Mysteries of Love, is the debut full-length poetry collection from seventeen-year-old Ashaani Taneja.  Ashaani brings a mature, honest, and mystical voice to the conflicts of youth and the struggles of loss and becoming.  Her work has previously appeared in the Indian Periodical, Trouvaille Review, The Bombay Review, and Manuscription. 

Lágrimas is Nasario García's third bilingual collection of poetry and winner of the 2021 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards Bilingual Adult Book category.  It explores the unique yet transcendent joys and sorrows of life in New Mexico's Rio Puerco Valley and its long-abandoned villages. Written in dialect, the poems breathe life into a culture and history Nasario has championed in many other acclaimed works.  Lágrimas finds what we have lost.

Ecos Neomexicanos won the Spanish Language category of the 2019 New Mexico/Arizona Book Awards.  It is Nicolás Cabrera's first collection of bilingual poetry.  Ecos Neomexicanos explores the beauty and conflict of the author's heritage in the Southwestern U.S. 

Author David Belczyk spent years collecting poignant dreams from diverse strangers and friends across the world.  His collections became the basis for the poems in Somniloquy, or sleep-talking, in which "Midnight [is] / A ruby in my mouth / A secret on my lips."  Follow his intrepid verse and voice into the deep places reachable only from the surrender of sleep: the unknown wish, the forgotten hope, the secret truth, the liquidity of pasts, and the revealed self reaching from dark night toward dawn.

In Unexpected Guest no room is empty.  Life hides, peering outward with eyes "like birthdays."  It asks, as through an old window, about the living in outliving homes, the seekers in nature, the compassion in strangers, the sadness in love, the creative power in loss, and finally the secret longing for the human mystery that we carry always.

Forms and Vessels discovers the dual nature of the individual, full to overflowing and empty so to carry another.  Its poems open a dialogue with the self, with the self in another, and between the self and the inevitable "us."  It asks how we become what we are.

Called Perpetual explores the gift of identity and its quest, ever-springing from nature and history, as we struggle to surpass their strictures.  It seeks to touch the rawness of conviction, reaching from loss, searching for unity, finding all roads lead back to the human cause and root: alive in perpetuity, indefatigable, undeniable, and unlocked from our limits of articulation.

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