American Tensions

Literature of Identity and the Search for Social Justice

William Reichard

This stunning anthology features literary artists in America's social justice arena from 1980 on. Selected fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction challenge the myth of a classless democracy,...

Beat Atlas

A State by State Guide to the Beat Generation in America

Bill Morgan

Beat Atlas: A Guide to the Beat Generation in America is a state-by-state guide to the rest of the nation's significant Beat locales. From Jack Kerouac's Lowell to William Burroughs'...

Dinner For Dissidents

Norman Nawrocki

More rabble-rousing poems, songs and lyrical musings from Montreal's celebrated rebel wordsmith. This third volume in Nawrocki's 'Brain Food Trilogy' also contains new original, compelling art by...

Maple Leaf Rag

Kaie Kellough

Maple Leaf Rag is a dynamic, jazz-infused riff on Canadian culture. With rhythm and edge, Kaie Kellough's verbal soundscape explores belonging, dislocation and relocation, and national...

Translations From Silence

Poems by Clifton Ross

Clifton Ross

"Clif Ross is among the most highly respected activists of the Left Coast... His own poetry, a generation of works, is here warmly presented in the context of a maturation of tone and voice that is...

Communicating Vessels

An Anthology of Essays

Anthony Leskov

The book anthology of Communicating Vessels gathers some of the best essays, parables and poems from the first seventeen issues. "This work attempts to recover our ability to historicize,...

Legend Sondayo

Maiana Minahal

"History is written in the Body. But how does the Body know this, if the History that is learned is a denial or refusal of the truths that the Body remembers? The Legend of Sondayo is a...

The Woman You Write Poems About

Danielle Montgomery

"'My stories / don't always sound so sweet,' says Danielle Montgomery in one of the poems herein. She's right. Tales of fugitive relatives, destitute swindlers and dangerous families populate her...

Lunch for Insurgents

Norman Nawrocki

Another incendiary poetic collection of insightful commentary, oral molotovs and daring fantasies from the rebel wordsmith arguing why a socially just, war-free, healthy world here and now, should...