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Poetry by Wisconsin author Joan Wiese Johannes who writes of life's interplay, much like a dance. Wit and humor, wisdom and reflection. She takes us with her, glimpsing personal failures and triumphs we can all relate to.

It is the summer of 1968, but for Marion Goodman, a 62-year-old widow from Wisconsin, life on her Summit Road farm is miles away from the strife of the nation, until one evening when she aims her rifle at what she thinks is a coyote and instead discovers a runaway teenage girl foraging in her garden. Despite an inner voice warning her not to, Marion acts on her impulse to be generous to those in need. In doing so, she unwittingly solders the link of a chain that will bring others to her door-a girl fleeing abusive foster parents, a draft dodger with a growing list of crimes, and a young man truly without a home. When the three converge at summer''s end, Marion''s once-safe haven is threatened by a sociopath''s violence and revenge.

In Geosmin, Catherine Young's poems paint a deep map of Wisconsin's Driftless region while evoking a place found within regions of the heart.

"The poems in Shell Dreams will usher the reader into a unique experience of Florida culture and some more and less exotic aspects of life on Sanibel Island. Composed over five years when the author and his wife spent Februarys on the island, the poems are, by turns, descriptive, reflective, satiric, and just plain fun. They focus on the flora, the fauna, the weather, the people, and the ambience of a state some call "God's waiting room," and a Gulf Coast island that epitomizes the retirement lifestyle. Sanibel is also an island rich in natural beauty and occasions for meditative awe, all of which these poems evoke"--

"Daniel Smith's Ancestral draws from the thirty years he farmed his family's dairy farm in northwestern Illinois. With poetry grounded in the rural Midwest, Ancestral explores a family's deep attachment to the land, the physical work of farming and the emotional disruption one endures when such a life is no longer sustainable. These poems provide a powerful depiction of the changes impacting agriculture and our rural communities."--Amazon.com.

Karl Elder, Lakeland University''s Fessler Professor of Creative Writing, has gathered the best of his poetry in Alpha Images: Poems Selected and New. This 270 page volume includes over 50 new or previously uncollected poems. Noted for exceptional range-his work in open, closed, and invented forms-Elder''s verse is similarly multifaceted in his choice of subject matter.

Kathryn Gahl''s THE VELOCITY OF LOVE is a poetic memoir about wonder, loss, and longing. Kathryn''s magic lies in transforming unimaginable grief into everlasting grace.