It is the summer of 1989—but not the summer you remember. This is the summer of shooting stars, when every evening the Ohio sky blazes with hundreds of meteors burning high in the atmosphere, a season that begins in wonder and ends in terror.

Walt Whitman wrote that “the mere fact, consciousness”—the very awareness of being a thinking thing with sensations—so awed and pleased him that he could hardly move beyond that initial astonishment. In his fourth book of poems, Chris Forhan lingers in that place of amazement, finding in it bemusement, an occasional flicker of terror, and joy

PRE-ORDER NOW! Pulling up to the gated community known as Belladonna—nestled comfortably in the foothills of South Carolina—one is confronted by a logo featuring a wide-eyed Cleopatra surrounded by the legendary poisonous plant. It’s the sort of place that has a hammerlock on the American Dream

PRE-ORDER NOW! What happens when expectations about how life will unfold—rather traditional ones, as it happens—are disrupted by a restless soul that insists on continually re-writing the script?

AVAILABLE NOW! Against Certainty is the culmination of forty years of literary pilgrimage, resounding evidence that Scott Cairns has not only produced a richly layered body of work but also a poetics that restores the craft to its ancient, enduring purpose.

PRE-ORDER NOW! Professional liar Miller Cane is making a killing traveling around the country running therapy groups for survivors of mass shootings—and business is booming.

AVAILABLE NOW! In this, his tenth and perhaps final book of poems, Paul Mariani—acclaimed poet, biographer, critic and teacher—reflects on his life, returning in memory to the 1940s and ending some eighty-five years later with the present.

NOW AVAILABLE! This astonishing debut novel for young adults and readers of all ages—in the spirit of beloved writers like Madeleine L’Engle and Maile Meloy—is by turns chilling, tender, and profound. A story of loss and courage, Light in the Canyon explores how change can help us discover who we’re truly meant to be.

NOW AVAILABLE! W.H. Auden said about poetry: “there is only one thing / that all poetry must do; it must praise all it can for being / and for happening.” For forty years, Robert Cording’s poems have sought to praise a world that need not be, but is.

NOW AVAILABLE! Tom Howard’s award-winning debut short story collection, Fierce Pretty Things, won accolades for blending “raw emotion with surreal forays into the supernatural and metaphysical.” With his second collection, Invisibilia, Howard takes the reader on a mesmerizing ride through a haunting, haunted landscape of children, drifters, soldiers, lovers, and ghosts, and the unseen forces that shape their lives.

NOW AVAILABLE! John Poch’s eighth collection, The Future of Love, is comprised of poems written over the past twenty years, rooted in and inspired by the landscape of Spain, Federico García Lorca’s surrealism, and Pablo Neruda’s eros.

The capstone of a distinguished literary career, James Baldwin Smoking a Cigarette and Other Poems is Baron Wormser’s eleventh book of poetry. It speaks to matters that have haunted and obsessed the author for a lifetime—especially the ways that a finite poem can intersect with the infinitude of being.