Love isn't always pretty, yet most of us choose to remain constant in its pursuit. These poems unwrap the mythos of romance with the clairvoyance of a writer who knows the best and worst of relationships inside and out. LeBlanc dares to honestly show us how even when the best of intentions fail, we can always find beauty if we stay true to the monsters in ourselves.

Beautiful & Full of Monsters

Literature & Fiction

LeBlanc, Courtney

Poetry

Vegetarian Alcoholic Press

"Your Person Doesn't Belong To You is a transformative work, immersed in the intermittence, light, and expansion of character as embodied and voiced by Jeanne d'Arc - who here is a composite of historical figure, main character from Carl Dreyer's 1928 film The Passion of Joan of Arc, and manifestation of Isabel Sobral Campos' skillful and compassionate handle on poetic material. Campos uses a poly-vocal mode of address, a fluid array of changing forms, and an attentiveness to the overlaps and contrasts between relative time and absolute time in order to read and explore the inward movements of consciousness in states of visionary duress. Alchemical in its commitment to giving sonic shape to the near imperceptible, Your Person Doesn't Belong To You is mesmerizing, moving, and strange."- Anselm Berrigan

Your Person Doesn't Belong To You

Humor & Entertainment

Campos, Isabel Sobral

Movies

"Franklin K. R. Cline is a unique, new voice in Native American poetry. His personal and confessional poems celebrate everyday life in all its raw, domestic, and intimate dimensions. Love and sex, beer and buffalo wings, sports and television, the weather and Milwaukee, all appear within memorable lyric and prose poems. In the end, this work reaches to reclaim everything that has been stolen by America: the land, the sky, the rhythms of our humanity." 
--Craig Santos Perez

So What

Cline, Franklin K.R.

David's work focuses on the decay of America. It's empty buildings, lost loves, and wistful memories conjure images filled with hope, fondness, and empathy. These prose poems and sharp images tell personal stories that go straight to the gut.

Grace Takes Me

Crafts, Hobbies & Home

Thompson, David J.

Antiques & Collectibles

When two people’s lives and experiences intersect, they learn to support and love one another, enabling growth and compassion. This is the journey of Peter, a transgender man built from complex relationships and studies of violence, and how he meets Wendy, a queer woman navigating the nuances of mental illness and inner discoveries. Through their connection, they learn to rise from the ashes and rebuild a future for them, one piece at a time.

Peter & The Concrete Jungle

Bee, Maura Lee

This experimental work explores gender, feminism, relationships, and the body through the lens of contemporary roller derby, searching for identity in the fracture of spaces and bones, queer history, inherited/embodied trauma, and our interactions with the/our body.

Unprotected Lexicon

Romance

Chrisbacher, Alexa

Sports

Orooj-e-Zafar is heavily in love with life, though it's clear that often times life is a bad lover. Their depictions of nature, relationships, family, and survival will leave you believing any of us can make it despite the odds.

Heart the Size of a Loosening Fist

Self-Help

Zafar, Orooj E

Death & Grief

Chloe N. Clark's Your Strange Fortune is our good fortune. This debut volume of rare sympathy and imagination leaps easily from myths to monsters, ghosts to zombies, fairy tales to the Apocalypse that, for this poet and so many today, is "just/the fact of life." Clark's inventive, unforgettable voice ranges widely-- from up-to-the-moment poems like "Googolplex," in which curiosity becomes dark compulsion, to the far future when museums feature the relics of our own time: "the things we could not bear/to leave behind us: / pieces of highways, signs/ ...one single spike from Lady/ Liberty's crown." Clark understands that time speeds forward and that myth and popular culture are close kin that offer the songs of ghosts who once were us, "the ones who/ had such beautiful voices but only when/ they thought no one was listening." Like the poet's "clockwork nightingale" whose song is both dystopian and beautiful, Chloe Clark's voice rises above the usual din to bring us a debut volume that is rich with unsettling questions but always unflinchingly alive.
--Ned Balbo, author of The Cylburn Touch-Me-Nots and 3 Nights of the Perseids

Your Strange Fortune

Clark, Chloe N.

Growing up & puberty & body image & sexuality & definitive adolescent moments create a vivid, evocavotive narrative concerning how we come to know and be ourselves. Deglane's unapologetic poetic memoir unfolds a story of feminist triumph that fodder empathy and inspiration.

Bittersweet

Deglane, Wanda

Sermons espouses the holiness and sanctity of our own physical being, holding the human experience in a supernatural light and questioning its existence with both agnosticism and piety. Krollos' examinations of the earthbound condition beg us to believe in ourselves.

Sermons

Krollos, Marream

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