Publishing

In addition to our journal, Ardent!, Poetry in the Arts publishes full length books of poetry by invitation.

Please feel free to browse our past publising projects archive.

Into the Light by Claire Ottenstein-Ross The subject of this collection is the colors of an heirloom quilt; the sun-scorched vistas of West Texas; the luminous shafts making stained-glass patterns. . . . LARRY D. THOMAS 2008 Texas Poet Laureate Order this book now: more info

Toss Me to the Waiting Sky by Mary Margaret Carlisle Mary Margaret doesn't need the Alps or the misty Pacific at Big Sur. A garden in a yard in suburban Houston is nature enough under that Waiting Sky. Worked soil, passing birds, tended vines, the coastal grass and trees that grow no matter who says what—all these beneath the baroque masses of cloud and teeming rains the Gulf of Mexico sends us—spark and feed her meditations. To read, as here, a lot of Mary Margaret Carlisle is to encounter the well-meditated life. She's deep. . . . Dr. John Gorman, University of Houston, Clear Lake Order this book now: more info

Pleadings from the Pleiades by Ken Jones I always look forward to hearing or reading Ken Jones’ poems. You can count on an honest-in your face report-that allows the possibility of a new insight and/or focus into even the most discursive of subjects. . . . Dave Parsons, Winner of the Texas Review Poetry Prize and Poet Laureate of Montgomery County Order this book now: more info