Ice Cube Press Books

Preorder your copy today. A poetry collection on the harsh and beautiful northern Midwestern environment and the sturdily pragmatic, yet bizarrely idealistic people, it produces. However, it is not only this. Cold Songs is about the permeability of the human soul how we bleed into the world and other people and how the environment and […]

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By Nancy Adams-Cogan As an interfaith chaplain, Nancy has served 14 years in geriatric clinics at a university hospital in the Midwest. These poems reflect on her observations and situations during this time. As a trained chaplain, rather than a nurse, she brings the ability to listen to help patients and others. Using a framework […]

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This collection of poems reflects my day dreams. Many of them reference my childhood thoughts and wishes. The intention has been to write poems which are personal in nature, yet have universal themes such as love, loss, wonder, and joy. “Armstrong marries universal emotion, personal narrative, and clear language to create an evocative whole.”—Fran Baker, […]

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Wonderful piece in the Iowa City Press-Citizen Nice article in the Cedar Rapids Gazette “The author’s observations and comments range from descriptive to reflective, humorous to poignant interweaving the observations of a five-year-old boy with his mother at the 1939 New York World’s Fair with an adult’s perspective on The Great Depression and World War […]

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Chasing Weather is an award-winning book. It is a Finalist in the Midwest Independent Bookseller Association’s Choice Award for poetry, and was also a Midwest Connections pick! Plus, the book was selected a Kansas Book Award Winner for the 2014. “The sky is made of rivers before and after they became rivers,” Caryn writes in Chasing […]

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Order Direct from the publisher! Living in her dead parents’ house in 1996, Nancy Adams is about to go to work at the Florida high school from which she graduated twenty years earlier. Her new boss was her teacher back in 1976, a man she adored. She was seventeen then. He was twenty-seven. He is […]

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Full flavored, wise, and wildly alive, Salvatore Marici’s poetry rings and beats in your head as he travels through the Amazon, Guatemala, Sicily, doctor’s offices, arenas, kitchens, and the Midwest. From one poem to the next, there is a connected cord. The imagery these poems project will have you swishing, swirling, and sniffing amidst the […]

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