The Law at Night

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry

'Through the dark of childhood and the illness of aging parents, through the mystery of insects a...

(Chao's) poems speak on many levels about life, relationships, and personal nightmares. Her work ...

2017 Nebraska Book Award  This new collection by Nebraska poet Marjorie Saiser explores the notio...

The general theme of this book, and a number of its individual poems, is that love and language c...

Strous's poems have appeared in 'The Ohio Review, Blue Unicorn, Phantasmagoria,' and other journa...

2012 Nebraska Book Award In this remarkable anthology of poems about Weldon Kees or inspired by W...

Fueled with ecstatic rage and syncopated with jazzed-up pistons and B-bop timing belts, Anderson ...

These empathetic poems are rich with the realities of other lives. John Krumberger doesn't miss m...

This book-length poem in six sections takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeast...

2012 Nebraska Book Award When the salvage crew finally arrived, they found the dead man and a hal...

John Sibley Williams serves as editor of the Inflectionist Review¿and works as a literary agent. ...

'Whether turning his attention to kiwifruit, 'Wild Kingdom's' Marlin Perkins, the Strategic Air C...

This volume contains a selection of Kuzmas longer poems written between 1988 and 1995.

Leeming, winner of The Readers' Choice Award from The Backwaters Press for 2003, presents a volum...

Marjorie Saiser's The Woman in the Moon is her 7th book with The Backwaters Press. The poems in t...

Poetry. Widely-known Nebraska poet Marge Saiser's unique poems deal with love and loss through a ...

These poems delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, teaching us wh...

In Branch in His Hand, a boy falls to his death and a mother sings a requiem in poems. The reader...

'One might be forgiven for thinking that the almost universally dark subject matter of these eloq...

'In COME NOW, Rodger Gerberding reminds us of just how necessary the modernist's dogged desire to...

Intense nature and family poems about the poet in relationship to the things of the world.

This volume contains brilliantly crafted poems selected from a lifetime's work of careful writing...

Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain,...

Peary's poems describe a world with endless off-kilter surprise and beauty.

Winner of the Backwaters Prize in Poetry Honorable Mention The title poem of this collection refe...

Wolves in Shells is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, traum...

Winside, Nebraska rancher and Wayne State College English and Creative Writing teacher J.V.Brumme...

From the author of 'Wedding Cake and Funeral Ham' comes this collection of gritty poems about Neb...

Distant Engines is one of the three winners of The Weldon Kees Award for 2005 from The Backwaters...

Cowing's brave and mature poems face divorce and aging even as they revel in the natural world, p...

'MRS. BELLADONNA'S SUPPER CLUB WALTZ contains work that is a rarity in American literature: a tri...

“Brings Plenty has come into his own power with this new book of poems. These are the poems of a ...

Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Backwaters Prize. DRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in ou...

2012 Nebraska Book Award Twyla M. Hansen and Linda M. Hasselstrom reflect the Great Plains’ influ...

Wild and freely imaginative poems by this Whitman- and Neruda-influenced poetcelebrate the life o...

A master of surrealism presents his first full-length collection.

In this volume are new poems of the American West by one of today's current masters.

A seasoned Chicago poet offers her first book.

In Susan Firer’s The Laugh We Make When We Fall, peonies; snow drops, “with all their survivor ec...

Poetry. 'If one reads enough Hal Sirowitz poems, the whole world seems to become material for poe...

2014 Nebraska Book AwardThe Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets takes its readers...

PMPoetry. 'The strength of Tim Hunt's nature poems drew me into this book. His observation of lig...

To read LeBlanc's 'At Any Moment' is to fall in love with poetry all over again. If I thought I c...

Winner of The Backwaters Prize for 2005, this is the story of a Jewish mother and son in Detroit,...

Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search ...

Living Room imagines the lived reality of other organisms and kinds of life to explore the permea...