Award-Winning Green Horses on the Walls ABOUT THE AUTHOR Brice Maiurro is a poet and storyteller from Lakewood, Colorado. He is the author of Stupid Flowers, Hero Victim Villain, and Clown Singing Opera. He is the Founding Editor of South Broadway Press. In his free time, he enjoys being an amateur mycologist and apiarist. You can find more about him at: www.maiurro.co.

The Heart Is an Undertaker Bee

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