In this collection of new and selected poems, Sybil Pittman Estess takes readers on an intensely personal journey, a deep exploration of life in contemporary America. "These are poems of witness," says 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Larry Thomas. "...of witness to a life fully lived, of witness to birth, friendship, death, and the unforgiving pain of loss; and of witness to a world rife with the wounds of global warming, the violence of guns, yet a world still teeming with transient beauty."

Like That: New and Selected Poems

Literature & Fiction

Estess, Sybil Pittman

Poetry

Alamo Bay Press

Set in Southern Louisiana, Blood at the Root is a fly-on-the wall look at an aspect of New Orleans culture that borders magic, imagination, sex, telling the festinating tale of Camilla Jane, High John the Conqueror, and Creeping Jesus, and the sisterly bonds that stretch beyond death.

Blood at the Root

Grue, Lee Meitzen

Art Stronger Than Hate!

A former artist for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Issa Nyaphaga in Art Stronger than Hate! offers a visual commentary on our current political, social, and economic world, arguing for Free Speech rather than Hate Speech. Art Stronger than Hate! is evidence that art can save lives and inspire the human spirit.

Arts & Photography

Nyaphaga, Issa

Individual Artists

A former artist for the French magazine Charlie Hebdo, Issa Nyaphaga in Art Stronger than Hate! offers a visual commentary on our current political, social, and economic world, arguing for Free Speech rather than Hate Speech. Art Stronger than Hate! is evidence that art can save lives and inspire the human spirit.

An anthology of poetry and prose by the award-winning instructors and participants of the 2014 Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop, which met in Seadrift, Texas. Writers include Lee Meitzen Grue, Lowell Mick White, Kathryn Lane, and Diane Wilson.

Abww14: The Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop Anthology

Short Stories & Anthologies

The story of Kent Soileau, who lives an upside-down life as a professional job-hopper and as an inmate of a nut house. He has assembled an impressive resume of diverse and comical experiences, from being a driver for Mississippi River-boat pilots, to a French Quarter bartender, to a genetics research associate. Kent is a true searcher, whether searching for food, a place to stay, happiness-or the meaning of life.

For Mr. Raindrinker: A Novel of New Orleans

Fontenot, Ken

In this memoir of growing up in the 1960s Cold War, Patricia Bjorklund narrates a girlhood filled with John Birch Society activism, racial tensions, concepts of sin and hell, and the ominous and omnipresent fears of nuclear apocalypse--and, conversely, the glowing redemptive powers of hope and happiness. "The naïveté and paranoia of the Cold War years are perfectly rendered in Patricia Bjorklund's irresistible memoir of a working-class Connecticut childhood. Khrushchev is plotting, Communism is menacing, the traditional Catholic mass is changing and her pretty, patriotic, white mom is wearing a wire and infiltrating the Black Panthers in a flip and a miniskirt. Amid all this turmoil, Patricia navigates girlhood and adolescence with a loyal heart, an observant eye, and a sarcastic wit. If you grew up in the Cold War era, you'll love this book for the memories it rekindles--and if you didn't, it will make you wish you'd been there." --Evelyn Somers. Associate Editor, The Missouri Review

U.S. and Them: The Re-Enchantment of a Cold War Childhood

Biographies & Memoirs

Bjorklund, Patricia

Arts & Literature

These stories help define the world of the Texas-Mexico Frontier--an explosive world where lives break, loves shatter, and healing happens. Kathryn Lane, a native of Mexico, explores this world, leading readers on a journey through time and geography with the promise of magic and transformation.

Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart

Lane, Kathryn

A native of New Orleans, with deep roots in south and central Louisiana, Laura Quinn Guidry lived and worked as a healthcare administrator in Houston for years. Then tragedy changed her life and her amazing poems began. Grief and Gratitude are the "two gardens" this poet moves between. These are poems of love, loss, recovery, lived life, and abundant nature.

Between Two Gardens

Guidry, Laura Quinn

Lyrical poetry on the process of aging and the transition from one life-stage to another, on the passing of time and its relentless impact on masculinity and the male image, and on on the place of the solitary individual in 21st Century America.

Old Men on Tuesday Mornings

Grant, Lyman

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Books by Alamo Bay Press

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Like That: New and Selected Poems

Blood at the Root

Art Stronger Than Hate!

Art Stronger Than Hate!

Abww14: The Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop Anthology

For Mr. Raindrinker: A Novel of New Orleans

U.S. and Them: The Re-Enchantment of a Cold War Childhood

Backyard Volcano: And Other Mysteries of the Heart

Between Two Gardens

Old Men on Tuesday Mornings