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Writing in the 1,000 year-old tradition of the Tang Dynasty poets, Han Shan and Du Fu, Huichun Liang has brought into sharp focus the power of the unfathomable stillness of the present moment in her book Autumn, Presencing. Her poems ring with the clarity of the master's bronze bell calling monks to meditation. Yet these poems breathe in the world across time and cultures, as in "Translation," where a Grimm Fairy Tale, a Biblical image, a mythical Greek personae, and the Buddhist lotus flower mix. And in the mix is the collaboration with the artist Steven Schroeder whose paintings make a frequent appearance in Autumn, Presencing and are a perfect match for the poems, as if dropping a stone into the quiet pond of the reader who can then follow the water's ripples outward and then return to the center where "still, a story is being told." -Walter Bargen, First Poet Laureate of Missouri and author of Until Next Time

在有诗人寒山和杜甫的唐代的千年传统中写作，梁慧春一直把在此刻的，深不可测的，寂然的力量的锋利的焦点着力于她的书－"正在的秋天"中。她的诗歌用大师们的青铜的钟敲响出召唤僧人们去冥想的清脆的声音，可是这些诗歌又在超越了时间与文化的世界中呼吸，如同在"翻译家"一诗中所呈现的那样。这首诗在融汇了格林童话，《圣经》，希腊神话中的人物和佛教的莲花的意象的同时，又包含着与斯蒂文。施罗德的合作。他的画作还反复在"正在的秋天"中出现，而且是诗作的绝配。这就如同在一潭读者的心灵的静水中投入一块石头，然后读者们的思绪就能随着水的涟漪荡漾开去,而又回到那"还在陈述的故事"的中心。-沃尔特。巴根， 密苏里的第一位桂冠诗人，《直到下一次》的作者

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"I must say

her life appears a mess-

a real live maiden in distress.

Unless I choose

to get involved

it is unlikely

her problem will be solved".......

I say:

"Gracious me I do declare

I have nothing to wear

My hospital wardrobe is small

I hardly have anything at all

in my size."

I continue:

"Oh God, most wise,

you know that talking with God

seems a little odd."

God then says:

"Talking with you

seems peculiar too."

Catherine E. Goin, who was diagnosed with an acute schizophrenic episode in 1974, is on a mission to share with others what she learned from her doctors about mental health issues throughout her forty years of outpatient psychotherapy.

In a collection of poems inspired by nature and brought to life by original black and white illustrations, Catherine reflects on God as well as her humorous and most horrifying personal experiences while leading others through the four seasons of her life entitled, "So Cool," "A Fool," "Such Grief," and "Ah, Relief." Now happily in remission, Catherine lyrically explores her new beginning as a miracle from God while inspiring others to never give up hope, despite their seemingly insurmountable obstacles.

Changes Deranges: A Memoir of Sorts shares one woman's poetic exploration of mental health, life, miracles, and everything in between.

About the Author
Catherine E. Goin is an old person with a young soul. After studying painting and dance at the College of William and Mary, she painted for fifty years until she introduced the flute, guitar, mandolin, and writing into her life. Catherine lives with her brother in a small town in Virginia. This is her fifth book.

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God created the world and all living things
Pre-determined destiny, known only to the King.

Israel, the witness keeper of Jesus birth, His life
America the motherhood, to countries in strife

It would be Jesus, He came to save mankind
The ruthless, the evil, the ancient of time

America fails herself, the year 2010
Rights of God tested, indebted her countrymen

Gods promise to Israel, remain today
Remember Egypt, love abide in me and pray

With the future in mind, to understand the rest
Balance Government in Spirit, America is blessed

This is the future of ancient time
modern world witnessing
through rhythm and rhyme

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About the Author
Alan j Wright is a widely experienced educational consultant and author who works extensively across Australia. He has been teaching poetry since man first stepped on the moon. He currently resides in Mornington, Victoria, Australia. This is his third anthology of poetry. Poetry is his oxygen.

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"With Brecht, Benn, Bobrowski and Celan, Peter Huchel is one of a handful of essential post-war poets in the German language. A precise observer of natural phenomena, Huchel is above all a realist whose metaphors take us deep into the social and historical landscape, into zones of devastation and despair, the zero-hour of isolation. His world is devoid of illusion or sentimentality; there is no redemption, at most an exactitude that is itself a confirmation of what is human and real. Lifted out of the schismatic currents of the Cold War era by Martyn Crucefix's supple and arrestingly sensual translations, Huchel surprises us as a fresh and startling voice for our own numbered days." --Iain Galbraith

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The subjects of poetry are the same: love and loss, sex and death and grief, family in all its permutations and complications. The differences are in the telling, and Kory Wells is a powerful teller. Her poems are as layered and dense as her grandmother's Red Velvet cake. What is it, she asks, that makes us want to swallow // a story whole? To think // only one version can be true? With a clear eye, she confronts the paradoxes that gender, race, and heritage present. She writes from a rootedness in her homeland that reaches down generations. She writes as a citizen of this troubled world: I'm unlearning the urge for a sugar fix like I'm unlearning // my threshold for what is acceptable, terrible, commonplace. // Tell me I don't have to unlearn hope. She does what we ask of the poet. All that we ask. --Marie Harris, former New Hampshire Poet Laureate

"Poetry is the intrinsic flow of human nature; both halves of tame and savage merged into words." We journey down our own paths of life, but we are connected. The aspects of human nature reside in us all. Through experiences, observations, and ruminations, I have crafted these poems to develop a sense of relation between us and the natural world. Also, to reveal the emotions and stories of people that go untold. Within these pages, you will read poems about the earth's raw beauty, riveting romance, grand calls for adventure, and the expressive behavior of human beings.

I believe that there is at least a poem in here for everyone. May your horizons be broadened.

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Michael Giotis grew up with his single mother in a suburban apartment in California and spent summers in Greece with his father sailing a yacht between the islands of the Aegean. These poems were written in days suspended between these two cultures, two languages, two classes. Some may resonate in one more than the other, some in both, a few in neither.

In Black Mountain Home, David Kherdian returns to his poetic roots with a collection that truly captures the essence of what it means to be alive. Drawing inspiration from the lush mountainscapes of North Carolina, he takes the reader on an unforgettable backwoods sojourn as he describes nature's raw pureness with elegant simplicity.

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