Books published by Western Michigan University, New Issues Press

Century Worm wrestles with the threshold between witness and participation living amid ethnic and political violence in West Africa's Ivory Coast

This haunting and haunted triptych explores life at the very periphery of what is visible to the human eye and tangible to the human heart

Billy Donachio, a coach for the Chicago Cubs, steals notes and letters from the lockers of his players and-by chance-comes away with an education

Presents a lyric exploration of the ways human beings confront desire, loss and absence by creating stories. This book is a hybrid of narrative history, lyric meditation, and journalistic investigation, often implicating the speaker (and reader) in the act of mythmaking itself. It is story-making itself which is interrogated here.

Features poems in several registers at once, comic and elegiac, about contemporary life and its large intersections and personal interstices, from the public beaches north of Boston all the way down to South Jersey Cape, the birth of children, the deaths of parents, and the parking lots of supermarkets in a rapidly gentrifying city.

The collection is a playful (but not unserious) exploration of the mysteries of being and non-being, as well as of threshold states between them and the places where they overlap.

Tadek Gradinski grows up witnessing the multiple invasions and crimes of World War II sweep over his village; he is arrested, tortured, and swept away into the Gulag with a twenty-five year sentence

Winner of the 2016 New Issues Prize

Poems from her new manuscript, Chrysanthemum, Chrysanthemum, have appeared in The Southern Review, Southwest Review, Shenandoah, Literary Imagination, Boulevard, Nimrod, North American Review, storySouth, The Missouri Review, Prairie Schooner, Blackbird, Western Humanities Review and Ploughshares.