Reprinted from the March/April 2014 issue of The Writer's Chronicle

• The Splendid Things We Planned: A Family Portrait, memoir by Blake Bailey. W.W. Norton & Company: $25.95 cloth.

• Practice on Mountains, poems by David Bartone. Ahsahta: $18.00 paper.

• Sestinas in the Twenty-First Century, edited by Carolyn Beard Whitlow and Marilyn Krysl. Dartmouth College: $27.95 paper.

• Mother Box and other tales, stories by Sarah Blackman. University of Alabama Press: $16.95 paper.

• Train Shots, stories by Vanessa Blakeslee. Burrow Press: $15.99 paper.

• Imperial, poems by George Bilgere. University of Pittsburgh Press: $15.95 paper.

• El Paso Days, memoir by Elroy Bode. Wings Press: $16.00 paper.

• Losing Tim, memoir by Janet Burroway. Think Piece Publishing: $14.95 paper.

• E. E. Cummings: A Life, by Susan Cheever. Pantheon: $26.95 cloth.

• Silent Mind, poems by Kay Chilowvaeh. Xlibris: $3.99 ebook, $19.99 paper.

• Beauty Mark, poems by Suzanne Cleary. BkMk Press: $13.95 paper.

• Expectation: A Francesca Fruscella Mystery, by Jeffrey DeShell. University of Alabama Press: $14.95 paper.

• Writing from the Senses: 60 Exercises to Ignite Creativity and Revitalize Your Writing, by Laura Deutsch. Shambhala Publications: $14.95 paper.

• Tombo, poems by W.S. Di Piero. McSweeney’s Books: $20.00 hardcover.

• Pretenders, poems and prose by Jeff Friedman. Carnegie Mellon University Press: $16.95 paper.

• Pirates You Don’t Know, and Other Adventures in the Examined Life: Collected Essays, by John Griswold. University of Georgia Press: $16.95 paper.

• On the Street of Divine Love: New and Selected Poems, by Barbara Hamby. University of Pittsburgh Press: $16.95 paper.

• Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss, by Jessica Handler. St. Martin’s Press: $15.99 paper.

• Cambridge, novel by Susanna Kaysen. Alfred A. Knopf: $25.95.

• Homeland, poems by LuAnn Keener-Mikenas. LaLit Press: $14.95 paper.

• Small Disasters Seen in Sunlight, poems by Julia B. Levine. Louisiana State University Press: $18.95 paper.

• Plundered Hearts: New and Selected Poems, by J.D. McClatchy. Alfred A. Knopf: $28.95 cloth.

• Praying Drunk, stories by Kyle Minor. Sarabande Books: $15.95 paper.

• The Dead Eat Everything, poems by Michael Mlekoday. Kent State University Press: $15.00 paper.

• Beyond the Chainlink, poems by Rusty Morrison. Ahsahta: $18.00 paper.

• The Empty House, stories by Nathan Oates. Lost Horse Press: $18.00 paper.

• The Old Woman, the Tulip, and the Dog, poems by Alicia Suskin Ostriker. University of Pittsburgh Press: $15.95 paper.

• Storytelling in the Digital Age, by W.S. Penn. Palgrave Macmillan: $85.00 hardcover.

• House Hold: A Memoir of Place, by Ann Peters. University of Wisconsin Press: $26.95 cloth.

• The Cabinetmaker’s Window, poems by Steve Scafidi. Louisiana State University Press: $17.95 paper.

• The Pat Boone Fan Club: My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew, memoir by Sue William Silverman. University of Nebraska Press: $18.95 paper.

• American Afterlife: Encounters in the Customs of Mourning, nonfiction by Kate Sweeney. University of Georgia Press: $24.95 cloth.

• Motherlode: A Mosaic of Dutch Wartime Experience, Carolyne Van Der Meer. Wilfrid Laurier University Press: $19.99 paper.

• After Auschwitz: A Love Story, novel by Brenda Webster. Wings Press: $16.96 paper.