This intimate and haunting collection is a love song, a soliloquy, a work of praise, a call to arms, an offering of abundance. There's an urgency to The Runner's Almanac: what's inside the poet must come out. These are poems of gusto, of movement-walking, jogging, striding, hopping-toward love, inevitably. Amirthanayagam is a poet of plurality who savors how a poem gets out of hand, bursts its banks, spills into the mind of the reader. I think of Amirthanayagam, that sharp and tender poetic voice of his, as a village elder, a guide, a truth-teller. But he's the elder that will hold your feet to the fire and not let you forget. More than ever, in The Runner's Almanac, one feels his "purpose / even clearer, to dedicate what / remains of breath, love and work / to spread the word of poetry."

Indran Amirthanayagam is a poet, editor, publisher, translator, YouTube host, and diplomat. He has published twenty-four poetry books and, in music, he recorded Rankont Dout. He was the IFLAC Word Poeta Mundial in 2022 and hosts "The Poetry Channel" on YouTube. New books include Powèt nan po la (Poet of the Port) and Origami: Selected Poems of Manuel Ulacia. Indran publishes poetry books with Sara Cahill Marron at Beltway Editions. 

Winner of the Verse Daily Prize, White Doe travels the landscape of dementia, a fragmented, snowy tundra where forgetting is a journey toward self-discovery. Follow the speaker and her father as they traverse the fractured effects the disease has on language and family and experience the wonder of being in a world that exists for a moment and forever.

Maria Williams is the author of the chapbook A Love Letter To Say There Is No Love.  A Pushcart Prize nominee, she is also the recipient of residencies and fellowships from Jentel, Pen America, and the Vermont Studio Center. Her poems have been published in numerous journals including Bellevue Literary Review, Pank, and Quarterly West. An adoptee and mother to Maya and Lyric, two artists in their own right, Maria's work centers around themes of belonging, abandonment, family, and relationships. 

In American Crow, Jennifer Browne has crafted a formidable and fascinating sequence of work that deftly navigates land mines, lifelines, history, reverence, harm and mystery while excavating meaning from the blood and bones of a people.

Jennifer Browne is a creature of curiosities. She is the author of Whisper Song (tiny wren publishing, 2023) and The Salt of the Geologic World (Bottlecap Press, 2023). Her work has appeared in Steel Jackdaw, Gargoyle, One Sentence Poems, and Humana Obscura. She lives in Frostburg, Maryland, where she serves as director of the Frostburg State University Center for the Literary Arts.

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