Doty's first book, Turtle, Swan, appeared in 1987. He has published six books of poetry and four memoirs, all excellent, since. This hefty selection from his seven collections, plus a generous sheaf ...

Chico author and artist Meghan Irene Turner, survivor of the Camp Fire, recipient of a Ph.D. from the Institute of Metaphysical Humanistic Science, and ardent observer of the natural world, finds in ...

If Footprints on the Roof contemplated the earth and environment, this companion volume, Central Heating: Poems About Fire and Warmth by Marilyn Singer, illus. by Meilo So, explores all aspects of ...

I admit it — I have a tendency to feel jaded. So if someone were to tell me that Brenda Hillman spent the last 17 years writing four books of poetry, one for each of the elements — land, air, water, ...

Emily Pauline Johnson (1861–1913) — known also by her Mohawk stage name, Tekahionwake — toured her native Canada and the United States as what we might now call a performance poet, whose act turned on ...

The poem is about a memory I have of my grandmother playing with the stovetop’s fire. As a child, I watched her cook, and she would tell me stories about her life and our family. One day, she showed ...

“To arrange the deck chairs on the Titanic / while it’s sinking, … would it be so foolish after all?” asks the first poem in my chapbook "Only So Far" (Main Street Rag Publishing Co., 2019). Imagining ...

Our list we go over for last-minute tweaks. We’ve been through this before, more times than most, Because we live closer to mountains than coast. We packed passports and photos and personal needs, Art ...