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Matt Hucke In Seattle, beloved neighborhood institutions, unique buildings and businesses are disappearing at a furious pace, and along with them, Seattle’s neon heritage. Seeing those losses motivated local photographer and history enthusiast Matt Hucke to capture a full-color collection of more…

David Axelrod Skiing for Dostoyevsky is comprised of poems from the author’s nine previously published collections, plus thirty-two new poems. Lynx House Press $26.95 / 978-0-89924-198-2 / Pbk. / 180 pages / 2024  

Laura Stott These are lyrical and exact poems of mother love, suffering, and exaltation. Their precision and emotional clarity make reading them an intimate and ultimately transcendent experience such as a book of poems can rarely provide. Lynx House Press $18.95 /…

Martha Silano Martha Silano’s award-winning new collection is a passionate cry on behalf of the Earth and all who dwell upon it. Very few poets have dared to show us, so clearly, the edge of peril to which we have brought our…

Dennis Crockett Becoming Walla Walla covers Walla Walla Valley history from the time of the Sahaptian Peoples’ first encounters with Euro-Americans to the initial expiration of the U.S. government’s treaty with the Cayuse, Walla Walla, and Umatilla. It sheds light on the…

John Hennessy Keenly mindful of their ancestors and the immigrations that have brought them here, the speakers of these poems, their various personae, explore the knots of familial experience, what it’s like to be both parent and child simultaneously, to be embraced…

Michael J. McLaughlin Obsessed with trains and destined for a life along the tracks, Mike McLaughlin’s career spanned jobs from gandy to consultant at multiple railroads and firms. His gritty personal accounts focus on what happened behind the scenes on maintenance and signal…

Don A. Dillman One of the world’s most recognized survey methodologists, Don A. Dillman has witnessed the power of random selection—both in the field of social sciences and in his own life. Growing up on a farm, being infected with polio, and facing…

Edited by Ryan Hardesty Reflecting Fifty Years commemorates five decades of artistic innovation and cultural enrichment at Washington State University's art museum, honoring the voices that shaped its history through iconic exhibitions, significant acquisitions, and memorable experiences. Co-published with the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of…

Tony Tekaroniake Evans Coming of age in an era of assimilation and cultural erasure, Tony Tekaroniake Evans embarks on a comical, informative, and heartbreaking literary journey in search of his Indigenous identity. He finds no easy answers, and instead experiences a growing sense…

Bruce A. Ramsey Capturing stories from Seattle newspapers and other sources, this narrative history traces a turbulent decade that scarred a generation and defined years of policy and culture—from the city’s real estate depression, savings and loan failures, and waterfront Hooverville, to its…

Thomas Bancroft More than just a biological perspective on Alaska’s wonders, a discussion of potential environmental impacts from human actions, a personal travel account, or a collection of dynamic photographs, Beyond the Wonder is a beautiful meditation on nature—one that highlights the…

Albert Goldbarth These poems are set in or arise from the past, but with Goldbarth’s characteristic precision, insight, and narrative intelligence, springboard into a conjunction of thought and heart that reminds readers that the core of being human has never changed. Against…

Robert McNamara Robert McNamara’s fourth collection of poems features a clear, direct, and considered voice reminiscent, at times, of Herrick and Marvel, but fully contemporary. In poem after poem, attention, reflection, and a sweeping, multi-faceted faith emerge as ingredients without which the…

John Hodgen     John Hodgen’s What We May Be is a cry of love and pain (and he makes them almost indistinguishable) on behalf of the human race, its history, its future, its lovely possibilities that seem always out of reach. The poems…

Sara Moore Wagner Lady Wing Shot is an exploration of the life of famed sharpshooter Annie Oakley, who was called both the “Peerless Lady Wing Shot” and “Little Sure Shot,” a name given to her by Sitting Bull. The collection illuminates the woman…

Thomas Mitchell In Thomas Mitchell’s new collection, paper boats drift in and out of childhood, a red bicycle negotiates the dangerous edges of a neighborhood, voices travel on the wings of swallows. Crows transform in a strange metamorphosis, assume human characteristics and…

Halyna Kruk Lost in Living presents Halyna Kruk’s unpublished work from the immediate “pre-invasion” years when life in Ukraine was marked by turmoil but full-scale war was not yet normalized. In these “dear poems that don’t pain [her] like those about the…

Anna Leigh Knowles Using family myth as navigation, the poems within In The Country of Hard Life and Rosebuds rotate between lyric pastorals and narrative forms. The speaker attempts to trace her identity along a timeline and family who remain geographically separate. In…

Rodney Frey Anchored in the oral traditions of Native Peoples, Frey—professor emeritus and hospital lay chaplain—intertwines the stories of elders with his own to offer personal and professional insights into the power and value of storytelling. His experiences present a model for…