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This is our most under-appreciated work and that is because not many have given it a chance. This is an award-winning gem waiting to be discovered, and I stake my full reputation on that fact. 

Narrated by a nun who helps run a leprosarium on the banks of the Mississippi River in the Civil War era, Leechdom is an historical fable which examines the nature of human suffering and the struggle for redemption.

Bregman keeps us on our toes as his wily characters traipse through garages and dark staircases in search of decent loot. A successful thief decides to train a jumpy school teacher his craft, as he needs a look out. Not everyone is cut out for thievery. While idle and walking alone with a young female accomplice, something happens that sends these two on the run. Visit run down segments of the city, as well as some prominent areas in this fast-paced crime thriller. 

Philadelphia, like New York, never sleeps, and in this collection of shorts, DePaul takes us on a journey around the city, introducing us to vignettes that keep us thinking well beyond the reading. The reader feels more in tune with this City of Brotherly Love, or is it? 

Crystal Jenkins Woods teaches writing at Columbus State University. "Woods' poems are adventurous, hopeful; they seem to say what we always meant to say, tell stories we wish we'd told, and finish out sentences or long-lost thoughts." -- Abby E. Murray

Read and review her book today. 

We've never met Bill, except through his words, and they say enough to get the gist of who he may be. We writers use masks more than most. 

Songs of Chaos is a collection of poetry, prose, and prose poems that explores darkness and light and despair and courage both thoughtfully and ferociously. Its purpose is to teach our madness how to sing even if those songs are mere whispers. The works in this volume are both passionate and provocative, but they are also very honest and come from a place that is a part of collective memory.

Jimmie Ray Pennington, author of My Kentucky, has had two successful readings so far and is listing several places he wants to see his book. Jimmie is also a visual artist. I find his work as good if not better than Wendell Berry's poetry. No complaining. Just down home words to a graceful God as a way of giving thanks. Beautiful images.  

Carroll Taylor's Chinaberry Summer  adorable story about youth in West Central Georgia, in the woods outside Columbus, GA, basically. 

When Sissie Stevenson reluctantly begins her fifth grade year at Slippery Branch Elementary School, she has lots of questions that need answers. How can she stop the class bully from picking on her cousin and best friend Spud McKenna? Why do some of the adults in her family behave so badly? Why would anyone want to harm snakes and turtles? One extraordinary teacher will set her on a new direction, and a very special member of the family will help her discover answers to her questions.

Elementary and middle school teachers, this is a fantastic reader for your kids. Contact us at gatorpoet@gmail.com for  teacher discounts. Carroll and I have taught for years and we love teachers. 

Scottie Smith has taught for many welding programs, and he has led welding operations in many locales. He's an expert, and he is well respected. Many people have ordered this important primer for starting a welding program. In an America where production is increased and where Americans are being hired, this book is truly important. 

"Engaging, surprising, and clever poetry," or so says William Ogden, author of Five Thousand Days. This poetry "explore(s) power structures, privilege, inheritance, denial, truth-telling, and the subtleties of winning and losing." - Denise Duhamel, author of Ka-Ching!

Separation Tango explores the themes of love, loneliness, and heartbreak. A man sitting in a cafe decides to take his fate into his own hands, radio DJs speak to individual listeners, while the fortunes of fools and nations are decided by seemingly random events. In this collection, the readers will find themselves lost in a cotillion of myth, nature, fear, language, and loss.

Shawn Kerivan was my roommate at Goddard College, a college which is no more. This tiny school carved into the Green Mountains outside Montpelier was an awesome place to further define my voice, and Shawn was a big part of that. He currently teaches at SCAD in Savannah when he isn't sailing on the high seas with his French wife, a genius chef, and keeper of Shawn's heart. Get all that Shawn learned in our MFA program right here. 

The 33rd collection of poetry for Marion Deutsche Cohen, this volume shows off one of her son's art pieces as a cover, as did her last with New Plains Press, The Project of Being Alive. The ethos of this title runs along the same vein as Project, though touching on some new topics so near and dear. Marion has a way of revealing subtle truths in huge ways by plying diction so strongly into our mind's eye ... as if she's anticipated exactly what we all need to hear, and after all, the things she discusses aren't so foreign to us that we cannot relate. Family as a chief subject and anything that may harm the symbiosis of this family is fair game. Her unabated attention to her chief concern, family, is carried mostly in what I have ever read of her, and unashamedly her tenacity is encouraging to those who may need courage in understanding what family actually means.