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.
Dave Seter, Somewhere West of the Mississippi
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
$10.00 ISBN 978-1-939301-68-0, Staple-bound paper, 5.5” X 8.5” 24 pages. 2017. Order at 
“Diane Willie’s original voice adds depth to 21st century stories of the American Southwest. Her mythical tales draw upon Navajo, Pueblo, Spanish, and Anglo histories to create her own mélange. Always, the Native viewpoint structures Willie’s narratives. Read these as rituals of healing. The final message is one of hope, esperanza.” Denise Low, former Kansas Poet Laureate 
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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