Genre: Poetry
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How to Kill Poetry
With the ghosts of Emily Dickinson, Arthur Rimbaud, Sappho, and Walt Whitman leading the way, How to Kill Poetry showcases a highly selective overview of Western civilization poetic development from its oral traditions to the silence of pixels. The narrative then jumps 200 years into the future where the unfortunate consequences of global warming create…
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Among the Leaves: Queer Male Poets on the Midwestern Experience
“The heartland is a perpetual state of mind, a place more pervasive than the literality of a land before them …” In Among the Leaves, 18 queer male poets share stories what it means to live in the Midwest. We learn what it’s like for them to play football and come up short. We feel…
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This Way to the Acorns: Poems (The Tenth Anniversary Edition)
As a boy growing up in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula, Raymond Luczak delighted in the mysterious attractions of nature in a huge expanse of abandoned woods and fields known as “across the street.” In This Way to the Acorns, he remembers encountering unexpected guests of the woods: a scraggly fox, a starving doe, an industrious chipmunk,…
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Road Work Ahead: Poems
A journey you’ll never forget. In his fourth poetry collection Road Work Ahead, Raymond Luczak sets out on a turbulent journey after ending a 15-year relationship. As he meets kindred souls on his travels, Luczak wonders what it means to love again. He opens the suitcase of his heart in far-flung cities and points beyond.…
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MUTE
Do not be afraid of your face. Move into a beam of light in the bar. Smile openly. Watch his hands move quicker than strobe lights as he surveys the crowd with his friends. Do not think of how hard it might be to have a casual conversation. – From “How to Fall for a…
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When I am Dead: The Writings of George M. Teegarden
George M. Teegarden (1852-1936) taught at the Western Pennsylvania School for the Deaf for 48 years, established the printing department, and also served as the first editor of the school’s magazine. Despite these significant contributions, his greatest gift to deaf people was his skill as a writer and poet who was deaf, as readers will…