From the sensual to the philosophic, politics to aging, humor, film, writing, and love, this collection of 92 poems rampages through the storms within our cultural climate ̶ past and present ̶ with a glimpse of the future.

Intellectual Suicide: Poetry to Die for

R, Crystophver

Garden Oak Press

A three-part journey flowing backward in time and place to discover the waiting child in each of us. With a path of tankas traveling in parallel, this spiritual, compassionate, observant and insightful memoir in poetic forms celebrates life. With a bonus section: Love Tankas.

The Waiting Child

Takahara, Mel

This new collection from an award-winning poet and editor features 91 poems that embody the dimensions of time and distance, and capture the flux between the immediacy of and the detachment from felt moments.

Near and Far

Zolynas, Al

From a writer whose honesty and humor find the beauty in the terrible, and the terrifying in the beautiful, come 41 poems and 15 short stories — the product of a lifetime of sharp-edged observation.

Foundlings and Other Misfits

Literature & Fiction

Gilson, Estelle

World Literature

A sweeping exploratory foray ? 127 poems in 10 sections ? through different worlds (real and imagined) and different states of mind, from the clear-sighted judgment of a lifetime of experience to the muddle of bipolar whirlwinds.

Poet in a Pin-stripe Suit

Mower, Jay M.

United States

A new poetry collection, the second from this author, containing 61 poems, including one that received Honorable Mention in the Steve Kowit Poetry Prize 2018. Lyrical, inventive, alternating focus from the imagined to the actual, and asking the reader to choose which is more real, these poems paint an interior landscape as vivid as the view outside the window.

The Rake

Jonas, Shannon Tate

This tribute to the poets was born in March 2020, during the beginning weeks of California's stay-at-home orders for the COVID-19 pandemic. Poets Underground, a community of poets who perform weekly at Amplified Ale Works Acid Vault room in San Diego, continued to meet online, expressing their raw emotions and hardships in lockdown. The intense missing of in-person connections led to the coining of the catch phrase and title of this anthology. Divided into five sections, each dealing with different phases of the challenges the pandemic created, this volume features 134 poems from 72 poets. With shifts in the political and the emotional since April, these poems reflect only the first month of lockdown, and life in the world post-COVID-19.

Fuck Isolation: A Tribute to the COVID-19 Experience

Rey, Sunny

Anything for a Dull Moment

Klam, Michael

An anthology of 82 poems from 11 collections, spanning 40 years, features some of Steve Kowit's best-known work and several previously uncollected gems..

Poems that Speak to Us: Selected Poems of Steve Kowit

Kowit, Steve

From a beach town childhood in Santa Monica to becoming a grandmother in a secluded San Diego valley, these 104 poems, all previously published in distinguished literary journals, weave a memoir of struggle, desire, loss, and acceptance.

The Woman with Newspaper Shoes

Perry, Penny

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