Woe & Awe invokes the voices of female ancestors, physical and spiritual, in poems of timeless perspective and contemporary language with fearless depth and beauty.
Poetry
Will There Also Be Singing? contains poems of witness and protest exploring personal culpability in current social injustices and divisions while examining the complicated grief about a land she loves and for whose future she fears.
Uncertain Mythologies deals with our perception of time passing and the moments that establish and accumulate meaning in our lives.
Two Brown Dots explores what it means to be a racially ambiguous, multiethnic, Asian American woman growing up in Kentucky. In stark, honest poems, Quintos recounts the messiness and confusion of being a typical ‘90s kid—watching Dirty Dancing at sleepovers, borrowing eye shadow out of a friend’s caboodle, crushing on a boy wearing khaki shorts […]
The title of this new volume of poetry by upfromsumdirt packs a lot of meaning and intention into a mere three words. It is dedicated to Emmett Till, and more recent Black victims of violence, and is entirely an urgent demand for social justice.
In The Tillable Land, Melva Sue Priddy’s poetry tells the story of a girlhood made of both land and family in midcentury Kentucky. There is a growing up and a coming of age in these poems.
The poems in The Loneliest Whale in the World, have been called “prayers [and] a way to remind us that we are not alone, that there is a world inside this world, and it is beautiful.”
An astonishing collection about interconnectedness—between the human and nonhuman, ancestors and ourselves—from National Book Critics Circle Award winner, National Book Award finalist and U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón.
Marianne Worthington divides Girl Singer into three distinct yet harmonious parts, cantillating local, familial, and personal histories across rural Appalachia.
The Bearable Slant of Light, documents the burden and beauty of mental illness in one family and across this history of writers and artists.
Singing is Praying Twice focuses on five generations of females and the rites of passage inherent in intergenerational connections and makes palpable the musicality amid loss and regret with much singing, dancing, and rejoicing on the page.
This bilingual (Spanish and English) book of poems is about home and notions of home and different kinds of self-portraiture. Among the poems in the collection is a sequence on Albrecht Dürer’s self-portraits that meditates on how we see and interpret the world and how we fashion images of ourselves for others.