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Dave Engeldrum

Dave Engeldrum has won the HR Hays Poetry Prize from Confrontation (twice) andthe Fiction Prize from Inkwell. He’s also beenpublished in Caesura, Alehouse, New Plains Review, The Southampton Review, Gander Press Review, Ampersand Review, andothers. He lives on the East End of Long Island with his wife and two daughters and teaches at Suffolk Community College and Stony Brook University.

Dark Gardens

For V.W.

Birds
speak
Greek
words,
woe
sings
things
low.
Love
ends.
A dove
descends.

Water
caught her.

Cally Conan-Davies

Cally Conan-Davies is a scholar and teacher who has researched and written widely on D.H. Lawrence and Depth Psychology. She is a practising Bibliotherapist, and runs her own Adult Education business which aims to keep literature and the arts at the heart of community life. Cally lives on the road, by her heart.

Philosopher's Wool

The King's Question: Poems

Brian Culhane’s deeply felt and accomplished debut, winner of the poetry foundation’s Emily Dickinson First Book Award Let just one of those quicksilver hours be returned to me, With my knowledge now of the world, and not a boy’s, With all that I have become a lighted room. One hour To ask the question that burned, once, in a King’s throat.

author: Brian Culhane
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1555975119
binding: Paperback
list price: $15.00 USD
amazon price: $15.00 USD

Brian Culhane

In 2007, Brian Culhane was awarded The Poetry Foundation's Emily Dickinson Prize and his winning manuscript, The King's Question, was published the following year by Graywolf Press. Last summer he spent time at the MacDowell Colony as a writing fellow. He teaches English and film at Lakeside School in Seattle.

The Painting

In 1869 Japan, a young woman escapes the confines of her arranged marriage by painting memories of her lover on mulberry paper. She secretly wraps the painting around a ceramic pot that's bound for Europe. In France, a disenchanted young man works as a clerk at an import shop. When he opens the box from Japan, he discovers the brilliant watercolor of two lovers locked in an embrace under a plum tree. He steals the painting and hides it in his room. With each viewing, he sees something different, and gradually the painting transforms him.

author: Nina Schuyler
ASIN or ISBN-10: 1565124413
binding: Hardcover
list price: $22.95 USD
amazon price: $8.00 USD

Hapax: Poems

Hapax is ancient Greek for "once, once only, once and for all," and "onceness" pervades this second book of poems by American expatriate poet A. E. Stallings. Opening with the jolt of "Aftershocks," this book explores what does and does not survive its "gone moment" - childhood ("The Dollhouse"), ancient artifacts ("Implements from the Grave of the Poet"), a marriage's lost moments of happiness ("Lovejoy Street"). The poems also often compare the ancient world with the modern Greece where Stallings has lived for several years.

author: A.E. Stallings
ASIN or ISBN-10: 0810151715
binding: Paperback
list price: $14.95 USD
amazon price: $14.95 USD

Archaic Smile: Poems

Archaic Smile, by A.E. Stallings, recipient of the 1999 Richard Wilbur Award, uniquely juxtaposes poetic meditations on mythological themes with poems about the everyday occurances of contemporary life -- such as losing an umbrella or fishing with one's father. In doing so, Archaic Smile continually bridges the gap between these two distant but interrelated worlds with striking insights. James Dickey, having praised the author's accomplished critical skills, also points out that she has "the most indispensable quality that a poet must have: an original way of looking at things." A.R.