Last Night’s Fire and the Dwindling Embers of Evolution is the second short book in the fourth volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series. Drug Enforcement Agency Special Agent Jesse Fourmy writes from his “government outpost on the Big Island [of Hawaii].” These poems fuse a casual tone with a quirky outlook, a …
Shine Tomorrow is the second short book in the third volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series. Iowa-born Joel Craig, who now lives in Chicago, tells us in his personal statement that, “It’s in my poetic blood to make disjunctive arrangements.” In five long poems spanning sixteen pages, Craig employs a kind of …
The Woman Who Cries Speaks is the second short book in the second volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series. Patricia Staton‘s long, irregular lines snake down the page in all but the two prose poems in this collection. These are poems composed, like a scrapbook, of memory fragments. But they are also …
The Owl’s Ears is the second short book in the first volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series. Benson begins the poem “It Was Too Late” with the simultaneously nutty and philosophical line: “I never saw myself coming.” From here, this poem takes on some of the beautiful sorrow of a poet like …
Fugue is the first short book in the third volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series. Bobo was born in Kansas and now lives in Indiana with her musician husband. Herself a “recovering musician,” Bobo writes about an ex-pianist’s relationship to her instrument, citing two definitions of “fugue” on the cover page–first, the …
The Heights is the first short book in the second volume of the Lost Horse Press New Poets Series. Chicago-born Krcmarik, now a Texas fire fighter, mixes a cocktail of bravado and tenderness, literature and low-brow dialog. The speaker in the opening poem, “Soulmobile” tells us, “I like my Shakespeare mixed up with my Dante …
