Paperback | 280 pages

In addition to his pivotal roles in the Gay Liberation Movement, revolutionary anarchism, queer publishing, and the early development of gay studies and sexuality education, Charles Shively was a lifelong poet. He published his first poem in high school and continued writing daily throughout his life. I Have a Poem for You, brings together three of his major manuscripts—Stonelicks Beyond Ohio, Cuauhtémoc Waiting, and Time Broken Hands—alongside a selection of uncollected poems, including his evocative Tarot series San Lazaro Street Scene Vendors. As Jim Dunn notes in his introduction, Shively’s poetry is “sparse, surreal and mystical, a rush of images in lean language… His poems at first seem like hallucinogenic and surreal streams of consciousness, sometimes referred to as ‘Emily Dickinson poems on LSD.’ But there are deeper and more urgent flashes of brilliance fused throughout his work when read closely that charge them with a vibrancy and rhythm.”

92 pages. Full-color. Hardcover.

Under New Alchemy by Derek Fenner is a hybrid collection that blends poetry, visual art, and experimental narrative to explore themes of transformation, inheritance, loss, and reimagining. The title invokes both mysticism and material change, and the work itself mirrors that duality-melding the deeply personal with the mythic and elemental. Fenner draws on his experience as an artist and educator to construct a textual artifact that is both lyrical and reflective, often invoking fragments, diagrams, or references to arcane knowledge and everyday rituals.

The book positions itself within a tradition of poetic alchemy-transmuting grief, memory, and culture into insight. Its form is experimental, often nonlinear, inviting readers to engage with the material in layered and intuitive ways. Like much of Fenner's work, Under New Alchemy resists singular interpretation and instead constructs a space where language and image collaborate in the act of meaning-making.