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Sonnets that examine questions of faith. Winner of the 1998 Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize presented by the Academy of American Poets.

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"Right Livelihood is full of both a hard-earned reverence and a refreshing irreverence. . . . The poems are 'expecting something to happen, ' even on ... More

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Co-winner of the 1997 Nicholas Roerich Poetry Prize, a first book award dedicated to discovering and presenting new poets. At turns witty, stark, ... More

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Thiel describes her first collection as a reflection of "the locations that echo in the world--the physical and emotional ruins left by war" and ... More

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Former U.S. Poet Laureate Mark Strand writes poems that weave between abstraction and the detailed particulars of actual experience. His poems are ... More

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"These new poems . . . deliver the typical Tate-esque trope de grace to all sanctimonious poses and stodgy cogitation, all verdigris-encrusted mental ... More

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Poetess May Sarton takes on the subject of herself in old age. Here are her observations and reflections on daily events, on the larger questions of ... More

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Poet Janet Sylvester melds themes of the historical, sexual, and political to create a provocative and moving map of America. This is a bold second ... More

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A personal journey through faith and history, wherein anger is redeemed through passion and art.

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The centerpiece of this collection, "Elegy for My Sister," is a sequence of poems on the suicide of the poet's sister in which he gathers, piece by ... More

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The winner of this year's Yale Series of Younger Poets competition is Peter Streckfus's The Cuckoo, chosen by competition judge and Poet Laureate ... More

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The poems in "Mrs. Dumpty" are about "a great fall," the dissolution of a long and loving marriage, but they are not simply documentary or elegiac. ... More

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A spiritual journey beginning in memory, its music the song of one who would come through.

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"The deft language and lyric intent of these poems (by acclaimed Pittsburgh poet Robert Gibb) . . . expose the dark, silvery images of a lost world. ... More

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Julie Sheehan's Thaw is the second winner of the annual Poets Out Loud Prize for a book of poetry published each year by Fordham University Press in ... More

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Liz Waldner's bold new collection takes its title and its inspiration from Definition 1 of Euclid's Elements of Geometry. Its six sections -- point, ... More

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In small Boat Lesle Lewis's craft rides the waves of the New England landscape both internal and external. If her world is a collage, as she says, ... More

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In "The Penultimate Suitor" Mary Leader strips away comfortable layers of poetic self-protection to arrive at a position of acute emotional self ... More

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The first full-length collection in many years by an award-winning poet whose work has appeared in "The Atlantic," "The New Yorker," "The Nation," ... More

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The many meanings of "economy" are the ground for the mediation and lament of Ledger, Susan Wheeler's fourth book. In its Greek origins, economy ... More

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Winner of 2004 Agnes Lynch Starrett Poetry Prize. These artful, yet accessible poems are concerned with the body, desire, anxiety, and obsession--how ... More

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