The tender, alert, searching scenes Gary Beaumier puts into his second volume of poetry, Dented Brown Fedora, will make any reader pause, sink back down to ear, eye, skin, drink in every breath, blade, and branch. He holds words in his palms, strokes them. His lines are not just vividly imagined. They have an uncanny ability to become a stethoscope by which we listen in to many hearts and hear how a landscape's heart beats.

Dented Brown Fedora

Literature & Fiction

Beaumier, Gary

Poetry

UnCollected Press

"It is no small thing, this casting," Joel Peckham writes of fishing, but it might be any action described in this book. Whether these characters and speakers are shoveling asphalt, trying and failing to pop a wheelie, or engaged in contentious flirtation, they are fully aware both of their unredeemed bodies and the horizons the spirit senses but can only aspire to. In long, sinewy lines or flowing prose poems, Peckham casts a loving but unsentimental gaze over his subjects. Here is a poet who writes with the eye of a seer, one whose lines arouse the lyric fury available only to those poets who have thoroughly mastered their craft

MUCH

Peckham, Joel

In this suite of 25 interconnected poems, Jason Gerrish through his speaker Hal Lavoie, takes up a solitary residence in a Fleetwood trailer on a farm off Old State Road to teach himself to write. Old State Road represents Hal's struggle to make sense of his previously squandered life and his attempt to chisel it into Art. Brad Dalton's accompanying 25 ambrotype and tintype photographs of dilapidated rural scenes reinforce Gerrish's idea of time having slipped away and is captured in his stark, artistic images

Old State Road

Gerrish, Jason

It's as if Deborah Rosch Eifert's soul is writing this book, egging it on, awe driven and cheering, reminding us that rebirth is everywhere around us and within us. Her words are luscious, keenly poignant, and laden with imagery. It is a book of wisdom and it is a book of personal forgiveness as Eifert shows us how to become the ocean/that lives within [our] skin. Sewn from Water is an incredible poetic tribute to female strength and the human spirit.- Claire Hersom, author of Drowning: A Poetic Memoir and Dreamscape - Moon Pie PressHow can we bear the hurt that it is to be human? Eifert turns her attention to the natural world and the self, demonstrating the fluidity of existence where the power of jays, oceans, pines, barnacles can perform a kind of alchemy to make the heart whole. 	- Susan Grimm, past Ohio Poet of the Year; Runner-up 2020 Wilder Prize; author, Roughed Up by the Sun's Mothering Tongue - Finishing Line PressIn Sewn from Water, Deborah Rosch Eifert offers the reader not only a picture of the infinite and myriad negotiations between the self and the world that surrounds it, but also, in lush, visual language, a lyrical grimoire full of instructions on how that self, by virtue of connecting to often archetypal sources of energy and power, can shore itself up for the challenges to come.	- Jenny E. Drai, author, The New Sorrow Is Less Than the Old Sorrow and Wine Dark - Black Lawrence Press

Sewn from Water

Eifert, Deborah Rosch

Arts & Photography

At its finest, poetry contains multitudes, an infinite depth within a few short lines. The poems contained in Farewell Clay Dove have an intriguing simplicity that harmonizes with their richness. These poems show remarkable insight into the Falco's subjective world.Sophia Falco's world is a dreamy land of swirling colors - until it is upended. Farewell Clay Dove is a meditation on mania, when every levitation brings an inevitable fall. The contrast between idyllic nature scenes and harsh reality propels the book forward on a wave of bright color and intense perception. Dandelions become astronauts and skyscrapers grow roots, as the speaker moves in and out of reality, and eventually into the psych ward, where they must confront the workings of their own mind.Sophia Falco's new book is wonderful! In reading you will see her progressing toward a powerful revelation. Each section can stand alone, but have more power because of her progression into awareness. My favorite section is "Suspend". The poems here are highly visual. Sophia Falco is very brave.

Farewell Clay Dove

FALCO, SOPHIA

Dreamscapes

GOFFMAN, ETHAN

United States

MELLIFLUOUS

IT'S BECOMING A LOT MORE DIFFICULT TO FEEL UNCHANGED

EDELMAN, ADAM

The words of the Silent Sage were mysterious to Rana Kek Kek-"A Marvel of Animal Spirit about to Be." What could that mean? The Sage added in a whisper, "Beware the lake on your Journey to The High Ground at Great Pine. Trout is hungry and Heron stands invisible at the shore." Rana left Story Circle after Koli Bear stopped his story, disrupted by Oti Semper, Borea's ever vigilant owl, bringing his urgent plea to the bear. They must strike out together, at once, to stop Aramook, a raccoon passionate in his beliefs, from taking the Trail To Town, in an ill-conceived, if not deadly attempt to reason with the People of Man, so that the devastation of The Clearing would never happen again. The Sage whispered softly to the kek kek, "The forest brims with the elements at work with exceptional energy, it is true. Something unprecedented is afoot, I tell you this, Little Hopper." Rana, ever the intrepid amphibian, leapt forward into unpredictable adventure, guided by her instinct to hop the esker to The High Ground, commencing a journey of courageous discovery and growth through the consequences of risk and reward.

WHAT THE KEK KEK SAW

LEFFERTS, PIETER

some blue, a little spur

Falcon, Kris

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