Andrea Cohen

The poems in Andrea Cohen's Nightshade, her sixth full-length collection, are constructed from the wisdom of loss--of lovers and loved ones and a world gone awry. Cohen builds a short poem the way a master carpenter does a tiny house, in lines that are both economic and precise, with room enough for sorrow and wit to exist comfortably in their spaces. The great pleasure in reading these poems is their surprise in the way the endings arrive again and again in startling truths: The bride whose dress is sewn "from a hundred/tattered flags/of surrender" and the ever-present reminder of the title poem that the things of this world are both "poison and . . . balms" that "We /call . . . bitter- / sweet--what / living isn't?"

Nightshade

The Cartographer's Vacation

Furs Not Mine is a mix of lament and humor, loss and desire

Furs Not Mine

Andrea Cohen's poems search the shadow regions of yearning and grief, engaging in the human struggle to find meaning in the wake of loss, but they take surprising, sometimes meteoric leaps, landing in a place where brightness reigns. The voice in Unfathoming strives to upend the title: to both acknowledge mystery, and with wile and grace, comprehend it. These poems attempt to get to the heart of the matter as quickly or directly as possible, through narrative, expansive means.

Unfathoming

Everything

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Katherine Heiny

Hala Alyan

Becky Mandelbaum

Muhammed Awal Ahmed

Avital Balwit

Joe Baumann

Amber Emanuel

Alyssa Freeman-Moser

Nina Gaby

Yennie Jun

Shane Kowalski

Matthew Lansburgh

Edith Knight Magak

Jordan McDonald

Roger Salloch

Sara Schaff

Eileen Townsend

Meetinghouse Issue No. 1

Read and sing 12 Days of Playtime to the same tune as a classic "12 Days of Christmas," or experience each new day as an interactive play date! Join Mamma and Tiger on a 12 day adventure! Sing-along and celebrate playtime, and make learning fun! Create lasting memories that you'll be talking about for years to come!

A Sing-Along Book

12 Days of Playtime

Andrea Cohen

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