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  • Signs: Savannah to Key West

    Signs: Savannah to Key West

    A bicycle carries a rider through place. The voices of family carry us back and forth through time. A story documents an 800-mile bicycle ride from Savannah to Key West.

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  • 6 Back-to-Back Centuries on Route 66

    6 Back-to-Back Centuries on Route 66

    A 2,200-mile bicycle ride along Historic Route 66 is explored in this collection forthcoming from Finishing Line Press.

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  • Great River Legs

    Great River Legs

    From the riverboat paths of Mark Twain to the footpaths of the Natchez Trace Trail, this book documents a bike adventure along rivers.

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  • Safety Measures

    Safety Measures

    A cross-country bike adventure. This journey wonders what measures make the road less dangerous and more safe for solo wandering by bicycle.

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  • Yoga Birds

    Yoga Birds

    Singing crows, diving swans, and preening peacocks join eagles in this fun, kid-friendly yoga book. Yoga Birds is published by Zea Books.

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  • Diversions

    Diversions

    From dancing girl press & studio, this chapbook of found poetry explores the diversions of film, audiobooks, and books made into movies.

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  • Journey to Nowhere

    Journey to Nowhere

    From Finishing Line Press, this collection features Pushcart Prize nominated poems from Always Crashing and Priestess & Hierophant Press.

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  • What a Bicycle Can Carry

    What a Bicycle Can Carry

    This collection published by BlazeVOX documents a 4,280-mile cross-country bicycle journey of things found, repurposed, and upcycled.

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  • A Bicycle’s Echo

    A Bicycle’s Echo

    New from Red Dashboard, this illustrated linked-collection of essays brings together cycling and a love for dogs.

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  • Every Girl Becomes the Wolf

    Every Girl Becomes the Wolf

    Collaboratively written with Andrea Blythe, this forthcoming chapbook from Finishing Line Press explores the received images of the feminine in fairy tales.

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  • Through a Certain Forest

    Through a Certain Forest

    This collection revisits the troll in fairy tales and includes Pushcart Prize nominated poems that appeared in Mobius, Silver Blade, and The Citron Review.

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  • Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts

    Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts

    Bared: Contemporary Poetry and Art on Bras and Breasts anthology collects the work of 170 contemporary women poets and artists.

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  • Velocipede

    Velocipede

    A 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Sports, Velocipede is a poetry collection about bicycles inspired by RAGBRAI.

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  • People Like Cats

    People Like Cats

    A 2016 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist for Pets & Animals, this is a collaborative book of poetry and art of the feline fancy.

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  • Leaves of Absence

    Leaves of Absence

    Honor Book Award Winner for the 2017 Nebraska Book Award for Illustration, this collaborative book of poetry and art is a tree love story.

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  • An Apparently Impossible Adventure

    An Apparently Impossible Adventure

    A modern retelling of the Morgan le Fay myth, this collection includes District Lit's 2015 Poetry Prize Finalist “When We’re Not Hiking.”

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  • The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales

    The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters: Ten Tales

    The Hunger of the Cheeky Sisters is a collaborative book of art and short stories on girlhood and hunger.

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  • Drink

    Drink

    Winner of the 2016 Independent Publisher Bronze Book Award (IPPY Award), Drink explores the mercurial myths of mermaids and the stories we tell of water.

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  • Wake

    Wake

    Who is death - Inanna, Persephone, lady of death? Wake journeys through the underworld and the land of the living where monsters still chase.

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  • The Bottle Opener

    The Bottle Opener

    On a quaint vacation to the ocean, a Midwestern couple finds drift bottles and tries to break their mysterious messages.

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  • Threnody

    Threnody

    Threnody explores the figure of lady-death, an icon come to life in these poems about the death cart, the death kiss, and a narrative dance with death.

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  • American Galactic

    American Galactic

    American Galactic explores the sci-fi realm of Martians, crop circles, abductions, and an extraterrestrial invasion as it arrives at our door.

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  • Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience

    Some Fatal Effects of Curiosity and Disobedience

    This campy, contemporary retelling of Bluebeard charts the love of three sisters who each marry the same man upon the demise of the sister who preceded her.

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  • Spindrift

    Spindrift

    Delving into the myths and stories of mermaids, Spindrift swirls with the complicated gendered images of women living half in and half out of water.

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  • Intimates and Fools

    Intimates and Fools

    An Honor Book Award Winner for the 2015 Nebraska Book Award for Illustration, this collaborative book pairs body prints and illustrations with poetry.

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  • Queen of the Platform

    Queen of the Platform

    These are poems are based on the life of lecturer and suffragist Matilda Fletcher who spoke among luminaries like Susan B. Anthony and Francis Willard.

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  • First Wife

    First Wife

    From Lilith’s perspective - the first wife of Adam who was banished from garden - this chapbook is a retelling of the myths about her.

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  • Stranger Still

    Stranger Still

    An extra-terrestrial adventure of alien abductions and Midwest invasion, Stranger Still wonders what happens when we let Martians through our front door.

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  • Men and Their Whims

    Men and Their Whims

    In 1905 Geo Felts, brother of suffragist Matilda Fletcher, was charged with murder. This chapbook ponders the circumstances that lead to the life sentence.

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  • Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence

    Women Write Resistance: Poets Resist Gender Violence

    Cover Art by Elayne Safir Selected for the Nebraska 150 Book List The anthology Women Write Resistances: Poets Resist Gender Violence (Hyacinth Girl Press, 2013) views poetry as a transformative…

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