LITERATURE

A new collection of Bukowski poetry. These poems are part of an archive of unpublished work that Bukowski left to be published after his death. Learn More

Stories, performances, things. Learn More

A collection of Bukowski's longer, narrative poetry. Learn More

Funny, surprising and lyrical, these poems range from the deserts of the Southwest to the abysses of Facebook. From online dating to beauty pageants, Greek mythology to road trips, Leigh Stein gives us resilient young women in longing and in love. Learn More

Drunks and Other Poems of Recovery is the author's legacy to the people who saved his life. Learn More

The hospital poems of "Emergency Room Wrestling" read like a Bukowski of the ER: the voice of the author, who calls himself The Dirty Poet, reveals a disarming humor, bawdiness, and even exuberance in the urgency of illness, injury, and mortality. Learn More

Lovelace teaches creative writing at Ball State University. His first book of flash fiction, How Some People Like Their Eggs, won the Rose Metal Press chapbook prize. His works have appeared in numerous journals. Learn More

The world is terrifying and exhilarating. Believing firmly in the romantic notion that “embellishment is love,” Allan Peterson in Fragile Acts combines the intellectual force of T.S. Eliot and Wallace Stevens, the ethereal wonder of Robert Hass, and the tight lyric beauty of Elizabeth Bishop and Donald Hall. These steely, wide-ranging poems are at once personal and philosophical, incisive and meditative—funny, serious, compassionate and searching. Learn More

World-famous singer/songwriter Ryan Adams presents his second book of passionate, transcendent verse. Learn More