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Ladies' Abecedary by Arden LevineAn abecedary, or alphabet book, teaches letters, the primary pieces of language and of story making. In Ladies Abecedary, each letter is a woman, each woman is a poem, and each poem is a narrative of female identity. These micro biographies in verse present a series of anonymous characters (historical and mythological, contemporary and composite, unique and universal) in a collection that reveals "the diverse and complex nature of womens interior and

Crafting poems that confront memory lapses and painful recollections

but also the songs of other working class New Yorkers

Richly combining scholarly rigor

The poems both invite and challenge the reader

Fuhrman sifts through the debris of modern day life and makes beautiful new sculptures with the rubble she finds

Like June Jordan

“but understands that if you look at something / long enough

Seventeen poems log his observations and meditations on the national psyche and his own as Gibbons quits the confines of urban life for spacious and sunny skies

they work as the Director of the Progressive Teaching Institute at a school in New York City

Against the mounting pressure that propels the acrostic “Skeletons

Crawford revisits the reckless elements of youth that capture the inner and outer conflicts of self-discovery

a sonorous cry out to the world to save the planet from the calamitous effects of climate change on all living things

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