BOOKS
To order, click on the book titles below or visit the following independent bookstores:
Grolier Poetry Bookshop, Cambridge, MA |
Federal Street Books, Greenfield, MA
Amherst Books, Amherst, MA | Stone Broke Bread & Books, Gardiner, ME | hello hello books, Rockland, ME
Gulf of Maine Books in Brunswick, ME | Sherman's Maine Coast Book Shop, Camerascotta, ME
Illume Books, Newburyport, MA | Unnameable Books in Turners Falls, MA
Singer in the Gray of Jean-Michelby Lynn Shorter "Lynn Shorter’s poetry is pitched on the point of song, finding its place in the ear and throat to echo back through communities forged in Black struggle, art and counter narratives, and forwards into all the sonic possibilities of a world imagined otherwise…." —Zoe Skoulding, author of A Marginal Sea |
body psalmsby Audrey Gidman "This is a collection of incantations, meditations, conjurings, “a bowl of water on the ground…a bowl catching grief like rainwater.” In this compact collection, the poet asks if we can make something sacred of our lives...." — Lisa C. Taylor |
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Changeable Godsby Richard Wollman With echoes of Rilke's sonnets, Changeable Gods compels the reader through a sequence of beautifully imagistic love poems, in which the changing hues of early morning and the gods themselves emerge and recede, only to reemerge under the poet's painterly eye. |
The Wild Language of Deerby Susan Glass Winner of the Slate Roof Press Chapbook Award, The Wild Language of Deer reveals an impassioned sense of belonging, both to the world of here and now, but also to a fluid, echoing, mythical world out of time. Out of these pages come the stamping deer, the singing birds, the fingertips running over Braille and flute keys. |
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WRITING FROM THE BROKEN PLACES: Northern Hope Poetry 3Mentored & compiled by Jim Bell This essential poetry anthology by people at the Northern Hope Recovery Center bears witness to the dignity and struggle of those in recovery—and the courage of writers who write to live. |
2019 SRP Glass Prize Broadside ContestJendi Reiter, Northampton, MA, won our Franklin and Hampshire county competition with "Psalm 55.21." Armen Davoudian, Palo Alto, CA, won the nationwide contest with "Ararat." To read their Slate Roof Press limited-edition letterpress broadsides and order, click here. |
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Everything Begins Somewhereby Amanda Lou Doster Her questions are the big ones: identity, language, memory, motherhood, fidelity. “Think of what you are meant to do,” Doster’s speaker implores. Luckily for us, Doster was meant to write these generous, insightful, terrifically human poems. |
Then & Againby Catherine Stearns The poems in Then & Again thread the act of remembering and its attendant questions (“why else love what we love?”) with meditations on the present made possible by the past. |
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From the Other Roomby Anna M. Warrock These elegiac poems approach profound loss
as one might a new language, awed at first by its
strange idioms and later by their beauty. I am reminded,
reading Warrock, of the heartbreaking wit of
Szymborska. |
Small Ceremoniesby Cynthia Snow The book itself works a kind of sympathetic magic, telling stories of everyday encounters in ways that reveal their essential strangeness. - Patrick Donnelly, author of The Charge, and Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin |
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Frozen Ropeby Dennis Pollock The poems in Frozen Rope are set in 1804 in Hadam, a fictionalized western Massachusetts town, and capture the life of the village and the voices its people, from incorporating the town, to a village murder, to the loss of a child, among other events and visions. |
Say Dance, Say Nightby Abbot Cutler |
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In the Provincelandsby Janet MacFadyen |
All We Can Do Is Wait
by Ed Rayher
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What Sleeps Insideby Paula Sayword |
The Body Altersby Janine Roberts |
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Seed Case of the Heartby Susan Middleton -- Patricia Lee Lewis, A Kind of Yellow |
blonde, red Mustang...by Art Stein -- Larry Kimm |
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Quickening
by Susie Patlove
-- Ellen Doré Watson, Director, The Poetry Center at Smith College |
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Walk Through Paradise Backwards
by Trish Crapo -- Barry Sternlieb, Editor, |
Crossing the Barby Jim Bell Jim Bell's poems wake up your senses and remind you to pay attention. They shock you back to life. -- Jan Frazier, Jan Frazier's Greatest Hits |