Mary Kane & Angela Rose discuss collaborating on 122 Days: a conversation in drawings and sentences at the Cahoon Museum of American Art, October 19, 2024

Jazz Midnight

poems by Jack Crimmins

88 pages, $15

ISBN: 979-8-9898147-1-8

Buy from Barnes & Noble and Amazon

"I love the way Jack's poems have such a big-heartedness to them, how they embrace funeral pyres and Vida Blue in full windup, the problems of America and Li Po's paper boats, watching squirrels and listening to jazz while sick with the flu. I love how the lines "knowing everything I know / will be gone so / I make a few poems" speak to where these poems come from, and make my heart break just a little bit and also rejoice at the same time." -- Mary Kane

Phyllis Hartley: Artist, Sculptor, Writer, Found Art Collector

Introduction by Eric H. Edwards

46 pages, $15

ISBN: 9798989814725

Buy from Amazon and Barnes & Noble

122 Days: a conversation in drawings

and poetry

by Angela Rose and Mary Kane

256 pages, $25

ISBN: 9798989814701

122 Days records a silent conversation in art and sentences that took place over 122 days in the summer of 2019 between Arizona artist Angela Rose and Massachusetts poet Mary Kane

Buy it from Barnes and Noble, Amazon, and Sherman’s Maine Coast Book Shops

Quaker Minims

by Eric H. Edwards

$10.00

ISBN: 978-1-7339200-8-7

Buy it from Amazon and Barnes and Noble

These Minims are meant to be a comfort, in that if they come from the right place, some of them will resonate within the worship experience for you, confirming a true and gentle life-way or path we travel together in the face of the world's trials. An orientation of direction rather than a formula for life.

Each of us must live our lives responding to the Spirit of Truth, or not. It is your particular life that makes up the Witness and Example Friends often like to refer to. In mystical terms, we cannot save, but we can point.

Crows

by Jim Morgan

$15.00

ISBN: 9781733920049

Order from your local bookstore or directly from Barnes & Noble or Amazon

“There is a magic in Jim Morgan’s Crows, and something accumulates in each poem as the images unfold, turning, shape-shifting. It’s what makes me want to go back, to reread, and what makes these poems kind of haunting, like a melody that seems almost familiar, though you know you’ve never heard it before.”

— Elizabeth Carothers Herron, 2023 Sonoma County Poet Laureate and author of In the Cities of Sleep, Insistent Grace, and The Poet’s House

“Jim Morgan has forged, in these poems, a quiet power, an inviting presence, through his stance as a man in the landscape of scrub pines, with birds all around, and as a poet, with his poems subtly, yet surely, dancing on the page … a path through the woods of life.”

— Jack Crimmins, author of Kit Fox Blues, The Rust Life, The Next 78 Miles, and The Edge of Rain

In the Book I’m Reading

by Mary Kane

$18.00

ISBN-13: 978-1-7339200-6-3

Order from your local bookstore or directly from Barnes & Noble or Amazon

Listen to Mary reading from In the Book I’m Reading and discussing poetry writing with Doug Jayne on KRCB, the Northern California NPR station.

“It’s not often that I encounter a book that makes me a better reader. But as I read Mary Kane’s In the Book I’m Reading, I entered the book (and the books within the book … and the lives of both the author and her subjects … and her breathless, magnetically poetic prose) so thoroughly that I came away changed. This collection of tiny stories relies on both the universal (which made me feel understood) and the unique (which showed me a new way to look at the world). It made me laugh, broke my heart, thrilled my brain. I’m both a better reader and a better person for it.”

— Lauren Wolk, NYT bestselling author of Wolf Hollow, Beyond the Bright Sea, Echo Mountain, and My Own Lightning

“This book knocked my socks off! Unique, readable, relatable, funny, profound: Mary Kane’s stories brilliantly evoke the wonders and absurdities of life, and the ways we are both their source and their subject.”

— Lisa Madsen Rubilar, whose award-winning stories include “Obbligato,” “Bathing Mother,” and “A Confession”

“These little stories are like the TARDIS – bigger on the inside. They brim with the tiny, specific details of a moment – the cups, the shoes, the scarves, the books – and the humor, tenderness, uneasiness, sadness, and wisdom that define entire lives.”

— Rebecca Siegel, poet and cofounder, Literary North

“I’d never thought of reading let alone existing as counting wild turkeys in the dark, but this book showed me the light. A unique collection of delights, In the Book I’m Reading captures the beauty of the solitary reading life in a way I won’t soon forget.”

— Peter Orner, author of Still No Word from You, Last Car Over the Sagamore Bridge and Am I Alone Here? Notes on Reading to Live and Living to Read

Black Apple: Collected Prose Poems 1975 to 2022

by Eric H. Edwards

$20.00

ISBN-13: 978-1-7339200-5-6

Order from your local bookstore or directly from Amazon.com or Barnes & Noble

Collected Prose Poems 1975 - 2022 by Eric H. Edwards covers a wide range of topics including nature, art, religion, philosophy, surrealism, poetry, mythology, peace, war, violence, domestic life, gardening, and more.

“What Ponge did for Soap, Edwards does for Apple.” Bob Holman (Host of Language Matters on PBS)

Luminous

a forty-four day exchange 

while wandering The Tibetan Book of the Dead

Sentences by Mary Kane

Drawings by Mark Bilokur

$15.00

‎Order from Amazon.com

ISBN: 978-1733920032

Procession of Souls

Poems by

Jim Morgan

$15.00

Order from Amazon.com

ISBN: ‎ 978-1792301933

Hear Jim read on KRCB, the PBS station for Northern California

Harlequin’s Guitar: A Fable in 67 Improbable Improvisations

by Jim Morgan

$17.00

Order from Amazon.com

ISBN-13: 978-1733920018

Harlequin's Guitar: A Fable in 67 Improbable Improvisations is a collection of poems featuring Harlequin and a few other characters from the Commedia dell'arte.

My God, shriek Columbine and Pierrot

as Harlequin enters the theater.

What have you done?

Have you lost your mind?

Are you completely insane at last?

We can’t go on!

We don’t know who you are!

We must go one!

Please put your mask on at once!

The Ant and the Map

Poems by Judith Benét Richardson

$17.00

Order from Amazon.com

ISBN 9781720980360

I loved the Ant who leads us into the collection and follows us through the pages, with her occasional hilarious commentary. The cover and the ant’s journey are wonderfully rendered by illustrator, David Earhart. This is a book to read and then read again… the humor engages and then we are moved to contemplation of art, death, Chekhov, memory, Flaubert, Lord Byron, and Paris. What a sparkling jewel of a book!

—LYDIA KANN