Night Court New Release bearing witness both to the

bearing witness both to the suffering and loss in our world

— Ellen Bass

Alexis Rhone Fancher

Yet Megan Merchant’s voice is fresh and alluring

despair and the dry desert wind

Night Court New Release bearing witness both to theNo more mindless syrup blunting raw edges, no more disguising things with bland counterparts. The poems in Night Court are often starkly rendered, tough yet sensitive. Deeply imaginative, the poems describe a feral world also experienced by children, a world of hungry ghosts, magic, beasts and violence. Theres a crack at the edge of the world where the dark and comic leak through Goss takes us to this illuminating place. Robert S. Pesich, President,