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You will find the work within real, one perfect image/moment, image/moment until even the most dry-eyed among us will find themselves reading through pools of tears, and yet, not wanting to stop, hungry too, for the raw and real life that lives within these pages. Stellasue Lee, Ph. D., Author, Editor, Teacher The Buddha Knot begins in a climate of war and ends at peace, but not without taking us through a battleground of love, death, and "the slow erosion of all we cannot keep." McManus's amazing collection imparts soft wounds with its haunting language plucked from the eye of the storm. Be prepared to breathe in these words and to see more clearly. Lenore Weiss, author of The Golem Reading The Buddha Knot, I'm reminded again of where poetry should lead us: To Wisdom, that most painful of virtues. In stunning poems that read like an Apologia Pro Vita Sua, McManus looks back with a tender, elegiac eye at a life paved with loss and discovery, the lingering trauma of Vietnam, the death of a brother in childhood, and those enlightening moments of aloneness earned beneath the starred skies of Appalachia and the Louisiana Delta. You'll read these courageous poems and reflect, and then read them again. Jack Heflin Author of The Map of Leaving: Poems, and Local Hope

Featuring fine poetry by: Allison Grayhurst, Andrew Miller, Audrey Samuelson, Braja Sorensen, Brandon Stanley, Bryan Verdi, C. Z. Heyward, Claire Scott, Danny Ballan, David Pring-Mill, Deborah Guzzi, Diana Anhalt, Doug Van Hooser, Glenn Cavazzi, Greg Schmult, Gregory Stenta, Heather Browne, Jackie Maugh Robinson, Jacob Riyeff, James Spain, Janet Veil, Jean Kingsley, Jill White, Jim Davis, John Elliott, John Huey, Julie Dickson, Katharina Riemer, Kristin LaFollette, Lana Bella, Linda Sacco, Lori A. Walsh Imdad, Melissa Patterson, Milt Montague, Monica McAlpine, Nick Christian, Nicole Yurcaba, Patrick Erickson, Paul Bowers, Prue Loxley, Sam Wood, Sharon Rothenfluch Cooper, Sheryl White, Steven Crimaldi, Thomas Skahill, Timothy Norton, Timothy Pilgrim, Tom Montag, Toni Scales, Will Walton, William Stephenson, and Zachary Thede.

Body Politic adds to the conversation of a generation with poetry that invokes thoughtful reflection. Whether you read for the love of poetry, to cheer and contemplate your beliefs, or simply to get a better understanding of other viewpoints, Body Politic delivers stunning poetry and deeply interesting reflections on relevant topics today. This is a must read! Praise for Rich Murphy! Rarely do I like explicitly political poetry, yet Richard Murphy may have convinced me otherwise. Murphy shows in Body Politic how poems can be polemical without being didactic, philosophical without throwing out any of a poems linguistic or moral core. Murphy manages to be both heartfelt and playful, ironic and sincere, language-drivenand wild with the material world. Truly worth savoring a few times both as individual poems and as an entire collection. - C. Derick Varn, editor of Former People The poems found in Body Politic are the essential poems of today, a persistent and passionate fugue, an irony, something we need, an elixir for the malaise of paralysis that has engulfed an increasingly terrified humanity. We only have to consider the facts. We need to read these poems. - Michael Rothenberg Rich Murphy's Body Politic delivers a litany of lyrical and surreal protests against the "conspicuous unsaid [that] rules the state for the mind" of a nation addicted to perpetual war and processed news. Murphy's songs of struggle are strong medicine for "the subject and the drunken, resilient question mark behind the eyes." Body Politic is a diagnosis and antidote for the cancer of our times. "No one with a breath escapes." These are poems of resistance and revival. - W. Scott Howard, University of Denver

Featuring an extravaganza of international poetry by some of the best poets writing today: Tobi Alfier, Andrea L. Alterman, Dustin Arand, Tiffany Babb, Amy Baskin, Judy Beaston, Nicole Becker, Jennifer Boyd, Roger Brezina, Colin Campbell, Anna Cates, Shawn Chang, Dane Cobain, Neil Creighton, Nicholas D'Angelo, Jeff De La Rosa, Maria DePaul, Stephen Devereux, Julie A. Dickson, John Elliott, Richard Fox, Jared George, Jack D. Harvey, Rachael Hershon, Steve Karamitros, Martin Knabe, Sandra Kolankiewicz, Deborah LeFalle, George Longenecker, Amy McNamara, Bill Melton, Alan Meyrowitz, Michael Minassian, Ronald Moran, Kristina Mottla, Bola Opaleke, Michael Paul Hogan, Fiona Pitt-Kethley, David Pring-Mill, Laura Rashley, Joseph Roberts, Peter Roberts, Patricia Rossi, Angell Lynn Salver, Angela D. Sargent, Claire Scott, LB Sedlacek, Susan Speranza, Richard Spilman, Cathleen Stewart, Nikhil Tiwari, James Tyler, Georgette Unis, Mari Werner, Frederick Wilbur, Maisie Williams, Martin Willitts Jr., and Thom Young.

In this masterful collection of poetry, Dr. Anna Cates showcases her extraordinary prowess with open form and free verse. This collection represents the darker side of Cates's voice, perhaps the reader's most beloved side of any poet, with themes like poverty, insanity, crime, and war. This is a collection that belongs in any serious library of poetry today.

Waiting for the Light to Change is bursting with relevant poems for today's lover of poetry. With themes that span politics, family, culture, and a myriad of today's complexities, Ruescher engages the thoughtful reader, shares his poetical voice, and resonates beyond the pages. His long lines create a full-throated experience for the reader. By employing the language of poetry, Ruescher is able to open a dialog that seeks to engage, not divide, making this book of poetry suited to poetry lovers from all walks of life. Enjoy the world of Scott Ruescher. About the poet: Scott Ruescher won the 2016 Write Prize from Able Muse, the 2015 Rebecca Lard Award from Poetry Quarterly, and, in both 2013 and 2014, the Erika Mumford Award for poetry about travel and international culture from the New England Poetry Club. His chapbooks include Sidewalk Tectonics (documenting a road-trip from Lincoln's birthplace in Hodgenville, Kentucky, to the site of ML King's assassination in Memphis) and Perfect Memory (documenting more of that same trip as well as adventures in such places as Central Ohio, Central America, and Central Square, Cambridge). For 15 years he has been administrating the Arts in Education program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and teaching part-time in the Boston University Prison Education Program-all while feeling vaguely skeptical about such intimate participation in institutions of higher learning.

Counter Point is a collection of poetry culminating in an epic story about coming of age and navigating the perils of love, piracy, the open sea and the difficulties of womanhood in and around the Whydah, the most famous pirate ship that ever sailed. History and fiction collide to create Counter Point, a must read for anyone who has ever dreamed of love.