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Girl on the highway by wendy rainey

“Picture a girl with scars that don’t show. She’s on a highway hitchhiking. She’s wearing a USC varsity sweater she got cheap at a thrift shop. She’s carrying a battered suitcase, not much inside. The girl has seen every kinda thing but she’s not broken. She will give you a chance, but don’t cross her. This is the protagonist I pictured when I read Wendy Rainey’s extraordinary new chapbook, Girl On The Highway. The poems will break your heart, then educate and inspire you. She will enchant you, too. Buy this book.” ~Suzanne O’Connell, author of What Luck; Buy now.

A sip of wind by Nora Simões

A sip of wind invites you into the bright angles of its home, entertaining your senses at nearly every turn – of course, in the bedroom, but also in the kitchen and especially outside: strawberry tobacco, thick coffee, orange blossom water, all the meats you can imagine. Simões’ style, eloquent and assertive, dances with and around the many women in this book, or perhaps the one woman in this book. Maybe she is the poet, maybe she is you. Whoever she is, what is clear is that she carries her home with her everywhere. Buy now.