Wolves in Shells is a modern monomyth telling the story of a woman navigating homelessness, traum...

Nine Persimmons

Winner of The Backwaters Prize for 2005, this is the story of a Jewish mother and son in Detroit,...

Nebraska native Mark Sanders, professor of humanities at Lewis-Clark College in Lewiston, Idaho, ...

'Through the dark of childhood and the illness of aging parents, through the mystery of insects a...

(Chao's) poems speak on many levels about life, relationships, and personal nightmares. Her work ...

Ray presents an anthology of his new and selected poems.

Poetry. Widely-known Nebraska poet Marge Saiser's unique poems deal with love and loss through a ...

Poetry. 'When I read Marge Saiser's poetry I feel I am in the presence of someone whose heart bea...

The general theme of this book, and a number of its individual poems, is that love and language c...

Strous's poems have appeared in 'The Ohio Review, Blue Unicorn, Phantasmagoria,' and other journa...

Kees was, I believe, one of the four or five most-talented members of his generation . . . which ...

Fueled with ecstatic rage and syncopated with jazzed-up pistons and B-bop timing belts, Anderson ...

Haskins offers a practical guide to the poets life, including chapters on getting published, find...

On the title Electric Snakes, the author states these poems can be 'little creatures shot up from...

These empathetic poems are rich with the realities of other lives. John Krumberger doesn't miss m...

This book-length poem in six sections takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeast...

When the salvage crew finally arrived, they found a dead man and a half-sunken sailboat overflowi...

John Sibley Williams serves as editor of the Inflectionist Review¿and works as a literary agent. ...

'Whether turning his attention to kiwifruit, 'Wild Kingdom's' Marlin Perkins, the Strategic Air C...

This volume contains a selection of Kuzmas longer poems written between 1988 and 1995.

Leeming, winner of The Readers' Choice Award from The Backwaters Press for 2003, presents a volum...

Marjorie Saiser's The Woman in the Moon is her 7th book with The Backwaters Press. The poems in t...

Poetry. 'One might be forgiven for thinking that the almost universally dark subject matter of th...

In Branch in His Hand, a boy falls to his death and a mother sings a requiem in poems. The reader...

Poetry. 'In COME NOW, Rodger Gerberding reminds us of just how necessary the modernist's dogged d...

Intense nature and family poems about the poet in relationship to the things of the world.

This volume contains brilliantly crafted poems selected from a lifetime's work of careful writing...

Foxlogic, Fireweed follows a lyrical sequence of five physical and emotional terrains—floodplain,...

Peary's poems describe a world with endless off-kilter surprise and beauty.

Winside, Nebraska rancher and Wayne State College English and Creative Writing teacher J.V.Brumme...

From the author of 'Wedding Cake and Funeral Ham' comes this collection of gritty poems about Neb...

Distant Engines is one of the three winners of The Weldon Kees Award for 2005 from The Backwaters...

The authors reflect the Great Plains' influence in seasoned poems that celebrate cloud and water ...

Poetry. Native American Studies. 'These poems are 'porcupine quills,' beautiful and sharp. They d...

Poetry. Winner of the 2015 Backwaters Prize. DRONE is a lyric meditation on modern warfare, in ou...

Cowing's brave and mature poems face divorce and aging even as they revel in the natural world, p...

Poetry. African American Studies. 'MRS. BELLADONNA'S SUPPER CLUB WALTZ contains work that is a ra...

Wild and freely imaginative poems by this Whitman- and Neruda-influenced poetcelebrate the life o...

A master of surrealism presents his first full-length collection.

In this volume are new poems of the American West by one of today's current masters.

A seasoned Chicago poet offers her first book.

Poetry. 'If one reads enough Hal Sirowitz poems, the whole world seems to become material for poe...

Poetry. Women's Studies. Edited by Heidi Hermanson, Liz Kay, Jen Lambert, and Sarah McKinstry-Bro...

PMPoetry. 'The strength of Tim Hunt's nature poems drew me into this book. His observation of lig...

To read LeBlanc's 'At Any Moment' is to fall in love with poetry all over again. If I thought I c...

Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search ...

This collection of poems by the State Poet of Nebraska covers significant emotional territory whi...