'...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...

From distinguished poet Benjamin S. Grossberg comes a bracing exploration of how the fear of deat...

Blending dream dialogue, personal reflection, and historical imaginings, poet Schyler Butler expl...

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...

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...

Poems centered on survival and perseverance in the face of long-term illness.

The death of a youngest child; an alcoholic, distant father; a grief-stricken family; tentative f...

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

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

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 portrait of marriage, caretaking, grief, and recovery.

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 heartfelt collection that tumbles through a life of love in all its iterations.

A collection that explores the beauty of survival in the face of upheaval and loss.

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.

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,...

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

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 collection tells of a young man dealing with the challenges of being mixed-race, growing up,...

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

'The term 'half-life' is used to describe radioactive decay, pharmaceutical drugs, rocks, the ato...

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

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

Lyrical insights from an immigrant son navigating love, death, acceptance, and belonging along th...

A poetic meditation on life, loss, and legacy.

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...

Poems that offer an honest portrayal of the complex realities of motherhood, including the devast...

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...

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