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Love's Wishbone by Robert Pfeiffer are the poems of a father, a husband, a human, at midlife - melancholy, nostalgic, tinged with regret, yet ultimately hopeful for the future. These poems look backwards with nostalgia and regret, but also with fondness and forgiveness. They look forward with apprehension and fear, but also with hope. More than anything, Pfeiffer's poetry in Love's Wishbone is about trying to find meaning in moments before it's too late.

Say Anything, the fifth book of poetry and prose from Lee Rossi, captures insights and unresolvable contradictions as he shifts from a social exterior reality to an inner psychological reality; from a world of fact and idea, to a world of nuance and shadow. Filled with oxymoron and paradox, the poems and prose gleam like pieces of colored glass in a kaleidoscope, with changing facets and shifting viewpoints.

Notes From Paradise takes you on a journey through several decades of musical, social and personal events in the life of veteran poet Elaine Heveron. Notes from Paradise reminds us that the height of the day, like laughter, tears, or falling hard for someone new, always comes unexpectedly. Elaine uses what her family knows as "Heveron humor" to see things from the side door you almost forgot was there. She shares her love of music, being in love, and being alive like a feast. So help yourself. There's always a chance it's not what the promoters are selling that will steal your heart, but something right in front of you now.

Richard R. Troxell's book Short Stories in a Long Journey blends his personal story with the life of an activist for ending and preventing homelessness. This book highlights the structural defects in our system and laws and proposes common-sense economic solutions to the problems of homelessness and substance abuse, such as the Universal Living Wage to address income inequality, a modest liquor surcharge to finance substance treatment, and a bronze statue to memorialize the struggle.

Manhattan,1964: No one suspects David Greenberg is also David Asher, the successful artist who, in the blink of an eye, can forever capture what he sees. Believing his father is Mob connected, he searches for evidence to put him away. But soon, rogue agents of the government discover David's secret ability and track his every move. Aided by his fiancee and two devoted friends, David faces the wrath of his father, two inquisitive FBI agents, a CIA operative, and the looming threat of the Manhattan Crime Boss.

Time and Tide: An Atlas for the Grieving crystallizes grief and transforms the horrors of 2020 into poetry. In doing so, it creates a brief historical and philosophical summary of a "saturnine cycle" we will never forget.

At the Edge of the Cliff: poems, by Marian Kaplun Shapiro, experiments with visual form and edgy content to disrupt fundamental givens and generate transformative experiences. At her poetic peak, Shapiro uses word drawings that go beyond mere words to touch extremes of feeling and jar the subconscious. Shapiro makes each poem an experiment, leading a beautiful and challenging climb to the edge. "A book of poetry and drawings that explore emotional disconnections, silences, and efforts to make contact. ...her purpose is to pursue 'extremes of feeling' and their resulting epiphanies through 'experimenting with form and content.' These experiments encompass diagrams, sketches, spacing, and unusual typography, which often focus attention on conceptual organization. ...Poems that creatively reveal the unsaid and unsayable." -Kirkus Reviews "'If the clocks are running slow, will we have more time than we thought?' Shapiro muses. It's a riddle; an invitation without return address, a dreamscape brimming with the raw and paradoxical nature of the unconscious. Pivoting between visual poetry, free verse, and prose poetry, Shapiro, a therapist as well as poet, captures the wonder and challenge of our flawed humanity with a generous helping of grace." -Nina Corwin, LCSW; author of The Uncertainty of Maps "Marian Shapiro asks us to ask ourselves, 'Why here? Where are we going? What time is it? What is foreground? Background?' Shapiro guides us through an amalgam of poems, lyrical, brutal and redemptive. In the midst of her pinwheel of life, six wondering clocks, and assorted graphic and sprawling cursive mind play poems, she teaches us 'inch by inch' that we need horizon, 'To weigh/ the whatness of lake/ the whoness of mountain/ the whenness of/ sky.'" -Barbara Laiolo-March, Poet, cofounder of the Surprise Valley Writers' Conference "Joy. Terror. Sorrow. The author's familiarity with those unspoken, secret parts of ourselves brings us to that something in us that is even beyond the unconscious. This collection of poetry challenges the givens of poetic form, opening us to asking ourselves: Is there something like a spirit or soul in there? Could that be?" -Sanford Rosenzweig, Clinical Psychologist "In her collection of poetry, The Edge of the Cliff, Marian Shapiro hammers home some vital philosophy intertwining minute details and instructive 'eurekas' to transport readers to a lost time when existence was under less threat. Shapiro also allows glimpses into grim realities in poems like 'Rape,' that, instead of hammering readers with overkill, remind us of the horrors in calm terms. Her ability to mix the vastly philosophical with the intensely personal is evidence of her mastery of form." -Doug Stuber, Editor, Poems from the Heron Clan

My Mother's Daughter is a fast-paced, page-turning historical fiction about a mother's daughters, set in an era of southern plantations and slavery. Each woman finds her own way to develop unsuspected inner strengths and the will to change from who they are to who they choose to be. -Nancy King, author of Opening Gates and other novels at www.nancykingstories.com From slavery through abolition and women's suffrage, Thaddeus' sweeping story of four generations of mothers and daughters carries the reader away, down the Mississippi River on a keelboat, beneath the tunneling branches of the Natchez Trace, into the shanties and mansions of the Old South, into a bygone time that both unsettles and delights. Thaddeus is a master of atmospheric settings and striking characters who reveal both the sin and the redemption of the American soul. -Elaine McCullough, Professor Emerita of English, Ferris State University My Mother's Daughter follows Eugenia and her family through more than a century of changes in the American South. Set around the Natchez Trace in Mississippi in the 19th century, Rebecca Thaddeus makes the entwined familial relationships come alive. From Eugenia's trip from Philadelphia to rural Natchez, to the stories of her children, the plot's well-drawn characters and experiences of slavery and its aftermath are compelling. The story and historical setting stay with the reader long after the book is done. -Maryanne Heidemann, Co-founder (1981-present) of the No-Name Book Club Rebecca Thaddeus carefully and brilliantly wrote a story of an adventurous and daring young woman and the challenging times in which she lived. -Caroline A. Thompson, Teacher Certification Officer, Ferris State University Teacher Education Program

Sixteen-year-old Joan Larousse has a lot on her mind. She knows she is lucky to live on a big estate with her parents, two caretakers and a parrot named Victor, Joan loves the woods and a cave becomes her "church". Joan's life is generally busy and happy. With her French tutor, Joan explores existentialism and consciousness, debate and speaking your truth, patience and love. As Joan chooses a date for the prom and enjoys her first kiss, she also confronts personal delimnas. Her values differ from her wealthy parents, who do not understand her, and want her to change. Joan doesn't want an expensive prom dress or the Mercedes her father offers. She overhears her parents arguing; her father travels too often and her mother drinks too much.  When Joan and her friend Kristin find out there is a petition to fire their well-liked science teacher at school, they become determined to stop that from happening and becomes immersed in the complex workings of American politics. With the help of her father, Joan gains the audience of the President. Reflecting the bravery of Joan of Arc, Joan of Arkansas musters the courage to speak clearly from her heart for her cause. This story reminds us that the younger generation are our future problem solvers. 

Matthew Abuelo's Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel is a head-spinning depiction of harshest reality in New York City. Reading his sequence of poetry and stories is like "visiting the world of the forgotten." In subway tunnels, psychiatric wards, and single occupancy rooms are individuals depicted in such brutal honesty by Abuelo that the reader cannot turn away or forget. Those of us fortunate enough to live "ordinary lives with ordinary fears" won't easily file away this writer's images-a "shut-in" dreading an eviction notice, a depressed tenant conceding "the instinct to survive but with no will to live," a suicidal pedestrian for whom no cab stops. Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel is poetic recognition of lives cordoned off from meaning by urban excess and corruption. Through his searing poems and unflinching narratives, Mathew Abuelo speaks for those who know "the voice can become a severed limb." His stark reminder of desperation just up the block or down the hallway is a jolting call for compassion. -Judith Austin Mills, author of Accidental Joy: a streak of poetry, and the Texas Revolution trilogy How Far Tomorrow, Those Bones at Goliad and The Dove Shall FlyWith the opening lines of his new book, Forever Turn the Midnight Carousel, Matthew Abuelo asks "What do you see? / What do you see when you lift the drawn shades?" What lies in the poems and stories beyond the drawn shades is the universe of Mr. Abuelo's New York-its gutters, its streets, its skyscrapers-its people and their stories. It is a dizzying and urgent universe rendered in language just as urgent. These are words that will "dance forever" and "never die." -Robert Pfeiffer, author of Bend, Break and The Inexhaustible BeforeI have the privileged of reading yet another amazing work by Matthew Abuelo! Midnight Carousel will take you on a colorful, yet deep, deep as a midnight sky, ride. The ever turning spiral of emotions are filled in every line, stanza and verse as you are brought high and then downward again. The love of a city that is wrapped up in the arms of an old lover, that is slowly deteriorating around some while flourishing around newfound mistresses of whose sole purpose is to dine on the fatted-calf. Matthew paints a glorious picture with words as he shows the side of the "city that never sleeps" that very few and only those true professionals who keep the midnight oil burning long after midnight ever see. I highly recommend reading Midnight Carousel and following this profound writer. I look forward to interviewing him again very soon." -Mary E. Rapier, aka Art Sees Diner