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Rock Stars by Matt Mason

Rock Stars (2023)

Matt Mason ’90
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  “Matt Mason’s poems have energy. Matt Mason’s poems have drive, and craft, and heart, and excitement, and funny lines like “I want to see two words rhyme / who never thought of each other that way before” —lines which harken back to other things Mason’s poems have, such as tenderness and wildness and celebrations of young and other kinds of love—love of music, family, laughter, and good poems, which, by the way, Matt Mason’s Rock Stars is full of.”
— Charles Harper Webb, author of Sidebend World and Ursula Lake
 

Everyday Flowers (2018)

Kalpana Asok M.A. '93
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If you've wondered how it must feel to be a stranger in a strange land, Kalpana Asok tells you in these gentle poems. Gentle, but with a hint of irony, as when, in the voice of a new arrival, an Indian woman introduces herself to a new American neighbor, and then, in an almost footnoted last line that lets us know she was never invited into the house.

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A Maze in Grace (2014)

Denise Dwyer D’Errico '95, M.A. Pastoral Ministries
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Poetry about the twists and turns of life. Explore your own challenges and honor your blessings as you read A Maze in Grace.

Exploring Spirituality in Photo and Verse 

Exploring Spirituality in Photo & Verse (2020)

Arlene Goetze M.A. '04
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A jiggle of joy! Unexpected insights! A spiritual smile! This book contains 65 photos with Reflections in verse, nine Meditations, prose and poems illustrating how spirituality is a growth stage in almost every action we have.

At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife, and Churros by Matt Mason

At the Corner of Fantasy and Main: Disneyland, Midlife, and Churros (2022)

Matt Mason '90
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At The Corner of Fantasy and Main is about more than Disneyland, midlife, and churros. It's about how our heart is sometimes more reliable than our memory and how places that are touchstones in our lives stay with us in ways that don't always seem to make sense. And, well, it's about Disneyland, midlife, and churros.

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It Will Always Be A Cage (2021)

Mari Monroe '15
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An endlessly delightful book of poetry and prose, one that asks you to question everything that you have felt, from the highest love, to the deepest grief, and comb through those experiences delicately, one strand at a time. With every turn of the page it feels as if you were offered a mirror; a reflection into your own heart and soul.

Paul Totah The Gospel of Everyone 

The Gospel of Everyone: A Poetic Retelling of the Gospel of Luke (2017)

Paul Totah '79
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This poetic retelling of the Gospel of Luke imagines how the people surrounding Jesus--including the "minor characters" who appear only once or twice--reacted to this man. Rather than discuss the history, the politics, or the theology surrounding Jesus of Nazareth, these poems enter into the human experiences of what it might have been like to walk side-by-side on the dusty roads to Emmaus, Jericho, or Jerusalem

Left at the Gate 

Left at the Gate: and Other Poems (2017)

Peter Coe Verbica '83, JD '99
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A collection of stunning poems by an author whose writing has been described as "strong," "crisp," "distilled," "evocative and moving," "beautiful" and "arresting." Angelo Grova, Gail Rich Award Recipient, describes the work as an "arrow to my heart." Poet Juan Velasco assures, "You will enjoy this book full of honest, addictive surprises."

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SEEKING THE LIGHT, LESSONS LEARNED (2022)

T.R. Villarreal '77
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The third book of free verse by T.R. Villarreal, exploring various tops of life, love and death as well as the world we live in.. Offering thoughts on these subjects.

 

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