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Updated 1/10/12

NEW THIS MONTH

• Monique Ferrell – Unsteady
• Linnea Johnson – Augury
• Edward Locke – Collected Volume 4
• Pam Burr Smith – Jumping Woman
• Nilda Cepero - Hemingway: The Last Daiquiri
• John Guzlowski – Lightning & Ashes
• Barbara Blatner – Living with You
• Kris Bigalk – Repeat the Flesh in Numbers
• Brandon Som – Babel’s Moon *
  
• Aspects of Robinson: Homage to Weldon Kees
• Brad Maxfield – For All We Know
• Charles Gillispie – The Way We Go On
• Hansen & Hasselstrom – Dirt Songs: A Plains Duet
• Michelle Gillett – Blinding the Goldfinches
• Brent Spencer – Rattlesnake Daddy
• Lynnell Edwards – Covet
• Vittorio Carli – A Passion for Apathy
• Burt Kimmelman – The Way We Live
  
• Barry Wallenstein – Drastic Dislocations
• Tyrone Williams – Adventures of Pi
• Mary Kay Rummel – What’s Left is the Singing
• Linda Hogan – Indios
• Robert K. Johnson – Choir of Day
• Amanda Auchter – The Glass Crib

 

 

OLDER

• Stacie Leatherman – Strange Air
• Genevieve Kaplan – In the Ice House
• The Best of Toad Lilly Press
• Mather Schneider – He Took a Cab
• Yu Yan Chen – Small Hours
• Amanda J. Bradley – Oz at Night
• Moriah Erickson – Three Crows Laughing *
  
• Larissa Szporluk – Traffic with MacBeth
• Timothy B. Anderson - Frame of Mind
• Aimee Nezhukumatathil – Lucky Fish
• Robert Sward – New and Selected
• Richard Herd – Recognizable Face *
• Steve Fellner – The Weary World Rejoices
• Jeff Hoffman – Journal of American Foreign Policy
• Gloria Frym – Mind Over Matter
• T.P. Perrin – Snarge
• Philip Fred – Early / Late
• Linda Lerner – Takes Guts and Years Sometimes
• Gordon Massman – 0.174: The Complete Numbers Cycle
• Jennifer C. Wolfe – Somewhere Over the Pachyderm Rainbow
• Tracy Thomas – Runes
• Mark Cunningham – Specimens
• Lorna Dee Cervantes – Ciento
• Michael Waters – Gospel Night
• Heather Burns – Between Careen and Caution*
• Saswati Das – Fragrant Flute of Fire
• Carsten Rene Nielsen – House Inspections
• Brad Richard – Motion Studies
• Vox Anon – Kissy Killy
• Vox Anon – The Unicorn Man
• Stephen Bett – Track This: A Book of Relationship
• Wade Stevenson – A Testament to Love & Other Losses
• Franz Douskey – West of Midnight
• Michael Montlack – Cool Limbo
• Wendy Videlock – Nevertheless
• Catherine Chandler – Lines of Flight
• Norman Ball – The Frantic Force
• Stacie Leatherman – Storm Crop
• Christophe Casamassima – Ore
• Wyatt Townley – The Afterlives of Trees
• Christopher Kennedy – Ennui Prophet
• Omar Shapli – Thin Snow
• Jim Tilley – In Confidence
• Jane McKinley – Vanitas
• Jim Daniels – Having a Little Talk with Capital P Poetry
• Raymond J. Cummings – The New Austerity
• Richard Carr – One Sleeve
• Linda Larsen – Mississippi Poems
• Bradley Lastname – Insane in the Quatrain
• Robb Jackson/Vanessa Jackson – Crane Creek Two Voices
• Guy Bennett – Self-Evident Poems
• Joe Blades – From the Book that Doesn’t Close
• C.R. Avery – 38 Bar Blues
• Deborah Meadows – Saccade Patterns
• Steve Henn – Unacknowledged Legislations
• Tony Medina – Old Man Was Always on the Lam
• Zach Savich – Events Film Cannot Withstand
• Charles Gillispie – The Way We Go On
• Shelley Stenhouse – Impunity
• Maxwell Despard – Segue*
• Ron Sparga – Homeland Security
• Steve Timm – Un Storia
• Gaylor Brewer – Give Over, Graymalkin
• Jeannine Savard – Accounted For
• Eileen Berry – Bye Bye Blackbird
• Kim Dower – Air Kissing on Mars
• Linnea Johnson – Augury
• Jacqueline Jones LaMon – Last Seen
• Anne Whitehouse – Bear in Mind*
• Mark Fogarty – Myshkin’s Blues
• Christopher William Purdom – Sailcloth Child*
• April Bernard – Romanticism
• Tim Suermondt – Just Beautiful
• Douglas Treem – Everything So Seriously
• Sanford Fraser – Among Strangers I’ve Known All My Life
• Norman Stock – Pickled Dreams Naked
• Pui Ying Wong – Yellow Plum Season
• For Enid with Love
• Adam Hughes – Petrichor
• Chapter & Verse: Poems of Jewish Identity
• Susan Terris – The Homelessness of Self
• Travis Cebula – Under the Sky They Lit Cities
• Giovanni Pascoli – Last Voyage: Selected Poems
  
• Edward Locke – Collected Poems Vol. 3
• A.D. Winans – The Show Must Go On*
• Marjorie Becker – Piano Glass / Glass Piano
• Tablet & Pen: Literary Landscapes from the Modern Middle East
• Dimitris Lyacos – Z213 Exit
• Lisa Sornberger - Returning Light
• Austen/Bates/Kner/Suzor – Sightlines
• Djelloul Marbrook – Brushstrokes and Glances
• Wyn Cooper – Chaos is the New Calm
• Stanley Notes – Beyond the Mountains
• Dean Rader – Work & Days
• Caty Sporleder – Flay, a book of mu
• Sally Bliumis-Dunn – Second Skin
• Hill/Mestishen/Lindgren/Semerdjian – What I Did Today*
• Mathias Nelson – They May Try to Kill Me*
• Mary Carroll-Hackett – The Real Politics of Lipstick*
• RD Coleman – Beach Tracks
• Jackie Sheeler – Earthquake Came to Harlem
• F.D. Reeve – The Puzzle Master
• Jayne Lyn Stahl – Riding with Destiny
• Joel Peckham – The Heat of What Comes
• James Cushing – The Length of an Afternoon
• James Cushing – Pinocchio’s Revolution
• Philip Ramp – Quite
• Megan Snyder-Camp – The Forrest of Sure Things
• Reeves Keyworth – My Daphne Phase*
• Lisa Lewis – Vivisect
• Louis Phillips – What Next*
• Beckian Fritz Goldberg – Reliquary Fever
• Alurista – Tunaluna
• Eric Greinke – Kayak Lessons*
• Ales Steger – The Book of Things
• Jeanne Marie Beaumont – Burning of the Three Fires
• Jean LeBlanc – At Any Moment
• John J. Ronan – Marrowbone Lane
• Roy Scheele – A Far Allegiance
• Paul Martin – Closing Distance
• Matthew Brennan – The House with the Mansard Roof
• Tyrone Williams – The Hero Project of the Century
• T.J. Anderson – River to Cross
• Jorn Ake – The Circle Line
• Brian E. Bengtson – Leavenworth Street
• Eating the Pure Light: Homage to Thomas McGrath
• Kristina Marie Darling – Night Songs
• John Yohe – What Nothing Reveals
• Jason Tandon – Wee Hour Martyrdom
• Jason Tandon – Give Over the Heckler…
• Ece Temelkuran – Book of the Edge
• Carolyn Mary Kleefeld – Vagabond Dawns
• Erik Anderson – The Poetics of Trespass
• Bruce Begout – Common Place, The American Motel
• Michael O’Keefe – Swimming From Under My Father
• Peter Davis – Poetry! Poetry! Poetry!
• Michael Roberts – No More Poems About the Moon
• Thomas Krampf – Taking Time Out
• Red Shuttleworth – Roadside Attractions*
• Red Shuttleworth – Drug Store Vaquero*
• Ed Galing – Sadie the Psychic*
• Bryan Walpert – Etymology
• Will Nixon – My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse
• Will Nixon – Love in the City of Grudges
• Manuel Ramos – King of the Chicanos
• Kamala Platt – On the Line
• Peter Makuck – Long Lens
• Christine Gelineau – Appetite for the Divine
• Zvi A. Sesling – King of the Jungle
• Vladimir Swirynsky – Letters Never Written
• Wyn Cooper – Chaos Is the New Calm
• Margaret Kaufman – Inheritance
• Carol Frith – Two for a Journey
• George Witte – Deniability
• Alexander Puskin, tr. by Frankfurt – For You, Czarinas of My Soul
• Heather Cousins – Something in the Potato Room
• Sally Ashton – Some Odd Afternoon
• Grant D. McLeman – Street Magic*
• Mariano Zaro – The House of Mae Rim
• Malinda Markham – Having Cut the Sparrow’s Heart
• Todd Davis – The Least of These
• Edwin Torres – In the Function of External Circumstances
• Clay Matthews – Runoff
• Edward Lee – Playing Poohsticks on Ha’Penny Bridge
• Mather Schneider – Drought Resistant Strain
• Steven Cordova – Long Distance
• Judy Halebsky – Sky=Empty
• Samuel Amadon – Like A Sea
• Tracy Koretsky – Even Before My Own Name
• Khaled Mattawa – Tocqueville
• Wendy Videlock – What’s That Supposed to Mean
• Jean LeBlanc – At Any Moment
• Julie R. Enszer – Handmade Love
• Raymond Luczak — Mute
• Nilda Cepero – Bohemian Canticles
• Keith Antar Mason – New Wine & Black Men’s Feet
• Leland Hickman – Tiresias: Collected Poems
• Michael Gregory – re: Play*
• Dian Duchin Reed – Medusa Discovers Styling Gel*
• Richard Jackson – Resonance
• Jeanne Lohmann – Shaking the Tree
• Erline Dessie Goodell – Explorations
• Cathryn Essinger – What I Know About Innocence
• Cynthia Atkins – Psyche’s Weathers
• Christopher William Purdom – Dreamtime Horizon*
• Ellaraine Lockie – Love in the Time of Electrons*
• Cathryn Essinger – What I Know About Innocence
• JV Brummels – City at War
• John Ridland – A Brahms  Card Ballad
• Louis Phillips – By the Light of Ruined Kingdom*
• Jeremy Voight – Neither Rising nor Falling*
• Edward Locke – Collected Poems Vol. 2
• Jorn Ake – The Circle Line
• James R. Whitley – The Goddess of Goodbye
• Paul Pines – Last Call at the Tin Palace
• Nienow/Carr/Woodcock/Alvarez – By Way Of
• Matt Jasper – Moth Moon
• Marc Swan – Simple Distraction
• T.J. Anderson III – River to Cross
• Allen Strous – Tired
• Mazur/Dante/Pinsky – I’ll Tell You What I Saw
• Kevin Gallagher – Gringo Guadalupe
• Charles Harper Webb – Shadow Ball
• Chris Green - Epiphany School
• Rich Murphy – Voyeur
• John Bradley – Eating the Pure Light
• Linda Nemec Foster – Talking Diamonds
• Ray DiPalma – The Ancient Use of Stone
• Sheila Cowing - Jackrabbit Highways
• Sharon Charde – Branch in His Hand
• Matthew Brennan – The House with the Mansard Roof
• Richard Carr – Street Portraits
• Yu-Han Chao – We Grow Old
• Jorn Ake – The Circle Line
• John J. Ronan - Marrowbone Lane
• Paul Martin - Closing Distances
• Marc Pietrzykowski – The Logic of Clouds
• Nathan Leslie – Night Sweat
• Louis Daniel Brodsky – A Gleam in the Eye
• The Writings of Charles De Koninck – tr. by Ralph McInerny
• Ann Hutt Browning – Deep Landscape Turning
• Joan Houlihan – The Us
• Yakov Azriel – Beads for the Messiah’s Bride
• Maiana Minahal – Legend Sondayo*
• Robert Krut – The Spider Sermons
• Cameron Mount – Evening Watch*
• Samiya Bashir – Gospel
• Brian Walters – The Retreat from Moscow
• Fred Merchant – The Looking House
• Bert Stern – Steerage
• Mark Sonnenfeld – Moscow-esque*
• Josie Sigler – Calamity,*
• Paul Fericano – It’s Not Enough of Elvis
• Patty Seyburn - Hilarity
• Louis Daniel Brodsky – Dine-Rite
• Ted Olson – Breathing in Darkness
• Katharine Coles – Fault
• J.O. Quantaman – Rundog
• Nancy Kerrigan – The Voices: The Poetry of Psychology*
• Ibrahim Nasrallah – Rain Inside
• Mitchell L.H. Douglas – Cooling Board
• Mignon Ariel King – The Woods Have Words
• Louis Phillips – The Kilroy Sonata
• Louis Phillips – The Woman Who Wrote “King Lear”
• Carine Topal – In the Heaven of Never Before
• Elizabeth Biller Chapman – Light Thickens
• Irene McKinney – Unthinkable
• Louis Simpson – Struggling Times
• Hudson Owen – Selected Poems
• Naomi Ayala – This Side of Early
• Robert Cooperman – The Words We Used
• Dorian Brooks – The Wren’s Cry
• C.D. Collins – Self-Portrait with Severed Head
• Barbara Bloom – On the Water Meridian
• Charles Atkinson – Fossil Honey
• David Allen Sullivan – Strong-Armed Angels
• Amber Coverdale Sumrall – Refuge
• Arisa White – Disposition for Shininess *
• John M. Daniel – The Ballad of Toby and Lark
• Christopher William Purdom – Corporate Geese*
• Jim Powell – Substrate#
• Lo Galluccio – Sarasota VII
• Jim Crenner – Drinks at the Stand-Up Tragedy Club (hardcover)
• Robin Chapman – Abundance
• John Lee Clark – Suddenly Slow*
• David Baratier – Estrella’s Prophecies 1, 2 & 3*
• Steve Davenport – Uncontainable Noise
• Ken Waldman – And Shadow Remained
• David Boehl – Work*
• Michael Flanagan – A Million Years Gone*
• Richard Carr – Ace
• John Graber – Thanksgiving Dawn
• Bill Ransom – The Woman and the War Baby
• Anne Webster – A History of Nursing
• Mark Sonnenfeld – ,:*
• Radioyaakov (CD)
• Robert Cooperman – A Tiny Ship upon the Sea
• Susanna Lang – Even Now
• Liz Robbins – Hope, As the World Is a Scorpion Fish
• Robin Magowan – The Rim of Dawn
• Robin Magowan – Lilac Cigarette in a Wish Cathedral
• Brad Buchanan – Swimming the Mirror
• Yu-Han Chao – We Grow Old
• John Krumberger – The Language of Rain and Wind
• Jim Crenner – Drinks at the Stand-Up Tragedy Club
• Alexandria Peary – Fall Foliage Called Bathers & Dancers
• Randy Stark – Shaking Up the Whole Game
• Alejandro Escude – Unknown Physics
• Yakov Azriel – In the Shadow of a Burning Bush
• John C. Krieg – Odes and Episodes
• Carrie Shippers – Rescue Conditions*
• Rich Murphy – Family Secret*
• Adriano Spatola - Toward Total Poetry
• Dr. Harriette Bias-Insignares – Power Glory
• Kelly Lydick – Mastering the Dream
• Charles Portolano – All Eyes on US
• Roger Taus – Black Pony, Red Moon
• Nancy Shiffrin – The Vast Unknowing
• Ben Milder – What’s so Funny About the Golden Years
• Andrew Allport – The Ice Ship & Other Vessels *
• Harry R. Wilkens – Piss Talks *
• George Stratton – Granite Land Lava Land
• Joe Larkin – Outside the Frame
• Peggy Munson – Pathogenesis
• Christian Ward – Slippage *
• Jane Pupek – Forms of Intercession
• Can You Stay Forever – A. Molotkov (CD)
• Wind and Waves – Le Pham Le (CD)

 

* = chapbook

# = proof (bound & uncorrected – think, softcover book without the cover art)

CD = CD