Books published by West End Press

Performance poet and activist Ebony Isis Booth sheds light on Black feminism, racism and inequality, social justice, and self-love in her debut collection of poems. She reveals the irony of a consumer culture that devours and disposes of Black bodies alongside the subsequent creation of social justice movements like Black Lives Matter.

This collection is a celebration of Paula Gunn Allen's life (1939-2008) as an indigenous scholar, writer, and woman. It features the creative writing, art, and memoir of Native American and other writers, scholars, and activists. It follows the 2010 West End Press edition of Paula Gunn Allen's final works, America the Beautiful: Last Poems, edited by Patricia Clark Smith.

Outlines and sources point-by-point what happened in Ohio to what happened in 2004, to give George W Bush a second term. This is a source book for the theft of the 2004 presidential election and control of the 2008 presidential contest. Written by two reporters, this is a guidebook for electoral politics in the new millennium.

Claribel Alegria, born in Esteli, Nicaragua, in 1924, is one of the great voices in twentieth-century Latin American poetry.

With insight, humour, and uncompromising honesty, Nobody's Jackknife explores power and powerlessness, violence and tenderness, addiction and love. These poems refuse to separate the mundane from the profound: Rolling Rock beer, the racial coding of baseball players, and a melodic litany of yoga asanas intertwine in this brilliant and compelling collection.

In her third poetry collection Jeanetta Calhoun Mish sends war dispatches from home. She brings her unique perspective as a rural working-class Oklahoman, a domestic-abuse survivor, and a first-generation college student to writings that range from blank-verse ode to ghazel and flash memoir to narrative free verse.

Tactile, descriptive, and wise, these poems recover part of our past while delivering us to a still-uncertain present.

In Cutting Down the Last Tree on Easter Island, award-winning poet Lenore Weiss embodies the themes of loss, transformation and re-invention that are integral to life and to her work. Poems celebrate the author's Jewish Hungarian upbringing. Survival, negotiation, and migration play a vital role in these poems about family and love.

In his debut collection of hard-hitting poems, Albuquerque Poet Laureate Hakim Bellamy addresses the issues important to our day--politics, work, and art.

Contains poems that capture the variety, ingenuity, and complexity of Paula Gunn Allen, the beloved and influential Native American critic and poet.

With forty years worth of poems from nineteen collections, this title contains the themes and treatments that have moved Glenna Luschei all her life: sympathetic understanding, wry judgment, the experience of sensation and of loss, the act of witness, the love of nature and its processes, and longing for peace and harmony.

These interlocking stories begin with foundation tales of the migration of JJ, his wife Naomi, and their son Otis from their chaotic family beginnings in Tulsa, Oklahoma, to their settlement in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in the 1920s. Gish recalls a world where although the workings of Providence are hard to fathom and their outcome is often hard to bear.

Whether mounting studio shows or producing public art, giving readings or featuring the work of other revolutionary artists in her magazine, Michele Gibbs reflects the spirit of the places she has lived and the people she has known. This book offers her complex and beautiful gift, a fusion of word, image, and spirit.

Written over a period of twelve years and published in magazines and anthologies, these beautiful poems of place and Abenaki Indian heritage are addressed to the land, to the poet's two sons James and Jesse, to his wife Carol, and to himself. A few poems invoking the land join others of close observation of the natural world of native New England and the poet's meditations upon it.

In a new, compelling poetry collection, What the Bird Tattoo Hides, Bohm arrives in rural India in 1968, "seeking truth's taste."

Walking Backwards is about making a home when you are a nomad. It is about travel and restlessness and how endlessly absorbing the idea of home can be when we keep losing sight of it.