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Better Ways to See celebrates the author's unique perspectives through experiences with nature and art. He attributes his "better" ways of seeing to parents who wanted him and his sister to have more wonder-filled views of the world than they had because of their limited Great Depression era experiences. The chapbook includes a series of bird and nature poems linked to an outing with his father where they sought out the first post-DDT eagle to return to central North Carolina. The other pieces are ekphrastic poems inspired by sculptures he saw with his mother during a visit to the Storm King Art Center in the Hudson River Valley.

Will You Buy My Wares? is a collection of poems exploring love, loss, pain, heartbreak, identity, mental illness, and hope. Some poems were inspired by stories of people close to the author, and some by patients in the hospital where he worked.

These poems are centered around the character Jack Karapetian (1925-1994), who wrote under the pen name of Hakob Karapents. Born in Tabriz, Iran, Jack was a prolific Armenian-American writer who wrote almost exclusively in Armenian.

This collection of poetry explores the complexities of eating disorder recovery, crossing the intersections of mental health, feminism, and healing.

This collection of poetry focuses on a gay man''s battle against invisibility and keeping secrets. The poems reflect different times and parts of his life. His journey is partly to find a community but maybe more to find a sense of who he really is: a question that may transcend sexuality.

Stolen from Africa, one group of people continues to inspire the world through its methods of innovation and invention. of stone and rope considers the repurposing of objects as symbols of liberation.