Books published by Lynx House Press

Peter Sears was born in New York City in 1937 and educated at Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, and the University of Iowa. He taught at Reed College and Pacific University, and served as Dean of Students at Bard College and as community services director for the Oregon Arts Commission. His work appeared in many anthologies and journals, including The Atlantic, Ploughshares, and The Iowa Review. He also published five collections of poems, including, while serving as Oregon¿s Poet Laureate in 2014, Small Talk: New & Selected Poems. He died in Corvallis, Oregon, on July 20 2017. This small book contains his last poems.

Thomas Brush¿s poems have appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Prairie Schooner, the Iowa Review, Crazyhorse, North American Review, Shenandoah, and many other journals and anthologies. He has been awarded fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Washington Artist Trust, and the Washington State Arts Commission. His most recent published collection, Last Night, was winner of the Blue Lynx Prize. He lives in Seattle, Washington.

Includes poems that are filled with characters pressing on through all the loss, disappointment, and ordinary confusions of living.

A title that gathers poems from Peter Sears' eight previous collections, and adds thirty entirely new poems.

Heikki Huotari attended the graduate writing program at the University of Massachusetts for one year and then went on to a doctorate in mathematics. He became a professor and held down a corner of the ¿study of statistical inference and the shape of the related metric spaces.¿ Upon retirement from academia in 2012, he went straight back to poetry. His books include Tooth and Shoe and Fractal Idyll.

John Keeble is the author of seven previous books, including Yellowfish, Broken Ground, and The Shadows of Owls. He is also author of Out of the Channel, the definitive study of the Exxon Valdez disaster. Keeble was cofounder of the graduate creative writing program at Eastern Washington University where he taught for more than thirty years, and has taught also at Grinnell College and the University of Alabama and served as Distinguished Visiting Writer at Boise State University. With his wife Clare, he lives, in a house of his own construction, on a wooded hillside west of Spokane, Washington.

Poems from one of the great, clear voices of the Vietnam War era

Confident, beautifully crafted poems suggestive of a mature poet at the top of her form