Bill Hollands
Mangrove
ELJ Editions, 2025
$16
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In this delightful collection, Bill Hollands confirms he “can, after all, put on a show.” With humor, a conversational rhythm, and a careful eye for detail, he explores how a boy who is told “you are not like the others” finds his own identity. Via masks such as Ginger and Mary Ann, elementary musical performer, and young tennis wannabe––sometimes tortured, always determined––he keeps returning to and claiming “beauty, beauty beyond understanding.” —Ellen Bass
Poems read:
“The Second Ginger Grant”
“Al's Books and News, Miami”
“I Revisit My Favorite Children's Book, and by Favorite I Mean Most Terrifying”
Daniel Lassell
Frame Inside a Frame
Texas Review Press, 2025
$21.95
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Frame Inside a Frame explores the boundaries, overlaps, and portals of memory and seeking. The collection greets readers with visceral childhood memories, gritty landscapes of climate collapse, and pollen everywhere. Meditative on what boundaries mean, Frame Inside a Frame is a constellation eyed toward the exploration of distance and meanings inherent within distance and proximity.
Poems read:
“Frame [In the underworld]"
“Seven Frames"
“Frame Inside a Frame [Like a resurrected body]"
“Frame [beyond these hills a river]" “Road Trip"
former DMQ Review contributor
Shannon K. Winston
The Worry Dolls
Glass Lyre Press, 2025
$16
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The Worry Dolls explores how worry is internalized, resisted, and reimagined through a range of poetic forms. In addition to intergenerational anxiety, the collection engages themes of gender and the body, showing how poetry and music can create possibilities for hope and survival.
Poems read:
“My Octopus"
“The Newborn"
“Worry is the Dress Rehearsal"
“The Cello"
“Pitch"
former Salon contributor, 10/2021