'...The word 'mad'' may conjure up notions that are either arty or primitive. Neither would apply...

A memorable debut collection that explores colonial and generational trauma.     In this striking...

An intimate collection of poems about mothers and daughters, female friendship, and memory.

Combining unsettling imagery with inventive form, this powerful collection explores the inner str...

Combining extensive research into sexual violence with the author's personal experiences as a fem...

A bold and tender portrait of family, identity, and truth in the North Bronx.

The Silence of Men confronts and breaks the silence in men's lives surrounding sex, family, power...

Joan Handler's poems speak of the transmigration of a woman from an emotionally stifled girlhood ...

An elegy to the author's parents and to America past and present

In a debut remarkable for its formal control and emotional range, Brent Newsom tunes narrative an...

The poetry of A Car Stops And A Door Opens gives us an insight into the anguish of longing, be it...

The poems of WORKS traverse a course from the swamps of Shot¿s home state of New Jersey to the en...

The all encompassing theme in this debut collection is how a person holds the tension of opposite...

A collection of power and humor in earthy eroticism, invoking both the fever and hope in wakeful ...

The collection is Liz Hutner's powerful testament to her son, Sam, bravely battling leukemia. The...

The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending wi...

Only So Far

Kali Lightfoot's kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali had 'a well-developed sense of b...

A tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist's and a state prosecutor's office and the mind of the po...

The struggle and anguish in finding meaningful work in an economically depressed city

A collection of poetry about dislocation in an unexpectedly childless marriage. A time of wanderi...

'In his debut, full-length collection, Shaw drills down using a series of narrative poems to cons...

'...in these poems, (there is) a family of 12 with the mother, father, and speaker as the prime c...

Contains excerpts from each of the first 104 books published by Cavankerry Press.

Celebrates the courageous journey across boundaries, the intersections between liminal spaces, an...

From the introduction: 'This book, the second in the Waiting Room Reader series, grows from the b...

A family built, a family lost. Truth Has a Different Shape is a story of the power of compassion,...

The focus of Baron Wormser's poetry over more than three decades has been the human drama of our ...

With melancholy and wit, the poems of The Bar of the Flattened Heart remind us of the sheer wonde...

Brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives

This volume bears witness to John Haines's position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews...

Walking with Ruskin looks at the difficulty of perception, of just how hard it is to simply 'see'...

The Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P....

From the external worlds of race and gender to the internal world of family life, taps into what ...

Cati Porter's mother began chemo on July 19, 2012, Cati's 41st birthday. Throughout the process, ...

An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual crue...

Mary Ruefle is an observer who seeks to bring sense and order to her world. This is a world that ...

Kenneth Rosen's poems are, at turns, idyllic, comic, conciliatory, passionate. He finds his image...

Night Sessions is based primarily on David S. Cho's life experiences as a Chicago-born and raised...

Through verse and those mythical tales we can't stop living, our private fears and hopes are brou...

Unique poems that bring history to life by weaving narratives of the Salem Witch Trials with stor...

Speaks of violence toward women and girls through one family group, 1980s cultural milieu, and re...

In Set in Stone, Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremoni...

Winner of the 2022 Paterson Poetry Prize, this coming-of-age collection is set in 1960s Paterson,...

The Baby Book

The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making--poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage--underbe...

In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psal...

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul, Stanley Kunitz wrote. 'The ol...