“Adkins’ straightforward language serves to disarm before the gut punch; his clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail adds another important voice to what we know of war and war’s leavings, and how all who survive it are changed. These are people and poems I will carry with me for a long time, and gladly.”
Read More“With relentless research, fascinating characters and a great storyteller’s imagination, David Kolb unravels a lingering mystery from the historical horror known as the Salem witch trials.” – Clarence Page, Pulitzer Prize-winning syndicated columnist for the Chicago Tribune
Read MoreWriting started as an impulse, and it became a means of staying sane; of dealing with depression, dealing with the world’s hardest questions, and having a voice about that world.
Read MoreWhat I’ve come to is the truth that everyone has their stuff. Everyone has their insecurities, their pain, their ugliness, madness, whatever it may be, but that none of us are alone in that.
Read MoreWhy Does Mommy Have Tattoos? is a work of imagination and creativity by artist Marilyn Rondón. This illustrated children’s book answers the questions often posed to tattooed parents by their children and their children’s friends.
Read More“This book offers us a chance to acknowledge and understand the reality that our students are grappling with. It should be required reading by educators and students alike, as it helps us understand the world we live in, so we can work together to change it.”
Read MoreEncyclopedic in its compilation, more than 400 dictionary entries in this volume, Kobylarz moves beyond a contained lexicon to a flung-open cabinet of curiosities.
Read MoreWith clear-headed storytelling and attention to detail, Adkins adds an important voice capturing the mundanity, brutality, fear, boredom, and banality of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. When the importance of poetry is questioned, the poems in Dispatches from the FOB by Paul David Adkins provide an unequivocal answer.
Read MoreMeat & Milk (Lit Riot Press) is Fury Young’s first collection of poems. Selected for thematic and chronological purposes from the hundreds that Fury has written over the past several years in his personal notebooks, the poems in Meat & Milk loosely narrate the author’s coming-of-age.
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