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A Stranger's Heart is a collection of poetry by West Texas's Laurence Musgrove, a professor of creative writing at Angelo State University. Inspired by Buddhist tradition, these poems explore finding meaning and beauty in the mundane moments of contemporary life. Subjects include dogs, teaching, and the nature of mortality. What makes these poems particularly special is how relatable and accessible they are to contemporary readers.

An anthology of the best creative writing from Texas from 2022. These pieces were all read at the Texas Association of Creative Writing Teachers annual conference in 2022. Authors include Chantel Carlson, Terry Dalrymple, Laurence Musgrove, Courtney O'Banion-Smith, Moumin Quazi, Britt, Lizbette Ocasio-Russe, Jerry Craven, Larry Mayfield, Katherine Hoerth, Janice Northerns, WK Stratton, Nathanael O'Reilly, Matthew Pitt, Chris Ellery and Dave Parsons

The Museum of Marriage and Other Stories showcases characters struggling with the demands and mysteries of the solitary life, romance, and marriage. The young men of "The Balcony Scene" and "Big Rig" worry over their futures with those exotic creatures of another sex; the women in "The Marriage Museum" and "Leave Me Be!" wrestle with their emotional turmoil about their relationships. The collection's most uplifting picture of these very knotty human dilemmas comes in "Suitors," where a young woman must choose between two equally worthy men. Having given her heart to a longtime but distant lover, she's unexpectedly attracted to another closer by. "That he could arouse her interest was a little thrilling but also frightening, promising in equal measures the rosy pleasures of infatuation and the torment of feeling unfaithful."

"A collection of contemporary poetry about the challenges of modern life in Houston, Texas"--

"What is the cost of our unchosen obligations? What is the cost of love? How do we pay, and where are the receipts kept? These are poems about love, fear, and hope. These are poems about fatherhood and about the things we bring to it from our own childhood. These poems explore how the past continues to live alongside and inside the present and what that means for who we are and who we will someday be"--

Sailing West is a collection of contemporary poetry by one of Texas's greatest voices. The poems explore modern life, from the mundane experiences being a grandmother to the excitement of traveling the world. These crafted poems are ripe with wisdom, insight, and always wit.

"Last Red Dirt Embrace is a single long poem dealing with the death of the author's mother. It is written in the form of a ghazal"--

"A philosophical memoir that traces the life of a baseball player turned academic that explores the larger implications of sports"--

"Poems of love and loss by Texas poet and translator Lynn Hoggard"--

"A Thousand Miles out of My Mind is a literary novel about a road trip across southern America. The protagonist is a spoiled, disgruntled young man looking to escape from his humdrum life and a dysfunctional family. He takes to the road and finds an unlikely friend an an Elvis super fan named J, and the two of them undergo a journey in search of meaning and adventure"--

"A collection of contemporary poetry with that explores nature and philosophy"--

"Far from being chivalric romances, these stories vividly illustrate real people in love, real people like all of us. The characters in this assemblage get by as best they can in often humorous and always poignant ways. Among the characters are: an idealistic eleven-year-old with a gift for pencil drawing and a crush on his teacher; a forty-seven-year-old real estate agent looking for another ego-bolstering bedpost notch; and a beautiful, lonely young woman whose only knowledge of love comes from classical literature and her mother's dire warnings about nasty things boys seek."--

Matthew Brennan's Snow in New York is his sixth full collection of poetry, and it brings together his best poems written during the last forty years. Whether in free verse, blank verse, or rhyme, Brennan's poems betray close attention to form while evoking the senses through concrete images and the imagination through vivid figurative language. His subjects cover family, love, and memory, as well as art, history, and landscape. Whether in personal lyrics or in dramatic monologues, Brennan speaks directly, musically, and emotionally. Besides selections from Seeing in the Dark, The Music of Exile, The Sea-Crossing of Saint Brendan, The House with the Mansard Roof, and One Life, this new book includes more than twenty new poems.

"In this volume, Jan Seale contemplates small things. Think peppercorns, straight pins, freckles. Think fingernails, commas, stamps. These objects have their own raison d'etre. Here are the small sublime, the Lilliputian laughable, the diminutive dear. Relish their existence. Their essence and standing may be important beyond our or their knowing."--Page 4 of cover.

"In memorable lines of lyrical poetry, Christine Boldt speaks as a passionate woman who ponders love and joy and confronts suffering, aging, and death."--Page 4 of cover.

Odes and Elegies: Eco-Poetry from the Texas Gulf Coast is an anthology of poetry written by poets from all walks of life about the Gulf Coast region of Texas. These are contemporary nature poems that celebrates the beauty of the landscape, laments its destruction at the hands of climate change and rapid urbanization, bears witness to the natural disasters, and rallies for climate justice for all who call this complicated place home. Contributors include Kevin Prufer, Deborah Peredez, Martha Serpas, Mark Sanders, Kurt Heinzelman, Jan Seale, Pattiann Rogers, Jehanne Dubrow, Wendy Barker, Carol Coffee Reposa, Alan Birkelbach, karla k. morton, Larry D. Thomas, Dave Parsons, Loretta Diane Walker, and many others.This anthology was made possible by the Center for History and Culture of Southeast Texas and the Upper Gulf Coast at Lamar University.

Ted Estess tells stories not just about the South or fishing or fatherhood or loss but also about the pattern of a life, of all our lives-stories both existential and metaphysical about a future that seems (or is) both risky and random but that produces a past both coherent and meaningful, stories in which we can find both the confusion of a life and the wisdom to make sense of it, to make it whole.

This book contains poems that Jonas Zdanys published over his 50 years career as a poet.