In The Sea Always Near, Warren's poems float above the mesas of Northern New Mexico while also sinking themselves into the problems, and beauty, of the whole planet-from China and Japan back to Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico then to the red dirt and Osage Hills of Oklahoma.Warren is the astronomer of not only the night sky, but also of the quiet reaches and reflected starlight of the New Mexican landscape. He reminds us we are Star Stuff. But he's also a Paleontologist, with a sharp eye on the bones and ancient splendors of the world.These wonderful poems in which "...grace has turned every corner..." and " t]he whiteness of the page / goes on forever" speak to us in needed ways that so much contemporary poetry does not.-Nathan L. Brown, author of Two Tables Over, winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry

The Sea Always Near: new poems

Literature & Fiction

Warren, Stewart S.

Poetry

Mercury HeartLink

"Stewart Warren's writing evokes the mesmerizing landscape in which he lives, the aliveness of its present, the mystery of its past, the seen and the unseen. With unequivocal honesty his words birth stirring and sensuous images, calling for our humanity and deepest compassion. This latest collection of poetry is deeply visceral, stirs the blood, enlivens the skin and provokes the mind..."-Cindy Novelo, Musician and Songwriter

Just One Leaf: poems

Stewart Warren takes on the big themes—the war and peace we carry within us and how these forces play out in our relationships with family, lovers, the earth and the global village. This is a brave book, an unflinching exploration of how we love and fail to love. —Demetria Martinez, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

Atogaki: poems

Celebrating a group of working New Mexico poets from differing generations, ethnicities and cultural settings, the Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2011 includes a variety of forms from the sonnet and villanelle to open verse and slam. Rather than rely on a regional, academic or ideological theme, this collection includes the best poems from a grassroots community that meets monthly in Albuquerque, New Mexico to perform, discuss and appreciate the written and spoken word. The uniqueness and strength of this endeavor resides in the dedication of its participants to value community above all other identifiers. The reader will not only experience the literary qualities inherent in this work but can join with others in the camaraderie and spirit of authentic collaboration.

Fixed and Free: poetry anthology 2011

Brown, Billy

Composed with a voice of authenticity, this collection sings with a celebration of nature. These poems, crafted by visual artist and poet K. K. Cherry, illuminate a path for the reader through some of the more sublime landscapes of the Rocky Mountains, the small and hidden places so often overlooked.    Cherry’s stylistic use of punctuation and enjambment, and her love of alliteration, create a lyric and meditative tone that resonates in the places where we come to befriend ourselves. Consistent in candor with her nature poems, her personal antidotal pieces from childhood paint poignant scenes from a rural America that is not so much hidden as it has vanished.

Meaning of Mountains: poems

Cherry, K. K.

From the minute Carol set out at the crack of dawn for the Albuquerque Hot Air Balloon Fiesta, the colorful excitement and the surprises of the event won her heart and soul. Carol March&#8217;s story begins with the uncanny sight of the Dawn Patrol, three balloons lit from the inside out and floating in the blackness above a sleeping city about to waken to giant orbs rising in the clear New Mexican sky. We experience the careful planning and anticipatory excitement of spectators, chase crews and safety directors called &#8220;Zebras,&#8221; as they prepare for launch. And we watch as Carol, a reluctant bystander who is determined to never step aboard a basket about to be lofted into the air, is confronted with an invitation&#8212;and a challenge no one expected.Accompanying Carol&#8217;s narrative of high adventure are the photographs of Bill Pearson, a videographer and skydiver with over 900 jumps. His keen eye for spatial context cause these full color images of the fiesta to lift the reader right off the page. Ceremony at Dawn is your escort through the wondrous ritual of hot air ballooning, and may well serve as your invitation.

Ceremony at Dawn: Hot Air Balloon Adventure

Sports & Outdoors

March, Carol Shelton

Miscellaneous

After seeing an inmate interviewed on a television program Mary began writing to inmates in state prisons.  A few years later in a prison visiting room she met Mark.  Mark was twenty-five and serving twenty-to-life for a liquor store robbery that went bad and ended in murder.  Mary, a college student, became enamored by the long and beautiful letters he wrote.  She didn’t know that this murder, the death of someone she never knew, would become a transforming power in her life more than thirty years later.

After the Murder: My Affair With a Felon

Politics & Social Sciences

Van Pelt, Mary Elizabeth

Women's Studies

In this new collection of 91 poems written in the first half of 2011 earth, wind, fire and water are Stewart Warren&rsquo;s muses. Each image has for its ground of being, one of these elements and each one makes his poems sing. Likewise, many of his poems are grounded in a kind of spiritual renaissance: whether or not he&rsquo;s speaking of loss, of blood, of guilt, of love, or trees, rivers and ghosts, in Stewart&rsquo;s hard-earned southwest rhythms, they not only continue to sing, &ldquo;they will just keep circling&rdquo;. There are some beautiful, tough, big-spirited things going on in this book. In his landscapes, the echoes often return, and when they do, there is something to be learned and shared. 
&mdash;John Macker, poet 
Author of Underground Sky and 
Woman of the Disturbed Earth

Follow Hawk: poems for thriving

Piggybacked is a collection of poems that evokes universal experiences of beauty, pain, suffering, longing, joy, mirth, dreams, and nightmares, allowing the reader a glimpse into the unorthodox world view of the poet. With thought-provoking imagery, these poems delve into the paradoxes of our own human existence. The inspiration for this book came from the author's relationship with her late grandfather, also a poet, and their individual quests for freedom. The title of the book is an expression of ancestral ties that bind us through the generations.

Piggybacked: poems

Bodin, Joanne S.

Set in a ghost town in California's Mojave Desert, Seeing Into Stone: A Sculptor's Journey is a memoir about the author's struggle with flaws in her vision, her carvings and her new marriage as she searches for her identity as an artist. Through her fifteen-year apprenticeship with Gordon Newell, a wise and patient stone sculptor, she learns that carving stone and wood can be understood as a metaphor for life: go with the grain and not against it; trust that the form inside will emerge in its own good time; and realize that understanding comes slowly, chip by chip.

Seeing Into Stone: A Sculptor's Journey

Biographies & Memoirs

Park, Kathy

Arts & Literature

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