Jeff Parker (BA, 1995) Tin House Books, 2007 ISBN: 9780977698929 Skateboarder, punk rocker, kitchen slave, and general ne’er-do-well with a slightly tarnished heart of gold, When Thinfinger tries mightily to survive a seemingly endless round of troubles in small-town Florida. After getting fired from his job at the Barbie-Q, he lands a gig at the […]
C. Dale Young (MFA, 1993) TriQuarterly Books, 2001 ISBN: 0810151111 The Day Underneath the Day is the first book of poetry by C. Dale Young. It was a finalist for the 2002 Norma Farber Award given by the Poetry Society of America for the best first collection of poems published in the previous year and a […]
Adam Vines (MFA, 2006) University of Arkansas Press, 2012 ISBN: 9781557289803 In many of the poems in The Coal Life, Adam Vines, an avid outdoorsman and former professional landscaper for nearly twenty years, explores the cultural landscape of Alabama coal-mining camps in the first half of the twentieth century and how the industry can shape and […]
Chris Tusa (MA, 2000) University of West Alabama Press, 2009 ISBN: 9781604890303 Set in the slums of New Orleans, among clusters of crack houses and abandoned buildings, Dirty Little Angels is the story of sixteen year old Hailey Trosclair. When the Trosclair family suffers a string of financial hardships and a miscarriage, Hailey finds herself looking to […]
Chris Tusa (MA, 2000) Louisiana Literature Press, 2006 ISBN: 9780945083153 In Haunted Bones, Chris Tusa probes uncharted waters with courage, with energy, strength and clarity of vision. Microscoping the incorporeal, he holds a magnifying glass up to the mind of a hypochondriac in poems detailing fear of tumors, leukemia, bad weather or the sky falling. Intense […]
Alexandra Teague (MFA, 1998) Persea Books, 2015 This chilling new collection by the author of Mortal Geography (winner of the California Book Award in poetry) is a verse exploration of American progress and its consequences, featuring rifle heiress Sarah Winchester and her unsettling Mystery House, with cameos by Harry Houdini, Annie Oakley, Calamity Jane, Buffalo Bill and […]
Nicky Sa-en Schildkraut (MFA, 2002) Adopted from Korea at the age of two, Schildkraut’s writings seek to both unsettle and complicate presumptions about what ties people together in times of longing and loss. Her provocative and intensely lyrical poems draw upon personal experiences as well as the larger Korean diaspora — particularly its women. In […]
John Poch (MFA, 1997) 32 Poems is a poetry magazine, easy to carry and inviting to read. Each issue of this 8” x 5.5” semiannual journal contains 32 poems so you can give intimate, unhurried attention to each. The editors of 32 Poems feel that a poem’s publication should not begin its disappearance; it is their mission to […]
John Poch (MFA, 1997) Orchises Press, 2004 ISBN: 1932535004 Orchises Press is pleased to announce the first book by a much watched young writer, John Poch. The extraordinary mastery of form, the certain ear, and the freshness of a new voice mark this exciting debut. Entitled simply Poems, this is a stunning collection by one of […]
John Poch (MFA, 1997) St. Augustine Press, 2014 John Poch’s fourth collection of poems, Fix Quiet, is an ambitious exploration in verse of failure, death, and a redemptive beauty found in the surprise of order. From the opening poem, “Shrike,” which is itself a meditation on poetry as paradoxically both predator and prey, to the final […]