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Poetry collection by Karla Marrufo.Translated from the Spanish by Allison A. deFreese.Poet's bio: Karla Marrufo is author of eight books including novels, poetry collections, chapbooks, plays, and works of literary criticism. Her work has won prestigious awards including: Mexico's National Wilberto Cantón Award in Playwriting, the XVI José Díaz Bolio Poetry Prize, and the National Dolores Castro Prize for Women. She also received a fellowship from the Programa de Estímulo a la Creación y al Desarrollo Artístico en Yucatán (the PECDA, or Program for the Expansion and Development of Creativity and the Arts in the Yucatán), which resulted in the publication of her book Mérida lo invisible / Mérida the Invisible (Consejo Editorial de la Secretaría de la Cultura y las Artes de Yucatán). Her recent books of verse include La Dulzura de los naufragios / The Sweetness of Shipwrecks (2020) and Si Mérida tuviera puentes / If Mérida Had Bridges (2021).Translator's bio: Allison A. deFreese is a poet and literary translator whose books of verse include Nurdles and Other Poems (2022) and The Night with James Dean and Other Prose Poems (winner of Cathexis Northwest Press' 2022 chapbook competition). Her translations of Karla Marrufo's work also appear in Another Chicago Magazine, New England Review, SAND Journal Berlin's 10th Anniversary Issue, and other publications. She translated Marrufo's novel Flame Trees in May (Dalkey Archive Press and Deep Vellum Publishing, May, 2023).

Poetry collection by Patrick Wilcox.Patrick Wilcox is from Independence, Missouri, a large suburb just outside Kansas City. He studied English and Creative writing at the University of Central Missouri where he also was an Assistant Editor for Pleiades and Editor-in-Chief of Arcade. He is a three-time recipient of the David Baker Award for Poetry, the 2020 honorable mention of Ninth Letter's Literary Award in Poetry, and grand-prize winner of The MacGuffin's Poet Hunt 26. His work has appeared in Maudlin House, Quarter After Eight, Bangalore, and West Trade Review, among others. He currently teaches English Language Arts at William Chrisman High School."Patrick Wilcox's poems are wonderfully strange. Strange, as in they estrange us from what we think we know of history, of society, of dreams, of love, so that we can truly see these forces and feelings clearly, perhaps for the first time. The poems in Acta are profound and funny, playful and wise. They revel in synesthetic surrealisms and fabulist narratives. They take us on walks through imaginative landscapes with exquisitely lyrical language, always circling back to deeper understandings of truth. Acta delights, inspires, moves, and amazes."-Kathryn Nuernberger, author of RUE¿¿"Patrick Wilcox's Acta may technically be a chapbook, but it has the emotional and intellectual heft of a full-length collection. With titles mostly taken from news headlines, these poems offer public moments as identifiable landmarks-and yet Wilcox is just as interested in the "unreal highways" our bodies "ink . . . onto real maps." His is a fatalistic world of death and ghosts and socio-historical failure-one in which we might be hanged even for our "hollow words" and we too often can't help but choose whatever disasters befall us. But it's also possible, here, for a beloved's fingertips to "sing / across the back of [the speaker's] neck," and if we keep looking hard enough at both history and the accumulating moments of our individual lives, it might be possible to "rename" what we see "until we name it right." This is a powerful and auspicious debut that deserves the fullest attention."-Wayne Miller, author of We the Jury

Poetry Collection by Nadine Hitchiner. Nadine Hitchiner is a German writer and author of the chapbook Bruises, Birthmarks & Other Calamities (Cathexis Northwest Press, 2021). She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize and was named a 2023 Best of the Net Finalist. Her work was published in GASHER, Bending Genres, Hayden's Ferry Review, The Citron Review and others. She lives in her hometown with her husband and their dog."'It's difficult to tell apart what the heart remembers, and what the mind remembers' is a riveting line from Practising Ascending, a collection by Nadine Hitchiner. In this sprawling book Hitchiner disentangles what the heart and mind claim as absence, examines what they carry as grief, and commemorates what they hold as memory. Hitchiner writes a striking, precise line with a haunting, exquisite aesthetic. This is a superb debut."- Jose Hernandez Diaz, author of The Fire Eater, Bad Mexican, Bad American, & The Parachutist."Nadine Hitchiner's collection Practising Ascending is a powerful volume of enchantment and magic. Told with clear-eyed vulnerability and intimacy, Hitchiner takes us on an exploratory journey of family, love, grief, lineage, religion, and daughterhood, each poem painted against the backdrops of food, nature, animal, body, and soft places. I was spellbound by her gorgeous prose and poetry, her quiet disruption of the blank page, each line a satisfying accompaniment to the next. Most of all, I appreciated its center, its emotional core wherein lies Hitchiner and her husband through the various waves of their lives and relationship, enthralling me with each poem and page. By the end of the collection, my role as a reader became clear: to ascend this world into hers." - Sofía Aguilar, author of STREAMING SERVICE: season two "Nadine Hitchiner's Practising Ascending is a collection of poetry that crochets insight and mundanity, lyricism and humor. These poems present a world in which everything banal is beautiful and vulnerability is vital. Hitchiner writes the kind of poems that make other poets say, "I wish I'd written that!" (See: "Self-Portrait as Tinder" and "What Do You Expect Me to Say, Clearly I was Disappointed") Behind her signature dazzling metaphors and similes are beautiful and pulsing truths. This is a hard book to put down."- Lexi Pelle, author of Let Go With The Lights On

Poetry Collection by Valyntina Grenier.Valyntina is a multi-genre eco artist living with her wife in Tucson, Arizona. She works with paint, ink, Neon, encaustic medium, recycled or repurposed materials and words. She is the author of three poetry chapbooks, the tête-bêche Fever Dream/ Take Heart (Cathexis Northwest Press 2020) and In Our Now (Finishing Line Press 2022). Find more of her work at valyntinagrenier.com or find her on Insta @valyntinagrenier.In Honeymoon Shoes, Valyntina Grenier writes "There is always already a war going on / all our dead / all our little deaths." These poems rage against capitalism and brutality, while insisting on tenderness. Following the zigzagging, musical logic of sound and play, they remind us "how lucky to live / to hear a donkey bray." This is a collection and a poet I won't forget. - Susan Nguyen, author of Dear Diaspora ¿¿Valyntina Grenier's Honeymoon Shoes exhibits our doubtfulness in living, in real-time: When catastrophe strikes, we wonder, "What is old, what new?" If the ugliness that surrounds us is not new, then how do we categorize the chaos we've witnessed since 2016? Grenier responds, "The world created us-" and "we make disasters." What can we do with this wildness but admit we are a part of it? How can a white woman speak about her white privilege without centering herself in the very act? She can't. But she can say that she can't, and she can make sure her canvas doesn't stay blank. In "City's Limit," Grenier zooms out to offer an urban overview, reflecting on city planning, urban gardeners working in memory of George Floyd, and the distinct motivations humans harbor to tame nature. Do we plant gardens to make something beautiful? To conquer it? Or, as in Minneapolis, to heal? The geometry of the black man-his cells, building to organs, pulsing blood through lungs-is "perfect," she writes. More perfect than the curated rose, which-can't we all see that rose as the destructive ideal of a so-called gentleman by now? I am wowed by the way the poet asks me to re-see the elements in light of human violence, to consider "the velvet crust the spade turns." - Sara Sams, author of Atom City

Poetry Collection by Naomi Leimsider.Naomi Bess Leimsider has published poems, flash fiction, and short stories in The Avenue Journal, Booth, Anti-Heroin Chic, Wild Roof Journal, Planisphere Quarterly, Little Somethings Press, Syncopation Literary Journal, On the Seawall, St. Katherine Review, Exquisite Pandemic, Orca, Hamilton Stone Review, Rogue Agent Journal, Coffin Bell Journal, Hole in the Head Review, Newtown Literary, Otis Nebula, Quarterly West, The Adirondack Review, Summerset Review, Blood Lotus Journal, Pindeldyboz, 13 Warriors, Slow Trains, Zone 3, Drunkenboat, and The Brooklyn Review.She has been a finalist for the Acacia Fiction Prize, the Saguaro Poetry Prize, and the Tiny Fork Chapbook Contest. In addition, she received a Pushcart Prize nomination in 2022.She teaches creative and expository writing at Hunter College/CUNY

Coming To Terms.Poetry by Peter Sagnella. Peter Sagnella lives with his wife and sons in North Haven, Connecticut, where he has taught Composition, Poetry, and Environmental Literature for twenty-two years. A Pushcart nominee and Edwin Way Teale Writer-in-Residence, his work has been exhibited at the Yale School of Forestry and appeared in many journals, most recently Wild Roof, Cagibi, New Limestone Review, and Sho.

Poetry by Louis Efron.A beautiful creation of song and scar, of emotional complexity and simple witness, Louis Efron's debut collection The Unempty Spaces Between mingles the natural and human worlds in a series of accessible, personal, universal poems. From lush to bare, the landscapes he presents us with are so intertwined with and impacted by our actions that we realize the two have always been one. Brimming with meditations deep as winter snow and boundless compassion and curiosity, these vibrant poems remain grounded in a universal familiarity that opens us up to something greater. John Sibley Williamsauthor of As One Fire Consumes Another Louis Efron's collection The Unempty Spaces Between reveals a reverence for nature and personal connection that reminds us of Mary Oliver's gorgeous nature poems. He uses language beautifully to tell us that tides "scar the sand," "petals color the earth/a sweet jazz composition," and "death can be a beautiful thing . . . unleashing the pent-up coil spring." These poems are a deep meditation on emptiness and the searching soul. Karol Nielsenauthor of Small LifeThe Unempty Spaces Between by Louis Efron is a refreshing work of poetry. Refreshing is the respect given to the craft of poetry. In the poetic world, where prose poetry dominates the landscape, it's refreshing to read poems marked by form and end-rhymes; notwithstanding, the journey the reader will take processing the metaphoric. Evidence of form, rhyme, and the metaphoric are signified in the poems Lost, A Candle with Two Wicks, and Spaces Between, to name a few. This work of poetry is worthy of a good read and the time of those who enjoy serious writing. Emmett Wheatfallauthor of Our Scarlet Blue WoundsHaunting, harrowing and frighteningly incisive, Louis Efron's dark narrative poems incite terror, provoke gut wrenching memories and invite personal reflection. A nightmarish adventure-what could be better? The Unempty Spaces Between is one of my favorite afternoon reads in a decade. In his own words, "a poetic inferno," but to my mind it's "a welcome assault on the senses."Jim Volz, Ph.D.Editor, Shakespeare Theatre Association's Quarto

Ellen White Rook is a poet and contemplative arts teacher who divides her time between upstate New York and Maine. Retired from a career as an information technology manager, she now offers writing workshops and leads retreats that combine meditation, movement, and writing. She also teaches Japanese flower arranging in the Sogetsu tradition. Ellen holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from Lindenwood University and has been twice nominated for the Pushcart Prize. Suspended is her first collection of poetry. She is married and has three adult daughters. To read more of her work, visit her website at ellenwhiterook.com.The poems in Suspended surprise and stretch the imagination, delve into edges and margins, mystery. In these in-between places Ellen White Rook seeks clarity that aligns with essential elements of being. Loss and hope intermingle - "the oracle leaves / footprints in water that turn to ice." Sadness is mitigated by creating: "we cannot help but make another story even in the infinity of absence." Humor is part of this whole. The poet wakes hearing an "unruly bird" in the night, only to discover the noise is - I'll let you find that out for yourself.- Katrinka Moore, author of Diminuendo¿¿¿¿¿¿¿Join White Rook's "finite but expanding" journey-what she calls "the edge of me"-where she "thinks about the unstoppable." Discover "the sound of light/enveloping/the moon" in a thrush.Listen with her to "the chirrup of the spheres" in the night. Witness "fires, big as nations." Suspended explores "memories of what we ignored," ancient and personal.White Rook's collection positions us in that liminal space in which we each find ourselves-in that transitional moment of the present, conscious of our forebears, speculating about the future.-Dawn Marar, Author of Efflorescence¿¿¿¿¿In Ellen White Rook's collection Suspended...words spoken hang/in myths/knife-silver light sits on murky water/not a reflection but the place/ between object and impression/at the edge...The poems begin with the death of a father and end with the birth of a grandchild, and in between, ask and elaborate in elegantly crafted language and startling imagery the central questions of being: What is it to be "awake?" How can we find what pulses under thought, the liminal spaces where new truths and new vision can be perceived? How can we see brokenness and death as a portal to a new state of being? How do we live life with the knowledge of death to come? In "Use Caution," the speaker asks, Is there a seed I might nurture/in my hard self/the way bones cultivate/marrow? And the poems shift from the body as landscape to landscape as the body, as the poet looks for what might last while also perceiving disruptions and brokenness as windows to beauty and new being.-Susan E. Oringel, author of My Coney Island

Poetry by Chim Sher Ting.Originally from a sunny tropical island in Southeast Asia, Sher Ting is a Singaporean-Chinese currently residing in Australia. She is a 2021 Pushcart and Best of The Net nominee, in addition to being a 2021 Writeability Fellow with Writers Victoria and a finalist in The New York Times Asia-Pacific Writing Competition. She has work published in OSU The Journal, Pleiades, The Pinch, Rust and Moth and elsewhere. Her work speaks of themes of dislocation/dissociation, loneliness/loss and memory/nostalgia. She hopes, through her work, to highlight oft-rejected narratives of minority identity, in addition to exploring the plurality of the body and identity. She can be found at sherting.carrd.coWhat does it mean to be Chinese when your version of culture is different from your grandparents'?What does it mean to be Chinese in an anglo-centric society?BODIES OF SEPARATION is an exploration of identity and relationships with one's home country through the lens of language, incorporating themes of loneliness/loss and memory/nostalgia while confronting larger issues of race, culture and heritage. It seeks to erase the borders between English and Chinese poetry, that the words may find their measure of home in the nexus of two identities.'Our names were all expanse/ 2718 miles and the length of an umbilical cord,' reads the opening poem of Sher Ting's astounding collection BODIES OF SEPARATION. It is merely the first instance of candor and beauty in a book rife with such lightning-bright revelations. These poems are a tender missive to all the liminal places a body in migration passes through to meet itself: in yearning, in languages lost or retrieved, in spaces that hold us conditionally. There is an undeniable, oceanic pull to these poems, and Sher Ting is a writer I trust to sweep me out into wild currents where anything is possible- and back again to safety. - Jihyun Yun, Author of Some Are Always HungryAn assured debut that feels more like a full-length collection than a chapbook in its impressive amplitude and depth, a mature, meditative voice with a beautiful tone and lyrical pitch that give these explorations of diasporic themes a compelling freshness of insight and imagination. Especially exquisite are the graceful cadences that enable each poem to find its measure and home between the borders of two languages. - Boey Kim Cheng, Author of Between Stations: Essays and The Singer and Other PoemsIn this vibrant, valiant collection, Sher Ting excavates the complexities of coming from multiple countries, dual languages, and diverse influences... Often writing on dislocation and the isolation created by brute forces, Sher Ting bravely denounces the interrelated structures and cruelties of racism and bigotry. Painting with a masterfully defiant brush, Sher Ting cleverly brings us into her world of clashing realities, identities, and idols and asks: "Why does our existence/ have to be a fight?" Sher Ting is an electrifying, singular voice in poetry; a rising star. Go read this book! - Jose Hernandez Diaz, Author of The Fire Eater & Bad Mexican, Bad American

David Alexander McFarland was born April 29, 1948 in Shelbyville, Tennessee, but spent most of his childhood in Cullman, Alabama at the Childhaven Children's home run by The Church of Christ. He found refuge in books as a child, and that continued throughout his life, whether he was serving with the Airforce in Thailand during the Vietnam War or working on the line at the Chrysler plant in Alabama. After graduating from the University of Alabama, Huntsville, he went to Iowa to earn an MFA in Creative Writing at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. While in Rock Island, Illinois to see UAH professor and mentor H.E.Francis at a local writers' conference, he met Julie Coyne Johnston, and they spent the next 37 years together. He continued to write, mostly short stories, but also a novel, essays, and poetry. He was a "stay at home dad," writing during the children's naps and teaching English and Literature part time at Blackhawk College, Scott Community College, and Augustana College, among others. Upon retirement, he was named Adjunct Professor Emeritus at Blackhawk College. In addition to his life as a reader, writer, and teacher, David was a devout Christian, a beekeeper, cooking enthusiast, competitive swimming official, fisherman, and music lover.David Alexander McFarland published essays, fiction and poetry internationally, in print and online. Nominated for The Pushcart Prize, he also was short listed for the Iowa Short Fiction Award and won a Highly Commended citation for the 2020 Bridport Prize in England. He taught at literary workshops, especially those organized by what was to become The Midwest Writing Center. In later years, he concentrated almost exclusively on poetry.In 2018 David was diagnosed with stage 4 pancreatic cancer, and many of the poems he produced during the two and a half years of his illness were written in the car during the 250 mile drive to Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota where he underwent cancer treatment. He continued to write well into the final weeks before his death on December 6, 2020.

In language spare and subtle as a Zen painting, Andrew Dugan deftly limns the contours of obsession, and the vision that emerges from his attention - from tracking dreamlike chimeras, wondering and weighing self-worth all the way, wanting and not wanting to escape - is deep and broad and flashing with insight.Richard Hoffman, author of Noon until NightLike Blake's proverbial Tyger, the Hound that stalks through the poems of A.R. Dugan's Wanted: Comedy, Addicts also burns in one of "the forests of the night." In this case, the forest is the wilds of addiction with all of its fearful and bewildering asymmetries. Dugan's book is a harrowing and moving performance.Daniel Tobin, author of Blood Labors

High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXXIII contains 90+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire.

High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXXI (June 2021) contains 80+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XXXI showcases 20 Artists/Authors fromLake Oswego, OregonSeattle, Washington Menomonie, Wisconsin Cleveland, OhioLisbon, New HampshireSomerville, MassachusettsBoston, Massachusetts Milford, ConnecticutNew York, New YorkWall, New JerseyPhiladelphia, PennsylvaniaGreenville, South Carolina Smyrna Beach, FloridaMurfreesboro, TennesseeDallas, TexasAustin, TexasSan Diego, CaliforniaSanta Monica, California  Kowloon, Hong KongNijmegen, The Netherlands

Poetry collection by d. e. fulford. d.e fulford is a writer and English instructor at Colorado State University. She earned master''s degrees in both creative writing and education and is in her third year of her doctor of education in transformative leadership. Other poems and lyrical essays can be found in The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature, Longridge Review, Blood Pudding Press, Indolent Books, Dreamers Magazine, Crosswinds Poetry Journal, Sunspot Literary Journal, and many others. She resides on the front range of the Rocky Mountains with her partner Levi and their chocolate Labrador, The Walrus. In her spare time, she can be found riding her Triumph Street Twin motorbike, attending live music shows, and advocating for conversations about topics that make us squirm. 

High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXVIII (March 2021) contains 90+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XXVIII showcases 22 Artists/Authors from Carnation, WATucson, AZDenver, CONoblesville, INWindham, MEBoston, MASomerville, MANorth Branford, CTKerhonkson, NYNew York, NYBrooklyn, NYHampton, NJBethesda, MDWestminster, MDGretna, LAStillwater Lake, Nova Scotia, CanadaSarnia, CanadaCoquitlam, CanadaLondon, United KingdomGuérard, France

High Shelf is a monthly collection of poetry, art, photography, and satire from around the world, collected and curated in Portland, Oregon. High Shelf XXV (December 2020) contains 70+ pages of world-class poetry, art, photography, and satire. High Shelf XXV showcases 21 Artists/Authors fromPortland, ORHood River, ORSeattle, WAGolden, COMadison, WISouth Bend, INCleveland, OHEasthampton, MADanville, NHBrooklyn, NYNew York, NYCharleston, SCAugusta, GADouglasville, GATucker, GANew Orleans, LABootle, EnglandAshford, IrelandHong Kong, ChinaYawatahama, Japan