Hazel Hall – A Hint of Rosemary

In a Hint of Rosemary, Hazel Hall is not afraid to push boundaries as she explores the traditional sonnet, its connections with classical Japanese poetic forms, and their shared musicality. She points out similarities between these forms, but also celebrates their differences. This collection includes sonnets with haiku or tanka attached, a sonnet using the same rhyme throughout, a sonnet created with fourteen lines of single-line haiku and a fourteen line ghazal in iambic pentameter.

Kathy Kituai – The Art of Catching Jam Before it Burns

This collection of new and selected poems, like the jam that metaphorically spreads itself throughout, “sparkles like liquid gems in a momentary sun.” Kathy Kituai takes us deeper into all our lives. She has the ability take the most ordinary experiences and imbue them with extraordinariness, to find the transcendent in the physical, the complex in the simple. These poems are deeply rooted in personal memory and quiet emotional courage. They are vivid acts of seeing—contemporary free verse with the timeless quality of Japanese Tanka.