Sunshine Helen Creswell Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by

Northwest Variety: Personal Essays by 14 Regional Authors and Where We Are: The Montana Poets Anthology

restlessly pushing words beyond their given forms and meanings to say new things in new ways about our complicated knife-edge times"

Anita O’Day

along with astute satire and insightful character poems

Among the poets are those well-known outside the Arab world such as Ounsi el-Hage

Sunshine Helen Creswell Northwest Variety: Personal Essays bySunshine is the powerful new collection from Next Generation Poet Melissa Lee Houghton. A writer of startling confession, her poems ooze confidence and shine a light on human ecstasy and sadness with blinding precision. Melissa Lee Houghton is a bold, observant and daringly honest poet who intuitively knows what she is doing, even when she ventures into the scariest places. Poetry Book Society