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In this sequel to his award-winning memoir Echoes of Tattered Tongues: Memory Unfolding, John Guzlowski once again proves himself the master of autobiographical poetry.True Confessions offers the reader a series of autobiographical/memoir poems about Guzlowski's life from 1965 to the present.True Confessions is partially set in the Midwest where he lived until he retired from university teaching. The poems in this book deal with his hippie years in Chicago in the 1960s, his marriage to his wife, living in a small town in Illinois after their marriage, the deaths of his parents, his love of teaching, the after effects of 9/11, and his thoughts on aging, America, poetry, and love.His previous book Echoes of Tattered Tongues won the Independent Book Publishers Association's Ben Franklin Poetry award in 2017, the Eric Hoffer/Montaigne Award for most thoughtful book of 2017. His poetry books and novels have been reviewed in New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Harvard Review, Publishers Weekly, Kirkus Review, and Shelf Awareness.In reviewing Guzlowski's first book of memoir poems, Language of Mules, Nobel Laureate Czeslaw Milosz wrote, "Exceptional...even astonished me...reveals an enormous ability for grasping reality."

Cozy crime stories set in and around libraries by the following authors: Aislinn Batsone, Albert Tucher, Amy Ballard, Anne-Marie Sutton, Barbara SchlichtingDB Critchley, Deborah Lacy & Pat Hernas, Edward Ahern, Gwenda R. JensenJacqueline Seewald, Janet Raye Stevens, Jennie MacDonald, Kate FellowesJosh Pachter & John Lutz, KM Rockwood, LD Masterson, M.M. ElmendorfMichael Bracken, Michael Brandon, Michael Guillebeau, Nupur TustinRichard Lau, Sharon Marchisello & Warren Bull

When we started this project eight months ago, we had no way of knowing how bad things would get or how timely the final product would be. The idea of sanctuary has become a flashpoint. Empathy and kindness seem, on the surface, to have taken a backseat to hatred, nationalism, and fear. Yet, while some spew hatred, still more speak out on behalf of kindness. Such scenarios are playing out around the world, as war and economic and environmental pressures have driv- en people from their homes, seeking sanctuary and too often being turned away or worse.The fifty pieces you find here were gleaned from over 700 sub- missions. They explore the concept of sanctuary from angles direct and oblique, political and comical, religious and secular.Some approach the sanctuary itself, the structure or the institu- tion. Nancy Cook's two stories, Illuminations and Illusions and The After- life, were written during a residency in a 19th century insane asylum, the stories pulled from old newspapers and brought to life in her deft prose. Several pieces deal with shelters, both animal and human. Leslie Muzingo's story, Heroes on the Ceiling, and Joyce Kryzak's essay, In the Whispering Breezes, explore the experience of adults and children at bat- tered women's shelters, while Jennifer Stuart's story, House for Girls, in- troduces us to youthful victims of human trafficking, and Gayla Mills's essay, Becoming Human, brings us inside an animal shelter and the heart of one who works there.Other authors approached sanctuary from the point of view of those who seek it: refugees and escapees of both the innocent and the criminal kind, sometimes blurring the lines between. Michelle S. Myers's essay, Communion on the Road, relates her experience escorting "barely documented" Central American asylum seekers to submit their applications, and Jennifer Stuart's story, The Other Side, gives us a mo- ment in the life of one such refugee on the first steps of her journey to America. Caroline Taylor's story Creature of Habit, Charlotte Platt's, Claim Sanctuary, and John M. Floyd's, The Blue Delta, tell the stories of fugitives whose quest for sanctuary have very different ends, while Jesse Falzoi's story, With Every Thought, tells of a bittersweet experience housing a Syrian family before they move on to their new lives.Several pieces are harder to pin down, but the concept is still there. Gina Grande's flash piece, Drag, explores the safety to be found in physical self-transformation, while Scott Archer Jones's story, Con- tentment, introduces us to an aging hedonist who seeks comfort in the hand of a friend, and Sage Kalmus's story, The First Lo'ihian, places one young man's sanctuary 50,000 years in his future, on an island that today is just beginning to be born. Ed McCourt's essay, What We Leave on the Curb, finds solace in the face of death, in the rebirth of a bicycle, while a physician-priest seeks sanctuary in the bottle in Nick Bouch- ard's story, Father Pearson's Last Day. It's a cold and disquieting world out there. I hope you find some comfort in these pages and will offer the same to any strangers who show up at your checkpoints or wash up on your shore.--S.C., June 2018Sunnyvale, California

Fifteen short stories by James M. LeCuyer including, A Fox Went Out, The Ascension of Jackie, and Lab Experiment with Cats. These stories draw upon his life as a highschool teacher, a profesional fisherman, and general gad-about.

Twenty-one stories exploring our world in the Near-Future!Smart phones, smart cars, smart toasters, where can this lead? Will our new, interconnected life deliver on its Bellamyian proph- esies, or will we find ourselves in an Uber-tech, Orwellian world?Such is the nature of the stories in this anthology. We asked our authors for stories envisioning life in the Near Future - a future recognizably related to the world in which we live today, but a smattering of years from now, and extrapolated from our present.

What is love, anyhow? You can love your partner, your friend, your country, your dog, cat, rat, your local library, your family, yourself. You can love money, liquor, food, wilderness, or the dive bar on the corner. What does love make people do? What will people give for it? What will they steal?What We Talk About When We Talk About It is a literary exploration of the myriad faces of this powerful four-letter word.Poetry and prose by:K Emerson Tenney, Lisa Dordal, Amanda Moore, Flo Golod, Jackie Craven, Sage, MeeRee Orlandini, Dennis Mombauer, Sharon L. Charde, Jenn Richter, Emily Rapp Black, Kat Hausler, Ryan Havely, Erika Rasmussen, Sylvia Maultash Warsh, Kathleen Hayes Phillips, Carolyn Martin, Jesse Sensibar, Bryan Shawn Wang, Susan Kress, Ellaraine Lockie, Lita Kurth, Jason Arias, Susan Cummins Miller, William Derge, Mel Carlson, Marilyn Horn, R. R. Shepard, L M Harrod, Catherine Edmunds, Rose M. Smith, Mary Maddox, Charlie Watts, D. Dina Friedman, Morrow Dowdle, Neil Brosnan, R. Bratten Weiss, Sharon J. Wishnow, Taunja Thomson, Jack Mackey, James M. LeCuyer, Evan L. Balkan, John Guzlowski, Paula Rudnick, Dallas Woodburn, Mary Silwance, Corrie Haldane, Rosaleen Bertolino, Woody Woodger

Return with us now to those thrilling days of yesteryear! Featuring stories by:Michael Bracken & Sandra Murphy, Kaye George, John M. Floyd, Margaret S. Hamilton, Diane Arrelle, William J. O’Connor III & Arthur Vidro, Camille Minichino, Albert Tucher, Karen Keeley, Herschel Cozine, M.M. Elmendorf, Michael Allen Mallory, Michele Bazan Reed, Kenneth Gwin, DG Critchley, Adam Beau McFarlane, Lisa Lieberman, Mel Goldberg

What is love, anyhow? You can love your partner, your friend, your country, your dog, cat, rat, your local library, your family, yourself. You can love money, liquor, food, wilderness, or the dive bar on the corner. What does love make people do? What will people give for it? What will they steal?What We Talk About When We Talk About It is a literary exploration of the myriad faces of this powerful four-letter word.Poetry and prose by:Kelly Magee, Sage, MeeRee Orlandini, Erika Rasmussen, Anonymous, Woody Woodger, Lisa Dordal, Lawdenmarc Decamora, Lisa López Smith, Richard Weems, Lorna Wood, Sharon L. Charde, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Kacie Berghoef, Mel Carlson, Amanda Moore, Shelley Valdez, Jenn Richter, J. White, Claire Hawkins, Ali Abbas, Sean Finucane Toner, Emily Rapp Black, Isabelle Jia, Jackie Craven, Winter Ross, Marian Armstrong Rogers, Rebecca Pilling, Susan Cummins Miller, Thomas Kearnes, Kate Hodges, Laura Lee Washburn, James Penha, Timothy O’Leary, Evan Balkan, D. Dina Friedman, Kate Larsen, Susannah Carlson, Carly Gates, Beth Konkoski, Sarah Russell, Bill Stenson, Alison Stone, Pamela Balluck, Daniel Loring Keating, Flo Golod, Ivan Faute, Melanie Bell

This is a different kind of anthology. One bound together solely by the descanso, regardless of the genre or form of the piece. The poetry, flash fiction, essays, and short stories contained here are as varied as the theme they represent. From San Francisco to New Zealand to Greece, from a soldier saying goodbye to her helicopter to a musician in small town Texas whose life has just begun, to a woman taking supplies to the Water Protectors at Standing Rock, these pieces reflect their authors' unique takes on themes of grief and love and sudden redirection.Featuring Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, and Essays By: - Susannah Carlson, Editor - Wolf Losee, Poetry EditorFeaturing Poetry, Flash Fiction, Short Stories, and Essays By: Jesse Sensibar, Terence Kuch, Cate McGowan, Armine Mortimer, Tyson West, Richard King Perkins II, Terresa Cooper Haskew, D. Dina Friedman, Frank Russo, Amber Colleen Hart, Brian Morgan, Ivan Faute, Ellaraine Lockie, Kurt Newton, Jon Black, Lita Kurth, C.A. Cole, Kevin Wetmore,Woody Woodger,Diana Brown, Jonathan Ochoco, Teressa Rose Ezell, Nick Bouchard, Fred Zackel, Dave Holt, Nicole Scherer, Nancy Brewka-Clark, Jack Mackey, John Z. Guzlowski, Scot Friesen, Pamela Ahlen, Catherine A. Lee, Mary Silwance, Hal Ackerman, Jackie Davis Martin, Karen Bovenmyer Jesse SensibarTerence KuchCate McGowanArmine MortimerTyson WestRichard King Perkins IITerresa Cooper HaskewD. Dina FriedmanFrank RussoAmber Colleen HartBrian MorganIvan FauteEllaraine LockieKurt NewtonJon BlackLita KurthC.A. ColeKevin WetmoreWoody WoodgerDiana BrownJonathan OchocoTeressa Rose EzellNick BouchardFred ZackelDave HoltNicole SchererNancy Brewka-ClarkJack MackeyJohn Z. GuzlowskiScot FriesenPamela AhlenCatherine A. LeeMary SilwanceHal AckermanJackie Davis MartinKaren Bovenmyer