Gold Passage

Literature & Fiction

Dunkle, Iris Jamahl

Poetry

Trio House Press

"Winner of the 2012 Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence."

Clay

Groff edi, David

If You're Lucky Is a Theory of Mine

Mauch, Matt

From the Back Cover\nIn these artful poems, Steven Riel conjures a gay boy's coming-of-age as well as the cultural referents that anchor one gay man's identity. Riel imagines Tennyson's grief at the death of his friend Arthur Hallam and Ishmael's thoughts after sharing a bed with Queequeg in persona pieces of astonishing compassion. Riel's scope includes "drag queens, who glue themselves together/ follicle by mannerism by phrase" and an ailing friend--"the raw/ toothpick you've become." I admire Riel's pacing, precise language and unflinching gaze. 
---Robin Becker, author of Domain of Perfect Affection\nThe witty, poignant, exuberant poems in Steven Riel's first collection celebrate the life and observations of "a man / with a strapless imagination / whose armoires are endless / & hold all that he might need." The reveling in gay experience calls up all sorts of poetic "fellow odd fellows," from Walt Whitman to Frank O'Hara, whose rapturous voices are echoed here. 
---John Drury, author of The Refugee Camp\nFellow Odd Fellow is a book Melville's Ishmael might have written if he'd lived in our times. What I particularly love about the poet Steven Riel is what I love about Ishmael; he is able to be sociable with the horrors of this world--the politics of prejudice, the persistence of injustice, the ruthlessness of disease. This book's unflinching honesty and quiet elegance invite us to sail as far as our imagination will let us. 
---Christopher Bursk, author of The First Inhabitants of Arcadia\nSteven Riel's Fellow Odd Fellow delineates the outsider--the odd man out--and transforms that role into a great odyssey of the mind. These poems aren't just fabulous, however: they overflow with sympathy and humor. With the outsider's keen perception Riel plays, mourns, and rejoices. These poems offer all that we might need with the ultimate reassurance that, here and now, we've "aligned / Where with What" we want to be. 
---Elizabeth Robinson, author of Blue Heron

Fellow Odd Fellow

Riel, Steven

Winner of the 2015 Peace Corps Writers Best Poetry Book

The Consolations

Self-Help

Evans, John W.

Relationships

Flight of August

Eby, Lawrence

"Winner of the 2014 Louise Bogan Award for Artistic Merit and Excellence."

The Alchemy of My Mortal Form

Longhorn, Sandy

What the Night Numbered

Tice, Bradford

Your Immaculate Heart

O'Connell, Annmarie

Carolyn Hembree's second poetry collection, Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague, was selected by Neil Shepard for the 2015 Trio Award and by Stephanie Strickland for the 2015 Marsh Hawk Press Rochelle Ratner Memorial Award. The book is a sequence of poems arranged like a truck owner's manual. Set in rural Appalachia, "a truck up on concrete blocks" functions as time machine for V. Cleb, an accursed wanderer trapped and liberated by the limits of his world. When spiritual and material realms commingle, visions of cosmic significance are revealed. Biblical cadences, elliptical phrasing, and a deep-rooted vernacular distinguish the voice of these poems. "Through wormhole after wormhole," the book inscribes a landscape visceral, haunted, afflicted, afflicting.

Rigging a Chevy into a Time Machine and Other Ways to Escape a Plague

Hembree, Carolyn

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