In this poetry chapbook Keith Taylor explores the meaning of home and the challenges of being separated from it. Nostalgia is not sentimentality, but "the sickness that comes from longing for home." Keith draws on his travels in younger days through Europe and Asia, the people he would meet, and connects them to where he lives now, to Michigan, its wildlife and the cycles of nature. The Ancient Murrelet is a bird not commonly found in these parts, but can sometimes get blown far from its home.

The Ancient Murrelet

TAYLOR, Keith

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John Repp is a widely published poet who also won the prestigious 2013 Akron Poetry Prize. In his new chapbook of stirring poems, Music Over the Water, Repp's keen sense of the musicality of language and knack for juxtaposing the ephemeral with the everyday moves readers through a poetically crafted landscape ripe with interdependency. Each poem is a meditation on the complex relationships between the self, other humans, and nature.

Music Over the Water

John Repp

<p>"It is not that the mayfly lights upon the water nor is it that the trout is compelled to surface - born of instinct, hunger, and fluid aggression - it is that the memory of such a moment is simultaneously ephemeral and eternal. Cameron Scott knows that the river is both church and time capsule. These poems are spiritual paeans to family and lost friends, the dusk and dawn kiss of nature that resides in our human hearts. Stegner once wrote “no place is a place until it has found its poet.” Perhaps this holds true for fly fishing and the communion of water, wind, family, fish and, of course, humanity. Scott has brought his sport into the ethereal expanses of poetry." Aaron Abeyta received the American Book Award for his collection of poetry "Colcha"</p>

Watershed

Cameron Keller Scott

Familiars

Holly Wren Spaulding

Let Them Be Left

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