BOOKS

Three black birds sit on a tree branch in the pale gray sky. Behind the tree branch is the title Ghost Apples poems by Katharine Coles

Poetry, Red Hen Press

Ghost Apples

Katharine Coles

A bronze statue of a man with a bushy beard turns and looks up into the sky. The title, The Boxer of Quirinal is beside the statue in a white box and is partly covered up by the head.

Poetry, Red Hen Press

The Boxer of Quirinal

John Barr

Cover art includes two individuals riding a moped together. Large pink roses surround the individuals. Superimposed over the cover art is white text that reads "A Plucked Zither."

Poetry, Red Hen Press

A Plucked Zither

Phuong T. Vuong

In the center of the blue cover is a circle with a flower inside. Outside the circle are petals. Above and below the circle are black silhouettes of a face. Across the circle is the title, "apocrifa." Below is the text, "poems by Amber Flame."

Poetry, Red Hen Press

apocrifa

Amber Flame

A white woman in a red dress sits on a chair. A white dove in her hand covers her face, while the other hand is on fire. The text reads: "What Small Sound poems by Francesca Bell."

Poetry, Red Hen Press

What Small Sound

Francesca Bell

Half of the cover is blue and the other half is black. The blue half has the title Trouble Funk and the black half has the author name, Douglas Manuel

Poetry, Red Hen Press

Trouble Funk

Douglas Manuel

An abstract collection of different color shapes and bodies with the title trace: poems by Brenda Cardenas

Letras Latinas, Poetry

Trace

Brenda Cardenas

On a black cover, a white silhouetted person steps into a flaming fire above the words A Fire In the Hills poems by Afaa M. Weaver

Poetry, Red Hen Press

A Fire in the Hills

Afaa Weaver

Two blue birds fly through trees in an abstract forest above red poppies and a curled green tree. Above the image is written the title instead, it is dark by Cynthia Hogue

Poetry, Red Hen Press

instead, it is dark

Cynthia Hogue

A sepia image featuring an illustrated woman in flight, wearing a long white dress that dissolves into a flock of birds. Black text states "Flutter, Kick, Poems by Anna V.Q. Ross." A laurel designation announces this book as a Benjamin Saltman Poetry Award Winner.

Poetry

Flutter, Kick

Anna V.Q. Ross

On an off-white, textured background, a graphic image of various clippings of construction paper in descreasing sizes stacked on top of each other in shades of gray, white, and blue, with a skewed "Rx" superimposed onto the stack. "poems, Josh Sapan" included below in black text

Poetry, Red Hen Press

Rx

Josh Sapan

A light blue background with a black outline of a staircase with a yellow circle, text reads "A Brilliant Loss" and "Eloise Klein Healy"

Memoir, Poetry

A Brilliant Loss

Eloise Klein Healy

On a green cover, a cartoon of a beautiful girl in a strapless pink dress leans against a yellow car. Above the image is the title, "I Dreamed I was Emily Dickinson's Boyfriend." Below the woman's heeled shoes is the author, "Ron Koertge."

Poetry

I Dreamed I Was Emily Dickinson’s Boyfriend

Ron Koertge

Poetry

Call Me Fool

William Trowbridge

A photographic image of an ocean wave at water level with a distant horizon line, with white text reading "Pacific Light, poems by David Mason"

Poetry

Pacific Light

David Mason

Artwork titled "Pushki" by Linda Infante Lyons depicting a foreground of bulbous flowers against a background of a body of water with islands and sandbars scattered throughout, underneath a pink and yellow sky, with the words "tender gravity, poems by Marybeth Holleman"

Boreal Books, Poetry

tender gravity

Marybeth Holleman

Poetry, Story Line Press

The Adventure

Frederick Pollack

Black text stating Plainchant poems by Eamon Grennan with a painted rabbit all over a grey background.

Poetry, Red Hen Press

Plainchant

Eamon Grennan

Graphic art piece by Alison Saar depicting a Black woman with cotton branch hair, set to a dark blue background, with white text introducing GOSSYPIIN, poems by Ra Malika Imhotep

Poetry, Red Hen Press

gossypiin

Ra Malika Imhotep

pink cover with a sketch of a little girl wearing a short dress with white spots looking at a mirror in her hand. dark blue text says the title over the girls head, the author's name under her feet, and "Poems of Motherhood" in slightly smaller text to the left of her feet

Poetry, Red Hen Press

I Wore This Dress Today for You, Mom

Kim Dower