Books published by World Enough Writers

Coffee Poems contains 167 richly-roasted, verbally aromatic poems by poets from 34 states, 5 provinces, and 12 countries: Australia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Canada, France, Ghana, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Singapore, Spain, and the United States.Included among the 139 poets who give voice to these poems are Ellen Bass, Margo Berdeshevsky, Joel Brouwer, Barbara Crooker, Kwame Dawes, Stephen Dobyns, Martín Espada, Dorianne Laux, Joseph Millar, Alicia Ostriker, Francesca Pellegrino, Alberto Álvaro Ríos, Care Santos, Vivian Shipley, Michael Waters, and Cecilia Woloch.Whether central to the poem or sitting on a side table, a mere accessory; whether a prop in an internal conversation with a you absent these 25 years or a desperately needed substance without which there is no facing the day, a cup of coffee inhabits each of these poems...Breathe in the scent and may it keep you awake.

These are story poems that will make you laugh, scratch yourhead, and maybe shed a tear. School kids will discover a mirrorimage of their lives in these poems, both wonderful and scary. Forparents or teachers, each poem is a great entryway to life lessons.

Ice cream, ice cream, who wants ice cream? Hundreds of poets not onlysaid a resounding “yes,” but wrote about it. And from those hundreds, Iaccepted the 125 poems you will find here from 27 different states plusAustralia, France, Iraq, Spain, and Tunisia.The poems are as various as the flavors of ice cream: long poems, shortpoems, and in addition to traditional free-verse narratives and lyrics:experimental poems, poems in forms such as sestinas, sapphics, sonnets,prose poems.When I accepted the job of editing, I wondered if I’d be bored by so manypoems about ice cream; I wondered whether there would be hundreds ofpoems about The Good Humor Man or Dairy Queen. But I needn’t haveworried, I was never bored. The Good Humor Man and Dairy Queen poemswere there, of course, but I was amazed by the wide variety of subjects:light humorous poems, sweet poems, lusty poems, dark poems, poemsabout childhood memories, a poem about Obama’s first date, and a poemwith Paul Newman in it.I am pleased with this final collection of ice cream poems. I think readerswill enjoy them as much as I enjoyed reading and selecting them.—Patricia Fargnoli, Editor, author of Hallowed (Tupelo Press, 2017)

"Korkut Onaran's ruminative first full-length collection is filled with reflection, keen observation, and emotional experience. Any artist of sound, image, or word will identify with these insightful, breathtaking poems. Onaran is the Hafiz for our century." -Lana Hechtman Ayers, author of Red Riding Hood's Real Life & The Dead Boy Sings in Heaven