Adam J. Gellings
Little Palace
TAMU Press, 2022
$18.00
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This metropolitan yet nostalgic collection brings the reader into new places and experiences while reminding them of familiar truths about human connection, the fugitive feeling of travel, and the universality of art.
Poems read:
“Prompt”
“Airplane Mode”
“Fillet -Le caquet”
“Past Life”
“Chemin Vert”
“Impression I (In lieu of)” “Impression III”
“Back to Life”
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Sharon suzuki-martinez
The Loneliest Whale Blues
The Word Works, 2022
$18.00
Playlist:
The poems I will read from my new book find enlightenment in taco shops, gather seaweed within striking range of Moray eels, and long for the company of only the Sun.
Poems read:
“Taco Shop Haibun"
“The Beach Recollects the Crunch"
“The Loneliest Whale Blues"
pamela Wax
Walking the Labyrinth
Main Street Rag, 2022
$15.00
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Walking the Labyrinth was a finalist for the Main Street Rag Poetry Book Award. Poet Jessica Greenbaum wrote, “If you want to know the powers of poetry to transform experience—and how a rabbi transforms grief—follow the thread of Wax’s revelatory intellect through this accomplished, complex, and spiritual book.” In it, Wax confronts her own mortality as she explores the death of her brother by suicide, as well as the death of her parents and other family members.
Poems read:
“Howard”
“Approaching Zeal: A Run-On Abecedarian”
“In the Background”
“The Woman Who: a found poem”