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An independent press in Greensboro, North Carolina, has been publishing full-length and chapbook-length poetry collections for fifty years.

In this continuing series, a book critic discusses Minnesota’s thriving literary community and the importance of reviewing small-press titles.

The first lines of a dozen new and noteworthy books, including Natasha Trethewey’s Monument: Poems New and Selected and Alice Walker’s Taking the Arrow Out of the Heart.

“I have three states of being: feeling doubt, manifesting a vague desire to say something that seems important, and writing toward ground zero of that desire.” —Christopher Kennedy, author of Clues From the Animal Kingdom

“To doubt yourself means you’re on to the right thing. I find that reassuring.” —Sharlene Teo, author of Ponti

“It is a terrifying process to release your literary babies into the world, where anybody can say anything they want about them.” —J. M. Holmes, author of How Are You Going to Save Yourself

Colorful illustrations accompany notes, quotes, and literary trivia about books to read and bookstores to visit.