Mary Alexandra Agner (Boston)
The Doors of the Body

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 34 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-79-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-799

The Doors of the Body travels through ancient Greek mythology to more recent folk tales to ascertain and exclaim in the vatic, sometimes fierce voices of women: Athena, Gretel, Sleeping Beauty and even darling Clementine. Agner's musical writing, in poems both free and formal, lends a melancholy grace to the pageant of famous dead women.

Nancy Botkin (Indiana)
Parts That Were Once Whole

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-49-1 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-492

Beautifully honest and heartbreaking, Parts That Were Once Whole boldly exposes the human psyche. Botkin examines questions of mortality, consciousness, and the concept of self. Memories start as solid events and become fragmented over time; Botkin takes those fragments and creates a luminous image of what was once whole.

Robin Chapman and Jeri McCormick, eds. (Wisconsin)
Love Over 60: an anthology of women's poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-874

This diverse anthology includes work by more than 80 poets, some well known and others relatively unknown, all over the age of 60. These poems speak of love in particular lives and details. Each poet writes out of her real experience, belonging to this historical time, from a vast array of loving (or nonloving) exchanges—and so each reader will find individual patterns, nuances, and voices. The whole contributes to defining and refining that elusive word, love, in our time, caught in language and breathed into the poems.

Garnett Kilberg Cohen (Illinois)
How We Move the Air

Publication date: July 15, 2010

Short fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 110 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-935

How We Move the Air tells the story of musician Jake Doyle’s suicide and how, over time, it affected those who knew him. In seven linked stories, Garnett Kilberg Cohen explores the complex ways in which people choose to remember—or not remember—the past.

Diane Shipley DeCillis and Mary Jo Firth Gillett, eds. (Detroit)
Mona Poetica: A Poetry Anthology

Poetry anthology. Paper, perfect bound, 114 pp
$16.50 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-36-X

The Mona Lisa is the most famous painting in the history of art. It continues to inspire reproduction, parody and countless theories. We see facsimiles of it everywhere: on buildings and mugs, on computer ads, in cartoons. In honor of her 500th birthday, 2003-2006, Mona Poetica celebrates not only the painting but also inspiration and creativity. This rich and varied anthology includes work by: Stephen Dunn, Grace Bauer, William Blake, Edward Hirsch, Natasha Saje and many others.

Rachel Eshed (Israel)
Little Promises

Poetry. Bilingual edition (Hebrew/English) transl. David Cooper
Paper, perfect bound, 104 pp
$16.00 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-42-4

In its Hebrew original, this collection of intense erotic poetry won the 1992 AKUM prize in Israel. Novelist Tsipi Keller says, "It is hard to speak of Rachel Eshed’s poetry without mentioning 'fire' – her poems virtually burn on the page, and David Cooper’s renditions not only do justice to the original but magnify its richness."

Joy Gaines-Friedler (Michigan)
Like Vapor

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 64 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-652

In these poems we are assured of humanity, our existence and our eventual extinction, with a grace and comfort that uplifts our spirits and encourages our own consideration of life.

Alice George (Illinois)
This Must Be the Place

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-7136

Alice George's poems meet the threats of everyday life with a lifted chin, a jaundiced eye and a sense of humor.

Mariela Griffor (Michigan)
House

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 56 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-539

House is a love affair between the poet and and Chile. While making real the struggles of war, becoming an expatriate and the alienation that accompanies the immersion in a new culture, Griffor also conveys the beauty and nostalgia she feels for her home country.  She commands our attention, and we share her sadness, compassion, anger and hope. Influenced greatly by the American lyric tradition, Mariela’s poems play softly and skillfully; the smooth strum lingers in the readers ears.

Christine Hamm (New York)
The Transparent Dinner

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp
$15.95 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-44-0

Christine Hamm’s poetry brings the reader into a fairy tale world of dark and dangerous secrets, where a mother is a pile of sticks, a husband can be wished into a cat and a movie can be made from adolescent sexual experiences. Within the imaginative world of The Transparent Dinner, Hamm reveals truths about a woman’s intimacies and relationships.

Tenea D. Johnson (Florida)
Starting Friction

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 38pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-621

Johnson's intricate language invites the reader to connect with the images, music, and tastes of a woman vulnerably exposed. Both urban and natural, Starting Friction resounds with a hope for a nation full of complexity and conflict.

Betsy Johnson (Illinois)
What a Mouth Will Do

Poetry. Paper, saddle-stitched, 36 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-29-7

Betsy Johnson’s poems speak about being on the edge, about being on the border of loving and not-loving, of faith and no-faith, of acceptance and resistance.

Betsy Johnson-Miller (Avon, MN)
Rain When You Want Rain

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-867

Writing about life’s absurdities, Betsy Johnson-Miller infuses her lines with a winning sense of eros. In this beautifully crafted collection, she explores the fragile grace earned by finding a necessary voice in contrasts: mother/daughter, husband/wife, humor/sadness, faith/skepticism, the world of the flesh/the world of the spirit, and so much more.

Allison Joseph (Carbondale, IL)
Voice: Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-751

This enjoyable collection further demonstrates Allison Joseph’s uncanny grasp of language and image, along with a kind of playful and soulful voice that makes her poetry accessible to all.

2009 Aquarius Press Legacy Award Winner!

Zilka Joseph (Calcutta/Chicago/Detroit)
Lands I Live In

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-47-5

In richly detailed, exuberant poems, Zilka Joseph embraces the vivid passions of her childhood home in Calcutta and the complex hopes and fears implicit in her move to the Midwest.

Marilyn Jurich (Massachusetts)
Defying the Eye Chart

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 120 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-577

Defying the Eye Chart reaches beyond time to bring the mythic into our contemporary world. The poems in this collection focus on different ways of seeing, or not seeing, the fantastic in reality.

Josie Kearns (Clinton, MI)
The Theory of Everything

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-744

These poems discover the answers to the fantastic questions of the world: the value of divining rods and other inventions, termite love, a Babylonian god, or what types of things can be found in Loss Universe.

Elizabeth Kerlikowske (Michigan)
Dominant Hand

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 64 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-584

Dominant Hand is a world filled with the pantomime of love, the trickster coyote, and the conflict between widowed father and concerned grandparents. These poems are set in the seemingly ordinary places of life, but they are not ordinary; here Kerlikowske reveals profound truths that shock and amaze, and put smiles on our faces.

Claire Keyes (Massachusetts)
The Question of Rapture

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-690

Imagistic language and unique imagination shape this stunning book. These musical, detailed poems capture the intricacies of Keyes’ worlds: her family, childhood, Boston, Key West and even Greece.

Suzanne Keyworth (Florida)
Markers

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-35-1

This group of poems grows out of the history and voices of Suzanne Keyworth's ancestors, who came to the new world in the early 1600’s and the early 1700’s, and were active in the history of Florida. The volume includes family trees and drawings of some of the major ancestors whose voices we hear in the poems.

Sally Rosen Kindred (Columbia, MD)
No Eden

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 72 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 0-932412-97-8

The poems in No Eden merge the landscapes of a rainy girlhood in the American South and the mythic world of Noah and the Flood. In these poems, a backyard stretches between a mother and daughter--the lessons of "distance tender and biblical." The Carolina yard opens to hold the fruits of Eve and Lilith, the flight of Noah's raven and dove, the small terrors of curbs and classrooms. These are poems of a "family awake through a storm," an intimate theology of floods, loss, and betrayal.

Kathryn Kirkpatrick (North Carolina)
Out of the Garden

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 76 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-51-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-515

In a dark world of loss, betrayal and regret, Kathryn Kirkpatrick powerfully reveals experiences that we find recognizable yet surprising. These poems weave together the obsessions of a woman’s mind with the physical passion she experiences.

Finalist, 2007 SIBA (Southern Independent Booksellers Association) Book Award.

Susan Kolodny
After The Firestorm

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 62 pp
$13.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-07-4

Susan Kolodny draws on her work as a clinical psychoanalyst in her first collection of poetry, After the Firestorm. Kolodny's evocative style arises from an imagination both sensory and analytical. The poems suggest the unity of love and suffering, and walk a difficult line between the pleasures of the physical world and its dormant, invisible dimensions. Kolodny is a brilliant observer of nature, at once attentive and inquisitive, whose haunting questions provide a starting point for her lyrical investigations into the losses and traumas we all experience.

Stacie Leatherman(Ohio)
Stranger Air

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 84 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2011. ISBN 978-1936419-036

Stacie Leatherman's dynamic poems inhabit the cusp between the domestic and the utterly strange. To read them is to travel where we haven't been before, where things seem lost or on the verge of disappearing.

Eleanor Lerman
Janet Planet

Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 208 pp
$17.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 978-1-936419-067

Janet Planet is a unique work that attempts to showcase the young and rebellious spirit of a Woodstock generation that eventually grew up-and away-from those glorious hippie days. In the novel, Janet Harris-known as Janet Planet-is the reader's guide into and out of the psychedelic years as she joins Jorge Castelan (a fictionalized Castaneda) and his circle of women and then falls into the new age movement of alternative spirituality. Set in the hippie haven of Woodstock, Janet embarks on her own spiritual journey into the mystery that lies beyond life.

Eleanor Lerman(Long Beach,NY)
The Blonde on the Train

Short fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 164 pp.
$16.95 plus s&h
2009. ISBN 978-0932412-737

From Greenwich Village in the ‘60s to Woodstock, NY, to an airport in the Midwest, Eleanor Lerman's stunning short stories explore the disenchantment of this world, with love and hope and humor.

Toni Mergentime Levi (New York City)
Watching Mother Disappear & Other Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-83-1 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-836

With grace, intelligence and wit, this lyrical collection illuminates the emotional and psychological subtleties of deeply personal relationships.

Adrienne Lewis (Saginaw, MI)
Coming Clean

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 30 pp.
$8 plus s&h
2003, ISBN 0-932412-21-1

The poem as a form of prayer is one of poetry's earliest traditions. In the lyric poems of this strong first book, Adrienne Lewis explores the nexus of faith and sexuality as experienced in the dilemmas of marriage and family life.

Judith McCombs (MD, formerly Detroit)
Territories, Here & Elsewhere

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp
$6 plus s&h
1996, ISBN-0-932412-10-6

“This poetry full of living detail, and within the detail is an ongoing motif of adventure, risk and survival. McCombs is a pleasure for me to read.” --Alicia Ostriker

Patricia McNair (Michigan)
Taking Notice

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-560

Patricia McNair’s poems combine an earthy honesty with consistent alertness to the beauty of everyday life, especially in family and nature.  She explores the resonances of her life in a voice which is humorous, comfortably familiar and uncomfortably direct.

Pamela Miller (Chicago)
Recipe for Disaster

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp
$12 plus s&h
2003, ISBN 0-932412-19-X

A collection of tough, extremely funny poems by a woman whose imagination never runs dry. Quirky, edgy, sometimes poignant and sometimes uproarious.

Judith Minty (Muskegon, MI)
Letters to My Daughters

$5 plus s&h
1981, ISBN 0-932412-04-3

This collection of poems by a leading Michigan poet explores, through the daily life of women, the relationship between a poet/mother and her two daughters.

Toni Ortner-Zimmerman (Connecticut)
As If Anything Could Grow Back Perfect

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 16 pp 
$5 plus s&h
1979, ISBN 0-932412-02-5

A collection of short lyrics with a contemporary flavor and imagery centered on popular music. Published in cooperation with Earth's Daughters magazine.

Lynn Pattison (Kalamazoo, MI)
Light That Sounds Like Breaking

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp
$16.00 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-40-8

In these richly sensuous poems, Lynn Pattison explores the natural world, body politics, the life and work of Marc Chagall, Asian cultural influences filtered through an American sensibility and more, within an overall sequence loosely structured as a journey. The book’s stunning imagery and musicality lead us into a world both artistically beautiful and emotionally resonant.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee

Johanny Vázquez Paz (Puerto Rico/Chicago)
Poemas Callejeros/Streetwise Poems

Poetry - bilingual. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-46-7

These sensuous and passionate poems explore one of the many strands of contemporary Latino immigrant experience, dancing the tropical sensibility of Puerto Rico among Chicago's concrete and broken glass. In Spanish and English, with translations by the author.

Jane Piirto (Michigan/Ohio)
Saunas

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 100 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-645

From the frozen landscapes of her Finnish forebears to the ice-clear rivers and cold fields of Michigan’s Upper Pennisula, Jane Piirto paints a personal and extraordinary picture. These deeply moving poems are like chants celebrating what sustains us, reminding us of the wonder and mystery in the everyday.

Cati Porter (Michigan)
Seven Floors Up

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-676

Intimate, tender, at times funny and at others erotically charged, Porter's poems remind us that it is in the everyday entaglements that we find poetry.

Susan Azar Porterfield (Illinois)
In the Garden of Our Spines

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 54 pp
$12.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-30-0 

With an intensity of vision sometimes touching on the mystical, Susan Portfield crafts poems rich with strong imagery and compelling music.

Jayne Pupek (Virginia)
Forms of Intercession

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-591

Ghostly and energetic, Jayne Pupek’s poems range in content through an ambivalent abortion, a lover’s abandonment, childhood abuse, a bad case of the flu, and her own longings. Each poem’s graceful and intense meditations connect to the reader’s own world.

Jayne Pupek (Virginia)
The Livelihood of Crows

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 90 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-942

In Jayne Pupek’s poetry, we experience the slipperiness of language, of meaning, of life. She offers stories of mystery, luck, and particularly a humane understanding for the lapse in judgment and love. Her poems are filled with notes and reminders that you might well need to hear.

Sophia Rivkin (Michigan)
Naked Woman Listening at Keyhole

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 978-1936419-043

Sophia Rivkin's poetry simmers with visceral energy and surreal leaps. It is made of the dark soup of her Russian heritage, the light broth of her word play, and the sustaining whimsy of her artist's eye.

Sophia Rivkin (Michigan)
The Valise

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 38 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-720

Rivkin's keen and unblinking eye, great verbal energy, and wry wisdom confront her subjects with continuous, genuine surprise.

Helen Ruggieri (Western NY)
Glimmer Girls

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 40 pp.
$8 plus s&h
1999, ISBN 0-932412-16-5

Poems that evoke the author's blue-collar, rock 'n' roll young womanhood. Sharp, gritty, honest and well-crafted.

Penelope Scambly Schott (Portland, OR)
Six Lips

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN+13 978-0932412-843

Six Lips is an imagistic and offbeat approach to the old standards of love, death, and the planet where they happen. Feisty, thoughtful, fun to read, the poems riot with original and often dreamlike images: monkeys "who have learned to speak in words," a "broom of violets," and even a child as a horse. The speaker of these poems is nothing if not multiple and shape-shifting. Nimble and tender, sensuous and biting, deliciously daring, and always grounded in felt experience, Penelope Scambly Schott’s poems take us on wild and glorious flights of womanhood. 

Lorraine Schein (New York)
The Futurist's Mistress

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp
$13.00 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-39-4

Enid Dame says, "Playful, anarchic, often hilariously funny glimpses of the world we know from a skewed, sophisticated angle."

Myra Sklarew (Washington, D.C.)
Harmless

Publication date: May 15, 2010.

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp
$15.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-898

Sklarew’s tenth collection of poetry distills the experience of a life spent in the pursuit of truth. Trained as a biologist, Sklarew draws upon the discourses of science and the arts in equal measure; also versed in history, she is haunted by the cruelties of the 20th century, even as she affirms the present moment and holds out the promise of renewal. This moving book has something important to say, and it says it in beautiful language marked by extraordinary musicality.

Susan Slaviero (Illinois)
Cyborgia

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-904

Melding the language of sci-fi and sensuality,Susan Slaviero’s redolent, ambitious debut wallows delightfully in its rhythm and vocabulary yet remains sharp and meticulous. In this lyric guide to cyborg feminism—complete with robosexuality and teledildonics—Slaviero traverses traditional female tropes, including fairy-tale heroines, mermaids, and brides. Full of lucent wit, imagination, intelligence, and a scathing playfulness.

Margo Solod (Virginia)
Some Very Soft Days

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 84 pp
$15.50 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-32-7 

A major collection of poems by Margo Solod. These honest, luminous and well-made poems deal with landscapes both geographical and emotional. They combine an open heart with powerful poetic craft.

Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
The Art of Ruin

Novel. Paper, perfect bound, 126 pp.
$118.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-78-5

Mayapple Press's first novel. Stamell "is a conduit for disparate urban voices, jamming characters who probably should be kept away from each other into situations where interaction is a demand.... The voices of her people are true to the ear and to themselves."

Rhoda Stamell (Detroit)
Detroit Stories

Short Fiction. Paper, perfect bound, 102 pp.
$18.50 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-38-6

Mayapple Press's first fiction publication. As Charles Baxter says, "All the grit, humor, intelligence and darkness of Detroit" can be found in this collection of stories about people struggling to love and be loved.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee

Kathleen Tyler (Los Angeles)
The Secret Box

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-43-2

Dark yet beautiful, The Secret Box unveils the mysterious and dangerous world in which we live. Tyler’s craft is provocative, sharp and graceful; she courageously explores images of erotic and passionate love, a destroyed marriage, childhood abuse and family death. Cecilia Woloch compares this book to the “flickering intensity of film noir.” The Secret Box dares you to open it, then leaves you in awe of its enduring truths.

Evelyn Wexler (New York)
Occupied Territory

Paper, perfect bound, 80 pp 
$10 plus s&h
1994, ISBN 0-932412-06-8

“These intense, visceral poems cover the territory occupied by fear, pain, memory, loss and desire. The ultimate paradigm is that of the self--dual embodiment of victim and aggressor. Wexler's clear, steady voice convinces us that everything is both personal and political." -- Jane Flanders

Evelyn Wexler (New York)
The Geisha House

Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp 
$5.50 plus s&h
1992, ISBN 0-932412-05-X

These visionary erotic poems imagine the world of the geisha house with a female client and both male and female geishas.

Angela Williams (Michigan)
Live from the Tiki Lounge

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-706

Angela Williams brings humor, sensuality, a wise eye and a clear voice to poems reflecting her life in Northern Michigan.

Angela Williams (Beulah, MI)
With a Cherry on Top: Stories, Poems, Recipes & Fun Facts from Michigan Cherry Country

Nonfiction with poetry, fiction, photographs.
Paper, perfect bound, 130 pp
$17.95 plus s&h
2006, ISBN 0-932412-41-6

Cherries are to Northern Michigan what oranges are to Florida! In this highly personal view of Michigan's cherry industry, Angela Williams cooks up a delightful confection of reminiscences, poems, recipes, facts and photos. The book features poetry, memoirs and fiction by Michigan writers Anne-Marie Oomen, Norm Wheeler, Conrad Hilberry, Jackie Bartley, Linda Nemec Foster, Gerry LaFemina, David Sosnowski, Mary Ann Samyn and others.

2006 Pushcart Prize nominee

Mary Winegarden (San Francisco, CA)
The Translator's Sister

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 81 pp  
$14.95 plus s&h
2011, ISBN 0-932419-02-9

In response to the unexpected death of her sister Katharine Washburn, Mary Winegarden has taken on the challenge of translating their lives into living language. Using phrases from Washburn's work as her foil, Winegarden creates a moving meditation on the bonds of sisterhood. Crossing boundaries between prose and poetry, fiction and memoir, convention and experimentation, The Translator's Sister resonates with the intimacy and humor of remembered details, with loss translated into art. This shimmering conversation will sweep you in.

Geraldine Zetzel (Cambridge, MA)
Mapping the Sands

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 76 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-850

This book is a record, not so much of making life one’s own as of allowing it to emerge. Evoking the journey of a long life, Geraldine Zetzel’s accomplished poems express a potent, often playful imagination that reaches through strictures of propriety and convention to the bedrock of connection. This is mature work in a world where there is great thirst for it.