Faith Holsaert Year Forever In My Veins is the compelling, first-person poetic testimony of a student activist (SNCC) working to dismantle segregation in the 1960s. “The fearless and selfless voice of a young civil rights worker during a dangerous and violent...
Chloe Martinez Attuned to both the insights and the limits of visitation, the poems inside Corner Shrine are ripe with scene and sense as they contemplate the wonders of arrival alongside the worries of transience. Winner of the Backbone Press Chapbook Contest Chloe...
celeste doaks A collection of brilliant poems that speak to and about former First Lady Michelle Obama. Spanning themes of family, art, gardening, and race, they are as lighthearted as they are heavy. American Herstory is the winner of the inaugural Backbone Press...
Mariam Gomaa Gomaa’s first chapbook of poetry is elegant yet visceral, a quiet punch. It serves as a map to define womanhood, precisely Muslim womanhood. Dr. Mariam Gomaa is an American physician and writer based in Washington, DC. She holds an M.D. from Wake Forest...
José Edmundo Ocampo Reyes To confront the moral errors of what is perceived honestly, but is also beloved, respected, and deservedly admired! Present Values is a brave book, as well as an intelligent and beautiful one. I suspect that few people could have written it....
Naoko Fujimoto In Naoko Fujimoto’s “Mother Said, I Want Your Pain”, there are rooms without doors nor windows. Time becomes ecstatic and intimate. The reader walks into these rooms allured by the unadorned but skillful language, the spectral beauty of the imagery and...
