Stewart Warren's latest collection, "Somewhere Beautiful Like Earth," seem to emanate from a hypnagogic state, some liminal zone between waking and sleep. He tells his stories but tells them slant, in words as compelling and impossible to ignore as the voice that speak to us on the verge of dreams.

Here There is Also Burning is Stewart S. Warren's tenth full-length collection of poetry. Whatever your poetic tastes, core beliefs or temperament, you will not be able to read this book complacently. You will engage it emotionally, intellectually, spiritually or, more likely, in some combination thereof. Here There is Also Burning is a fusion of dearly held and deeply ingrained American character, folklore and myth. Warren doesn't simply talk about these things: his poetry embodies them. He has listened long and patiently to this land and its people, and his voice is, like Walt Whitman's and Woody Guthrie's, a genuine and compelling vernacular whorl, a transformative narration and description of the Southwest that goes cosmic.

Celebrating a group of working New Mexico poets from differing generations, ethnicities and cultural settings, the Fixed and Free Poetry Anthology 2011 includes a variety of forms from the sonnet and villanelle to open verse and slam. Rather than rely on a regional, academic or ideological theme, this collection includes the best poems from a grassroots community that meets monthly in Albuquerque, New Mexico to perform, discuss and appreciate the written and spoken word. The uniqueness and strength of this endeavor resides in the dedication of its participants to value community above all other identifiers. The reader will not only experience the literary qualities inherent in this work but can join with others in the camaraderie and spirit of authentic collaboration.

In this new collection of 92 poems written in the first half of 2011] earth, wind, fire and water are Stewart Warren's muses. Each image has for its ground of being, one of these elements and each one makes his poems sing. Likewise, many of his poems are grounded in a kind of spiritual renaissance: whether or not he's speaking of loss, of blood, of guilt, of love, or trees, rivers and ghosts, in Stewart's hard-earned southwest rhythms, they not only continue to sing, "they will just keep circling." There are some beautiful, tough, big-spirited things going on in this book. In his landscapes, the echoes often return, and when they do, there is something to be learned and shared. -John Macker, poet Author of Underground Sky and Woman of the Disturbed Earth

In The Sea Always Near, Warren's poems float above the mesas of Northern New Mexico while also sinking themselves into the problems, and beauty, of the whole planet-from China and Japan back to Cerro Pedernal in New Mexico then to the red dirt and Osage Hills of Oklahoma. Warren is the astronomer of not only the night sky, but also of the quiet reaches and reflected starlight of the New Mexican landscape. He reminds us we are Star Stuff. But he's also a Paleontologist, with a sharp eye on the bones and ancient splendors of the world. These wonderful poems in which ..".grace has turned every corner..." and " t]he whiteness of the page / goes on forever" speak to us in needed ways that so much contemporary poetry does not. -Nathan L. Brown, author of Two Tables Over, winner of the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award for Poetry

Stewart Warren takes on the big themes-the war and peace we carry within us and how these forces play out in our relationships with family, lovers, the earth and the global village. This is a brave book, an unflinching exploration of how we love and fail to love. -Demetria Martinez, Confessions of a Berlitz-Tape Chicana

"Stewart Warren's writing evokes the mesmerizing landscape in which he lives, the aliveness of its present, the mystery of its past, the seen and the unseen. With unequivocal honesty his words birth stirring and sensuous images, calling for our humanity and deepest compassion. This latest collection of poetry is deeply visceral, stirs the blood, enlivens the skin and provokes the mind..." -Cindy Novelo, Musician and Songwriter

In Silence I Speak takes the reader on a journey of transformation. First into the depth of psychiatric illness that is often misunderstood, then through systems that intend to give good care but fall short, and finally to health restored and a life of recovery found beyond the identity and label of a psychiatric disability.

Written over a period of nearly twenty years and compiled at Stewart Warren's home at "Nido del Cielo" in the Piedra Lumbre Basin, "The Song of It" is a collection of poems and short personal stories that describe the author's relationship to the land, people and spirits of northern New Mexico and southern Colorado-a region, and way of life, sometimes referred to as Norteno.

Second Light, Stewart Warren's third collection of poetry, continues with the exploration of a life dedicated to what some call a spiritual journey or a personal evolution, but his sometimes raw and even irreverent descriptions of this passage blow the doors on pop psyche and high-minded spiritualism. This work is accessible, lyric, and filled with imagery that allows us to rediscover the land upon which we walk and the life inside the lives in which we believe we live. Whether flirting with time and space or beseeching the Creator to acknowledge how bravely we live this life, Stewart Warren helps us feel redeemed in our struggles but more ready than ever to lay them down.

Warren's poetry resonates with philosophic and mystic disciplines, but maintains a colloquial tone that is honest and accessible.

The anthology project, conceived by Maria Morales McConnell of Del Norte, Colorado and edited by Arthur Washburn and Stewart S. Warren, is a living document and a deed to the land belonging to those bold enough to live their stories and share them straight. Included here are poems, essays and flash fiction written by people spanning eighty years in age, over two thousand miles in distance, and a multitude of cultural and class differences, but having one central experience in common-a desire to walk to the river and find other like-hearted human beings gathered there. This collection, then, is for people who read with their whole body and mind.

From the Santuario de Chimayo to the banks of the Chaco River, Stewart describes the beauty and depth of the natural world, both human and non human. Some of the poems in this collection are histories, both personal and universal, some are maps to the less discovered landscapes of the soul. And while the author daringly, believingly examines the dark side, he leaves the reader with a sense of hope and overall correctness about the world.