POETRY  

 NEW  Dimming Radiance   (2008)  Dan Stryk

 NEW  Persistence of Vision  (2008)  C. Lynn Shaffer, winner of the Morehead State University New Writers Award.

 NEW  Toy Firing Squad  (2008) by Tom Chandler, Poet Laureate of Rhode Island emeritus.
   
 NEW  What Space This Body   (2008)  "J.C. Todd writes with deep feeling about the bonds between people, the oneness of marriage partners, and the ties between herself and natural things."  --- Grace Schulman

Talking Underwater  (2007)  by Sally Bliumis-Dunn.  "To call Talking Underwater a magnificent first book is to do gravely insufficient justice to the scope and rigor of Bliumis-Dunn's voice, which is not just mature but triumphant."  --- Vijay Seshadri 

America! What's My Name?  (2007) edited by Frank X Walker. The "other" poets unfurl the flag.

Where Roots Echo  (2007) by Mary Caskey.  "Mary's reflections are both mature and playful, delighting us with fresh imagery and turns of phrases."  --- Christine Swanberg

Her Secret Dream (2007) by Rita Quillen.  New and selected poems. "Quillen has a memorable voice, and in these songs she makes vivid a world now mostly gone." --- Robert Morgan
   
To Catch an Autumn (2007) by Billy C. Clark.  Trotlines, joe boats, moon-eyed hounds, double-bottom plows, rocky hillsides, and Big Sandy baptizings---Clark has known them all.
   
Catalpa -- poems by George Ella Lyon. (new 2007 second edition)  Winner of the 1993 Appalachian Writers Association "Book of the Year" award. "Never trivial, she writes of things that matter--birth, death, family, community. . . her metaphors are always vivid and fresh, and often brilliant... Lyon's poems are visions to which art has given voice."  --- Jim Wayne Miller
   
Breathing in Darkness  (2006) by Ted Olson.  "The spare, distilled poems in Breathing in Darkness have in them both the beauty and the dread of being. These excellent poems are 'deep in life,' in D. H. Lawrence's phrase, and they take the racing pulse both of the self and of the world" ---Richard Wilbur
   
What Feeds Us  (2006)  Diane Lockward explores the feminine mystique in her second full-length collection of sensual and imaginative poems. Winner of the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize.
  
Cross this Bridge at a Walk (2006)  Jared Carter's fourth collection of poems.  His poems of Mississinewa County reach out to the stories, myths, and recollections of an entire continent.  Winner of the Indiana Best Poetry Book of 2006 Award.
  
Appalachian Studies (2006) by Anne Shelby.  There's a gentle humor in these poems, but don't let that fool you. Roiling just beneath the surface is a fierce intelligence and sense of what is, and what ought to be.  

Felt Along the Blood -- New and Selected Poems  by Harry Brown, edited and with a foreword by Steven Cope.  "Grainy, pungent, assertive, rough-humored, and deeply honest... integrities as unyielding as the world they inhabit."   —Fred Chappell   
    
Five Terraces (2005)  by Ann Fisher-Wirth.  "I'm dazzled and overjoyed by this book. The two extended sequences, 'Walking Wu Wei's Scroll' and 'The Trinket Poems,' are in utter contrast to each other except that both are breathtaking."  —Alicia Ostriker  
  
Lives of the Poem (2005)  by Richard Hague. "It is the book I've long been seeking for my poetry workshops." --- Claude Clayton Smith, Ohio Northern University   
      
Who Walks Among the Trees with Charity (2005)  by Christine Swanberg. "delightful exaltations of synesthetic metaphor . . . words that come together with an inalienable rightness." ---Robert C. Jones, Mid-America Poetry Review    
    
Moon Dogs (2005)  by Edmund August. These poems have a pull to them that is as sure and irresistible as the moon. Like the proverbial blacksmith's horseshoe, they heat from the inside out." --- Richard Taylor, author of Earth Bones and Girty.  Finalist for the Kentucky Literary Award for Poetry. 
      
Crow! -- The Children's Poems (2005) by Steven R. Cope.  "If Wordsworth met up with Dr. Seuss somewhere in Eastern Kentucky, and setting out to write poems together, they ran smack dab into James Still and Ogden Nash, you might end up with something as funny, surprising, and generally delightful as Crow !"  ---Anne Shelby   
    
Prayers for Comfort in Difficult Times (2004) by Marguerite Bouvard. "Illness inspires what is deepest in us. This book is filled with insights into the nature of soul, and how, we can connect to the eternal in times of need." —Reverend Samuel Oliver, author of What the Dying Teach Us: Lessons on Living.  
    
Among Wordless Things (2004) by Ron Houchin. Winner of the Appalachian Writers Association's Book of the Year Award in poetry. "Ron Houchin's poems do one of the most important things I always thought the "modern" lyric could do-- I just never expected to see so much of it in one place... they're real acts of magic, & I say 'real' because they actually hang in the air when you've just finished reading them."  ---Dow Mossman, author of The Stones of Summer.  
     
The Woman Who Has Eaten The Moon (2004) by Lucinda Grey.  "That such a writer knows so much about love's labors and losses proves unnerving--and thrilling." ---Alan Michael Parker.   "Grey's poetry is flamenco, the stuff of small dark bars in which a slightly seedy dancer stamps out to gypsy guitar, the twinned rhythms of love and lament." ---Lola Haskins.  
    
Poetry as Prayer -- Appalachian Women Speak  (2004) edited by Denise R. McKinney.   Appalachian women explore and celebrate their spirituality to discover the sacredness and inspiration to be found in everyday life.   
     
The Tongue  (2004) poems by Tom C. Hunley.  "The tongue will tell you all the lies you want to hear. But it will also tell you everything you need to know, and that's Tom Hunley's specialty. ---David Kirby.   
     
Clover's Log (2004) by Steven R. Cope.  This second collection of poetry from Cope, "authentic to its core, is a lovely elegy for childhood, love, family, animals, land, and self." ---Joe Survant   "The book rings with an iron elementalism and flinty nerve that captivates." ---Michelle Boisseau   
    
The Singing of the Wheels -- Poems From Somewhere Not Far (2004) by J. Brian Long.  First collection of poems from a remarkable Tennessee poet.  "Long proves himself an exceptional craftsman." ---Ron Rash.  
  
Afternoon in the Country of Summer -- New and Selected Poems (2003) by Charles Semones.  Winner of the Kentucky Literary Award for poetry.  "It is time to celebrate the range and achievement of Charles Semones' poems." ---Robert Morgan.  "This work strikes at the deep heart's core." ---Jeff Daniel Marion    
          
Eve's Red Dress  (2003) poems by Diane Lockward. Poems with "an elemental, sexy, womanly energy..." ---Gray Jacobik  "Her work ... is a pure delight." ---Baron Wormser    
   
 In Killdeer's Field (2002) by Steven R. Cope, 99 pages, $12.00 softcover.  Poet, musician, song and story writer, Steven Cope's long-awaited first collection of poetry.  
     
Shifting for Myself (2002) by Charlie Hughes, 105 pages, $12.00 softcover.  Poems in a variety of forms including free verse, narrative, and the villanelle.  Hughes’ analytical yet wry view of life and his joy in the sound and use of words result in poems which inform and delight.  
     
The Chinese Poet Awakens (1999) by Jeff Daniel Marion, 56 pages, $12.50 softcover, $35.00 limited edition hardcover. (illustrations by Elizabeth Ellison)  "Grounded in the regional, these poems have rooted deep, all the way to China.  They wake us to a homeplace that is much bigger than we thought." --George Ella Lyon     "These poems leave us with a sense of the fresh and the timeless." --Robert Morgan
       
Hard Love by Charles Semones.  73 pp, 1994. Poems of strife and redemption. You'll come away changed.
        
    
  ANTHOLOGIES  
          
Crossing Troublesome -- 25 Years of the Appalachian Writers Workshop (2002) edited by Leatha Kendrick & George Ella Lyon with a preface by Robert Morgan, $20.00.  Personal reminiscences, photographs, tributes and vignettes from the Appalachian Writers Workshop -- published in celebration of the Workshop's 25th anniversary.  
       
Tobacco -- A Literary Anthology (2004) edited by Edmund August.  A collection of stories, poems, and essays which elucidate the role of tobacco in the economy, culture, and mythology of Kentucky and the tobacco- growing region. 
   
Best of Wind edited by Steven Cope and Charlie Hughes. 220 pp, 1994. Quentin Howard's selections of his favorite fiction and poetry from a twenty-two-year tenure as editor of Wind Magazine