Tracking the Fox

by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske

Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2023

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1st Place Winner The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2022

“The poems in Tracking the Fox unfold at the slow pace of a hike in the woods, inviting the pleasures and joys of nature, while never turning away from the shared struggles and pain of the poet’s Ojibwe heritage. Hers is a fearless language that holds it all, like the black ash basket she weaves with her daughter, welcoming every reader with each personal, conversational, and precise poem. This is an ambitious, necessary voice committed to truth-telling and the naming of creatures, large and small, that make up our world. In ‘The Sky I Was Born Under,’ written in homage to U.S. Poet Laureate Joy Harjo’s piece of the same name, she describes the scene of her own birth, ending with the lines: ‘I wailed for the first time, my voice/ ricocheted in the stillness,/ and all the forest creatures paused to listen.’ Tracking the Fox will cause us all to pause and listen to the hard-won work of this poet coming into her own as a Native American woman and mother, promising: ‘we shall let our voices be heard.’”

—James Crews, contest judge, poet, editor of How to Love the World

 

Elemental Things

by Michael S. Glaser

Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2023

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2nd Place Winner
The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2022

“These poems return us to the sacred in our everyday lives, calling us back to the language of awe, as the poet puts it so gorgeously in the opening poem. These poems feel both elemental and essential themselves, capturing so many holy moments in nature, inviting us into the solitude and presence from which absorbing poetry is born.”

—James Crews, contest judge, poet, editor of How to Love the World

 

Listening in the Dark

by Suzy Harris

Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2023

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3rd Place Winner The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2022

“I have seldom encountered a series of poems so closely linked and connected as a whole. This chapbook tenderly addresses the poet’s lifelong hearing loss with a surprising precision of language, starting at the very beginning of life and reimagining that time of growing up with two languages,/ one that is silence. No doubt these tender poems will help many readers to feel less alone as they navigate their own worlds of memory, loss, and resilience.”

—James Crews, contest judge, poet, editor of How to Love the World

 

The Round Whisper of No Moon

by Peter Kaufmann

Scheduled Release Date: Nov 15, 2022

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“In a world of next, next, next, Kaufmann’s poems strike the resonant NOW gong. The Round Whisper of No Moon is a riveting book to keep close by, on your shrine.”

—Naomi Shihab Nye, Young People’s Poet Laureate, The Poetry Foundation

The Round Whisper of No Moon weaves imagery and story gathered over twenty years of migrating between the wilds of Alaska and densely populated cities in Southeast Asia. Peter Kaufmann’s poems travel between cultures and communities, the natural world, and stories of people in the margins of society. They draw from a life of both deep connections to place and one that is constantly uprooted, stitching together themes of migration, home, love, longing and belonging.

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What if we could learn to say what we feel? These poems show us how. What if real courage is going to the tender place, and claiming your right to be there? This book takes you to that heaven. Poem after poem invests complete trust in the power of images to tell the heart’s most intimate desire. Alaska, California, Viet Nam, Cambodia—and curiosity, kinship, grief—are all home if you are one who can see. Put this book inside you, and then practice what it teaches: say what you love and long for. Don’t delay.

—Kim Stafford, Oregon Poet Laureate (2018-2020), author of Singer Come from Afar

The Poeming Pigeon

A Journal of Poetry & Art

Issue #12

Scheduled Release Date: Oct 25, 2022

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Our new, re-designed issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #12) is 180 pages and includes poetry and artwork on a variety of topics by 92 poets/artists from around the globe.

Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art “Bear and Peacock” by artist Jennifer Lommers of Corvalis, Oregon.

Contributing Artists:

Kathleen Caprario • Dale Champlin • Terry Cox-Joseph • Leanne Grabel • Nitza M. Hernández López • Kay M. Levine • Jennifer Lommers • Paula J. Maloney • Janet Manalo • Carolyn Martin • Bruce McClain • David Memmott • Liz Nakazawa • Jennifer Pratt-Walter • Jeannie E. Roberts • Dawn Sanford • Barbara Hageman Sarvis • Judith Skillman • Romana Tarlamis • Brigit Truex • Louise Wynn • Cynthia Yatchman

Contributing Poets:

Pamela Ahlen • Hugh Anderson • Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet • Lana Hechtman Ayers • KB Ballentine • Sam Barbee • Rachel Barton • Christopher Bogart • Joann Renee Boswell • Katy Brown • Suzanne Bruce • Paul Bufis • Dale Champlin • Margaret Chula • Brittney Corrigan • Susan Coultrap-McQuin • Amelia Díaz Ettinger • Susan Donnelly • Johanna Ely • Ann Farley • Beatriz F. Fernandez • Eric Forsbergh • Bill Frayer • Nathan Fryback • Leanne Grabel • Melanie Green • Cleo Griffith • Quinton Hallett • Mark Hammerschick • Suzy Harris • Nancy Haskett • David James • Marilyn Johnston • Terry Cox-Joseph • Dan Kaufman • Candice Kelsey • Tricia Knoll • Bethany Lee • Sue Fagalde Lick • Ronald Okuaki Lieber • Annie Lighthart • Cynthia Linville • Jone Rush MacCulloch • M. F. McAuliffe • Eileen McGurn • Carter McKenzie • David Memmott • Karla Linn Merrifield • Angie Minkin • Juan Pablo Mobili • Heidi Morrell • Sandra Salinas Newton • Nancy Nowak • Francis Opila • Jennifer Pratt-Walter • M. Ann Reed • Anne Richardson • Joseph J. Ridgway • M.S. Rooney • John Rowe • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Judith Skillman • Rebecca Smolen • Connie Soper • Trina Sotira • Matthew J. Spireng • Doug Stone • Romana Tarlamis • Mark Thalman • Allison Thorpe • Brigit Truex • Jean Varda • Julene Tripp Weaver • Kaja Weeks • Emmett Wheatfall • Marshall Witten • Claire Zoghb

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My Husband’s Eyebrows

by Leanne Grabel

Scheduled Release Date: Oct 25, 2022

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My Husband’s Eyebrows is a humorous examination and honest celebration of Grabel’s long marriage—its good, its bad, its ugly—told through a collection of prose poems and poetry, punctuated by the author’s richly colored, exuberant, exaggerated illustrations.

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If you want to know what life feels like when someone’s being honest and funny and insightful and daring—and I mean beyond what you might imagine to be daring and brave and real—here’s your book with words and explosively jazzy a-ha moment drawings to match. And if you don’t want to experience honesty and reality, all the more reason to read the words and dive into the pictures, because this book will open your heart, your mind, and your emotions in ways that you might not expect. Leanne Grabel writes that “candy is absolutely necessary.” I would add, this book is absolutely necessary.

—Christopher Beaver, film producer/director

Soundings

by David Gonzalez

Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2022

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Soundings, the debut book of poetry by famed storyteller and musician David Gonzalez, is an eclectic collection that dives into five facets of his experience, each one adding a new layer of meaning and color: Nuyorican explores contemporary Latinx life; Rings of Fire, Ice and Jazz focuses on music and myth; Entanglement centers on science and wonder; Above, Below, In Between looks into the natural world; Back to the Beginning moves through birth, death, and redemption.

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Soundings—alarms and the radiating out of a new consciousness, an earth and cosmos in totality, a notebook of lives, ancestors, praise, familia and their reverberations and intrinsic pathways into and for each other. A book of chants and enlightenments, home spirit and space particles as One. As Gonzalez says in one of his poems, recognitions and transmissions—this is at the core of this collection. That is, to recognize all things and to live in the constant exchange of each. This is a most necessary voice and text, concerned with a profound, inspiring view of humanity—an investigation into our expansiveness, our magnificent reach into incredible songs of Being never imagined, yet to be lived. Here are the maps for a self of earth and cosmos interconnections, breath, existence and thought—for the new thinker, traveler, philosopher. Bravo, brava!

—Juan Felipe Herrera, Poet Laureate of the United States, Emeritus

Poems of the Point

by Lauri Cruver Cherian

Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2022

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Imagine growing up on beachfront property in the Puget Sound where the waves crash a hundred feet from your front door, the seagulls provide the morning wakeup call, and sea lions pop up their heads each day to check on you. Poems of the Point is a collection of poetry about growing up on the beach in Gig Harbor, Washington. The poems feature a walk down the beach in the company of the spirits of those who purchased the property, finding an eagle’s nest, childhood memories of boating and fishing for cod, searching for Lewis moon shells, picking cherries and raspberries, digging for clams and geoducks, spying orca in the Sound, and even a chance viewing of the illusive Mt. Rainier on a clear day. If a piece of your heart already lies in the Pacific Northwest or you are open to having your heart captured by it, this book of poetry is for you.

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I’ve long wanted to visit places in the Northwest like Gig Harbor, Washington. Now, via Lauri Cherian’s beautiful poems, I can. Poems of the Point is brimming with beautiful descriptions of a special place and great truths about the power of family, loyalties and traditions. When Lauri tells me in the first poem how certain landmarks and memories bring her home to Gig Harbor it brings me home as well, to the very distant and different little East Texas town that raised me many years ago. Lauri is a gifted poet and storyteller; I will come back to this collection occasionally.

—Ron Rozelle, author of Into That Good Night, The Windows of Heaven, and Touching Winter