By Barbara A. Holland. 30th Anniversary Edition of a landmark cycle of poems written in New York City in the 1970s. A... More > hundred-odd poems inspired by the visual world of the paintings of Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte. With notes by Brett Rutherford. < Less

The poetry of Sarah Helen Whitman, one of New England's most prominent women poets, has been out of print since 1916. This... More > book traces the tempestuous romance of Mrs. Whitman with Edgar Allan Poe and places their best poems in dialogue with one another. Brett Rutherford's long essay is the first day-by-day chronology of Poe's visits to Providence, set in the context of the social and literary history of Rhode Island. < Less

Emilie Glen (1906-1995) was one of America's most widely published poets, over a career spanning a half century. This volume... More > contains the full text of all of the poet's out-of-print chapbooks from the 1960s through the 1980s. < Less

By Barbara A. Holland. 30th Anniversary Edition of a landmark cycle of poems written in New York City in the 1970s. A... More > hundred-odd poems inspired by the visual world of the paintings of Belgian surrealist Rene Magritte. With notes by Brett Rutherford. < Less

The 13th annual Philbrick Prize chapbook. Judge Dana Gioia writes: "Reviving the lyrical realist tradition of Anderson,... More > Masters and E.A. Robinson ... a gallery of alternately evocative and disturbing portraits...to reveal the dark secrets of people we might normally take for granted." < Less

The neo-Romantic, neo-Gothic poetry that burst onto the New York poetry scene in the 1970s and 1980s comes to the fore in... More > the haunting, spare poems of Shirley Powell. Her ghosts and demons spring not from myth, but from the Midwest, from your grandmother's rocking chair. < Less

Paul Nash, Senior Editor. A decade of poets featured at the North Jersey Literary Series, the liveliest poetry venue on the... More > wrong side of the Hudson. This anthology of 39 poets shows the remarkable variety and quality of work being done outside the Manhattan poetry hive. Emerging from the Gothic-oriented literary and arts magazine, The Rift, founded by Alda Xavier, the series has introduced new poets, while also providing a venue for established poets to reach new audiences. The work in this anthology helps make the case that the Muse has indeed flown to the provinces. < Less

By Brett Rutherford. Poetic works in progress, 2006. Poems created and revised for a creative writing course at University... More > of Rhode Island, Fall 2006, taught by Prof. Peter Covino. Poems range from the neoclassical "Garden of Numa Pompilius" to a satiric version of Dante's La Vita Nuova set among pre-teens in Providence's Federal Hill, "Danny and Beatrice." < Less

This riveting narrative poem — dare one say “mini-epic?” — mines little-known aspects of World War II history into a... More > melange of African invasions, angry Egyptian gods, rampant Mormon warriors, and the lord of sleepwalkers, Dr. Caligari, presiding over the Nazi obsession with not sleeping, ever, until the ultimate triumph(hence, the advent of mass-produced amphetamines). < Less

Fiction, drama, nonfiction and poetry by Rhode Island authors.