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Moon on Wild Grasses, with illustrations by the author, shows the unsuspected scope of a very concise, precise poetic form.

A Latino bar in Toronto, 1978. The men can't take their eyes off Lisa, but there is something about her that scares them off. She is a little too intense, a little too needy.

Three Canadian soldiers awaiting deployment to Afghanistan beat a homeless man to death on the steps of their armoury after a night of heavy drinking.

From the vast expanse of the boreal forest, Vivian Demuth shows both an exquisite eye for detail and a profound concern for the larger environmental picture.

Francis Catalano's poetry speaks of space, place and people.

Leonard Edison's wife has a dark and frightening premonition - that her husband will die before his next birthday.

In this satirical take on the goings on in the halls of academia, Christian private-college style, Ricapito tells the story of Bert Russo, a naive professor who learns the hard way that making wave

The Daring of Paradise reconfigures stories and images from both multiple religions and from fairy tales, cracking them open to release new light.

A sense of place has always dominated Louise McKinney's writing life. This poetry collection represents the best of her poetry written from the early 1980s to now.

COCKEYED: askew, crooked, intoxicated, absurd; marked by bends or angles; incongruous, not straight.

Drawing on history and family legend, Anthony Di Renzo presents a tale of progress and reaction, irony and paradox, in which the splendors of Caserta must yield to the wonders of the Crystal Palace

Mothers of the 1950s were wasp-waisted, dutiful, serene, and tied to the kitchen with apron strings. Or so we thought.

These poems take the reader on a mind-blowing journey across the known micro- and macrocosms to the extreme outer edges of space and time.

The poems in Black Suede Cave meditate on the space inside us, where darkness and imagination animate the unknowable.

Written to read like a memoir, this collection of poetry details the life of a family across generations and provides a moving and haunting portrait of the Italian mother who is the center around w