New & Recent
(In order of publication)
Groundbreaking: My Unmapped Path as an Academic, Mother, and Gardener
An autobiography full of reflections on resilience, intellectual discovery, and the grounding power of nature.
By Tamiki Hara, Art by Sandy Walker, Translated by Liza Dalby
Prose poetry about the yearning to live and love fully, free from the burden of loss and tragedy.
All royalties from this book will be donated to the Western States Legal Foundation, a nonprofit, public interest organization founded in 1982 for the abolition of nuclear weapons.
Letters That Breathe Fire: El Corno Emplumado / The Plumed Horn
A revealing look at literary life in the 1960s in letters from some of its stars.
Living Toward Justice: A Time Capsule
Edited by Sonya E. Pritzker
An illustrated exploration of how practitioners and scholars in the field of embodied social justice (ESJ) seek to incorporate justice in everyday life.
ArtMill: A Story of Sustainable Creativity in Bohemia
Barbara Benish tells her story as a female artist who found a way to build a life in a rural, post-totalitarian, foreign country, it is a testament to the resilience of the people of that small nation that was sacrificed in the tumultuous chess game of colonial superpowers dividing up Europe after the devastation of WWII.
More Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations
A collection of letters exchanged between the author and four “outriders”—artists, writers, and activists who risk everything to confront censorship, injustice, and the constraints of convention.
DisElderly Conduct: The Flawed Business of Assisted Living and Hospice
A personal account of unmet needs in assisted living and hospice, Judy Karofsky aims to spark discussions about new approaches for America’s aging population and family decision makers.
Letters from the Edge: Outrider Conversations
By excerpting from letters she exchanged with five irreverent writers and artists, Margaret Randall constructs conversations that open windows on four pivotal moments in her life and on world events.
Inspired and Outraged: The Making of a Feminist Physician
A remarkable autobiography—written entirely in free verse—of Alice Rothchild’s journey from 1950’s good girl to irreverent, feisty, feminist obstetrician-gynecologist forging her own direction in the contradictory, sexist world of medicine.
Creative Instigation: The Art & Strategy of Authentic Community Engagement
By Fern Tiger
Creative Instigation is a collection of in-depth case stories focused on effective and innovative community engagement and policymaking in diverse cities across the western U.S.
Portraits of Peacemakers: Americans Who Tell the Truth
This third volume in the Americans Who Tell the Truth series features Robert Shetterly’s striking color portraits and profiles of fifty peace activists as well as essays by Chris Hedges, Kali Rubaii, Paul K. Chappell, Medea Benjamin, Alice Rothchild, and David Swanson.
See Me: Prison Theater Workshops and Love
Encounters, transformations, and reflections from in-prison and post-release theater workshops, each essay is a collaboration between two or three people who connected profoundly in the temporary community that a workshop can create.
The Women’s Revolution: How We Changed Your Life
By Muriel Fox
A comprehensive, indexed memoir about the Second Wave women’s movement by the cofounder of the National Organization for Women (NOW), Muriel Fox offers rare, firsthand stories of 29 women and one man built mainly from her own hundreds of letters, clippings, notes, and photographs that she archived in her “Feminism Files.”
Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance
By Meredith M. Taylor Foreword by Dr. Rex M. Ellis
A richly imagined, photo illustrated narrative of 150 years of life in slavery on tobacco plantations in Southern Maryland. The work is a poetic interwoven collage of scenes and community of characters that reflect the diversity of experience, “silences,” and incompleteness of the historical record.
Watch the official trailer for Making a Way Out of No Way: Lives of Labor, Love, and Resistance here.
Random Kindness and Senseless Acts of Beauty— 30th Anniversary Edition
By Anne Herbert, Paloma Pavel, Mayumi Oda
Foreword by Desmond Mpilo Tutu
A parable of hope and peace for all ages with beautifully crafted words and exuberant watercolor illustrations, Random Kindness offers a poetic and empowering message for world peace. Recognizing “we are right on the edge of destroying ourselves,” this modern allegory inspires taking joyful steps to end violence.
I Opened the Gate Laughing: An Inner Journey — 20th Anniversary Edition
By Mayumi Oda
A tribute to the power of spiritual practice, creative expression, and true self-acceptance I Opened the Gate Laughing is the story of one woman’s journey to creative freedom through gardening and the teachings of Zen. I Opened the Gate Laughing is a resource for anyone seeking a slower pace, a sacred space, and a garden path.
Judith Letting Go: Six Months in the World’s Smallest Death Cafe
By Mark Dowie
The story of an old man learns how to die from a younger woman facing death, this book is ultimately about the lost human art of releasing everything that matters to the living in preparation for the inevitable. It is a rare lesson offered by a poet who somehow taught herself, and then the author, how to let go.