Featured Titles for 2025

If we are the forest the animals dream

Patrick Cahill

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 94
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-41-7

Plagios/Plagiarisms, Volume III

Poems by Ulalume González de León

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $20
Page count: 180
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-39-4

In the Eye of the Elephant

Moira Magneson

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 118
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-37-0

the department of peace

Bonnie Wai-Lee Kwong

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $18
Page count: 104
Publication date: April 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-40-0

Waking Up: Teen Poets Respond to America, We Call Your Name

Selected by Simon Ellefson, Sylvi Kayser, and Dina Lusztig Noyes

Binding: Perfect-bound paperback
Price: $12
Page count: 62
Publication date: September 2, 2025
ISBN: 978-1-939639-46-2

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2014 Readings, Beverly Burch and Murray Silverstein

Be sure to check out our next reading series! Beverly Burch and Murray Silverstein will be reading from their new books, "How a Mirage Works," and "Master of Leaves." Thursday, April 3, 7:30 P.M. Mrs Dalloway's Bookstore, 2904 College Avenue, Berkeley, (510) 704-8222...

Sixteen Rivers at AWP

Sixteen Rivers at AWP Wednesday, Feb 26 Jacqueline Kudler will read her selected poems from The Widows' Handbook anthology, on Wednesday night, Feb. 26, 7 PM at Queen Anne Book Company, 1811 Queen Anne Avenue North, Seattle Friday, Feb 28 Beverly Burch and Terry Ehret...

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