Measure Press

"... Not to be too 'catmatic' about it: this seriously playful collection belongs in your beach bag, summer hammock, or bedside reading stack."
— Julie Kane

"Ned Balbo is a wizard of the workaday, revealing in a 'parcel of suburbia' signs of our humanity and of the beauty that ennobles it. Some of these poems remind us 'that awe is possible, today, / and should be shared, or taught.'"

 — David Yezzi

Interviews with some of the most influential poets of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.

"At once a handbook of forms, a poetry writing text, an anthology, and a succinct history of English verse, William Baer’s clear and elegantly-conceived Writing Metrical Poetry is a rich resource for all teachers and students of poetry, indeed for all practitioners of the art, both in and out of the academy." 
— Rachel Hadas

"... Her words never subside into shopworn sounds, each poem displaying her rare and enviable genius for making verse sing, which is to say croon, caterwaul, belt, syncopate, wail."
— David Yezzi

"... A Modern Herbal is a stunning virtuoso performance, one of the best first books I’ve seen in a very long time."
— Alan Shapiro

"Gwynn is a comic genius with a tragic sensibility."
— A.E. Stallings

"Tough-minded and precise, Ernest Hilbert’s lyrics, like his old mirror left out at the curb, turn an unflinching gaze on pieces of inner and outer landscapes we often push to the periphery."

—Rachel Hadas

"A.M. Juster’s comic verse is a national treasure. It ought to be locked up in Fort Knox — but no, every reader deserves a crack at it."

 — X.J. Kennedy

"Krisak writes with a metrical and formal eloquence. His voice is both learned and colloquial, demonstratating a careful attention to language and its power to move us."

The Dark Lord of the Tiki Bar is like a late-night bar conversation, full of humor and regret, landing like a punch or prayer. Highly recommended.

— Susan Millar DuMars

"The poems in Scarsdale are a series of shocks, like a defibrillator applied to the body of an American family whose heart has somehow died.”
— John Poch

"What more could any reader want than the memorable poems found in Solitary Bee? One feels her confident voice, her touch — and thinks this, too, is my life."

 — Dave Smith