A new Mammoth author, Michael H. Lopez! Where the Ducks Go, Nov., 2025 chapbook. Pre-order today for free shipping (domestic only). $15.00. ISBN 978-1-939301-56-7 Cover art by Tom Weso. Send check to 610 Alta Vista Dr., Healdsburg, CA 95448 or PayPal online payment CLICK HERE Free domestic shipping.

“Part naturalist, part prophet, part San Francisco tour guide, Michael Lopez renders the world with a visionary zeal, recording reality even as he reimagines it. In these poems, anything is possible: ducks move like torpedoes, the ocean won’t stop weeping, and an ordinary bar is a place ‘where the jukebox becomes the sun.’ Where the Ducks Go is an ambitious and exhilarating collection.” ~ Bruce Snider, author of Blood Harmony

“Enter the world of poet Michael H. Lopez, and a new spectrum of colors appears. His passion intensifies the vivid surroundings of the Bay Area and Kansas grasslands. His beautiful and painful lyrics remind me of why I came to love poetry.” ~ Denise Low, Kansas Poet Laureate 2007-09

Michael H. Lopez is a poet, editor, and teacher based in San Francisco. He holds a BA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University and an MFA in Writing from the University of San Francisco. His poems have appeared in Door Is a Jar, Acropolis Journal, The Sunset Beacon, and the 2025 Poolside Poets anthology published by Decentered Arts. In 2021, he founded the Lone Mountain Literary Society, which publishes The Nature of Things, a magazine devoted to reflection, transformation, and transcendence. His poetry explores love, loss, philosophy, and nature—pondering the secrets and strangeness of existence. Anchored in lyricism, surreal imagery, and playful form, his work moves between landscape and longing, spirit and renewal—drawing from both the vastness of the Great Plains and the waters, mountains, fog, and tidal light of San Francisco and the Pacific Ocean. In his downtime, Michael can be found exploring nature, attending live shows, or lingering over deep conversations in cafés and bars. Michael is also a live haiku poet with The Haikuists, crafting spontaneous poems at events throughout the Bay Area.

A Chapbook of Poems by the Sonoma County Poet Laureate 28pp. ISBN 978-1-939301-58-1  $15.00 (domestic mail only), CA residents add 8% sales tax. PAYPAL click here to order. Email orders to mammothpubs@gmail.com or send check to: MAMMOTH PUBLICATIONS 610 Alta Vista Drive, Healdsburg, California, 95448 For multiple copies contact mammothpubs@gmail.com

In clear-sighted language, a scientist  interrogates the mythic American West and considers impacts of human migrations. His journey begins near the Mississippi headwaters and culminates in California. A migrant himself, he witnesses Earth’s changes on both coasts and the middle of the U.S. His words clarify, celebrate, grieve, and heal. Cover by Micqaela Jones. For more information see Dave Seter

DONDE LA LUZ ES VIOLETA / WHERE THE LIGHT IS VIOLET by Xánath Caraza,    Nov. 15, 2016  Translated by Sandra Kingery, introduction by Beppe Costa. 208 pages, perfectbound, $18 ISBN: 978-1-939301-69-7 For inquiries and multiple orders: mammothpubs [at] gmail.com or for online discount $14.50 PayPal Click here: 

International author Xánath Caraza’s latest book is a moving prayer, in Spanish and English, to water, at a time when this essential of life is most precious. Now a native of Kansas City, Caraza draws upon Nahuatl (Aztec), Spanish and English traditions in this accessible and lush verse diary. Each poem is a sequence in her journey to Italy, where she finds water ever present in seas, rivers, Venice canals, and rainstorms. This is a beautiful book. Tino Villanueva, 1994 American Book Award recipient writes: “Part diary, part poeticized travel journal, Caraza’s, Where the Light is Violet is nothing if not a paean to Venice, Murano Island, and likewise to Rome, Pompeii, Florence, et al.  The poet is ever swept away by all complexities of natural splendor (waterways, flora, and fauna), under a colorful vaulting sky, an exuberance conveyed in sensual verse, and chromatic flourishes, Greco-Roman mythology serving, at times, as backdrop.” Xánath Caraza, award-winning author, teaches at the University of Missouri-Kansas City and makes presentations in Europe, Latin America, and the U.S. She is Writer-in-Residence at Westchester Community College, New York. She writes for La Bloga, Periódico de Poesía, Revista Literaria Monolito, The Smithsonian Latino Center, and Revista Zona de Ocio.  She is originally from Xalapa, Veracruz, Mexico.

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Mammoth author publishes boarding school narrative poetry: BITTER TEARS, 36 pp., staplebound, $12.00 ISBN 978-1-939301-72-7  POETRY  $12.00  PayPal Click Here or contact mammothpubs@gmail.com  for multiple copies. International postage extra.

Denise Lajimodiere spent years interviewing boarding school survivors for this project of moving verse, Bitter Tears. The poems describe the experiences of children who experienced the wrenching trauma of assimilationist boarding schools. Denise Lajimodiere, an enrolled citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa, is past President of the National Native American Boarding School Healing Coalition (N-NABS-HC) and present board member. Denise works as an Assistant Professor of Educational Leadership at North Dakota State University, Fargo. Her current research agenda includes the history of American Indian boarding schools and also Native female leadership and Horizontal Violence. Her first book of poems is Dragonfly Dance (Michigan State University Press). Denise is also a Birch Bark Biting artist and traditional Jingle Dress dancer.

Full-color cover, After Boarding School: Mourning, is copyrighted by Klamath-Modoc artist Kaila Farrell-Smith, used with permission. It is in the permanent collection of the Portland Art Museum, purchased with funds from the Native American Art Council.

The latest publication is by Susan Rieke’s Ireland’s Weather This fine arts edition, 24 pages and 2 illustrations, mixes all the mythic beauty of Ireland with clear-eyed
observations. Contemporary sights mingle with ageless natural wonders. Even a commonplace experience like dawn becomes extraordinary as  the poet notices how “the sun tilts with a side grin.”  Travel with this writerly companion to a landscape populated with robins, crows, bees, and “old demons.” The journey will change everything.  ISBN 978-1-939301-77-2    $10.00

$10.00  online discount, free domestic shipping. To order multiple copies or for inquires, contact mammothpubs@gmail.com  

Thomas F. Weso, art, “Blue Storm,” private collection, Washington D.C. Published by Mammoth Publications. Order by mail: 1916 Stratford Road, Lawrence, KS 66044.

Susan Rieke, S.C.L. and Ph.D., is a Professor of English, holding the McGilley Chair for Liberal Studies at the University of Saint Mary in Leavenworth, Kansas. She has published two books of poetry, Small Indulgences and From the Tower (with Mary Janet McGilley, S.C.L., and Michael Paul Novak), as well as individual poems in many magazines. She does numerous poetry readings in the greater Kansas City area. Through the Kansas Humanities Council, she has given talks on Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman and led book discussions in the state of Kansas. She is a native of Jefferson City, Missouri.