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Joe Hall is continuing the long tradition of a family with deep roots in the Simsbury region. His grandfather was the station master of the Simsbury depot, and his relatives have worked the land in the area for centuries. Joe's many interests in farming, writing, woodworking, hiking, and archaeology have merged as one. Beginning with trade schools to learn masonry and carpentry, and briefly studying engineering, Joe entered the University of Connecticut, where he studied agriculture and upon graduation continued farming. For the last thirty years, he has operated the J.L.Hall Farm on Terry's Plain Road. Joe is one of the most recent members of a family which has farmed land in the Simsbury region since the 18th century. He writes about his life and surroundings every day, always keeping a notepad with him and often stopping his tractor in midfield when a thought or memory occurs to him. Joe is deeply immersed in the natural surroundings of his riverside world. He feels a kinship with the natïve Americans of the Tunxis nation, who worked the same land and whose artifacts Joe finds in abundance, creating a collection of them which is an archaeology treasure. He is the last in a long line of Halls who have worked the land in the Simsbury region since the 18th Century, a man for all seasons: a long-time farmer whose roadside stand is a trove of seasonal produce; a protector of the environment; a generous supporter of local initiatives; a naturalist; a repairman with a genius for fixing whatever is broken; and a writer often stopping his tractor in mid-furrow and pulling out his notebook.

As its title suggests, Rennie McQuilkin's newest poetry collection, Transformings, focuses on a variety of transformations that occur in both personal and public life. The poems depict the poet's early and later years, in particular the tragic death of his wife, afflicted with Alzheimer's Disease, and his life in a retirement community. The worlds of nature and personal relationship are central to the book. In its second section, Transformings presents poems concerning the recent war in the Holy Land, searching for glimmers of hope in a dire situation, suggesting that peace is the only answer, and ending with the score for a musical rendering of the book's final poem, "Hymn for Peace." Always, the poems avoid obscurity and welcome the reader to engage in poetic conversation, looking for hope in even the most desperate moments and finding much joy in life. The poet writes with a deft touch, striving for simplicity and allowing an abundance of humor into his meditations.

About The Prevalence of Mystery, Rennie McQuilkin's late-life poetry collection, the author writes this: "I present these poems as a sort of postscript remembering the long year following the departure of my dear wife, Sarah. I trust they reflect my enduring love for her; faith in the value of holding fast; admiration of the natural world; and profound respect for those who have shown me the way. Behind it all is the prevalence of mystery."

¿A queer love story in five acts, Dancehall follows the arc of a relationship from its earliest days to its final, somber conclusion. In these 60 poems, you will join the speaker as they navigate the highs and the lows, the tranquility and the turbulence, the euphoria and the despair that comes with giving yourself fully to another. Through language, imagery, and form at once universal and intimate, you are invited to take part in this love story - not as some distant observer, but as a central figure: The "you" to whom the speaker writes these poems. Experienced poetry readers and poetry novices alike will enjoy the clean, simple style embodied in the majority of the poems. Whether straight or queer, young or old, single or happily partnered, these poems are for anyone who has ever loved or longed for another.

While not shirking from the worst the modern world throws against us with its violence, its wars, and its racism, these poems offer a "momentary stay" against the personal, political, and environmental perils that afflict us in these desperate days. Always there is an upbeat, often witty tenor to the book, which suggests that the more we are challenged the more we find it in us to call on resources of love and courage that might have lain low at other times. A number of cultural and spiritual heroes figure in the book. The poems are highly readable and classic in their Quaker-like simplicity. They will make you laugh and cry and cheer for the inspiration they offer.

In this harrowing and endearing collection of poems concerning his wife's dementia, Rennie McQuilkin pulls no punches but describes in stark and graphic terms the havoc that Alzheimer's can wreak in the life of the afflicted person and all those in her immediate and extended family. But he also shows that a deepening of love can grow from what might otherwise seem like total devastation. The gains described here make this an inspiring book from which readers will derive hope and resilience in whatever battles they fight.

In her new poetry collection, Armed to the Teeth, Ellen Hirning Schmidt faces life's perils courageously, and being armed with the powers of family, the natural world, and a strong heart full of love, emerges victorious. Readers of this book will take heart from its victories.

Gail Moran Slater's poetry collection At the Edge finds multiple consolations for the sadness at its heart: consolations of the natural world, works of art, mid-life love, and the joys of family.

In her new poetry collection, What Glues Us Together, Nancy Manning pulls no punches, depicting the worst that life can hurl against her, both personally and globally, but she prevails against all odds through the powers of love, family, and the natural world. Readers will be inspired by her resilience, humanity, and generosity of spirit.

Like a friend "who found light in the unlit corner of every room," these are poems of illumination, appreciation and consolation found in the small moments of life sustained by love of the natural world.

Laura Altshul's Looking Out combines moving poems of introspection with those that offer close observation of the outer world. She is able to be at one with the natural world and also has an electric way of submerging herself in the lives of others. Adept at achieving Keatsian "negative capability," she often projects herself into other speakers to give us insight into their struggles for survival. However, not all her portraits are entirely sympathetic, as when she describes a mother-in-law who "swanned in fur and jewels, demanding homage." Altshul's language never wilts because she excels in selecting precise and imaginative diction, and she is a master of the telling detail. In a searing poem about the war in Syria, she makes the devastation graphic and personal by focusing on a cup of coffee covered in cement and plaster "from the blast." Read these magnificent poems with care as if you were gathering shells, and in each one you will find "a shell within a shell, a wondrous surprise."

Philip Levine has written that Don Barkin''s work shows "wonderful skill." The Rail Stop at Wassaic bears out that assessment. Like the poet''s previous book, Houses, it is "both domestic and fierce, accessible and resonant, including many poems that have the audacity to follow traditional patterns of rhyme and meter." Barkin''s earlier volume, That Dark Lake, was a finalist for the Connecticut Book Award, presented under the aegis of the Library of Congress. 

the poems in Pastoral Suite welcome those in-between hours when we turn off the voices of radios and reconnect with a few solitary clouds. A master of suspended time, Muro removes us from a busy world and leads us into an abundant life thick with details of wind-shorn nests of lichen and leaves that hung like paper/lanterns or flecks of gold disgorged downstream over moss-softened stone. Pastoral Suite is a beautiful meditation that locates the sacred in the natural world and in the present, creating a splendor that reminds us how nature heals and how poetry can take us from a place of chaos into a world of calm.

The sonnets of Betsy Hughes take us all over the world, from antiquity to now, from the horrors of mass shootings to the serenity of a forest. These journeys offer, in the elegant sweep of her verses, a captivating new vision of our environment and ourselves. You will never look at things in the same way or feel the same way about your life once you read this book, for you will have traveled to the depths and the heights of the human heart.

The poems in Alexandrina Sergio's OLD IS NOT A FOUR-LETTER WORD are as expansive of heart as they are witty and energetic.Danielle Pieratti writes: "With wisdom, candor, and witty defiance, the poems in Sandy Sergio's Old Is Not a Four-Letter Word observe life through eyes simultaneously prudent and fresh. Hers is a world viewed with earned distance, where ordinary encounters-a visit from a solar salesman, a chance meeting with a biker, a glimpse at a child carrying his saxophone home from school-are endowed with a touch of the divine. Even an artichoke holds a secret. In savoring the mortal, the temporary, these poems make one long for permanence." David K. Leff adds, "Time is a haunting, bodily presence in Sergio's poems. She wrestles elegantly with the years in a language that would be poignant at any age.

Tricia Knoll is an Oregon poet who grew up in a suburb of Chicago and earned degrees in literature from Stanford University and Yale University. This collection of poems records how her ancestry, education, early childhood and work experiences changed her understanding over many decades of the impact of white privilege on her understanding of race relations. Her poetry appears in dozens of journals and anthologies. This book joins her other published poetry collections Urban Wild, Ocean's Laughter, and Broadfork Farm which explore ecological relationships in Oregon and Washington.