Working Voices is a collection of sixty-two American monologues, most of themby speakers whose work is necessary for our way of life to exist, amongthem a kindergarten teacher, waitress, pallbearer, plumber, electrician, clown, oboist, fisherman, sawyer,temp worker and others modestly recompensed, but not excluding otherswho work, such as billionaires and a hit man. Variant sonnets permitgreat diversity in attitude. Each portrait shows a character in acontext, suggesting an aspect of American society, insuch a way as to point to underlying connectivity that, all considered,amounts to an implicit argument for solidarity.

Working Voices

Literature & Fiction

Heffernan, Thomas

Poetry

St. Andrews University Press

Ezra Pound & the de Rachewiltz Family: Prose, Poetry & Translations (Digital & Print Chapbook Series)

De Rachewiltz, Mary

Literary

The Xanthippe Fragments tells the story of a woman faced with her husband's imminent execution by the State. The year is 399 BCE, the woman Xanthippe, wife of Socrates. Cast into "fragments," the narrative spans roughly thirty days between Socrates' trial and death. Each day Xanthippe visits the shrine of Aphrodite on the Acropolis to receive succor and to leave a token of her affection. She then repairs home to care for her house and children, often chatting with her friend and neighbor Myrto. In the evening she takes a dish of greens to Socrates in prison. Or so the poet, Becky Gibson, imagines. What if Xanthippe were no shrew as her detractors insist but rather a devoted spouse, robust and intelligent, herself something of a talker -- a woman who speaks her mind? The Xanthippe of these pages goes about her daily routine as she must, perhaps out of duty, out of habit, out of the need to fend off despair. The Xanthippe Fragments is a love story, a quiet book in the voice of a woman who teaches herself how to survive.

The Xanthippe Fragments

Gibson, Becky Gould

A moving account in poetry (and some prose) of a son losing his mother to Alzheimer's disease.

My Mother's Gentle Unbecoming: The Absentings of Alzheimer's

Dan Wetmore

A powerful account of Vietnam War Veterans recounting in prose and poetry their experiences before, during, and after the Vietnam War.

Brothers Like These

Bathanti, Joseph

Waiting for the Hurricane is the work of a poet whose powerful voice and storytelling gifts explore deeply dark family secrets, so dark, they make the reader shudder with outrage and pain. These honest poems, the kind that remain with you, are about family in all of its complexities, its love-hate world of birthing, of wake keepings and funerals, its deep secrets and unforgivable sins. This book is urgently necessary. —Patricia Jabbeh Wesley, author of When the Wanderers Come Home

Waiting for the Hurricane

Harrington, Janis

Love Poems for the Socially Anxious & Other Maladies

Iannuzzi, Sophia

Stained Glass is a southern gothic novel narrated by Erin, a curious and intuitive child growing up among eccentric southern characters that she does not always understand. Following her Daddy’s advice, she questions everything around her including the ugly southern norms of the 40s and 50s. She experiences loss and deep grief at a young age and finds solace and escape through books and a vivid imagination that skirts on the magical. As a teen, she is drawn to the unknown and captivated by the mysterious Luke who lives on the edge and sweeps her out of her small Southern town. Their tumultuous journey takes Erin down a path of adultery, deceit, violence and ultimate betrayal. She discovers that love can be destructive. The complex Leah, Erin’s mother, remains a constant in her life, although vacillating between sisterhood and debilitating darkness. Erin’s early nurturing from her father, her spirituality and unconditional love for her children help her survive. Discovering her voice through writing, Erin tells her story of love, forgiveness and healing. ~ Kim Wright Bayha

Stained Glass

Odom, Patsy

Genre Fiction

A grand collection of tales from storytellers J.A. Bolton and Azalea Bolton.

Just Passing Time Together

Bolton, J.A.

Bolton, Azalea

Mythology & Folk Tales

"How Birds Fly" wrestles with fundamental questions of how to adapt to the various roles in which we may find ourselves over the course of a lifetime--that of child, of spouse, of parent. There's nothing coy or hesitating about this collection. Each turn is as unexpected as it is precise, each image as emotionally resonant as it is intellectually complex. "How Birds Fly" is lived, honest, and true. --Charlotte Pense, author of "Many Small Fires""How Birds Fly" is a tender, plain-spoken but impeccably-crafted book of poems that explore honestly what it is to be a father, a son, a husband, an x-ray technician in a hospital where one is daily confronted with pain and mortality. A job that, daily, changes him. Steve Cushman weaves together these themes so skillfully that the poems in the book make a unified whole, each poem flowing into the next. And images of birds, sparrow, hawk, owl, pigeon, sapsucker run like a red thread through the pages holding them further together as if to remind us of the beauty and fragility of those winged creatures. Like life itselfperhaps, as the father tells his small son in one gorgeous poem, "it's like magic, all of it." Each time I read this wonderful book, I loved it more.-Patricia Fargnoli

How Birds Fly (Lena Shull Poetry Competition)

Cushman, Steve

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