A collection of haiku by Ohio poets, past and present.

"In Love Something, Stewart reveals a bitter, sometimes monstrous personal history softened by compassion. For all he, his family, even country have suffered, this poet has chosen a life which refuses to be wasted. Stewart writes with a clarity of image and pacing which allows joining his pain, anecdotes, celebrations and humor to feel irresistible and welcome. Reading this book is as natural as curiosity and says love all you are able. ~Jody (Pamela) Stewart, author of Infrequent Mysteries, The Red Window & Ghost Farm)"--

The Bastard Children of Dharma Bumsare 'sculped poems, ' essentially erasure poems without theerased lines, taken from each chapter of Jack Kerouac'sThe Dharma Bums. I manipulate the lines, punctuation, and in some cases, the tense of a word, changing "breaking"to "break," for an example, but otherwise the wordswithin each poem are as they fall within Kerouac's Novel and other poe

The poems in Break Every String remind Tony Hoagland of the hardscrabble accounts of humanity in some of our best poets, and we agree. Emotionally forthright and bruising, this is narrative lyric at its best, inviting yet unflinching. From his tour-de-force opening, "Born In The USA", Stewart invokes Springsteen, and then goes on to surprise us almost every line, through heartbreaking moments of poverty and family and the American way, By the end of the volume, Stewart has done the equivalent of break every string. Given every reason, fictional or autobiographical, to buy the gun, not the book, Stewart buys the book, not the gun. "If someone asks if poetry has saved your life, you know what to say."