IDLE LAVA by LYUBOMIR NIKOLOV
2017-2018 Settlement House
American Poetry Prize
Translated by Miroslov Nikolov

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Voices of Undocumented Youth in Maximum-Security Detention

Edited by Seth Michelson 

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2016-2017 Settlement House American Poetry Prize

Poems by Catherine Jagoe

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Poems by Louie Skipper

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Peter Waldor is one of the most original voices in American poetry today. With subtle wit and a pitch perfect ear he celebrates all things great and small—be it a bolt hole on a bridge to the speed of light—with a transformative, often spiritual, imagination. We are better off after reading him.

Poems by Peter Waldor

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Recipient of the first annual Settlement House American Poetry Prize, Alicia Partnoy’sFlowering Fires / Fuegos Florales is a work of wisdom born of witness and tempered by a lifetime of commitment to her craft. Gail Wronsky’s translations render these poems as vital in English as they are in Spanish. This is a book to be cherished and honored, read and reread.

Read Grace Cavalieri’s review in the Washington Independent Review of Books. 
Read Seth Michelson’s review in The Innisfree Poetry Journal.

Poems by Alicia Partnoy, translated by Gail Wronsky

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True to its title, Peter Waldor's Who Touches Everything is a book of connections. From the click of an infant's lips to hermits living in adjacent caves, from "where a Mafioso/ left those terrible/ plastic bags . . ." to the first woman "to row the Atlantic," these spare and hard-edged poems are as rich in wisdom as they are in imagery. Who Touches Everything is a rewarding book.

Poems by Peter Waldor

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David Allan Evans' vision is virtually limitless. Born of the great expanse of South Dakota and touching locales as distant as Mexico, China and the Isle of Man, Evans expression of that vision is as subtle as it is encompassing. The Carnival, The Life is a meditation on a life well lived.

Poems by David Allan Evans

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Dennis Sampson’s seventh collection of poems, The Lunatic in the Trees, does everything we could ask of a book of poems. It has its own peculiar bent, is unique in its preoccupations, is well crafted and, ultimately, refreshingly humane.

Poems by Dennis Sampson

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South Pole / Polo Sur is a bilingual journey in poems--from the mountains of Colombia, down the Amazon River and ultimately to the South Pole--by the renown Venezuelan poet Maria Teresa Ogliastri.

Poems by Maria Teresa Ogliastri

Translated from the Spanish by
Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher

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The Importance of Being Zimmer, Paul Zimmer's thirteenth collection of poems, is cause for celebration.

Poems by Paul Zimmer

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“Lethargic is the word I love,” writes Dennis Sampson in “On Doing Nothing.” Within the Shadow of a Man is anything but.

Poems by Dennis Sampson

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"Rarely there comes a book with the power to change the way its reader thinks, believes, and lives for the deeper, the fiercer, and the better. "

—Emma Bolden

Poems by Louie Skipper

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"A meditation on tribe and family, natural harmony and human tolerance."

A poem by Sheppard Ranbom

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"The Work Ethic of the Common Fly is work of spiritual genius. There is nothing here that isn’t every bit as good as anything the Buddha ever said..."

—Annie Dillard

A verse autobiography by Louie Skipper

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