Bøger udgivet af Up on Big Rock Poetry Series

The poems in this collection come from hearts that have been broken and mended, that have actually stopped beating and started up again. Sometimes the most profound thing we can say about life is that it goes on. We may never regain what we have lost or achieve everything we desire, but life goes on.

The rather raw curiosity at the heart of Eros in Autumn, by Steve Schild, is among the many reasons you're going to admire the short poems you are about to experience. Rather than wither and retire into some social stereotype of what a man, a poet, a professor, husband, son and father ought to write about as he grows long in the tooth, Mr. Schild confronts the sudden change from man to old man head on, challenges his most intimate perceptions and boldly questions the perceptions looking back at him, whether from the candor of a bathroom mirror or the scruples darkening a young woman's beautiful eyes.

Here is what acclaimed poet Dora Malech, author of Shore Ordered Ocean and Say So, has to say about Haley Thompson's poetry: Haley's poems shimmer with the intimacies of memory and place. They weave the consolation of sparkling specificities through the inevitable truths of loss and time. These are poems that enable us to see our yesterdays and our today anew.

New and Selected Poems from Land and Water by the author of the award winning chapbook "Bottom Right Corner."

Poet, English teacher, writer, and literary editor, Nicole Borg has been published in Nodin Poetry Anthology 2015, Lost Lake Folk Opera, and Eclectica Magazine. She was a 2014 recipient of the SEMAC Emerging Artists Grant. For five years, she was the lead editor of Green Blade Magazine of the Rural America Writers' Center. Originally from North Dakota but having grown up in Colorado, Nicole has an appreciation for place-the mountains, the plains, and everything in between. She loves Yoga, cooking and eating, night-walks, and spending time with her family. She now lives along the lovely Mississippi River in Minnesota with her husband Glen and sons, Lyzander and Lynx.