From our friend Mark Doty

Literature is crucial to culture - it's the repository of human feeling, the record of lives, and it has the capacity, as no other art quite does, to preserve something of how it feels to be alive. Whether we read an 11th century Chinese poet, a 15th century Persian, or a contemporary American giving voice to her life, we readers have the astonishing opportunity to get a sense of what it's like to be inside the skin of another - to breathe with her breath, to speak with his unmistakable, personal rhythm. This essential art stays alive because people love it, because they tell other people about it, and because they lend their support. Commercial publishers aren't enough; their eye is on the profit of the moment. But small presses are here for the long haul; they publish the work they love, the poems that matter, and they keep doing that work against all the odds. Please lend your support to CavanKerry Press; it's on of those champions of literature that's keeping the art of writing alive.