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Whose Names Have Slipped Away, published by Finishing Line Press, is poet Kathy Nelson's second chapbook collection of poems. The poems in this collection are meditations on nature observed through the lens of relationship and through the universal experience of impermanence. Poet Tina Barr says that "Kathy Nelson's work ministers to the deep places within us; she explores difficult interpersonal arenas with conviction and courage." Editor and poet Nancy Dillingham calls Kathy Nelson's poems "brilliant distillations of moments in nature … (that) mirror, and become metaphor for, the eternal struggles between daughters and mothers."

Dr. Sharon Foley's poems illuminate the complexity of emotions surrounding illness, death and loss. Her experience as a physician gives her a unique perspective from which to shine that light, allowing insight into life's most personal and powerful moments, she witnesses cancer's slow ravage, "each day your stomach collapsed/further into itself/ and you went with it/folding into the seam of your bed"; pronounces a patient's death, "I felt something I never had before/it was like the rumbling of an approaching train/rushing faster, whistling louder"; describes cardiac surgery; "I saw inside/the house of your ribs." Sharon Foley's award winning poems invites us to experience her unforgettable encounters with illness and mortality; universal hardships that touch all of us.

Keith Moul implies that most human activities conclude in several quite predictable results: success in light of the object; failure in light of the object; or in brutal competition, complete abandonment of the object in favor of new options C-Z. His chapbook of poems invest Keith in considerations of noble paths, but almost certain misdirection. Readers, therefore, may be alert to surprises, the compelling diversions of history, or language that in Keith's opinion will protect explorers of dark latitudes. In other words, watch out for idolatries that can arise innocently to capture you completely.

A way station is a resting place on a long journey. The poems of Way Station constitute a meditation on aging, the transformation from youth to middle to old age, the way each stage of life incorproates, reflects on and shapes what's to come. Liane Ellison Norman incorpoates in her poetry lively accounts of all of these parts of a varied and adventurous life on several continents, paying attention to the worlds she has inhabited, which include living on several continents, engagement with family and the social issues that have informed-continue to inform-her growth. Pervading her poetry is a love of language and its mysterious ability to bring people of all sorts together.

Good Places traces a midlife journey between beloved places, a journey of spiritual transformation. The poems attend to images from ordinary daily life, finding there a celebration of life's seasons, losses and spiritual surprises.

The poems in O, But in the Library suggest desirable restraints in amorous and friendly relationships between partners to avoid domination, absolute uniformity, complacency, and loss of privacy and intrigue. In this principle, one's approach or withdrawal to a comfortable measure of intimacy-avoiding both envelopment and remoteness-produces a positive tension that is esteemed in these poems.

From Finishing Line Press SNOWBIRD Poems by Iris Litt Warm sun, fresh snow-and amazing poetry! Go with Iris for a joyous and illuminating respite. Even if you can't get to her enchanting island this year, reading "Snowbird" will give you the satisfying experience of the snowbird way of life: the sun on your face and the snow beneath your feet. Start with "Downsouth"; then halfway through the book, travel "Upnorth". The problems of life don't go away but they're easier to take in the Florida sun. Iris Litt is known for writing accessible poetry that is also excitingly fresh and imaginative. Her poems give new meaning to little things that suddenly aren't little at all. Her ability to capture the spirit of place means that you're there with her, whether she takes you to her enchanting island or her beautiful mountains or Greenwich Village or any of the other places you visit with her. This is Iris' third book of poetry, and she has become a well-loved poet for this accessibility which is, at the same time, complex and illuminating. Poetry like this can take you north, south, anywhere. It's a beautiful trip. Don't miss it. AUTHOR INFORMATION: Iris Litt, author of "Snowbird" has written two previous books of poetry: "What I Wanted to Say" from Shivastan Publishing, and "Word Love", from Cosmic Trend Publications. She has had poems, short stories and articles in many magazines, including CONFRONTATION, ONTHEBUS, THE NEW RENAISSANCE, THE RAMBUNCTIOUS REVIEW, SCHOLASTIC, ATLANTIC MONTHLY (special college edition), PACIFIC COAST JOURNAL, THE WRITER, WRITER'S DIGEST, THE BRYANT LITERARY REVIEW, THE LONDON MAGAZINE and many others. She has recently won awards from THE SATURDAY EVENING POST and WINNING WRITERS. She has taught (as an adjunct) at SUNY/Ulster and Bard College, and has led writing workshops for The New York Public Library, The Educational Alliance and many other venues in New York City and the Hudson Valley. She has also led Woodstock Writers Workshops for many years. She worked as an advertising copywriter and copy supervisor and general freelance writer, all of which pays better than poetry! She lives in Woodstock and in Greenwich Village, and winters on Anna Maria Island off the Gulf Coast of Florida, which was the inspiration for "Snowbird".

Ballroom dance, biography and the Bible inspire Francis Klein's poems in Dais. Klein interweaves dance rhythms, life stories, and personal reflections to create poems with resonant patterns.

The poems in E.G. Cunningham's Apologetics explore tensions of deep ecology in relation to subjective consciousness. Lyric fragments accrete and break to produce several possible readings regarding the role of the observer. Through long-form lyric poetry, Apologetics inhabits the seasons of extremes-summer and winter-and confronts the relationship between external and internal phenomena.

Songs from the Black Hole by Loretta Oleck intersects love, heartbreak, and meaning, with the mysteries of astrophysics. Readers are brought, time and again, to an intimate space where outer and inner worlds converge.

Blue Tarp is a collection of poems that follows the innocence of a young teacher in a young marriage into the experience of hard conversations, loss and divorce. Using imagery from her childhood growing up in northern California, Rachel Joy Watson explores her grief and growing pains.

This manuscript is a tinier proposal of intangible, at times hazy, though frequently metaphoric memories in linguistic frequency of interwoven patterns, shapes, and designs of Lana's ricochets through life, even when the subject at hand is voiced from a second or third person narration. Lana could easily find herself sinking under all these weight in the realm of sleep, or becoming caught above the wings of foamed air. Mature yet child-like, angry while tenderfoot, vulgar inside the soothing dark. Unconsciousness is so real that living seems dreamlike to her. Always an endless river of struggle and provocation, all things both foreign and familiar.

Winner of the 2015 Finishing Line Press Open Chapbook Competition

Judith Stanton's Deer Diaries celebrate fawns, does, bucks, birds, a renegade coyote, a special turtle and snail, and a glittering albino doe throughout the seasons. Luminous poems for nature lovers. One by one, day after day, these wild creatures showed up on Judith's farm, inviting her to record their daily lives. Each event in every poem happened, really. Judith was riding her beloved horse Winston when they came across the fawn in the pasture. She was driving into town to buy groceries when the albino doe leaped across the road. The three-legged doe was the bravest deer she ever observed, and felt like her friend. Deer Diaries has been for Judith what writers call a gift book. From the moment she wrote "The Three-Legged Doe," all the other poems fell into place. Deer she'd watched for decades consorted to reveal themselves at every hour of the day and night, throughout the seasons of the year. For some of the lightest quietest poems, they just showed up. The tragedies, too, stock and staple of lives lived wild. She was so privileged to have the time, place, and freedom to chronical the daily lives of the wildlife on her farm-their quirks, humor, resilience, courage. Friends who've read Deer Diaries say without fail that now when they drive our county roads, with deer liable to dart out at any moment, they drive more carefully. May you drive more carefully on your roads too. Judith published five historical romance novels and a contemporary equestrian suspense before discovering a new passion in writing about the natural world on her own farm. She also edited The Letters of Charlotte Smith, and is nominated for a Distinguished Alumna award at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.

Using the form of a guidebook and complicating definitions of flyover country and culture, this collection weaves themes of wilderness and ownership, the rhythms of nature with human design, juxtaposing idyllic tales of life on the Plains with cautionary ones to offer an alternate view of the enigmatic prairie.

In this savage twist on The Art of War, a female Bukowski seeks solace in booze and strange men while struggling with the twelve steps out of her own personal hell. Tough, gritty, at times darkly funny, The Art of Bars is a lyrical meditation on the problems women face in seeking love while numbing real feelings. The unnamed protagonist is on a rocky road to self-destruction while battling herself and her demons. She is both pathetic and endearing because her scoffing veneer is so thin and brittle while the trough of despair beneath it so deep. Readers will root for her as she unveils her desperate search for self-love, hoping she can-like all of us-find a modicum of peace.

Salt Lick Prayer is a collection of poems exploring the complexities and contradictions of family history, spiritual tradition, and connection with the natural world. The rural landscape is a constant presence through which the author examines familial relationships and seeks the balance between reverence and reservation.