Kay Ryan

Elephant Rocks, Kay Ryan's third book of verse, shows a virtuoso practitioner at the top of her form. Engaging and secretive, provocative and profound, Ryan's poems have generated growing excitement with their appearances in The New Yorker and other leading periodicals. Sometimes gaudily ornamental, sometimes Shaker-plain, here is verse that is compact on the page and expansive in the mind.

Kay Ryan's recent appointment as the Library of Congress's sixteenth poet laureate is just the latest in an amazing array of accolades for this wonderfully accessible, widely loved poet. Salon has compared her poems to Fabergé eggs, tiny, ingenious devices that inevitably conceal some hidden wonder." The two hundred poems in Ryan's The Best of It offer a stunning retrospective of her work, as well as a swath of never-before-published poems of which...

"Synthesizing Gravity gathers for the first time a thirty-year selection of Kay Ryan's probings into aesthetics, poetics, and the mind in pursuit of art. A bracing collection of critical prose, book reviews, and her private, previously unpublished soundings of poems and poets-including Robert Frost, Stevie Smith, Marianne Moore, William Bronk, and Emily Dickinson-Synthesizing Gravity bristles with Ryan's crisp wit, her keen off-kilter insights, and...

NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Make the Play is a brother's best friend, forbidden, secret relationship romance.CorieKnox Beckett is heartbreak in a helmet. He's also my brother's best friend, and so far out of my league, he's untouchable.But a few stolen glances turn into a welcome home that blindsides us both.The rules are clear. We just chose not...

NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new grumpy-sunshine standalone holiday romance.BlakelyWhen my boss tells me I'm taking over the planning of the annual Christmas gala, I can barely contain my excitement. Not only is it a huge opportunity, but I also love all things Christmas.I'm on cloud nine until I realize I have to work closely with the grumpy doctor, who is my opposite in every way. He loathes the holidays. At least...

AuroraOne look at Grant Riggins standing in my bakery looking at me like I'm his last meal is enough to know I'm in way over my head.He's relentless in his pursuit. The kind of man I could get lost in. But Grant makes me wish for things I can't have.I've finally got my life back. The last thing I need is to fall for the first man to give me a second glance even if he does seem sincere in his efforts to win me over.GrantAurora Steele smiles shyly across...

McKennaI've always had a thing for my best friend's older brother. In fact, I've been planning our wedding since elementary school. Then I grew up, moved away, and studying, and law school became my only focus.Now that I'm back, the sexy cowboy is everywhere I turn. I shouldn't mind so much as Rip Callahan is all levels of fine. My problem? His presence… his attention is sending me in a spin. And our reconnection? It's fast and intense and everything...

New Standalone from New York Times Bestselling Author, Kaylee RyanI'm over this year, and I'm over relationships. I've learned that the only person you can count on in life is yourself. Moving forward, I'm living for me. Working toward standing on my own two feet, that's my goal. Funny how meeting him changed my path. It's been years since I've been back in this small town of West Virginia for more than a day or two. Spending time here brings back...

I've kissed a lot of frogs, just to be covered in warts. I've been lied to, cheated on, and used more times than I can count. I don't have it in me to keep going. I need a break from it all. I need time for the wounds to heal, and the scars to fade. Wouldn't you know it's my luck, to meet a gorgeous man, after declaring my self-imposed break? He's charming, sexy, and determined to change my mind.I wasn't looking for her, but when I overheard her conversation,...

NYT and USA Today Bestselling author Kaylee Ryan brings you a new standalone series surrounding the Nashville Rampage football team. Change the Play is a found family, forced proximity, workplace, sports romance. FosterI learned early how to survive on my own. Keep my head down and my past locked away. My childhood taught me that nothing lasts and no one chooses you forever. So I built a life free from love-and pain. Football gave me discipline. Success...