Forty years of writing are showcased in Joseph Strouds Of This World: New and Selected Poems 1955-2006. He has published only four books previously, and may not be as well known as he ought to be. The poems in this large... Read More

Ruth Stone, born in Virginia in 1915, has published thirteen collections of poems. Winner of the National Book Award, the Wallace Stevens Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, a Whiting Award, and two Guggenheim Fellowships, she... Read More

Gary Fincke has published sixteen previous books of poetry and short fiction. His new book of poems, "The Fire Landscape", explores with almost radioactive language the dangers and fears of a generation—“The Fluroscope Era,” as the... Read More

Lia Purpura is an essayist and a poet, who, in either genre, absorbs her subjects with an intensity that ends up mapping the consciousness as closely as it maps the exterior world. In "King Baby", she goes herself one better. The... Read More