Congrats to Jeredith Merrin for her new book -- a special honoree for the 2013 Able Muse Book Award, as selected by final judge, X.J. Kennedy: Cup
-- "In these forthright and moving poems written in restrained, disciplined stanzas, the stories are told of how we each, “trying to make it better,/ whatever . . . it is,” have to...
Congrats to Richard Newman for his new book: All the Wasted Beauty of the World
-- "All the Wasted Beauty of the World returns us to the real and, consequently, the new by putting on the brakes and asking us to look, if only briefly, beyond our rear-views." —Dorianne Laux
