{"title":"Backlist","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-day-this-lit","title":"A Day This Lit","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Baron Wormser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWhether chronicling the Civil Rights movement in the South, the philosophical observations of a fly-fishing physician, or the extraordinary daily drama of fatherhood, the poet is always seeking the precise image with which to tell his story. The common note threading the poems is an unabashed humanity.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 010px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Howard_Levy-3_240x240.png?v=1732635706\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eHoward Levy\u003c\/strong\u003e has been a teacher in museums and schools in New York and now works in business. He was the recipient of a New York State Creative Artists Public Service Award in Poetry and his poems have appeared in numerous journals, including Poetry, The American Poetry Review, The Paris Review and TheThreepenny Review. He has been a member of the resident faculty at The Frost Place Poetry Festival. He lives in New York with his wife and two sons.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145294041315,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/ADayThisLit.jpg?v=1742220763"},{"product_id":"kazimierz-square","title":"Kazimierz Square","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of power and humor in earthy eroticism, invoking both the fever and hope in wakeful dreams. A bold work of the elegiac past and the visceral present converging in provocative imagery. There is often an undercurrent of longing in Chase’s poems—the longing of hunger, of sex, of unfinished business with the dead. Central to the collection is the title poem, a spiraling nightmare that explores the messy and terrifying commingling of religion, death and history’s unpardonable sins.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Karen_Chase_240x240.jpg?v=1728406747\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKaren Chase\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of two collections of poems, \u003ca title=\"Kazimierz Square\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/kazimierz-square\"\u003eKazimierz Square\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"BEAR\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/bear\"\u003eBEAR\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2000 and 2008), as well as \u003cem\u003eJamali Kamali\u003c\/em\u003e, a book-length homoerotic poem that takes place in Mughal India. Her award-winning book, \u003cem\u003eLand of Stone\u003c\/em\u003e, tells the story of her work with a silent young man in a psychiatric hospital where she was the hospital poet. Her childhood bout with polio sparked her memoir \u003cem\u003ePolio Boulevard\u003c\/em\u003e, as well as \u003cem\u003eFDR on His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 1924–1926\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003ca title=\"History Is Embarrassing\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/history-is-embarrassing\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory Is Embarrassing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, a collection of her essays, was released by CavanKerry Press in 2024. She and her husband live in western Massachusetts. Visit her online at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.karenchase.com\/\"\u003ewww.karenchase.com\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145295352035,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/KazimierzSquare.jpg?v=1742220754"},{"product_id":"carolyn-kizer-perspectives-on-her-life-work","title":"Carolyn Kizer: Perspectives on Her Life \u0026 Work","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBook of the Year, Bronze Award, 2004\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIndependent Publisher Book Awards, Finalist—Anthology, 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCritical essays about the poet and her work, interviews with Kizer, and poems written in her honor. Kizer’s gifts are acknowledged in this book: her humor, her mythological scope, political awareness, satirical wit, feminism, craft, lyricism, her role in shaping literary institutions and her charisma. Carolyn Kizer is a celebration of the poetry itself, of the enduring work that places Kizer in the pantheon of living American poets.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Agha Shahid Ali, Michelle Boisseau, Hayden Carruth, Fred Chappell, Kelly Cherry, Dominic Cheung, Lucille Clifton, Alfred Corn, Robert Creeley, Terry Ehret, Annie Finch, Jack Foley, William Holland, Judith Johnson, Maxine Kumin, Carol Muske, Robert Phillips, Marie Ponsot, Margaret Rabb, C. L. 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Such poets as Robert Hass, Gary Miranda, Mary Jo Salter, Cleopatra Mathis, Denis Johnson and Stanley Plumly explore the depth and breadth of their time spent in Frost’s New Hampshire. Eminent poet Donald Hall wrote the foreword and includes a cache of Frost’s poems from Mountain Interval.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis book collects the poems of 24 prominent American poets selected to live in Robert Frost’s Franconia, New Hampshire, home: Julie Agoos, Sharon Bryan, Robert Cording, Mark Cox, John Engels, Kathy Fagan, Christopher Gilbert, David Graham, Mark Halliday, Robert Hass, Denis Johnson, Cleopatra Mathis, William Matthews, Gary Miranda, Stanley Plumly, Katha Pollitt, Pattiann Rogers, Mary Ruefle, Mary Jo Salter, Sherod Santos, Jeffrey Skinner, Luci Tapahonso, Sue Ellen Thompson, Rosanna Warren.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145302167779,"sku":null,"price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheBreathofPartedLips-VoicesfromtheRobertFrostPlace_Volume1.jpg?v=1742220738"},{"product_id":"so-close","title":"So Close","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Molly Peacock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Foreword Book of the Year Finalist 2001\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWriting with deceptively straightforward language, and finding much of her imagery in the equally deceptive simplicity of nature, Peggy Penn recalls those moments that can shape or shatter our comfortable perspective of life, and she transforms these encounters, finding in them both questions and answers. A late-night scavenging of a ravenous bear in “Dancing in the Dark” is about the other as intruder, invoking sexuality and fear.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Peggy_Penn_240x240.jpg?v=1728486092\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePeggy Penn\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s poetry appeared in several publications including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eO Magazine, The Paris Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Western Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Margie Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She won the poem for the first poem published in the journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eKimera\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and the first Emily Dickinson Award for innovative poetry. She released two collections with CavanKerry Press –\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"So Close\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/so-close\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo Close\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2001) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"My Painted Warriors\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/my-painted-warriors\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Painted Warriors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2011) – before her death in 2012.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145304068323,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/SoClose.jpg?v=1742220761"},{"product_id":"against-consolation","title":"Against Consolation","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eConnecticut Book Award Finalist 2004\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArlin G. Meyer Prize 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, “We must not weep so that we may not be comforted.” But in this and other poems, Robert Cording offers a more hopeful vision of our ability to find consolation in the world we inhabit—a world endowed will offer endless spiritual possibilities, both in nature and within ourselves.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Robert_Cording_240x240.jpg?v=1728407390\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cording\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003etaught for 38 years at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is now a poetry mentor in MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and his poems have appeared in publications such as the Nation, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Poetry, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker. He has released five books with CavanKerry Press: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Against Consolation\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/against-consolation\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Consolation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2002), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Common Life\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/common-life\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommon Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2006), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Walking with Ruskin\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-with-ruskin\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking With Ruskin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2010), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Only So Far\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/only-so-far\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly So Far\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2015), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Without My Asking\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/without-my-asking\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout My Asking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2019).\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145306099939,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/AgainstConsolation.jpg?v=1742220693"},{"product_id":"grub","title":"Grub","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMartin Mooney’s poems are darkly comic, muscular, inventive and highly charged. Politics simmer beneath the surface of poems that find their energy in the everyday urban experience, be it work at the shipyards, an early morning fishing expedition, the building of houses, or a visit to the local pub. A patently Irish humor, replete with shadows and irony, informs the poet’s observations—and the second part of the collection is a kind of novella through poetry that follows the exploits of a young Irish expatriate and a cast of people on the fringe as they stumble through daily unpleasantries.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Martin_Mooney_240x240.jpg?v=1728416256\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMartin Mooney\u003c\/strong\u003e’s poetry, short fiction, reviews, criticism and cultural commentary have been published in Irish and British periodicals. Following \u003ca title=\"Grub\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/grub\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGrub\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which on its original release in Ireland won the Brendan Behand Memorial Award, Mooney published \u003cem\u003eBonfire Makers, Operation Sandcastle\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eRasputin and His Children\u003c\/em\u003e. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eField\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Gettsyburg Review\u003c\/em\u003e. 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It falls between her books, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Adamant\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (University of Iowa, 1989) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eCold Pluto\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Carnegie Mellon, 1996). She is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts Creative Fellowship, a Whiting Writers’ Award, and an Award in Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. 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But always, the poet seeks the essence of life in the moment. In the title poem, she captures the wonder of emerging sexuality, as a girl finds her mother’s forbidden shoes and feels “Something\/you’ve never felt before.\/These shoes are live and dangerous. A thoroughly modern poet, she does not avoid traditional forms, and she finds her imagery and metaphors, as those before her have, scattered in the harsh yet beautiful terrain of Ireland, her native land.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Moyra_Donaldson_240x240.jpg?v=1728408577\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMoyra Donaldson \u003c\/strong\u003elives in Northern Ireland. She has nine poetry collection, \u003cem\u003eSnakeskin Stilettos, Beneath the Ice, The Horse’s Nest \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eMiracle Fruit\u003c\/em\u003e, from Lagan Press, Belfast and an American edition of \u003ca title=\"Snakeskin Stilettos\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/snakeskin-stilettos\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSnakeskin Stilettos\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e, \u003c\/em\u003epublished in 2002 from CavanKerry Press. Her \u003cem\u003eSelected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe Goose Tree\u003c\/em\u003e, were both published by Liberties Press, Dublin. Moyra has also collaborated with photographer Victoria J Dean, resulting in the art book \u003cem\u003eDis-ease \u003c\/em\u003eand with visual artist Paddy Lennon, resulting in a limited edition book of poetry and paintings\u003cem\u003e, Blood Horses, \u003c\/em\u003efrom Caesura Press. Her latest collection, \u003cem\u003eCarnivorous \u003c\/em\u003ewas published by Doire Press, Spring 2019. In 2019, Moyra received a Major Artist Award from the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145313079523,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/SnakeskinStilettos.jpg?v=1742220761"},{"product_id":"the-palace-of-ashes","title":"The Palace of Ashes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Baron Wormser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeWord Book of the Year Finalist 2003\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Sherry_Fairchok-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.png?v=1732630931\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSherry Fairchok was born in Scranton in 1962. She spent the early part of her childhood in Taylor, PA, a coal-mining town, in which her family has lived since the 1880s, and where her grandfather, great-uncles, and great-grandfather worked as miners. She earned a bachelor’s degree from Syracuse University and an M.F. A. degree from Sarah Lawrence college. Her poems have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eSouthern Review, Ploughshares, DoubleTake\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003ePoetry Northwest\u003c\/em\u003e, among other journals. She works as an information technology editor and lives in Mount Vernon, NY. 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Most of the material is new and all of it celebrates the immeasurable talents and matchless generosity of this writer, teacher, mentor. In a contribution, Donald Hall writes, “…But Haines differs from others in the care of his language. He writes with a hard instrument on a hard surface.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include Rick Bass, Wendell Berry, Jody Bolz, Raymond Carver, Matthew Cooperman, Robert DeMott, Mike Dunham, Helen Frost, Tess Gallagher, James A.Griffin, Donald Hall, James Hopkins, Carolyn Kremers, Joel Kuritsky, M.D., Michael H. Lythgoe, David Mason, Jack Matthews, Thomas McGrath, John McKernan, Wesley McNair, Miles David Moore, John Murray, Sheila Nickerson, Greg Orfalea, Birch Pavelsky, Tamlin Pavelsky, Donna R. Sandberg, Nancy Schoenberger, Robert Schultz, Tom Sexton, Marion K. 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He has also published a book of essays entitled \u003cem\u003eFables and Distances: New and Selected Essays\u003c\/em\u003e, and a memoir, \u003cem\u003eThe Stars, the Snow, the Fire: Twenty-five Years in the Northern Wilderness\u003c\/em\u003e. He has taught at Ohio University, George Washington University, University of Montana, Bucknell University, and the University of Cincinnati. He was Guest Poet at both the International Shakespeare Conference at Vladimir University, Russia and at Summer Wordsworth Conference, Grasmere, UK. He was Resident at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy and Rasmuson Fellow at the U.S. Artists Meeting, Los Angeles. Named a Fellow by The Academy of American Poets in 1997, his other honors include the Alaska Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Congress. 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In this, his seventh collection, Rosen’s diverse subjects—childhood, sex, politics and music–illustrate the full breadth of his poetic vision.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Kenneth_Rosen_-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732633236\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKenneth Rosen \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Boston, and has lived in Maine since 1965. He recently taught at the American University in Bulgaria, and as a Fulbright professor at Sofia University.\u003cem\u003e Whole Horse\u003c\/em\u003e, his first collection, was selected for Richard Howard’s\u003cem\u003e Braziller Poetry Series\u003c\/em\u003e. Others are \u003cem\u003eThe Hebrew Lion, Black Leaves, Longfellow Square, Reptile Mind, No Snake, No Paradise\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003ca title=\"The Origins of Tragedy \u0026amp; Other Poems\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-origins-of-tragedy-other-poems\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Origins of Tragedy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e. He founded the Stonecoast Writers’ Conference in 1981, and directed it for ten years.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CavanKerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145320026339,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheOriginsofTragedy_OtherPoems.jpg?v=1742220689"},{"product_id":"glorious","title":"GlOrious","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eForeword by Afaa Michael Weaver\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChicago Book and Media Show Honorable Mention 2003\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eJoan Handler’s poems speak of the transmigration of a woman from an emotionally stifled girlhood through the first tentative steps of self-discovery, to, finally, the apostasy of womanhood and the ecstasy that everyday rebellion can bring. Handler undertakes daring experiments with form, shifting and thrusting words to underscore the power of the emotions in her words. Words dance on the pages of\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlOrious\u003c\/em\u003e. The poetry is at once lyrical and colloquial in its language, almost narrative in its appeal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Joan_Cusack_Handler-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732632295\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAs the founder of CavanKerry Press, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJoan Cusack Handler\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis a poet and memoirist, a psychologist in clinical practice, and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com (“Of Art and Science”). Her poems have been widely published and have received awards from The Boston Review and five Pushcart nominations. A Bronx native, she has four published books with CavanKerry –\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"GlOrious\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/glorious\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlOrious\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2003), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Red Canoe: Love In Its Making\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/red-canoe-love-in-its-making\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Red Canoe: Love In Its Making\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2008), \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Confessions of Joan the Tall: A Memoir\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/confessions-of-joan-the-tall-a-memoir\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfessions of Joan the Tall: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2012), and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Orphans\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/orphans\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrphans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2016) – and currently resides in Brooklyn and the East Hamptons. Joan is married to a great man and fellow psychologist, has a loving son and daughter-in-law, and two amazing granddaughters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145321435363,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/GLOrious.jpg?v=1742220760"},{"product_id":"eyelevel-fifty-histories","title":"Eyelevel: fifty histories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Sydney Lea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThese fifty poems explore the primacy of perspective, both that of the poetry and those of a diverse array of individuals, historical and contemporary. Syd Lea wrote in the foreword, “Here was a writer after my heart, one whose command of canonical Anglophone poetry was patent, but also one whose use of great traditions—especially of the dramatic lyric—was sui generis….so fresh and virtuosic as to seem all but absolutely new in my experience.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Christopher_Matthews_-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732632649\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristopher Matthews\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Donegal, Ireland and grew up and was educated between that country and England. He took his bachelor’s degree at the University of Ulster and obtained a PH.D from the University of Durham: its subject was Ezra Pound. His poems have appeared in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e The American Scholar, Crazyhorse, The Dublin Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and other journals. He currently teaches literature to undergraduates in Lugano, Switzerland. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/eyelevel-fifty-histories\" title=\"Eyelevel: fifty histories\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEyelevel: Fifty Histories\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003ereleased with CavanKerry Press in 2003.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145323237603,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Eyelevel-fiftyhistories.jpg?v=1742220760"},{"product_id":"rattle","title":"Rattle","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Julie Agoos\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBruce’s language is deceptively straightforward, words resonate with echoes of revival meetings and oral storytelling traditions. She hones in on the perfect image, the apt metaphor. The “rattle” of the title becomes at once the rattle of memory and the rattle of death, but also the rattle that animates nature and syncopates the music of our lives as we move through it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Eloise_Bruce_240x240.png?v=1728404197\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eEloise Bruce\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s book \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Rattle\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/rattle\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eRattle\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was published by CavanKerry in 2004. She is member of the critique and performance group Cool Women.  In 2018 she received the New Jersey Governor’s Award for Arts Education. She has had various roles at the Frost Place Center for Poetry and the Arts.  Since its inception she has been integral in nurturing and guiding Poetry Out Loud in New Jersey and she is youth editor for RavensPerch Magazine. A chapbook Scud Cloud, a conversation in poetry with her husband David Keller about living with his dementia is due out in 2020 from Ragged Sky.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"CavanKerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145323696355,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/9780970718686.jpg?v=1742220691"},{"product_id":"soft-box","title":"Soft Box","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Jane Cooper\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Celia_Bland-topaz-face-upscale-4x-2_240x240.jpg?v=1732628732\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCelia Bland\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e‘s three collections of poetry (including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Soft Box\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/soft-box\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSoft Box\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, from CavanKerry, 2004) were the subject of an essay by Jonathan Blunk in the summer 2019 issue of\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Georgia Review. Cherokee Road Kill\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Dr. Cicero, 2018) featured pen and ink drawings by Japanese artist Kyoko Miyabe.  The title poem received the 2015 Raynes Prize.  Her work is included in\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNative Voices: Indigenous American Poetry, Craft and Conversation\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(Tupelo Press 2019).  Selected prints of the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eMadonna Comix\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an image and poetry collaboration created with artist Dianne Kornberg, were exhibited at Lesley Heller Gallery in New York City, and published by William James Books with an introduction by Luc Sante. Bland is co-editor with Martha Collins of the essay collection\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJane Cooper: A Radiance of Attention\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e(U. of Michigan, 2019).  She wrote the catalogue essay for “In the Midst of Something Splendid: Recent Paintings by Colleen Randall” opening at the Hood Museum, Dartmouth College in January 2020.  She is the author of young adult biographies of the Native American leaders Pontiac, Osceola, and Peter MacDonald (Chelsea House Books). Originally from the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina, Bland teaches poetry at Bard College, where she is associate director of the Bard College Institute for Writing \u0026amp; Thinking.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145323860195,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/SoftBox.jpg?v=1742220757"},{"product_id":"an-imperfect-lover","title":"An Imperfect Lover","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoems and Watercolors by Georgianna Orsini\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIntroduction by Robert Phillips and Essay by Molly Peacock\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeWord Book of the Year Honorable Mention 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eGeorgianna Orsini\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003eattended Wellesley College and Harvard University and received her B.A. degree from Columbia University, during which time she worked as a Program Coordinator at International House. She has lived in Tuscany and New York. Her gardens have been featured in \u003cem\u003eHouse and Garden, House Beautiful \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e American Women’s Garden\u003c\/em\u003e. At present, she lives in the mountains of North Carolina where she continues to make gardens.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145324089571,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/AnImperfectLover.jpg?v=1742220757"},{"product_id":"the-fork-without-hunger","title":"The Fork Without Hunger","description":"\u003cp\u003eForeword by Donald Hall\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Witter Bryner Foundation Fellowship 2007\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe Independent Publisher Book Award Honorable Mention 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eArlin G. Meyer Prize Finalist 2005\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn sharply-limned lyrics that are at once elegiac and celebratory, Laurie Lamon explores the inseparable union of pain and happiness that life invariably brings. Bending form with keen originality, this acclaimed poet is both traditionalist and innovator, a writer, says Ploughshare poetry editor David Daniel, “with rare precision and intelligence—and, rarer still, with genuine imagination.”\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Laurie_Lamon_240x240.png?v=1728413905\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurie Lamon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s poems have appeared in journals and magazines including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic, The New Republic, Arts \u0026amp; LettersJournal of Contemporary Culture, Plume, Ploughshares, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Innisfree Poetry Journal, North American Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand others. She has two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fork-without-hunger\" title=\"The Fork Without Hunger\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fork Without Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2005)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/without-wings\" title=\"Without Wings\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2009)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe was the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and was selected by Donald Hall as a Witter Bynner Fellow in 2007. She currently holds the Amy Ryan Endowed professorship at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, and is poetry editor for the literary journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRock \u0026amp; Sling.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e She lives with my husband Bill Siems, and their two Dachshund Chihuahua dogs, Willow and Johnny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145334542563,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheForkWithoutHunger.jpg?v=1742220754"},{"product_id":"the-disheveled-bed","title":"The Disheveled Bed","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Brooks Haxton\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eA collection of poetry about dislocation in an unexpectedly childless marriage. A time of wandering follows a period of exile and adjustment both within and without. The poems are both lyrical and colloquial with a fascination for invented forms that mirrors the altered circumstances of life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Andrea_Carter_Brown_240x240.jpg?v=1728403915\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAndrea Carter Brown\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-disheveled-bed\" title=\"The Disheveled Bed\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Disheveled Bed\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2006) and two chapbooks, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eDomestic Karma\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBrook \u0026amp; Rainbow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (winner of the Sow’s Ear Press Chapbook Prize, 2001). \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eSeptember 12\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, her collection of award-winning poems about 9\/11 and its aftermath, is forthcoming in 2021 for the 20th anniversary of 9\/11. Her poems have won awards from \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFive Points\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRiver Styx\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and PSA, among others, and are cited in the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLibrary of Congress Online Guide to the Poetry of 9\/11\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She was a Founding Editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBarrow Street\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and Managing Editor of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Emily Dickinson Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. Currently she is Series Editor of The Word Works Washington Prize. An avid birder, she lives in Los Angeles where she grows lemons, limes, oranges, and tangerines in her back yard.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145340604643,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheDisheveledBed.jpg?v=1742220753"},{"product_id":"common-life","title":"Common Life","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommon Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e looks at the various meanings of common, especially its senses of familiar and widely known; belong or relating to the community at large; and its twinned notions of simple and rudimentary and vulgar and profane. The book’s perspective is religious, and is grounded in the epigraph from the Psalms: “Be still before the Lord and wait patiently for him.” The “waiting” that is required has to do with three things: first, our desire, as Charles Wright puts it, “to believe in belief” rather than believe; secondly, the need for a setting aside of the self, an abandonment of “every attempt to make something of oneself, even…a righteous person” in the words of Dietrich Bonhoeffer; and thirdly, the “waiting” must be as Eliot wrote in the Four Quartets a waiting “without hope for hope would be hope of the wrong thing.” If we learn to wait in these ways, the final section of the book suggests that we have the chance of opening ourselves to all that is graceful within life’s common bounds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Robert_Cording_240x240.jpg?v=1728407390\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cording \u003c\/strong\u003etaught for 38 years at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is now a poetry mentor in MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and his poems have appeared in publications such as the Nation, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Poetry, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker. He has released five books with CavanKerry Press: \u003ca title=\"Against Consolation\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/against-consolation\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Consolation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2002), \u003ca title=\"Common Life\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/common-life\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommon Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2006), \u003ca title=\"Walking with Ruskin\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-with-ruskin\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking With Ruskin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2010), \u003ca title=\"Only So Far\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/only-so-far\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly So Far\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2015), and \u003ca title=\"Without My Asking\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/without-my-asking\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout My Asking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2019).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145343258851,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/CommonLife.jpg?v=1742220737"},{"product_id":"the-silence-of-men","title":"The Silence of Men","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeWord Book of the Year Honorable Mention 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Silence of Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003econfronts and breaks the silence in men’s lives surrounding sex, family, power and violence; graphic and intimate, celebratory and heartbreakingly painful, these are the poems of a survivor for whom writing, because it breaks that silence, has been a primary means of survival.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Richard_Jeffrey_Newman-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732632837\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRichard Jeffrey Newman\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, an associate professor at Nassau Community College, New York, is an essayist, poet and translator who has been publishing his work since 1988, when the essay “His Sexuality; Her Reproductive Rights” appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChanging Men\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e magazine. Since then, his essays, poems, and translations have appeared in a wide range of journals, among them \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBirmingham Poetry Review.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e He has given talks and led workshops on writing autobiographically about gender, sex, and sexuality. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"The Silence of Men\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-silence-of-men\"\u003eThe Silence of Men\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was released by CavanKerry Press in 2006.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145344995555,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheSilenceofMen.jpg?v=1742220752"},{"product_id":"against-which","title":"Against Which","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eForeword by Gerald Stern\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeWord Book of the Year Honorable Mention 2006\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAn exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual cruelties which are inevitably delivered to us, and which we equally deliver unto others. These poems comb through violence and love, fear and loss, exploring the common denominators in each.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Which\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eseeks the ways human beings might transform themselves from participants in a thoughtless and brutal world to laborers in a loving one.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Ross_Gay-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732631776\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRoss Gay\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas born in Youngstown, Ohio and grew up outside of Philadelphia. His poems have appeared in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Poetry Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eHarvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAtlanta Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, among other journals. Ross is a Cave Canem fellow and has been a Breadloaf Tuition Scholar. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Against Which\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/against-which\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Which\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Gay’s debut collection of poetry, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2006. In addition to holding a Ph.D in American Literature from Temple University, he is a basketball coach, an occasional demolition man, a painter, and teaches at Indiana University.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145351221475,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/AgainstWhich.jpg?v=1742220751"},{"product_id":"surviving-has-made-me-crazy","title":"Surviving Has Made Me Crazy","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePoet and philosopher Mark Nepo was diagnosed with a rare form of lymphoma in 1987. His journey back to health awakened a new life. In his latest book, Nepo explores how sacred and useful everything is. As such, this book is for everyone, not just for those facing illness or pursuing poetry. The poems affirm that surviving has more to do with our authenticity than our longevity. The sixty-eight poems gathered here are the culmination of many years of inquiry. As a teacher, Nepo has journeyed with others around these themes across the country and abroad. In leading spiritual retreats, in working with healing and medical communities, and in his teaching as a poet, his work is widely accessible and used by many.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Mark_Nepo_240x240.jpg?v=1728416802\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMark Nepo \u003c\/strong\u003ehas moved and inspired readers and seekers all over the world. Beloved as a poet, teacher, and storyteller, Mark has been called “one of the finest spiritual guides of our time.” A #1 \u003cem\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/em\u003ebestselling author, his twenty-two books (Including 2007’s\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/surviving-has-made-me-crazy\" title=\"Surviving Has Made Me Crazy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSurviving Has Made Me Crazy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e) and fifteen audio projects have been translated into over twenty languages. Mark has appeared with Oprah Winfrey on her \u003cem\u003eSuper Soul Sunday \u003c\/em\u003eprogram on OWN TV. In 2015, he was given a Life-Achievement Award by AgeNation. 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LaurelBooks are fine collections of poetry and prose that explore the many poignant issues associated with confronting serious physical and\/or psychological illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Robert_Seder-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732633531\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRobert Seder\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003ewas a production and lighting designer for many dance and theater companies for 20 years, working with David Gordon, Lucinda Childs, Meredith Monk, Carolyn Brown, Eric Bogosian, and Philip Glass, among others. He was a semifinalist for the Julie Harris Playwright award in 1987 with LIGHT, and wrote several other plays, produced in New York City, Madison and Boston. He also wrote novels and short stories in addition to his narrative of his first bone marrow transplant. He was an enthusiastic participant and teacher in the Bard College Language and Thinking Program and also offered “Writing Our Illness” workshops to the community. After undergoing a second bone marrow transplant in August 2001, he died on March 6, 2002, from multiple infections that his weakened immune system was unable to defeat. His posthumous collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"To The Marrow\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/to-the-marrow\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eTo The Marrow\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2007), chronicles his journey through bone marrow transplantation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145358921955,"sku":null,"price":18.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/ToTheMarrow.jpg?v=1742220723"},{"product_id":"through-a-gate-of-trees","title":"Through a Gate of Trees","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eForeword by Molly Peacock\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe all encompassing theme in this debut collection is how a person holds the tension of opposites— darkness to light, from loss to reconciliation and redemption. In the middle of life with both feet on the ground, the poet wrestles with the realization that the ground is never stable and that life changes in a split second. The reader is led through two worlds, the geographic one—from Egypt to Malaysia from India to Cape Cod, and the inner one—entered by celebratory, riveting and dangerous poems as they move through sex, love, birth, and death.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Susan_Jackson_240x240.jpg?v=1728412040\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSusan Jackson\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003eis the author of \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Through a Gate of Trees\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/through-a-gate-of-trees\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThrough a Gate of Trees\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"In the River of Songs\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/in-the-river-of-songs\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eIn the River of Songs\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2007 and 2022) and the chapbook \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll the Light in Between\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2013)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e.\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eHer writing has been published recently in \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eTiferet Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLips\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePaterson Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNimrod International Journal\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. She was awarded a fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Residency Grants to the Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, a Pushcart nomination, and recognition from the Allen Ginsberg Poetry Awards.  During the summer, Jackson coleads a group in “Poetry as Spiritual Practice.” With four grown children and two granddaughters, she and her husband live in Teton County, Wyoming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145361740003,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/through_a_gate_of_trees_susan_jackson.jpg?v=1742220751"},{"product_id":"we-aren-t-who-we-are-and-this-world-isn-t-either","title":"We Aren’t Who We Are and this world isn’t either","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eWith extraordinary energy, narrative force, and a wry sense of humor, Christine Korfhage's debut collection of poems, \u003cem\u003eWe Aren't Who We Are and this world isn't either,\u003c\/em\u003e tells the story of a colorful and often painful childhood spent traveling around the world, and brings that story into adulthood and the matters of love, loss, betrayal, forgiveness, and the passage of time. Korfhage shines a bright light on her subjects: a mother's demons, a daughter's secret obsessions, the delicate relationship between therapist and patient that grows out of trust — creating clear and moving poems that absorb the manifold emotions of what is sometimes difficult psychological material. What rises to the surface is an understanding of the power of poetry to heal as the poet uses verse to purge that which haunts her, give voice to her passions and predicaments, and come to a better awareness of the self.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Christine_Korfhage_240x240.jpg?v=1728413440\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eChristine Korfhage\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was born in Albany, NY and grew up overseas. A former artisan and juried member of the League of New Hampshire Craftsmen, she began writing poetry at age 49. Returning to school after three decades, in 1999 she received her B.A. from Vermont College’s Adult Degree Program where she was awarded a Fellowship for Excellence in Creative Writing. She received her M.F.A. from Bennington College in 2001. Her poems have appeared in many journals, including Chiron Review, Connecticut River Review, Nimrod International Review, Paterson Literary Review, Pearl, Red Rock Review and The Spoon River Poetry Review. A mother and grandmother, Christine lives in New Hampshire. CavanKerry Press published her poetry collection, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"We Aren’t Who We Are and this world isn’t either\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/we-aren-t-who-we-are-and-this-world-isn-t-either\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Aren’t Who We Are and this world isn’t either\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, in 2007.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145365836003,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/WeAren_tWhoWeAreandthisworldisn_teither.jpg?v=1742220693"},{"product_id":"elegy-for-the-floater","title":"Elegy for the Floater","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTeresa Carson, the youngest of ten in a blue-collar family, unflinchingly writes about her chaotic past about which she had been taught to keep silent – her mentally ill mother, her enraged and abandoning father, her schizophrenic brother, her rape at fourteen, and her long-term relationship with a married man. It is her brother’s suicide that makes the poet aware of how dangerous shame-filled silence can be, and it is his suicide that pushes her to find her voice. Throughout, the poet chronicles her struggle to come to terms with the range of emotions she feels for her brother – including “bad” ones, such as her relief when he dies – and to understand why he committed suicide.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Teresa_Carson-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.png?v=1732629674\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eTeresa Carson \u003c\/strong\u003eholds an MFA in Poetry and an MFA in Theatre, both from Sarah Lawrence College. She is the author of three collections of poetry: \u003ca title=\"Elegy for the Floater\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/elegy-for-the-floater\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eElegy for the Floater\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2008); \u003ca title=\"My Crooked House\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/my-crooked-house\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Crooked House\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2014), which was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize; \u003cem\u003eThe Congress of Human Oddities \u003c\/em\u003e(Deerbrook Editions, 2015). She is a co-founder of the Unbroken Thread[s] Project, which explores how histories\/myths\/memories are excavated, interpreted, transformed and transmitted. A fairly new resident of Sarasota, Florida, she works to bring poetry to everyone in Sarasota County through her Poetry in Un\/Expected Places project, which involves collaborations with artists from all genres.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145366163683,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/ElegyfortheFloater.jpg?v=1742220722"},{"product_id":"bear","title":"BEAR","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eB\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eear\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, Chase’s second collection of poetry, grew from her research for a non-fiction book about an illegal bear poaching operation. In the poems, the author addresses a bear, exploring the curious line between humans and other mammals, while other poems are written from the point of view of a prisoner, jailed for unknown crimes. Aside from these, there are many autobiographical and notional poems, subjects ranging from Chase’s girlhood polio to her directions about daydreaming.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg alt=\"Karen_Chase 2.webp__PID:1d790639-2a2c-4a02-8e15-ce605f28269a\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Karen_Chase_2_240x240.webp?v=1731618640\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eKaren Chase\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is the author of two collections of poems, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/kazimierz-square\" title=\"Kazimierz Square\"\u003eKazimierz Square\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/bear\" title=\"BEAR\"\u003eBEAR\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2000 and 2008), as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eJamali Kamali\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a book-length homoerotic poem that takes place in Mughal India. Her award-winning book, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLand of Stone\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, tells the story of her work with a silent young man in a psychiatric hospital where she was the hospital poet. Her childhood bout with polio sparked her memoir \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003ePolio Boulevard\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eFDR on His Houseboat: The Larooco Log, 1924–1926\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/history-is-embarrassing\" title=\"History Is Embarrassing\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHistory Is Embarrassing\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a collection of her essays, was released by CavanKerry Press in 2024. She and her husband live in western Massachusetts. Visit her online at \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.karenchase.com\/\"\u003ewww.karenchase.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145366327523,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/BEAR.jpg?v=1742220736"},{"product_id":"the-poetry-life-ten-stories","title":"The Poetry Life Ten Stories","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eBaron Wormser brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people’s lives. In stories funny, tender, sad, and edgy, the narrators register how poetry has changed how they see themselves, how they live, and what they care about. As it bends genres by adapting aspects of fiction, biography, essay and monologue, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poetry Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e shows how poetry can be lightning in the soul.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Baron_Wormser_240x240.jpg?v=1728497826\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBaron Wormser \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of twenty books including novels, a memoir, a book of short stories, two coauthored books about teaching poetry, and many books of poetry (including \u003ca title=\"The Poetry Life Ten Stories\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poetry-life-ten-stories\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poetry Life Ten Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2008, \u003ca title=\"Impenitent Notes\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/impenitent-notes\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eImpenitent Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2011, \u003ca title=\"Unidentified Sighing Objects\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/unidentified-sighing-objects\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnidentified Sighing Objects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2015, and \u003ca title=\"The History Hotel\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-history-hotel\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe History Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2023, all published by CavanKerry Press). Essays of his appeared in Best American Essays 2014 and 2018. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, he served as poet laureate of the state of Maine and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Maine at Augusta. He is the founder of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife Janet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145366917347,"sku":null,"price":14.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/ThePoetryLifeTenStories.jpg?v=1742220735"},{"product_id":"an-apron-full-of-beans-new-and-selected-poems","title":"An Apron Full of Beans: New and Selected Poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Apron Full of Beans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is an African-American sequel to Walt Whitman’s \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eLeaves of Grass\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, written in the voices and with the lyrics of the blues, the spiritual and the language of writers such as Langston Hughes and Margaret Walker. It grows out of the historical and personal reminiscences of these artists and their traditions. The setting is neither chronological nor historical as it moves backwards and forwards in the memory of the poet. The poems are thus autobiographical and biographical, expressed through popular art forms such as film noir, science fiction, blues, jazz and other aspects of American popular culture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Sam_Cornish-topaz-face-upscale-4x_91fd911f-5f77-4a08-b7f5-d18ba2c468a7_240x240.jpg?v=1732630065\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eSam Cornish\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e grew up in Baltimore, MD and lived in Boston, MA until his death in 2018. Following his move to Boston, he was a teacher at the Highland Park Community School in Roxbury, MA, and was also active in the Poetry in the Schools Program in Boston and Cambridge, MA. In the early 80s, he was the Literature Director of the Massachusetts Council on the Arts and Humanities and subsequently, an instructor in Creative Writing at Emerson College until his retirement in 2006. In addition to his nine books of poetry and two children’s books, he has been published in dozens of periodicals, including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eEssence, Ploughshares, The Harvard Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eChristian Science Monitor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and the \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e. In 2007, he was chosen as the first Poet Laureate of the City of Boston. CavanKerry Press released \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/an-apron-full-of-beans-new-and-selected-poems\" title=\"An Apron Full of Beans: New and Selected Poems\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAn Apron Full of Beans: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 2008.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145367081187,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/AnApronFullofBeans-NewandSelectedPoems.jpg?v=1742220735"},{"product_id":"red-canoe-love-in-its-making","title":"Red Canoe: Love In Its Making","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Red Canoe: Love in Its Making\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a memoir in poems that explores the anatomy of a marriage — underbelly and crown. A practicing psychologist and former marriage therapist herself, Handler unveils the multileveled role of parents, religion, children, illness and the emotional\/psychological development of the two spouses on the frail and treacherous terrain that is marriage. Her gift and that of this book is that she manages a balance of perspectives; one identifies with the empathizes with both spouses. Paramount for them, as for all married couples, are their primitive, conflicting wishes to merge and to remain separate. Though poetry, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed Canoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e reads like a novel. Handler manages the emotional highs and lows by manipulating words and groups of words — the page becomes canvas and letters and words are art objects that mute or intensify the feelings expressed. A must read for couples, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRed Canoe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is also a valuable clinical tool. A graceful blend of her experience and wisdom in two professions — poet and psychologist — Handler offers her readers the gift of her honesty, her unflinching commitment to tell the whole story and her trust in the power of hard work in the making of a love-filled and trusting marriage.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Joan_Cusack_Handler-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732632295\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eAs the founder of CavanKerry Press, \u003cstrong\u003eJoan Cusack Handler \u003c\/strong\u003eis a poet and memoirist, a psychologist in clinical practice, and a blogger for PsychologyToday.com (“Of Art and Science”). Her poems have been widely published and have received awards from The Boston Review and five Pushcart nominations. A Bronx native, she has four published books with CavanKerry –\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/glorious\" title=\"GlOrious\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eGlOrious\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2003), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/red-canoe-love-in-its-making\" title=\"Red Canoe: Love In Its Making\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Red Canoe: Love In Its Making\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2008), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/confessions-of-joan-the-tall-a-memoir\" title=\"Confessions of Joan the Tall: A Memoir\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eConfessions of Joan the Tall: A Memoir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2012), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/orphans\" title=\"Orphans\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOrphans\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2016) – and currently resides in Brooklyn and the East Hamptons. Joan is married to a great man and fellow psychologist, has a loving son and daughter-in-law, and two amazing granddaughters.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145367245027,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/RedCanoe-LoveInItsMaking.jpg?v=1742220744"},{"product_id":"we-mad-climb-shaky-ladders","title":"We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection of poems written over the course of twenty-five years as the author struggled to live with a devastating mental illness, paranoid schizophrenia. The poems bear witness to the innumerable ways a life can go off course from the inside out – from the small disasters of everyday life, to the devastation of suicide. Schizophrenia is a frightening disease, a psychiatric illness that lies for most people in an uncharted wilderness.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003eComments from the poet’s psychiatrist provide a fascinating counter-point to the poems themselves – a kind of dialogue between poet and doctor that seems to mirror the therapeutic one. Readers follow Pamela Spiro Wagner’s journey, taking a personal tour through madness and back again.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Phoebe_Sparrow_Wagner-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732633688\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eArtist, poet, co-author of \u003cem\u003eDivided Minds: Twin Sisters and their Journey through Schizophrenia\u003c\/em\u003e (St Martins Press, 2005) and author of \u003ca title=\"We Mad Climb Shaky Ladders\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/we-mad-climb-shaky-ladders\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWe Mad Climb Shaky Ladders\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2009). Her third book, poems and original art, \u003cem\u003eLearning to See in Three Dimensions\u003c\/em\u003e (Green Writers Press, 2017) is now also available from Amazon and other booksellers. Visit \u003ca title=\"http:\/\/phoebesparrowwagner.com\" href=\"http:\/\/phoebesparrowwagner.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/phoebesparrowwagner.com\u003c\/a\u003e for Wagner’s poetry.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145367376099,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/WeMadClimbShakyLadders.jpg?v=1742220721"},{"product_id":"the-second-night-of-the-spirit","title":"The Second Night of the Spirit","description":"\u003cp\u003ePoetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul, Stanley Kunitz wrote. “The old myths, the old gods, the old heroes have never died. They are only sleeping at the bottom of our minds, waiting for our call.” These myths, these gods, these heroes are called upon and awakened in this startlingly confessional debut volume. While exploring the dynamics of illness, Bherwani extends his domain, evoking all that is mysterious and nonsensical, beyond family, beyond earth, to heaven, to hell, embracing those old myths, gods, and heroes to try to make sense of our own mortal situation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eWithin the context of a sibling’s enduring love for his brother, this collection examines the intricacies of relationship that define family. Bherwani’s narrator grapples with the brother’s affliction, exploring, in the process, the predicaments of illness, loss, and handicap.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Bhisham_Bherwani-topaz-face-upscale-4x-2_240x240.jpg?v=1732628908\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBhisham Bherwani\u003c\/strong\u003e studied Fine Arts at New England College. He is also a graduate of New York University and Cornell University, and the recipient of fellowships and scholarships from The Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, New England College, and The Frost Place. He was born in Bombay, India; he lives in New York City. With CavanKerry Press, Bherwani released \u003ca title=\"The Second Night of the Spirit\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-second-night-of-the-spirit\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Second Night of the Spirit\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e in 2009.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145369047267,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheSecondNightoftheSpirit.jpg?v=1742220749"},{"product_id":"without-wings","title":"Without Wings","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eThe poems collected in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout Wings\u003c\/em\u003e, like the poems in Laurie Lamon’s first collection,\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fork Without Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e, reflect the belief that poems use language to point us toward the world that is often overlooked – the world of stillness, the world where points of vital connection tremble and come into being – the world of things as they are, without prejudice, rationalization, and verbal clutter.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe subjects of the poems in\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003einclude the observable and un-observable mysteries that live plainly before us; the poems desire to see with a kind of clarity that is fatal to illusion, that is, to discover what is. Here is history and epiphany.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Laurie_Lamon_240x240.png?v=1728413905\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLaurie Lamon\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e’s poems have appeared in journals and magazines including \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Atlantic, The New Republic, Arts \u0026amp; LettersJournal of Contemporary Culture, Plume, Ploughshares, J Journal: New Writing on Justice, Innisfree Poetry Journal, North American Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eand others. She has two poetry collections published at CavanKerry Press: \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"The Fork Without Hunger\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-fork-without-hunger\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Fork Without Hunger\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2005)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e and \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca title=\"Without Wings\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/without-wings\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout Wings\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (2009)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eShe was the recipient of a Pushcart Prize and was selected by Donald Hall as a Witter Bynner Fellow in 2007. She currently holds the Amy Ryan Endowed professorship at Whitworth University in Spokane, Washington, and is poetry editor for the literary journal \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eRock \u0026amp; Sling.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e She lives with my husband Bill Siems, and their two Dachshund Chihuahua dogs, Willow and Johnny.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145369112803,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/WithoutWings.jpg?v=1742220734"},{"product_id":"losing-season","title":"Losing Season","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLosing Season\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e explores the often unsettlingly central role that sports play in American life. From the star player to the kid who never gets in a game to the town religious fanatic to the disgruntled parent—all have their say. Even if you haven’t lived in this town, you will recognize the lives of quiet endurance, unrecognized triumph, harsh weather, and hardnosed hope that propel people through the season.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Jack_Ridi_240x240.jpg?v=1728487353\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJack Ridl\u003c\/strong\u003e, Poet Laureate of Douglas, Michigan (Population 1100), in April 2019 released\u003cem\u003e Saint Peter and the Goldfinch \u003c\/em\u003e(Wayne State University Press).\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eHis\u003cem\u003e Practicing to Walk Like a Heron \u003c\/em\u003e(WSUPress, 2013) was awarded the National Gold Medal for poetry by ForeWord Reviews\/Indie Fab. His collection\u003cem\u003e Broken Symmetry \u003c\/em\u003e(WSUPress) was co-recipient of The Society of Midland Authors best book of poetry award for 2006. His\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.cavankerrypress.org\/product\/losing-season\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLosing Season\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e(CavanKerry Press) was named the best sports book of the year for 2009 by The Institute for International Sport.Then Poet Laureate Billy Collins selected his Against Elegies for The Center for Book Arts Chapbook Award. Every Thursday following the 2016 election he sent out a commentary and poem. The students at Hope College named him both their Outstanding Professor and their Favorite Professor, and in 1996 The Carnegie (CASE) Foundation named him Michigan Professor of the Year. More than 90 of Jack’s students are published, several of whom have received First Book Awards, national honors. For further information about Jack, his website is \u003ca title=\"https:\/\/www.ridl.com.\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ridl.com.\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ewww.ridl.com.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145369604323,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/LosingSeason.jpg?v=1742220734"},{"product_id":"southern-comfort","title":"Southern Comfort","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this collection of linked poems, Andrews describes a childhood during the Vietnam War era on a farm in a divided household with a southern father and northern mother. The memories and trials of childhood come from a fabled place where whiskey and story were shared by children, and superstitions and mythmaking were a way of life.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/nin-andrews-bw-e1551728551120_673c90f8-af03-48e7-b703-60d02137a14d_240x240.png?v=1731689940\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eNin Andrews \u003c\/strong\u003egrew up on a farm in Charlottesville, Virginia. She received her BA from Hamilton College and her MFA from Vermont College. Her poems and stories have a appeared in my literary journals and anthologies including Agni, Ploughshares, and Best American Poetry. The recipient of two Ohio Arts Council grants, she is the author of many books including \u003ca title=\"Miss August\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/miss-august\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMiss August\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press 2017), \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Orgasms, \u003c\/em\u003e\u003ca title=\"Southern Comfort\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/southern-comfort\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSouthern Comfort\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press 2009), and \u003cem\u003eWhy God Is a Woman\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145369932003,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/SouthernComfort.jpg?v=1742220731"},{"product_id":"the-waiting-room-reader-vol-i-stories-to-keep-you-company","title":"The Waiting Room Reader, Vol I: Stories to Keep You Company","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P.Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine. Publisher Joan Cusack Handler and Gold Foundation President and CEO Sandra Gold observed that patients, while waiting to learn about their physical health, typically are provided only pop culture magazines—perhaps entertaining but without the solace and comfort that literature provides. The \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eWaiting Room Reader\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e was designed to address that need by bringing fine and accessible writing to “keep the patients company.” Here are uplifting and inspiring poems that focus on life’s gifts – everyday pleasures: love and family, food and home, work and play, dreams and the earth. This collection, originally offered only to hospitals and physicians’ waiting rooms, was received with great success and is now available to a wider audience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room Reader: Stories to Keep You Company\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003ewas published in 2009, with generous co-sponsorship by The Arnold P. Gold Foundation for Humanism in Medicine and support from the Liana Foundation. This series, which is designed to help reduce the stress and anxiety of patients and their caregivers waiting for medical care, follows a belief that high quality literature should be available to anyone when they might need it most.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eContributors include: Joseph O. Legaspi, Sondra Gash, Christine Korfhage, Catherine Doty, Howard Levy, Ross Gay, Karen Chase, Andrea Carter Brown, Jack Wiler, Richard Jeffery Newman, Susan Jackson, Celia Bland, Peggy Penn, Robert Cording, Georgianna Orsini, Joan Cusack Handler, Teresa Carson, Christian Barter, Laurie Lamon, Joan Seliger Sidney, Eloise Bruce, Moyra Donaldson, Sherry Fairchok, and Mark Nepo.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIf you are a healthcare professional and would like to inquire about free copies of the\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Waiting Room Reader, Stories to Keep you Company,\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003eplease contact Starr Troup at\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"mailto:Starr@cavankerrypress.org\"\u003eStarr@cavankerrypress.org\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145370718435,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/TheWaitingRoomReader_VolI-StoriestoKeepYouCompany.jpg?v=1742220721"},{"product_id":"descent","title":"DESCENT","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume bears witness to John Haines’s position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews, chronicles, memoirs, and poems (spanning four decades) testify to the breadth and depth of his concerns. The life – rooted for decades in Alaska – and the writing are bound together inextricably…What interests Haines throughout the various modes represented in this volume is to clear away the numerous confusing, self-justifying and downright mendacious vapors that surround various human projects – be it drilling for oil or writing poems. He is a critic in the pure sense – a truth teller who has no use for relativism. Haines’s voice is an intensely American voice in the sense that it insists we can be connected to the land in ways that may redeem and vivify us. It insists that the place of poetry is central not peripheral. This volume adds to the trove that Haines has bequeathed us.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/John_Haines-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732640241\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJohn Haines\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, poet, essayist, and teacher was born in 1924 and died in March 2011. After studying painting, he spent more than twenty years homesteading in Alaska. The author of more than ten collections of poetry, his works include \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eAt the End of This Summer: Poems 1948-1954\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Owl in the Mask of the Dreamer and New Poems 1980-88\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, for which he received both the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize and the Western States Book Award. He taught at Ohio University, George Washington University, University of Montana, Bucknell University, and the University of Cincinnati. He was Resident at the Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy and Rasmuson Fellow at the U.S. Artists Meeting, Los Angeles. Named a Fellow by The Academy of American Poets in 1997, his other honors include the Alaska Governor’s Award for Excellence in the Arts, two Guggenheim Fellowships, an Amy Lowell Traveling Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Library of Congress. In 2008,\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003e Sewanee Review \u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003eawarded Haines the Atkin Taylor Award for Poetry. CavanKerry had the honor of publishing \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/descent\" title=\"DESCENT\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDescent\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e in 2010, as well as \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/a-gradual-twilight-an-appreciation-of-john-haines\" title=\"A Gradual Twilight: An Appreciation of John Haines\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Gradual Twilight: An Appreciation of John Haines\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cspan\u003e, a collection of reflections on Haines’s writing.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145370915043,"sku":null,"price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/DESCENT.jpg?v=1742220731"},{"product_id":"letters-from-a-distant-shore","title":"Letters From A Distant Shore","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eTragedy shattered Marie Lawson Fiala’s life as wife, mother and lawyer when her 13-year-old son, Jeremy, was felled by a massive hemorrhage from a ruptured artery deep in his brain. Within an hour, Jeremy was in a coma, sustained only by machines. This memoir of a mother’s ferocious care, devastating loss and prayerful transcendence focuses on bringing her son back from the edge. The suspense is relentless and the author’s observations as sharp as a scalpel.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Marie_Lawson_Fiala-topaz-face-upscale-4x_240x240.jpg?v=1732631441\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eMarie Lawson Fiala\u003c\/strong\u003e, born in Europe, came to the United States as a child. Her first language was Czech, and she learned English only after starting grade school. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Psychology with Distinction from Stanford University, her Juris Doctor degree from Stanford Law School, and her Master of Fine Arts in Writing from the University of San Francisco. Ms. Fiala is a full-tie practicing attorney and a partner in an international law firm, specializing in complex commercial litigation. \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/letters-from-a-distant-shore\" title=\"Letters From A Distant Shore\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLetters From a Distant Shore\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e was released in 2010.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145373143267,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/LettersFromADistantShore.jpg?v=1742220720"},{"product_id":"how-the-crimes-happened","title":"How the Crimes Happened","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhether they’re graveside tourists in Rome or lovelorn girls on a bus, the characters in Dawn Potter’s ravishing second collection of poetry, “betray a fatal longing” for love’s complications. By turns comic and melancholy, hungry and euphoric, these poems surrender again and again to the passions and panics of experience.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Dawn_Potter_240x240.jpg?v=1728486791\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDawn Potter \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of eight books of prose and poetry, including \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/how-the-crimes-happened\" title=\"How the Crimes Happened\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eHow the Crimes Happened\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2010), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/same-old-story\" title=\"Same Old Story\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSame Old Story\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2014). New work appears in the\u003cem\u003eBeloit Poetry Journal\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ethe Split Rock Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eVox Populi\u003c\/em\u003e, and many other journals. She has received fellowships and awards from the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Writers’ Center, and the Maine Arts Commission, and her memoir Tracing Paradise won the Maine Literary Award in Nonfiction. Dawn directs the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching and leads the high school writing seminars at Monson Arts. She lives in Portland, Maine.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145373339875,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/HowtheCrimesHappened.jpg?v=1742220730"},{"product_id":"divina-is-divina","title":"Divina Is Divina","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn this posthumous collection, attention is paid to the present moment. Wiler examines, with humor, compassion and fearlessness, the pleasures in life—especially the varieties of love–from friendship to sex—and how we are capable of ruining those pleasures for ourselves or for others. Jack helps us understand that life and death are each, in its own way, gifts we must live with relish, abandon and commitment.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Jack_Wiler_240x240.jpg?v=1728496767\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eJack Wiler\u003c\/strong\u003e was raised in New Jersey and lived in Jersey City until his death in 2009. Diagnosed with AIDS in 2001, Jack spent the last years of his life writing and educating students about poetry. For much of his life, he worked in pest control, most notably for Acme Exterminating in New York. He worked for \u003cem\u003eLong Shot Magazine\u003c\/em\u003e for many years and in association with the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation worked as a visiting poet in the schools. Jack’s words can be found online at \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/jackwiler.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/jackwiler.blogspot.com\u003c\/a\u003e and in his two CavanKerry collections, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/fun-being-me\" title=\"Fun Being Me\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eFun Being Me\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2006) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/divina-is-divina\" title=\"Divina Is Divina\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eDivina Is Divina\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2010).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145373765859,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/DivinaIsDivina.jpg?v=1742220730"},{"product_id":"walking-with-ruskin","title":"Walking with Ruskin","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his poem, “The Marriage of Heaven and Hell,” William Blake hypothesized that “If the doors of perception were cleansed everything would appear to man as it is, infinite.” Of course, Blake’s “doors of perception” are both hard to clean and even harder to keep clean. For John Ruskin, the famous 19th century art and social critic, seeing demanded a scientist’s respect for fact, but also a love for what was being seen. These poems ask us to attend, with devotion and care, to a world which will always remain a mystery, but a mystery in which love calls us to the things of this world where we may become most fully human.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Robert_Cording_240x240.jpg?v=1728407390\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eRobert Cording \u003c\/strong\u003etaught for 38 years at Holy Cross College in Worcester, Massachusetts, and is now a poetry mentor in MFA program at Seattle Pacific University. He has received two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships in poetry and his poems have appeared in publications such as the Nation, Georgia Review, Southern Review, Poetry, Hudson Review, Kenyon Review, New Ohio Review, New England Review, Orion, and the New Yorker. He has released five books with CavanKerry Press: \u003ca title=\"Against Consolation\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/against-consolation\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAgainst Consolation\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2002), \u003ca title=\"Common Life\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/common-life\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eCommon Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2006), \u003ca title=\"Walking with Ruskin\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/walking-with-ruskin\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWalking With Ruskin\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2010), \u003ca title=\"Only So Far\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/only-so-far\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eOnly So Far\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2015), and \u003ca title=\"Without My Asking\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/without-my-asking\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eWithout My Asking\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2019).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145374224611,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/WalkingwithRuskin.jpg?v=1742220729"},{"product_id":"little-boy-blue-a-memoir-in-verse","title":"Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Boy Blue\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a lyrically-charged dramatic monologue in the voice of a mother to her absent son. In twenty-three movements, the speaker reveals the facts, feelings, textures, perspectives and sensations that inform this most personal and intense relationship, one that survives betrayal, abandonment, neglect, mental illness and other calamities of contemporary American life. Occupying the ground between poetry and prose, and with an ever-gathering momentum and passionate intensity, Jacobik examines motherhood, sanity, and heartbreakingly tender, resilient love.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Gray_Jacobik_240x240.jpg?v=1728412298\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eGray Jacobik \u003c\/strong\u003eis a widely anthologized poet; \u003cem\u003eThe Double Task \u003c\/em\u003ewas selected by James Tate for the Juniper Prize; \u003cem\u003eThe Surface of Last Scattering \u003c\/em\u003ereceived the X. J. Kennedy Prize; \u003cem\u003eBrave Disguises\u003c\/em\u003e, the AWP Poetry Series Award.  In 2016\u003cem\u003eThe Banquet: New \u0026amp; Selected Poems \u003c\/em\u003ereceived the William Meredith Award in Poetry.  She’s been awarded The Yeats Prize, the Emily Dickinson Award and the Third Coast Poetry Prize. Jacobik is a painter as well as a poet and several CKP covers have featured her art. She has released two poetry collection with CavanKerry Press –\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cavankerrypress.org\/product\/little-boy-blue-a-memoir-in-verse\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLittle Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2011) and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/cavankerrypress.org\/product\/eleanor\/\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eEleanor\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2020). \u003ca href=\"http:\/\/www.grayjacobik.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"\u003ehttp:\/\/www.grayjacobik.com\/\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145375338723,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/LittleBoyBlue-AMemoirinVerse.jpg?v=1742220720"},{"product_id":"impenitent-notes","title":"Impenitent Notes","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWormser’s poetry is emphatically about people—how they do and do not accommodate themselves to the ever present hand of time. Whether following the life of a rock band through its various incarnations or imagining the meeting of Rilke and Babe Ruth or speaking to a mother who has lost her soldier son in Iraq, Wormser gets inside his characters’ hearts and minds.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Baron_Wormser_240x240.jpg?v=1728497826\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eBaron Wormser \u003c\/strong\u003eis the author of twenty books including novels, a memoir, a book of short stories, two coauthored books about teaching poetry, and many books of poetry (including \u003ca title=\"The Poetry Life Ten Stories\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-poetry-life-ten-stories\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Poetry Life Ten Stories\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2008, \u003ca title=\"Impenitent Notes\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/impenitent-notes\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eImpenitent Notes\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2011, \u003ca title=\"Unidentified Sighing Objects\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/unidentified-sighing-objects\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eUnidentified Sighing Objects\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2015, and \u003ca title=\"The History Hotel\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-history-hotel\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe History Hotel\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, 2023, all published by CavanKerry Press). Essays of his appeared in Best American Essays 2014 and 2018. He has received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. From 2000 to 2005, he served as poet laureate of the state of Maine and received an honorary doctor of humane letters degree from the University of Maine at Augusta. He is the founder of the Frost Place Conference on Poetry and Teaching. He lives in Montpelier, Vermont, with his wife Janet.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145376616675,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/ImpenitentNotes.jpg?v=1742220728"},{"product_id":"night-sessions","title":"Night Sessions","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eA collection that presents snapshots of the Korean American experience through poems ranging from the hardships of first generation Korean immigrants, their blue-collar work (though many had professional degrees), and arduous immigration to the United States, to the rise of the second and even third generation of culturally Americanized youth attempting to reconcile their bi-cultural heritage. Grounded in the Midwest and Chicago area, the poems invoke the difficulties of mediating American and Korean cultures and languages: the clash between the expectations of becoming medical doctors, versus the desire to play American sports; work on the Sears assembly line, or fulfill aspirations to write.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/David_S._Cho_240x240.jpg?v=1728407029\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eDavid S. Cho \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born and raised in the Chicago area, along with his brother and extended family, the proud children of Korean immigrants in the early 1970s. He holds a BA from the University of Illinois, MFA and MA from Purdue University, and MAT and PhD from the University of Washington, and has taught in West Lafayette and Crawfordsville, Indiana; Chicago; and Seattle and Tacoma, Washington. Formerly an associate professor of English and director of the American Ethnic Studies program at Hope College (Holland, Michigan), he now serves as the director of the Office of Multicultural Development at Wheaton College. He is the author of a chapbook, \u003cem\u003eSong of Our Songs \u003c\/em\u003e(2010), two books of poems, \u003ca title=\"Night Sessions\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/night-sessions\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNight Sessions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca title=\"A Half-Life\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/a-half-life\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eA Half-Life\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2011 and 2022), a scholarly monograph on 20th-century Korean American novels, \u003cem\u003eLost in Transnation \u003c\/em\u003e(2017).\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145383891171,"sku":"978-1-933880-24-2","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/NightSessions.jpg?v=1742220748"},{"product_id":"neighborhood-register","title":"Neighborhood Register","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eFrom the twilight towns of the Rust Belt to the vivid inlets of New York City, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeighborhood Register\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a ledger of the people, scenes, and sectors from which hidden music and meaning unearth. The collection evokes the beauties and difficulties within multi-racial families, the value of vernacular, and the unexpected resonances of common objects.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Marcus_Jackson_240x240.png?v=1728411859\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMarcus Jackson \u003c\/strong\u003ewas born in Toledo, Ohio. His poetry has appeared in\u003cem\u003e The New Yorker, Harvard Review, The Cincinnati Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHayden’s Ferry Review\u003c\/em\u003e, among many other publications. He has received fellowships from New York University and Cave Canem. His debut collection of poetry, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/neighborhood-register\" title=\"Neighborhood Register\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eNeighborhood Register\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, was published by CavanKerry Press in 2011.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145385726179,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/NeighborhoodRegister.jpg?v=1742220748"},{"product_id":"my-painted-warriors","title":"My Painted Warriors","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003ePenn probes the character of enduring love and the frailty of human life. These poems are a celebration of ritual and the passage of time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Peggy_Penn_240x240.jpg?v=1728486092\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003ePeggy Penn\u003c\/strong\u003e’s poetry appeared in several publications including \u003cem\u003eO Magazine, The Paris Review, Beloit Poetry Journal, Western Humanities Review, Southern Poetry Review \u003c\/em\u003eand\u003cem\u003e Margie Review\u003c\/em\u003e. She won the poem for the first poem published in the journal \u003cem\u003eKimera\u003c\/em\u003e, and the first Emily Dickinson Award for innovative poetry. She released two collections with CavanKerry Press –\u003ca title=\"So Close\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/so-close\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eSo Close\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2001) and \u003ca title=\"My Painted Warriors\" href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/my-painted-warriors\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eMy Painted Warriors\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (2011) – before her death in 2012.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145392672995,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/MyPaintedWarriors.jpg?v=1742220743"},{"product_id":"motherhood-exaggerated","title":"Motherhood Exaggerated","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eWhen eight-year-old Nadia cracks her jaw on a piece of Halloween candy unmasking a rare bone cancer, mother and daughter are launched on a revelatory journey of treatment, recovery and survival. As Nadia fights her way through chemotherapy, surgeries and hospital stays, her mother, as well, is tested as never before. Not always certain about how to raise her daughter, who seemed born with a gravity and preoccupation with death, Nadia’s mother must confront her own upbringing, her past anxiety disorders, her relationship with her husband and other children, and her ambivalence about faith in order to shepherd her daughter toward health and survival.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Judith_Hannan_240x240.jpg?v=1728411300\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJudith Hannan\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/motherhood-exaggerated\"\u003eMotherhood Exaggerated\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2012), her memoir of discovery and transformation during her daughter’s cancer treatment and transition into survival. Her most recent book is The Write Prescription: Telling Your Story to Live With and Beyond Illness. Her essays have appeared in such publications as The Washington Post, AARP: The Girlfriend, Woman’s Day, Narratively, The Forward, Brevity, Opera News, The Healing Muse, and The Martha’s Vineyard Gazette. Ms. Hannan teaches writing about personal experience to homeless mothers, young women in the criminal just system as well as to those affected by physical and\/or mental illness. She is a writing mentor with the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center’s Visible Ink program where she also serves as an interventionist in a study to evaluate the benefits of expressive writing among elderly cancer patients. In June, 2016, Ms. Hannan joined the faculty of the inaugural Narrative Medicine program at Kripalu. In 2015, she received a Humanism-in-Medicine award from the Arnold P. Gold Foundation. Ms. Hannan serves on the board of the Children’s Museum of Manhattan where she is also Writer-in-Residence.\u003ca href=\"%20www.judithhannanwrites.com\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\"\u003e www.judithhannanwrites.com\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145394049251,"sku":null,"price":21.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/MotherhoodExaggerated.jpg?v=1742220719"},{"product_id":"american-rhapsody","title":"American Rhapsody","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe author’s romanticizing and grieving for her lost parents and America extends from the Prohibition era, its glamour and notoriety, with figures like Warren Harding and Josephine Baker to Enron, urban decay, and illegal immigration.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Carole_Stone_240x240.jpg?v=1728495525\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarole Stone \u003c\/strong\u003eis Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, at Montclair State University. She has published five books of poetry and four chapbooks, among them \u003cem\u003eTraveling with the Dead \u003c\/em\u003e(Backwaters Press), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/american-rhapsody\" title=\"American Rhapsody\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Rhapsody\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2012), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/limited-editions\" title=\"Limited Editions\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLimited Editions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2023). Her recent work has appeared in Blue Fifth Journal, Slab, Bellevue Literary Review, and Nimrod. Her book, No Happy Ruins, was one of five finalists in the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Contest. She has won three fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship to the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, England.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCarole Stone\u003c\/strong\u003e is Distinguished Professor of English, Emerita, at Montclair State University. She has published five books of poetry and four chapbooks, among them \u003cem\u003eTraveling with the Dead \u003c\/em\u003e(Backwaters Press), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/american-rhapsody\" title=\"American Rhapsody\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eAmerican Rhapsody\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2012), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/limited-editions\" title=\"Limited Editions\" style=\"color: rgb(0, 0, 0);\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eLimited Editions\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e (CavanKerry Press, 2023). Her recent work has appeared in Blue Fifth Journal, Slab, Bellevue Literary Review, and Nimrod. Her book, No Happy Ruins, was one of five finalists in the Laura Boss Narrative Poetry Contest. She has won three fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and a fellowship to the Rothermere American Institute at Oxford University, England.\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Cavankerry Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46145395917027,"sku":null,"price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/AmericanRhapsody.jpg?v=1742220728"},{"product_id":"the-one-fifteen-to-penn-station","title":"The One Fifteen to Penn Station","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe One-Fifteen To Penn Station\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cspan\u003e takes us from an urban beach front in the shadow of the Boston skyline to the halls of a private prep school, from the corner drugstore to the playground basketball court. This collection deals with family, and friendships, and lost love, with the somatic sensation of adolescence, the joy of sports, the fear of uncertainty, the regret and the damage from the choices we make, and ultimately the salvation of having survived, of having grown up, of having gotten successfully from one station in life to the other.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"text-align: left;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0701\/5176\/6243\/files\/Kevin_Carey_240x240.jpg?v=1728404838\" alt=\"\" style=\"margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 1px; float: left;\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eKevin Carey \u003c\/strong\u003eis the Coordinator of Creative Writing at Salem State University. He has published three books – a chapbook of fiction,\u003cem\u003eThe Beach People\u003c\/em\u003e(Red Bird Chapbooks) and two books of poetry from CavanKerry Press, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/the-one-fifteen-to-penn-station\" title=\"The One Fifteen to Penn Station\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe One Fifteen to Penn Station\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/340854-19.myshopify.com\/products\/jesus-was-a-homeboy\" title=\"Jesus Was a Homeboy\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eJesus Was a Homeboy\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e, which was selected as an Honor Book for the 2017 Paterson Poetry Prize. Kevin is also a filmmaker and playwright. His latest documentary film, \u003cem\u003eUnburying Malcolm Miller, \u003c\/em\u003eabout a deceased Salem, MA poet, premiered at the Mass Poetry Festival in 2016. His latest play “The Stand or Sal is Dead” a murder mystery comedy, opened in Newburyport, MA. at The Actor’s Studio on June 21st – 24th2018. 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