A strange and paranoid journey through the poet's schizophrenia

An irreverent and unapologetically Jersey meditation on friendship, family, aging, and gentrifica...

A collection that explores the beauty of survival in the face of upheaval and loss.

An honest account of depression from poet and psychologist Joan Cusack Handler.

Speaks of violence toward women and girls through one family group, 1980s cultural milieu, and re...

The Silence of Men confronts and breaks the silence in men's lives surrounding sex, family, power...

The poems of WORKS traverse a course from the swamps of Shot¿s home state of New Jersey to the en...

The all encompassing theme in this debut collection is how a person holds the tension of opposite...

A collection of power and humor in earthy eroticism, invoking both the fever and hope in wakeful ...

The collection is Liz Hutner's powerful testament to her son, Sam, bravely battling leukemia. The...

The Snow's Wife presents a dispassionate examination of the final months of a marriage, ending wi...

Kali Lightfoot's kindergarten teacher told her parents that Kali had 'a well-developed sense of b...

A tale that unfolds in a psychotherapist's and a state prosecutor's office and the mind of the po...

The struggle and anguish in finding meaningful work in an economically depressed city

A collection of poetry about dislocation in an unexpectedly childless marriage. A time of wanderi...

Impenitent Notes covers a range of subjects from Henry Kissinger and Goya in a variety of forms f...

'In his debut, full-length collection, Shaw drills down using a series of narrative poems to cons...

'...in these poems, (there is) a family of 12 with the mother, father, and speaker as the prime c...

Contains excerpts from each of the first 104 books published by Cavankerry Press.

Celebrates the courageous journey across boundaries, the intersections between liminal spaces, an...

From the introduction: 'This book, the second in the Waiting Room Reader series, grows from the b...

A family built, a family lost. Truth Has a Different Shape is a story of the power of compassion,...

With melancholy and wit, the poems of The Bar of the Flattened Heart remind us of the sheer wonde...

Brings to life the immense force poetry can have in people's lives

Bruce's language is deceptively straightforward, words resonate with echoes of revival meetings a...

Life in Colombia with an exceptional mother: uncanny and sad yet sharply alive with humor

This volume bears witness to John Haines's position as a true man of letters. The essays, reviews...

Walking with Ruskin looks at the difficulty of perception, of just how hard it is to simply 'see'...

The Reader was co-sponsored and co-conceived by CavanKerry and LaurelBooks partner, The Arnold P....

From the external worlds of race and gender to the internal world of family life, taps into what ...

Cati Porter's mother began chemo on July 19, 2012, Cati's 41st birthday. Throughout the process, ...

An exploration of the various ways language can help us transcend both the banal and unusual crue...

Kenneth Rosen's poems are, at turns, idyllic, comic, conciliatory, passionate. He finds his image...

Night Sessions is based primarily on David S. Cho's life experiences as a Chicago-born and raised...

Through verse and those mythical tales we can't stop living, our private fears and hopes are brou...

Unique poems that bring history to life by weaving narratives of the Salem Witch Trials with stor...

In Set in Stone, Kevin Carey's poems tell stories as dreams, as memories, as rituals, or ceremoni...

A collection of coming-of-age poems set in 1960s Paterson, New Jersey.

The Red Canoe: Love in Its Making--poetry and memoir exploring the anatomy of a marriage--underbe...

In poems that range from New England to the Southwest, Without My Asking, takes its cue from Psal...

Poetry is ultimately mythology, the telling of stories of the soul, Stanley Kunitz wrote. 'The ol...

Family, friendships, the fear of uncertainty and the regret and damage from the choices we make

Married life, soldiers in war, the triumph over age

The title poem takes its name from a passage by Simone Weil, 'We must not weep so that we may not...

What is a person to do upon finding out that his older brother has six months to live? What is a ...

'Sweet World reveals a 21st-century life in the midst of an epidemic. It's not about hating, batt...

Captures the doubts of a middle-aged man, bisexuality, the illness of his bipolar daughter, recen...

In Rise Wildly, poet and journalist Tina Kelley writes with precision, heart, and humor. Touching...