Martin Galvin's work reminds us that poems say things the way most people would say them if only they could. In conversation with the reader, many of these poems have a voice that rings with a slight Irish lilt, echoing his boyhood neighborhood in Philadelphia. But rising out of that, the voice is almost always quirky and folksy, angular and hooked, and yet somehow surprising and tender and lyrical. -Rod Jellema

Sounding the Atlantic

Literature & Fiction

Galvin, Martin

Poetry

Broadkill River Press

Mary Ann Larkin's book captures the intertwining of sensuality and spirituality, of physical and spiritual longing, in poems that wed narrative to lyric. They are always alive and surprising. Above all they are poems of love-of the body, the physical world, of friends, the past, the incomprehensible stars-that remain compassionate and clear-eyed beginning to end. -Jean Nordhaus

That Deep and Steady Hum

Larkin, Mary Ann

Maryanne Khan's work has an astonishing range, whether she is writing about rural peasants in old Italian villages or hard-scrabble dirt farmers in outback Australia or disaffected housewives in the United States. She handles human emotions with an ability unmatched.

Domain of the Lower Air

Khan, Maryanne

Women's Fiction

Rick Peabody's latest collection of poetry is a testament to the many facets of his career. Though Peabody is a writer, poet, publisher, editor and long-time literary maven who has dedicated a large part of his own life to promoting other writers, especially young and/or emerging writers, this one-time wunderkind of American letters' own style has matured and his work has taken on a depth and complexity, and the richness of a fine vintage.

Speed Enforced by Aircraft

Reference

Peabody, Richard

Writing, Research & Publishing Guides

<p>Exquisitely made, lyrical, yet unpretentious, Mary Ann Larkin's Gannon Street evokes the complexities of a black neighborhood and its relationship with a sole white resident, with all the poignance of a novel, but with a gifted poet's miraculous economy. We know these characters, their dreams, frustrations, acts of ordinary kindness, in all four dimensions, but above it all there's a visionary fifth dimension hovering, showing a wisdom and imagination of the highest order, making Gannon Street a place not to be missed in anyone's tour of America. Alan Feldman, author of Immortality</p>

On Gannon Street

"I make days into threads that tether me to forgiveness/and offer no certainty. I can't let truth/be only truth." Dutiful Heart is a beautiful collection of surprising and moving poems recording with grace and gravitas the shift between generations, friendships and hope.

Dutiful Heart

Joy Gaines-Friedler

Lemon Light

H. A. Maxson

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