Martin Achatz (Marquette, MI)
The Mysteries of the Rosary

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 62 pp
$10.00 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-28-9 

Based loosely on the Catholic Rosary and other devotional prayers, this collection of poems is quiet and intense, walking the mysterious line between sacramental and sacreligious.

Mary Alexandra Agner (Massachusetts)
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.

Brian Aldiss (United Kingdom)
A Prehistory of Mind

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 76 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-614

Award-winning SF author Brian Aldiss ventures into new territory with this, his first, full-length poetry collection. Whether you’re a current or potential Aldiss fan, you’ll enjoy the range, vigor and intimate self-portrait of these poems.

“[Aldiss’] voice is assuredly his own, and his style is elegant, sometimes elegiac, always carefully honed, never affected.” —Willis E. McNelly

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.

Marion Boyer (Mattawan, MI)
The Clock of the Long Now

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 88 pp.
$15.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-775

Many images here begin with the natural world and end in a human gesture of freedom, of release. Marion Boyer creates a world of imagination. She goes as far as to create a character, Jake, whose life unfolds in the pages of this book. Boyer’s elegance ruminates throughout the lyric in these poems.

Don Cellini (Michigan)
Translate into English

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 70 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-911

Translate into English is framed with grammatical instructions from a turn-of-the-century Spanish lesson book. Possessing a rare elegance and integrity, Cellini’s poems are intelligent and clever while capturing subtle emotions. From the compelling concept to the fine execution of these poetic vignettes—each work, each poem, every page is necessary to the whole. And the whole is a unique and beautiful experience.

Andy Christ (Michigan)
Philip & the Poet

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 28pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-607

These humorous, moving and sometimes even philosophical poems revolve around Christ's love for writing, his exploration of faith and knowledge, and above all, his admiration for his audience. An adventurous journey through Christ’s imagination.

Diane Shipley DeCillis and Mary Jo Firth Gillet, eds. (Michigan)
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.

Johnny Durán (Dominican Republic)
Nieblas de Luna/Moon Fogs

Poetry. Mamey Editions (bilingual)
Paper, saddle-stitched, 52 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-23-8 

A bilingual collection translated from the original Spanish by the author.
This is the first title in our new Mamey Editions project, focused on bilingual publications and Caribbean literature.

Judith Kerman comments:
"The poet's voice explores the distances of desire with a quiet yearning equally moving in both languages, a romanticism in which the strangeness and distance of the world illuminate and map the strangeness and distance of the beloved."

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."

Hugh Fox (Lansing)
Strata

Poetry.Paper,saddlestitched,28 pp 
$5.50 plus s&h
1998, ISBN-0-932412-12-2

"The poetry of Hugh Fox suggests a sort of mythical exploration of experience, how a particular moment can serve as a coming together of the eternal -- cross cultural and cross experiential...” -- Mahlon Coop

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.

Chris Green (Illinois)
The Sky Over Walgreens

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-546

Chris Green is a wonderful poet of contemporary American life.  Compassionate, candid, funny and smart, these poems explore things we know but are often unable to say about our everyday lives. Encountering other poets, books, animals, marriage, family, even the suburban strip mall – the experiences created by these poems are sources of surprise, light and shadow. 

Chris Green (Chicago)
Epiphany School

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-80-7 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-805

Green is a poet who writes with wings. His clear-cut honesty embraces his subject matter. Epiphany School, penned with all the wonder and curiosity of a wise child, is not a book for the timid, the slack-minded, the duped or sleeping. These are poems that hold us in their headlights and tap our backs in the dark, that beg us to notice life and death, the big and small moments of illumination in our lives. The poems range from gut-wrenching to heart-breaking, but, throughout the book, a sense of humor prevails. Each turn of thought and phrase arrives unexpectedly with a poignancy that touches on the revelatory. This is the Green movement we've been waiting for.

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.

Andrei Guruianu (Illinois)
Metal and Plum: A Memoir

Prose. Paper, perfect bound, 124 pp.
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-966

This extraordinary memoir captures cultural dislocation and hope. Guruianu eloquently conveys the impact of immigration on his family, contrasting the hardships of Ceausescu's Romania with the challenges of adaptation to the United States.

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.

Al Hellus (1958-2008)
a vision of corrected history with breakfast

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp 
$5 plus s&h
1995, ISBN 0-932412-08-4

These are edgy, raunchy, funny and powerful poems.

Geof Hewitt (Vermont)
The Perfect Heart: Selected & New Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 110 pp
$16.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-928

The Perfect Heart documents 45 years of extraordinary work by a poet who, according to David Ray, “is a true heir of Frost and Carruth, their tonalities and breadth of concern and vision, and shares their grounding in mythic Vermont. [Hewitt] is open to a multitude of leadings, never with restricted agendas, and fearlessly takes the reader along as a trusted friend and confidante. This book could aptly be called Love Tokens, for that’s what most of the poems are. This is a collection to celebrate with each reading.”

William Heyen (New York)
The Angel Voices: A Poem

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 66 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-881

In this visionary and prophetic work, Heyen searches through images of grace and beauty as well as the grotesque, such as furrows dug to “drain off / human fat / the pyres congealed / with firefolk / villages of them / cities of them….”

Conrad Hilberry (Kalamazoo, MI)
The Fingernail of Luck

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 32 pp
$10.00 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-33-5

These poems are based on the spooky ability to make odd, though rarely surreal ,connections. The poems move with quiet authority from the observation of a particular, and of the possibilities surrounding it, to exploration of what might happen next. The miracle is that they do this without arbitrariness.--Henry Taylor

Chosen as a May-June 2005 "Pick" by Small Press Review

Conrad Hilberry and Jane Hilberry (Kalamazoo, MI / Colorado)
This Awkward Art: Poems by a Father and Daughter

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 58 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 0-932412-82-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-829

What this wonderful little book does is to set in parallel some of the poems of father and daughter—poems which were not written to be read in tandem, but which for that reason are all the more subtle and powerful in their conversing. The poems give upon each other in certain inescapable ways: one sees from different vantages the constellation of a family. Arranged by quiet turns in this slim and generous book, the poems make public the private: the late afternoon inquiries, the depth of pleasure, the relentlessness of memory.

Dennis Hinrichsen (Lansing)
Message to Be Spoken into the Left Ear of God

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-26-2

Christine Hume comments:
“For Hinrichsen, paradox is a way of knowing. He enacts this philosophical stance in the quick yet attentive movement of his lines.... Hinrichsen's unhinged singing lets momentum have its way. Yet we are moved in the old sense--by empathy.”

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.

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.

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.

Joel Thomas Katz (California)
Away

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 42 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-638

In these snappy and unique poems, Katz views the world from some slanted perspective most of us aren’t careful enough to see.

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.

Judith Kerman (Michigan) and Don Riggs (Philadelphia), eds.
Uncommon Places: Poems of the fantastic

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 148 pp
$15 plus s&h
2000, ISBN 0-932412-17-3

A first-rate anthology of poems that grow from science fiction and fantasy sensibilities. Featuring poems by leading s.f. and fantasy authors, including Brian Aldiss, Joe Haldeman, Jeanne Larsen, David Lunde, Patrick O'Leary, Rick Wilber, & Jane Yolen.

Judith Kerman and Amee Schmidt, eds. (Bay City,MI)
Greenhouse: The First Five Years of the Rustbelt Roethke Writers' Workshop

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-683

The Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Workshop/Retreat was inspired by the work and life of Pulitzer-Prize-winning poet Theodore Roethke (1908-1963), who was born and brought up in Saginaw, Michigan. The Workshop has met each July since 2002, providing experienced writers with a comfortable, egalitarian atmosphere of peer (teacherless) workshops and public readings. This anthology was published during the centennial year of Roethke’s birth as part of the year-long Roethke Centennial celebration. It showcases the work of all participants in the first 5 years of workshops. Enjoy the variety of poetry, short fiction, flash-fiction, experimental fiction and creative non-fiction from authors who came from as far as Texas, Massachusetts, New York and the Caribbean to work together in Roethke’s home landscape.

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.

Garnett Kilberg Cohen (Illinois)
How We Move the Air

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.

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.

Rabbi Manes Kogan (New York)
Fables from the Jewish Tradition

Jewish Fables. Paper, illustrated, perfect bound, 104 pp.
$19.95 plus s&h
2008, ISBN 978-0932412-669

Fables from the Jewish Tradition, compiled by Rabbi Manes Kogan, is a graceful English presentation of Jewish fables and their cultural and religious context. Luminous color illustrations by Marcelo Ferder, Kogan’s extensive notes, and his enlightening short essay about fables and the Jewish textual tradition are highlights of the collection. A supplementary Teacher's Manual is also available.

Gerry LaFemina (West Virginia/Michigan)
The Book of Clown Baby/Figures from the Big Time Circus Book

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 60 pp. Color and b&w illustrations.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-50-5 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-508

Special Pop-up Edition $19.95 plus s&h

This is a double collection of playful and surprisingly moving poems on themes of clowning and circus life. The Book of Clown Baby relates the fantastic character of Clown Baby, occupied by visions of trick horses, parades and high-wire acts, to the common reality where he finds himself. Figures from the Big Time Circus Book captures the wonder of the big top, as imagined and recreated in children’s play.

Gerry LaFemina (WV, formerly Roscommon, MI)
Zarathustra in Love

Prose-poems.
Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2000, ISBN 0-932412-18-1

Taking on everything from Persian prophets to Bigfoot, Jim Nabors to UFO's, Berlitz tapes to the George Foreman grill, these prose-poems elevate the notion of unpredictability and delight.

Jeanne Larsen (Virginia)
Why We Make Gardens (& Other Poems)

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 74 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 978-0932412-959

Jeanne Larsen offers us poems filled with sustenance and surprise. In precise, meditative language, she investigates a full range of experience and feeling, from bodily desire to rage to astonishment at the wonders (and betrayals) we find in the world.

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 (NYC)
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.

Larry Levy (Midland, MI)
I Would Stay Forever If I Could and New Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 60 pp.
$12.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-45-9

This collection of poems is informed by history and place, by Jewish immigrant parents, by love, loss and baseball - all by a practitioner of rhyme so skillful you hardly notice its presence until it rings again in memory.

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.

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.

David Lunde (Oregon, formerly Western New York)
Blues for Port City

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp 
$5 plus s&h
1995, ISBN 0-932412-07-8

Science fiction poems which are truly science fiction and truly fine contemporary poetry, "written" by an inhabitant of the demimonde of a space station. Includes Rhysling-award winner "Pilot, Pilot."

David Lunde (Oregon formerly Western New York)
Instead

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 82 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-48-3 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-485

David Lunde's second title with Mayapple Press, Instead, is a collection of the various ways memory is evoked. Lunde finds similarity between a man and his dog-headed cane, the reconstruction of an ancient building and the uneasy integration of two cultures, and his toddler and a communist country. Each memory is provoked by a singular, vibrant image. Lunde's craft is one of images woven together with his uniquely whimsical voice.

Tim Mayo (Brattleboro, VT)
The Kingdom of Possibilities

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 78 pp.
$14.95 plus s&h
2009, ISBN 978-0932412-768

Meditative, fierce and direct, these poems explore what constitutes identity in our contemporary society. Mayo takes us on journeys across the globe—falling off a motor bike and finding refuge with Italians, honeymooning in Athens, and discovering an ammo belt in St. Jean de Luz. Each of these poems reflect the complications of understanding oneself with charm and wit.

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.

James Owens (Indiana)
Frost Lights a Thin Flame

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$13.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 978-0932412-553

Owens's poems direct our attention through fantastic metaphor coupled with a kind of precision in language that brings the sounds and sights of his natural and mythological world to the reader’s senses.

John Palen (Midland, MI)
Open Communion: New and Selected Poems

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 98 pp
$16 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-31-9 

This selection, reaching back twenty years, establishes John Palen's quiet eloquence in poems which convery a deep, straightforward honesty about the fumblings, failures and occasional radiance of human life.

John Palen (Midland, MI)
Staying Intact

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp
$6 plus s&h
1997, ISBN-0-932412-11-4

These poems, as with any real poetry, make us see in new and deeper ways. Most of the works involve common feelings or occurances that we do not normally deem significant or beautiful. John's elegant use of words brings out that beauty (not always a pleasant beauty).

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.

Skip Renker (Midland, MI)
Sifting the Visible 

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 36 pp
$6.50 plus s&h
1998, ISBN 0-932412-13-0

Skip Renker's poems are grounded, quiet and elegant, reflecting the thoughtful, humorous and meditative style of the man himself.

John Repp (Pennsylvania)
Fever

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 36 pp.
$11.95 plus s&h
2007, ISBN 0-932412-52-1 / ISBN+13 978-0932412-522

The poems in Fever sweat through the discontents of a love affair, a childhood, a marriage, a malfunctioning farm, the speaker’s aging father and his own illness.  Dream and the gritty details of life flow together in the hallucinatory and yet grounded language of these short, sharp pieces, which form an integrated sequence with both unity and emotional range.

John Repp (Pennsylvania)
White Doe

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 40 pp
$8.50 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-27-0 

In these musical poems, John Repp's Zen eye and moral sensibility transform the landscape of American home places and human relationships.

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.

Zack Rogow (California)
The Selfsame Planet

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 40 pp
$7.50 plus s&h
1999, ISBN 0-932412-15-7

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.

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."

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. The poems are feisty, thoughtful, fun to read; they 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. 

Myra Sklarew (Washington, D.C.)
Harmless

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.

Douglas M.Smith, Melody Vassoff and Karen Woollams, eds. - Michigan
In Drought Time: Scenes from Rural and Small Town Life

Poetry/art anthology. Paper, perfect bound, 114 pp
$24.95 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-37-8

Poems and artwork concerned with rural and small town life in Michigan. Our first publication with interior color artwork.

One of our best sellers!

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.
$18.95 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

Lidia Torres (Puerto Rico/New York)
A Weakness for Boleros

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 48 pp.
$12.50 plus s&h
2005, ISBN 0-932412-34-3 

These intense poems echo the music of the poet's two languages, Spanish
and English, and the life of her two homelands, Puerto Rico and New York.

Nominated for the PEN Beyond Margins Award, 2005

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.

Jane O. Wayne (St. Louis)
The Other Place You Live

Poetry. Paper, perfect bound, 80 pp
$14.95 plus s&h
2010, ISBN 0-932412-97-3

The Other Place You Live explores "the world's slow unwinding." With intensity of language and a bounty of imagery, Jane O. Wayne reveals those other places wherever she is in the world. The poems move effortlessly from metaphor to metaphor, gradually building an atmosphere of dark disquiet, then suddenly revealing, as by moonlight, the burnished joy at the heart of things. This is a book of serious riches and profound human pleasures.

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.

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

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

Kip Zegers
The American Floor

Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp
$6.00 plus s&h
1996, ISBN 0-932412-09-2

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.

Paradidomi 2

Poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, reviews.
Paper, perfect bound, 92 pp
$5 plus s&h
2004, ISBN 0-932412-25-4

A short-lived literary magazine focusing on Michigan authors.