What’s New at The Poetry Box

The Poetry Box LIVE - May Edition! Saturday, May 10, 2025 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Sandra Rendig (CA) – author of Heart & Bones Cathy Cain (OR) – author of Love’s Press Marjorie Moorhead (NH) – author of ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - March Edition! Saturday, March 8, 2025 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Carolyn Martin (OR) – author of Splitting Open the World David Belmont (NY) – author of Ob-la-di Ob-la-da LeAnn Bjerken (MN) – author ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - February Edition! Saturday, Feb 08, 2025 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring our 2024 Chapbook Prize Winners and Guest Judge: Flavian Mark Lupinetti – author of The Pronunciation Part   Laura Foley – author of ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2024.  2024 Nominees: Click on the poem titles below to read these beautiful poems: “Miscarriage Three” by Cathy Cain, published in The Poeming Pigeon: ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - January Edition! Saturday, Jan. 11, 2025 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: AMY BASKIN (OR) – author of SKULL PENNY JOHNSON (WA) – author of HAGS ON TRACTORS DAVID GOODRUM (OR) – author of VITALS ...

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2024 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February 2025. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our seventh annual contest. And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Donna Hilbert! ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - November Edition! Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon #14 Saturday, Nov. 9, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featured Readers: Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet, Lana Hechtman Ayers, David Belmont, Cathy Cain, Dale Champlin, Margaret Chula, ...

Witness by Shawn Pittard is an intimate and unflinching exploration of family, love, aging, dementia, caregiving and death. These poems are meditations on the changing sense of identity we experience in older age which, ultimately, reveals one’s unique, intrinsic character. By caring for his declining mother, the poet is guided ...

SKULL by Amy Baskin "begins with the disorientation of an accident which then moves into its aftermath—the squint-eyed way we navigate a world of dark and light post-trauma, trying to survive what happens to, around, and inside of us." —Justin Hamm, author of O Death and Drinking Guinness with the Dead     ...

Hags on Tractors by Penny Johnson — In these memoir-textured poems, Penny Johnson puts us in the driver’s seat—of a tractor that is— and shows us what it means to be a mature, rural woman grappling with the land and its seasonal weather changes, as well as the unique challenge ...

Lamplight by Cathy Cain   "...offers dramatic images to pitch opposites against each other. We find sparkling songs and savage blues, lamplight and dark. Her lyric poetry balances shadows of grief and time. Narrative poems, with touches of surrealism, explore loss, illness, and madness. She offers lights in a hospital window ...

Chaos & Calm by Angelika Quirk— "Chaos & Calm awes me with its exquisite vastness, the way it distills the scope of history into the intimacy of a life. Restless, these poems excavate the ruins of war and childhood, crisscross the Atlantic, hopscotch the 'Babylonian glitter' of famed cities. " ...

White Sail at Midnight by Ginny Lowe Connors— "A quality of attentive wonder charges and characterizes the beautifully crafted, thought-provoking poems in Ginny Connors’s White Sail at Midnight. Through these meditations about personal experiences, relationships, and the lives of others, Connors explores the reality and mystery of existing in this ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - October Edition! Saturday, Oct. 12, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Lois Levinson (CO) – author of Field Notes from an Illusion Ginny Lowe Connors (CT) – author of White Sail at Midnight Fred ...

The Poeming Pigeon A Journal of Poetry & Art— Don't miss your chance to order this very special issue! The pigeon is resting its wings after a decade of beautiful poetry & art. This will be our final issue. For the full list of contributors and samples from the issue, ...

Searching for Home by Elizabeth Mateer— is an evocative poetry collection that explores love, loss, and the search for belonging. From tiny New York apartments to intimate moments in the desert, this collection captures the essence of human connection and celebrates the unyielding strength found in moments of vulnerability. Pre-order ...

Field Notes from an Illusion by Lois Levinson— "Her studious-but-playful gaze falls on what she loves and lights it up: mule deer antlers are 'moon-silvered,' a coyote’s 'well fed and swaggering like a senator,' bluebird eggs seem 'Insubstantial as rings of blue smoke suspended in air.' But Levinson understands that ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - September Edition! Saturday, Sept. 14, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Sheila Sondik (WA) – author of Lighting Up the Duff Kim Peter Kovac (VA) – author of A Bit Left of Straight Ahead ...

Life in No Ordinary Time by Laurel Feigenbaum— While the ninety-six-year-old poet’s personal life and that of her family remains stable, the world suffers increasing turmoil—be it war, displacement, or threats to our democracy. Politics, advancing technology, climate change, a lingering virus, family and aging are all topics she tackles ...

Acceleration Due to Gravity by Heikki Huotari— "Like a cabinet of curiosities, each of Heikki Huotari’s poems contains an arrangement to surprise and delight. With an ear for sound and an eye for multiple facets, Huotari links mathematical, literary, and cultural ideas, turning recognizable phrases on their heads, creating gemlike ...

Ordinary Omens by LeAnn Bjerken is an exploration of moments in our lives that have a connection to the extraordinary. The poems seek understanding of both common and unusual occurrences, examining their ties to nature and the natural world, as well as the supernatural via the tools and rituals associated ...

The Beautiful One's Ark by Sher A. Schwartz is a lyric collection of poetry exploring contemporary rural/agrarian life in Eastern Oregon. These poems are rooted in place and season. They explore loss, change, transformation, and inter-species sharing. Celebrating sound and expressing a variety of poetic forms, Schwartz’s poems reveal the ...

Depression of the Zillenium by Elle Verde explores a unique year of circumstance and challenges: dealing with her depression, having a job deemed as an “essential worker,” coping with death in her family, violence in the news, questioning her faith, and, of course, living through and beyond the COVID pandemic ...

Lighting Up the Duff by Sheila Sondik "illuminates the path of a life—strewn at the poet’s feet, and at our own, the wonders, ironies, and sorrows that befall us. These poems, more magic windows than weighty shovels, offer encouragement, solace, humor, and intimate company as we listen to the voice ...

Rescue Dogs by Fred Zirm —Between the laughter and the tears, these delightful and heartwarming poems featuring Carabelle, Dory, Larry, Snuffles, Trey, and Snuffles, will have you ponder: Who rescued whom? "You’ll be reminded of why you came to poetry in the first place." (George Bilgere) Pre-order now thru June ...

Pleased to Meet You by Romana Tarlamis —"is a lyrical meditation on the multiplicities of life—laughter and sorrow, music and silence, movement and stasis, dream and reality—where past, present, and future collide. Romana Tarlamis’s unparalleled skills as a painter and mixed medium artist, coupled with her uniquely singular vision, are ...

Vitals and Other Signs of Life by David A. Goodroom —"In these vibrant poems of identity, nostalgia, generational change, family, and American culture, Goodrum exhibits a true talent for imbuing mundane details with authenticity, layered meanings, and linguistic beauty. But Vitals and Other Signs of Life is so much more ...

A Bit Left of Straight Ahead by Kim Peter Kovac is an exploration—a journey within journey—born from Kim Peter Kovac's eclectic knowledge and his free-form imagination. The poems are inhabited by poets, painters, musicians, action figures, fairy tale characters, myths, historical persons, who venture across time and geography to places ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - May Edition! Saturday, May 11, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Laura Esther Sciortino (OR) – author of Remote Control Susan Landgraf (WA) – author of Journey of Trees Anara Guard (CA) – author ...

Journey of Trees by Susan Landgraf — Here we find layers of fire, family, fruition and failure.  These poems are both cautionary and celebratory. What has been felled—trees or a marriage, a dream or a body—might rise again in some other form or direction. Trees talk. If we listen, we ...

Kansas, Reimagined by Anara Guard is a clever collection of persona poems based on Frank L. Baum's "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"  that in turn shows the Midwest in full-color and beauty, giving voice to familiar characters and to unexpected entities. Hidden aspects of their lives are revealed, showing Kansas ...

Remote Control by Laura Esther Sciortino is a practice in ordinary love, both longing for and celebrating connection. Here, we may partake in reading as if a friend speaks to us directly. This friend that—despite mistakes and overreaching—invests herself with unabashed earnestness in the greenest of hope, imagination, freedom, beginner’s ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - April Edition! Saturday, April 13, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Carol Parris Krauss (Virginia) – author of The Old Folks Call It God's Country Stephanie A. Marcellus (Nebraska) – author of How to ...

Now Is What Matters by Janet Steward A Finalist in the The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2023: Janet Steward became caregiver for her husband when memory loss joined his list of chronic conditions. This moving collection not only documents the couple's journey, but it offers a source of insight, courage, ...

The Old Folks Call It God's Country by Carol Parris Krauss weaves stories of North Carolina and South Carolina through various people and places. Her poems are a glimpse into the place the Old Folk’s call “God’s Country.” From looking outside her grandparent’s home in Brevard, North Carolina to recounting ...

How to Say by Stephanie A. Marcellus gives us a poetic instruction manual for everything from picking mulberries, saying I love you, to living with ghosts. These poems apply the language of direction—with its imperatives and step-by-step guidelines—to life’s experiences and emotions and offer insight in a unique poetic manner ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - March Edition! Saturday, March 9, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featuring: Emily-Sue Sloane (New York) – author of Disconnects and Other Broken Threads James K. Zimmerman (New York) – author of The Further Adventures ...

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you in February. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest. And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Andrea Hollander! FIRST ...

Disconnects and Other Broken Threads by Emily-Sue Sloane pulls on the fraying threads that divide us and gently weaves them with striking imagery to inspire connections through hope and, at times, humor. Pre-order now thru Feb 15, 2024 For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here ...

gOD: A Respectfully Divergent Testament by Penelope Scambly Schott is "a marvelously witty glimpse of the divinity that resides within us all: a self-awareness creating universes and loving every tiniest bit, laughing and crying over our human foibles." Pre-order now thru Feb 15, 2024 For details, reviews, and placing orders: ...

Blue Chip Stamp Guitar by Sue Fagalde Lick is a love story—about Sue and her guitar It starts with a cheap guitar the poet’s mother bought with Blue Chip stamps and continues through her life, outlasting jobs, marriages, and deaths. Pre-order now thru Feb 15, 2024 For details, reviews, and ...

The Further Adventures of Zen Patriarch Dōgen by James K. Zimmerman was inspired by the life and teachings of Dōgen Zenji and "elucidates the intricacies of Zen philosophy in poems spare as a winterbreath of silence” Pre-order now thru Feb 15, 2024 For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2023.  2023 Nominees: “Stars” by Andrea Hollander, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#13), released in October 2023, by ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - February Edition! Saturday, February 10, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featuring our 2023 Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winners: Richard Jordan (Massachusetts) – author of The Squannacook at Dawn (1st Place) Kirsten Morgan (Colorado) – ...

Annie Bloom's to host Amelia Diaz Ettinger & Claudia Saleeby Savage Thursday, January 25, 2024 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's Bookstore 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 Complete Details at: https://www.annieblooms.com/event/poetry-reading-amelia-diaz-ettinger-and-claudia-saleeby-savage ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - January Edition! Saturday, January 13, 2024 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featured Poets: Wendy Erd (Alaska) – author of It's a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers Steven Croft(Georgia) – author ...

Reading Wind by Carol Barrett —our Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by editor, Shawn Aveningo Sanders, is a beautiful tribute to a father, written in a daughter’s favorite language—poetry. These poems celebrate the life of the author’s father—a rural physician, accomplished musician, and ...

Inside Out by Kirsten Morgan is our Second Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by editor, Shawn Aveningo Sanders. John Brehm calls it "a powerful work of empathic imagination...searing poems of witness..." These poetic observations derive  from years of volunteer work, both at a homeless ...

The Squannacook at Dawn by Richard Jordan is our First Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2023, chosen by contest judge, Andrea Hollander. The poems in The Squannacook at Daw are linked by the speaker’s experiences with water and revolve around fishing, and explore the speaker’s relationship ...

At Home with a Dreamlike Earth by Steven Croft explores the natural beauty in his birth-state of Georgia, where his poems bring the reader to the lush coastal landscapes of the Barrier Islands and the nurturing comforts of Southern living. Pre-order thru Nov 15, 2023 For details, reviews, and placing ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - November Edition! Saturday, Nov 11, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) 3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern) Featured Poets: Amelia Díaz Ettinger (OR) – author of Self Dissection Jarold Ramsey (OR) – author of Jump Straight Up Karen Gookin (WA) – ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - Special Edition! Book Launch  for Uprooting: Leaving the Abuse Cycle PLUS Open Mic Wednesday, Oct 25, 2023 @ 7:00 PM (Pacific) October is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month. To help break the silence and give voice to those who are suffering and those who have ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - October Edition! Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon #13 Saturday, Oct 14, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm Alaskan; 5pm Mountain; 6pm Central; 7pm Eastern] Featured Readers: Andrea Hollander • Dale Champlin • Jennifer Clark • Susan Donnelly •  Linda Ferguson • Sylvia Freeman ...

It's a Crooked Road, but Not Far, to the House of Flowers by Wendy Erd —These poems crisscross the Pacific: from an elegy for a forest in Alaska to a magical wish for those living on the streets of Saigon. Time lives differently in this work. Poems layer details of ...

Jump Straight Up by Jarold Ramsey —Rushing in as a welcome surprise, these “new late poems” were composed both late in the year and late in the author’s years. In Jump Straight Up, Jarold Ramsey versifies and pokes at an odd knot of themes:  encroaching age overtaking a long wonderful ...

The Hills Around Are Dust and Light by Karen Gookin —These poems sketch a portrait of the author's growing-up years in Montana surrounded by her wheat-farming father, a busy at-home mother, two older siblings, and a lonely grandmother. Moments of strife and stress return, but here you will also find ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - September Edition! Saturday, Sept. 9, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featured Poets: Grace Richards (Oregon) – author of Break-Up Hair & Other Poems Susan Woods Morse (Oregon) – author of Quilting the Loose Edges ...

The “Superstition” issue of The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (Issue #13) is 162 pages featuring poetry by Ellen Bass, James Crews, Andrea Hollander, and Paulann Petersen plus poetry and artwork by 76 poets & artists from around the globe. Cover Design by Robert R. Sanders, featuring art ...

Self Dissection by Amelia Díaz Ettinger — "Compelling, elegant, and remarkably honest, Self-Dissection is filled with stark, realistic poems that paint an intimate portrait of love, loss, family, identity, and the ever-present need for empathy. In these vibrant poems of nature and biography, Ettinger showcases a true talent for imbuing ...

UPROOTING Leaving the Abuse Cycle Edited by Jade Rosina McCutcheon & Kristin Thomas Scheduled Release Date: Sept 15, 2023 Pre-order thru Aug 24, 2023 For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here This book is for any woman who has experienced domestic or sexual abuse, for the people that love ...

Metal Used for Beauty Alone by Claudia Saleeby Savage Scheduled Release Date: Aug 15, 2023 Pre-order discount thru July 24, 2023 For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here "Claudia Saleeby Savage’s provocative, transcendent poetry brilliantly captures the energy of live music, providing a perspective that can only come from ...

Quilting the Loose Edges by Susan Woods Morse Scheduled Release Date: June 15, 2023 Pre-order at a discount now thru May 15th For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here "This collection of poems vividly evokes the widely separated places the poet has lived—California’s San Joaquin Valley, rural Maine, and ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - May Edition! Saturday, May 13, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featured Poets: Susan Johnson (Washington) – author of The Call Home Lana Hechtman Ayers (Oregon) – author of When All Else Fails Joel Savishinsky ...

Annie Bloom's to host Rachel Barton, Suzy Harris & Emily Newberry Thursday, April 20, 2023 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's Bookstore 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 Complete Details at: https://www.annieblooms.com/event/poetry-reading-rachel-barton-suzy-harris-emily-newberry ...

When All Else Fails by Lana Hechtman Ayers Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2023 Pre-order at a discount now thru April 15th For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here Lana Hechtman Ayers’ unflinchingly honest and sensual poetry traces her journey from a difficult childhood in Queens spent in the ...

Break-Up Hair & Other Poems by Grace Richards Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2023 Pre-order at a discount now thru April 15th For details, reviews, and placing orders: click here Delicious. In Break Up Hair, Grace Richards gives us a scrumptious collection of verse that is at times sweet, savory, ...

Our Aching Bones, Our Breaking Hearts Poems on Aging by Joel Savishinsky Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. We confront our own aging long before we ourselves become old. Through the roles we play as family, friends, or caregivers to our ...

The Call Home by Susan Johnson Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Finalist of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022 The Call Home invites the reader to accompany the poet in natural world settings—lying alongside a caterpillar outside her childhood home ...

Why Do We Look Up? by Kazimieras Campe Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. In Why Do We Look Up?  Kazimieras Campe explores the multiple views of the relationship between humanity and the universe. By universe, he takes a liberal stance, ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - March Edition! Saturday, March 11, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featured Poets: Emily Newberry (of Portland, Oregon) – author of Signs Genevieve Lardizabal (of Seattle, Washington) – author of A Starved Heart Teddy Norris ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - February Edition! Celebrating Our Three Winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2022 Saturday, Feb 11, 2023 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featured Poets: Rosalie Sanara Petrouske (of Michigan) – author of Tracking the Fox ...

Signs by Emily Newberry Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Oregon Poet Shows Us the Signs Toward Our Truth “Imagine a conversation with your kindest, wisest friend, and you have Emily Newberry’s beautiful new book Signs. Full of wry wit and experience, these ...

In Transit by Teddy Norris Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Exploring Life's Transitions with a Missouri Poet “The poems in this collection by Teddy Norris transport us with powerful imagery and emotive rhythm as we cross a continent of life ...

A Starved Heart by Genevieve Lardizabal Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Powerful Collection from a Brave Seattle Poet She was isolated and alone. At one point, no other patients were allowed to speak to her, and she wasn’t allowed outside ...

Annie Bloom's to host Leanne Grabel & Elaine Nussbaum Mon, January 9, 2023 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's Bookstore 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 About the Poets: Poet  & Artist Leanne Grabel is the author of My Husband’s Eyebrows, which is a fun full-color illustrated chapbook celebrating ...

Wed Jan 4, 2023⁠ 6:15 - 7:45 PM⁠ • signups for open mic at 6:15⁠ • program begins at 6:30⁠ ⁠ Camas Public Library (meeting room)⁠ 625 NE 4th Avenue⁠ Camas, WA⁠ 360-834-4692⁠ Host: Elmo Shade / elmo@elmoshade.com⁠ Sponsor: Ellen Miles (360) 834-4692 / library@cityofcamas.us⁠ ⁠ About the Featured Poet:⁠ ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2022.  2022 “Examination” by Annie Lighthart, published in The Poeming Pigeon: A Journal of Poetry & Art (#12), released in October 2022, by The ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - Special December Edition! Book Launch Celebration The Poeming Pigeon - Part 2 Saturday, Dec 10, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) [3pm (Alaskan) / 5pm (Mountain) / 6pm (Central) / 7pm (Eastern)] Featured Poets: Amelia Diaz Ettinger • Emmett Wheatfall • Leanne Grabel • Anne Richardson ...

Tracking the Fox by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

Elemental Things by Michael S. Glaser Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

Listening in the Dark by Suzy Harris Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2023 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - November Edition! Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon Saturday, Nov 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) Featured Poets: Pamela Ahlen • John Rowe •   Allison Thorpe • Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet • JoAnna Scandiffio • Penelope Scambly Schott • Candice Kelsey • Trina Sotira • ...

The Round Whisper of No Moon by Peter Kaufmann Scheduled Release Date: Nov 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. “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 ...

Annie Bloom's to host Kristin Berger, John Miller, and Cathy Cain Mon, September 12, 2022 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's Bookstore 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 (masks required) Complete Details at: https://www.annieblooms.com/event/store-poetry-reading-ann-farley-beth-bonness-vivienne-popperl ...

The Poeming Pigeon A Journal of Poetry & Art Issue #12 Scheduled Release Date: Oct 25, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - October Edition! Saturday, Oct 8, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 3:00 Pm (Alaskan) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Lauri Cruver Cherian (Washington/Texas), author of POEMS OF THE POINT Peter Kaufmann (Alaska), author of THE ROUND WHISPER OF NO MOON Leanne Grabel (Oregon), author ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - September Edition! Saturday, Sept 10, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Michael Waterson (California), author of COSMOLOGY OF HEAVEN & HELL P.M. Draper (Florida), author of AFTER PYRE David Gonzalez (New York), author of SOUNDINGS Enjoy a Video from the ...

My Husband's Eyebrows by Leanne Grabel Scheduled Release Date: Oct 25, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

Soundings by David Gonzalez Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

Poems of the Point by Lauri Cruver Cherian Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. 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 ...

Cosmology of Heaven & Hell by Michael Waterson Scheduled Release Date: Sept 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. The poems in Cosmology of Heaven & Hell were written over a span of four decades and set in locations from the Maritime Provinces of Canada to ...

After Pyre by P.M. Draper Scheduled Release Date: Sept 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. P.M. Draper’s poems in After Pyre explore change, loss, and unfathomable heartache, while offering the reader respite with her skillful verse that is not only refreshing, but achingly funny when ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - August Edition! Aug 13, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Cathy Cain (Oregon), author of THE WEIGHT OF CLOUDS Annette Gagliardi (Minnesota), author of A SHORT SUPPLY OF VIABILITY Rachel Barton (Oregon), author of THIS IS THE LIGHTNESS Enjoy a ...

This Is the Lightness by Rachel Barton Scheduled Release Date: Sept 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. The poems in This Is the Lightness are fired with imagination and the fragility of the human experience. Rachel Barton has created a collection of poetry that takes ...

I'm honored to be a nominee for the 2022 HOPE Pyx Global International Book Awards. For more information about the 2022 Conference on Abuse, go to: https://youtu.be/bmLTM70juL4 International Book Awards – HOPE PYX GLOBAL ...

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2022 and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest. And special thanks to our wonderful judge, James Crews! FIRST ...

  The Great Word Regatta with Shawn Aveningo-Sanders, Michael Schein, Annie Lighthart and Matthew Brouwer Saturday, July 16th 7pm Rose City Book Pub 1329 NE Fremont St. Portland, OR 97212 Come hear four restive writers bring life to hallowed Portland pub space through their wily and resplendent words. Opened by the ...

Blood Moon by Elaine S. Nussbaum Scheduled Release Date: Aug 16, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. The poems in Blood Moon recount the first eighteen months of the Covid-19 pandemic. Elaine Nussbaum’s personal narrative is interwoven with social issues, climate change, and astronomical events, such ...

The Weight of Clouds by Cathy Cain Scheduled Release Date: Aug 16, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. maybe…let the clouds be in charge / since they are The Weight of Clouds is an intimate celebration of how our spirit is surprised and enlarged at the ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - July Edition! July 9, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Joann Renee Boswell (WA) – author of breath so hungry Kristin Berger (OR) – author of Earthwork Elaine S. Nussbaum (OR) – author of Blood Moon Enjoy a Video from ...

Earthwork by Kristin Berger Scheduled Release Date: Aug 16, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. The poetry of Earthwork is centered around, sprung from, and located in the landscape of mothering during the increasingly mapless territory of climate change and the pandemic. These are poems that ...

Annie Bloom's to host Ann Farley, Beth Bonness, and Vivienne Popperl Mon, June 20, 2022 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's Bookstore 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 (masks recommended) Complete Details at: https://www.annieblooms.com/event/store-poetry-reading-ann-farley-beth-bonness-vivienne-popperl Update: Vivenne Popperl will be unable to participate in the reading ...

Breath So Hungry by Joann Renee Boswell Scheduled Release Date: July 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. You know that one crush you just couldn’t shake? How that person lingers in your memories for years, or even decades? breath so hungry is a love story ...

Late Fall Bucolics by Anne Coray Scheduled Release Date: July 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Anne Coray, as a lifelong Alaskan, is keenly aware of the climate change. The 24 sonnets of Late Fall Bucolics explore global warming and examine the aftermath of fire ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - June Edition! June 11, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Angela Hansen (NE) – author of Fencelines Christopher Bogart (NJ) – author of This Conversation Anne Coray (AK) – author of Late Fall Bucolics Enjoy a Video from the Show: ...

A Short Supply of Viability by Annette Gagliardi Scheduled Release Date: July 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Merriam-Webster dictionary defines “compassion fatigue” as the physical and mental exhaustion and emotional withdrawal experienced by those who care for sick or traumatized people over an extended ...

Fencelines by Angela Hansen Scheduled Release Date: June 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Angela Hansen’s Fencelines, written during a time of deep hurt, explores how she found healing in the countryside surrounding her Nebraska acreage. Her imagery captures the strength and tenacity of the ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - May Edition! May 14, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Nathan Fryback (OR) – author of Shells in the Sieve Tara L. Carnes (TX) – author of Built to Last John L. Miller (OR) – author of Olympic Enjoy a ...

This Conversation by Christopher Bogart Scheduled Release Date: June 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. In his new book of poetry, Christopher Bogart follows the lead of Emanuel Acho (author of Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man) who encourages white people to be courageous, informed, ...

Olympic by John L. Miller Scheduled Release Date: June 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Olympic is collection of personal, persona, and pandemic poems inspired by various Greek mythological tales, guided by Robert Graves’ The Greek Myths. Throughout the book, John Miller masterfully employs this ...

Built to Last by Tara L. Carnes Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. In Built to Last, Tara L. Carnes weaves the voices of survivors into poems to take a fearless look at domestic violence and the support systems that make ...

Shells in the Sieve by Nathan Fryback Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. The Shells in the Sieve are the things of substance in our lives that we keep as we move through growth, change and renewal. Family, sense of self ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - Special Edition for KIDS! April 9, 2022 @ 2:00 PM (Pacific) / 5:00 PM (Eastern) Featured Poets: Debbie Hall  – author of  In the Jaguar's House Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet– author of  The Galloping Garbage Truck Enjoy a Video from the Show Below: ABOUT THE POETS  ...

A Nest in the Heart by Vivienne Popperl Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. In A Nest in the Heart, Vivienne Popperl conjures the lives of her ancestors to better understand their stories and their influence on her life. The poems will ...

Finalist from The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 Tell Her Yes by Ann Farley Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. A drop of rain slips from leaf to ground, perhaps to river and beyond. Like rain’s journey, our lives twist and ...

Finalist from The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 Transition Thunderstorms by Beth Bonness Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. All her life Beth Bonness tingled with the sight of approaching thunderstorms—watching them over the wide expanse of a lake or far away mountains—the ...

Finalist from The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 Contraband by Juan Pablo Mobili Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Juan Pablo Mobili’s poems are born from living life with eyes that wish to stop seeing but remained open, and bear the ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - March Edition March 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) March Featured Poets: Vivienne Popperl (OR) – author of A Nest in the Heart Ann Farley (OR) – author of Tell Her Yes Juan Pablo Mobili (NY) – author of Contraband Enjoy ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - February Edition February 12, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) February Featured Poets: Sam Love (NC) – author of Earth Resonance: Poems for a Viable Future Beth Bonness (OR) – author of Transition Thunderstorms Mimi German (OR) – author of Beneath the ...

POETRY for CHILDREN with FULL-COLOR PHOTOGRAPHS of THEIR FAVORITE ANIMALS In the Jaguar's House by Debbie Hall Scheduled Release Date: Mar 20, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. In the Jaguar’s House is a celebration of the world’s wildlife through animal poetry and photographs taken in ...

Finalist from The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 Beneath the Gravel Weight of Stars by Mimi German Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. What is the language of the streets, of the unhoused millions who inhabit them? As a poet and ...

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this event was via Zoom.  Annie Bloom's Books  host Laura LeHew and Christopher & Angelo Luna via ZOOM Tues, Jan 8, 2022 at 7:00 pm (waiting room opens at 6:45) Enjoy a video from the show! You’ll find yourself deeply moved and inspired by its ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - January Edition January 8, 2022 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) January Featured Poets: Chapbook Contest Winners Mary Warren Foulk (MA) – author of Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) Linda Ferguson (OR) – author of Of the Forest Tricia Knoll (VT) – ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2021.  2021 “Traveling with the Speed of Light” by Zeina Azzam, published in her chapbook, Bayna Bayna: In-Between, released in May 2021, by The Poetry Box ...

Earth Resonance Poems for a Viable Future by Sam Love Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2022 For complete details, reviews and ordering information click here. Resonance—A small vibration at the right frequency that creates a larger vibration. Earth Resonance is a collection of Sam Love’s environmental poetry. These accessible poems ...

Erasures of My Coming Out (Letter) by Mary Warren Foulk First Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2021 In this hybrid erasure collection, Mary Warren Foulk is attempting a redaction, flipping the meaning of her “coming out” letter (and the act itself) ...

Of the Forest by Linda Ferguson Second Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2021 Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2021 A story of three siblings, a spouse and a surname, Of the Forest is threaded with poems that hint of danger while also celebrating love…and the sumptuous pleasures of language ...

Let's Hear It for the Horses Third Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize 2021 by Tricia Knoll Scheduled Release Date: Feb 1, 2021 Horses and humans go back in time with each other thousands of years. A young girl’s love for horses or a particular horse is the ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - December Edition December 11, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) December Featured Poets: Maddie Mitchell (Kentucky) – author of WE'RE NOT REAL ANYWAYS Lanser Howard (California) – author of THE SCREAMING SILENCE Rheanna Haaland (Minnesota) – author of CHASING NARCISSUS Enjoy a Video ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - November Edition November 13, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) November Featured Poets: Laura LeHew (Oregon) – author of DEAR JOHN— Kristin J. Leonard (Maine) – author of THE NINETIETH DAY Christopher & Angelo Luna (Washington) – author of EXCHANGING WISDOM Enjoy a ...

The Ninetieth Day Poems about Love, Loss, & Leftovers for Breakfast by Kristin J. Leonard Scheduled Release Date: Dec 1, 2021 The Ninetieth Day: Poems about Love, Loss, & Leftovers for Breakfast is a collection of poetry that seeks to explore the everyday moments and musings in life that linger ...

Exchanging Wisdom A Guide for Parents of the Autonomous by Christopher & Angelo Luna Scheduled Release Date: Dec 1, 2021 Exchanging Wisdom features poems for and about Christopher’s son Angelo Luna, as well as a few pieces Angelo wrote for Christopher. The earliest poem was written when Angelo was three, ...

Dear John— by Laura LeHew Scheduled Release Date: Nov 15, 2021 Dear John— is a collection of poems that investigate explore the multi-facets of love by using diverse points of view to reveal romantic love, loving friendships, and love that is complicated. The namesake poem for which this book was ...

  Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon: From Pandemic to Protest October 9, 2021 @ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy Our Video from the Show: Featuring 30 poets from across the country share their poems from this powerful issue: Dee Allen Tiel Aisha Ansari David Belmont ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - September Edition September 11, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy a Video from the Show: September Featured Poets: Elizabeth S.E. McBride (Michigan) – author of MOST BEAUTIFUL Susan Coultrap-McQuin (Minnesota) – author of WHAT WE BRING HOME Marcia B. Loughran (New York) ...

The Poeming Pigeon: From Pandemic to Protest Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2021 Our 11th Issue When the world came to a stop, poets picked up their pens. From a global pandemic to the Black Lives Matter protests; from a highly contested election to murder hornets; and from devastating wildfires ...

What We Bring Home by Susan Coultrap-McQuin Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2021 In What We Bring Home, Susan Coultrap-McQuin reflects on what she has learned about herself and the world by venturing beyond American shores, first as a young Peace Corps Volunteer in the Philippines during the Vietnam War ...

Songs from the Back-in-the-Back by Marcia B. Loughran Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2021 If you grew up in America in the seventies, you grew up in the back of the car, squabbling with your siblings, fighting for the best seat, singing car songs. The littlest kids were thrown in ...

Gaslight Opera by Gary Percesepe Scheduled Release Date: Oct 15, 2021 Gary Percesepe’s new collection of poetry, Gaslight Opera, is anchored by a long pantoum composed in honor of the poet Mark Strand, to whom the work is dedicated. “Waltz du Temps Perdu” is the dance of death, the wreck of ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - August Edition August 14, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy a Video from the Show: August Featured Poets: Gary Percesepe (New York) – author of GASLIGHT OPERA Don Badgley (New York) – author of WHAT IS NOT A MIRACLE Carolyn Martin (Oregon) ...

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest. And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Annie Lighthart! FIRST PLACE Mary ...

The Catalog of Small Contentments by Carolyn Martin Scheduled Release Date: Aug 15, 2021 In her fifth collection, The Catalog of Small Contentments, Carolyn Martin celebrates the aesthetic she has embraced for decades. It is found in Sting’s comment, “All my life I have tried to find the truth and ...

The Fog by Mary C. Florio Scheduled Release Date: Aug 15, 2021 Mary Florio is interested in the concept of transmission, of how so many things—virus, hate, despair, fear—all the willful seeds of undoing—follow us poor humans around in a cloud of unknowing. The pandemic has taught the world loneliness, ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - July Edition July 10, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy a Video from the Show: July Featured Poets: Mary C. Florio (Florida) – author of THE FOG Cynthia Gallaher (Illinois) – author of EPICUREAN ECSTASY Meg Lindsay (Massachusetts) – author of NOTES ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - June Edition June 12, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from the show: June Featured Poets: Michelle Lerner (New Jersey) – author of PROTECTION Sue Fagalde Lick (Oregon) – author of THE WIDOW AT THE PIANO Sherry Rind (Washington) — ...

we're not real anyways by maddie mitchell Scheduled Release Date: July 15, 2021 we’re not real anyways explores mental health struggles, highs, lows, LGBTQ+ love, and heartbreak. These poems contain the struggles of dealing with many mental illnesses including depression, anxiety, OCD, BPD, PTSD, and anorexia nervosa. The collection was ...

Protection by Michelle Lerner Scheduled Release Date: July 15, 2021 In Protection, Michelle Lerner explores the wonder and challenges of parenting from pregnancy through early childhood, taking on subjects rarely considered in poetry such as difficult labor, c-section, questions of gender identity and development in young children, and the experience ...

What Is Not a Miracle by Don Badgley Scheduled Release Date: June 15, 2021 The poems in What Is Not a Miracle are centered on the spiritual realm or on the natural world—and for the author, these are often indistinguishable. The themes are deeply influenced by his life as a ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - May Edition May 8, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from the show:   May Featured Poets: Julia Paul (Connecticut) – author of STARING DOWN THE TRACKS Zeina Azzam (Virginia) – author of BAYNA BAYNA: IN-BETWEEN Dianalee Velie (New Hampshire) ...

World Gone Zoom Notes from the American Epicenter by David Belmont Scheduled Release Date: May 18, 2021 Acclaimed essayist and musician, David Belmont takes us on a poetic journey through life under lockdown in New York City during the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and the few months following, ...

Bayna Bayna: In-Between by Zeina Azzam Scheduled Release Date: May 18, 2021 Using the Arabic words bayna bayna as a nod to her Palestinian Arab heritage, Zeina Azzam’s poetry reflects on the feeling of being in-between home and exile, childhood and adulthood, wholeness and loss, and living and dying.  Her poems ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - April Edition April 10, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from the show: April Featured Poets: Penelope Scambly Schott (Oregon), author of SOPHIA AND MISTER WALTER WHITMAN Sally Naylor (Florida), author of SYNAPSE FLIES INTO STARTLE David Belmont (New York), ...

Bye Bye Blackbird by Doreen Stock Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2021 In Bye Bye Blackbird, Doreen Stock explores the last days of her 93-year-old mother, Annetta Winnick. In this theme-based suite of poems, we move in mythic time and through the moments of loss and conveyance that characterized this ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - March Edition Mar 13, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from the show: March Featured Poets: Barbara A. Meier (Colorado), author of SYLVAN GROVE Mark Thalman (Oregon), author of STRONGER THAN THE CURRENT Doreen Stock (California) author of BYE BYE BLACKBIRD ABOUT THE POETS  Barbara ...

Italian Lesson by Dianalee Velie Scheduled Release Date: Apr 15, 2021 While Dianalee Velie was teaching poetry in Italy, she composed these poems to reflect her love of the country and for her cousins in Santa Croce di Camerina, Sicily. Italian Lesson celebrates the sights and sounds of Italy—explorations of ...

Sophia and Mister Walter Whitman by Penelope Scambly Schott Scheduled Release Date: April 15, 2021 Penelope’s goldendoodle, Sophia is quite the free spirit—so much so that she reminds the poet of Walt Whitman. In this jeu d’esprit, consisting of 30 poems, we enjoy a delightful peek inside the mind of ...

Synapse Flies into Startle by Sally Naylor Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2021 With each section bookended by a poetic query in this non-linear poetic exploration, Sally Naylor leads us through an unabashed journey on the nature of orgasm. Prepare for your synapses to be startled. And delighted. An honest, ...

Sylvan Grove by Barbara A. Meier Scheduled Release Date: Mar 15, 2021 Barbara Meier may have been born in Oregon, but she grew up in Kansas, and can’t seem to get the prairie out of her system. This collection of poems is an homage her family homestead near Sylvan Grove, ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - February Edition Feb 13, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) RESCHEDULED DUE TO ICE STORM Feb 20, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from February’s show: February Featured Poets: • Carolyn Martin (Oregon), author of NOTHING MORE TO ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - January Edition Jan 9, 2021@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from January’s show: January Featured Poets: • Marcia B. Loughran (New York), author of MY MOTHER NEVER DIED BEFORE—2nd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020 • Cathy ...

Building a Woman by Deborah Meltvedt Scheduled Release Date: Feb 16, 2021 The collection of poems Building a Woman is a trajectory of one life from girlhood to womanhood with all the complications of family, the joy of friends, grief and loss and ultimately finding lasting love. It weaves in experiences of ...

Shoebox by Donovan Hufnagle Scheduled Release Date: Feb 16, 2021 Based on true events, Shoebox is an epistolary, poetic narrative, blending actuality with fiction, about Juliana who was adopted from Russia as an infant and who now struggles with depression, has abandonment issues, and deals with her physical hip dysplasia as well ...

Stronger Than the Current by Mark Thalman Scheduled Release Date: Feb 16, 2021 In Stronger Than the Current, Mark Thalman describes the dangerous work of logging in the early 1900’s, and the hardships these Oregonians faced. Thalman then continues the historic journey with poems depicting important historical events: the drowning of ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - December Edition Book Launch for The Poeming Pigeon: Pop Culture! Dec 12, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from the show: For December, we  hosted a Book Launch Celebration for The Poeming Pigeon: Pop Culture! Featuring 30 poets from across ...

Head for the Hills Hosted by Sherri Levine Featuring Debbie Hall & Shawn Aveningo- Sanders Tues, November 24, 2020 at 7 pm via Zoom To Join Zoom Meeting: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85954776254?pwd=ZjUrMlBybWNPUXJielBMSHpyaUdoUT09 Meeting ID: 859 5477 6254 Passcode: 616315 About the Readers: Shawn Aveningo-Sanders is the author of What She Was Wearing, an ...

The Day of My First Driving Lesson by Tiel Aisha Ansari Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2021 A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner - 1st Place The Day of My First Driving Lesson was written in the wake of the author’s parents’ deaths. It is a deeply moving poetic memoir celebrating ...

My Mother Never Died Before & Other Poems by Marcia B. Loughran Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2021 A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner - 2nd Place Because everybody has a mother. And everybody’s going to lose her. A collection of poems inspired by one woman’s relationship with her mother, ...

Off Coldwater Canyon by C.W. Emerson Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2021 A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner - 3rd Place Off Coldwater Canyon explores the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The poems contained in this small volume hold a haunting, unmistakable relevance for those living through today’s ...

A Shape of Sky by Cathy Cain Scheduled Release Date: Jan 12, 2021 Like prism light, Cathy Cain’s poems in A Shape of Sky reveal, in distinct colors, the predicament and magic of living in our bodies. Cain, a visual artist as well as a writer, illuminates complexity, beauty, and exuberant sensuousness ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - November Edition Nov 14, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from November's show: November Featured Poets: • Doug Stone (Oregon), author of SITTING IN POWELL'S WATCHING BURNSIDE DISSOLVE IN RAIN  • Tiel Aisha Ansari (Oregon), author of THE DAY OF ...

Nothing More to Lose by Carolyn Martin Scheduled Release Date: Jan 12, 2021 Nothing More to Lose is an intense, hair-raising, and hopeful account of one family’s resilience and faith. With poems based on Therese Kolbert Dieringer’s autobiography (My Life – Lived and Remembered: A journey across Hungary, Germany, and ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - October Edition Oct 10, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) / 7:00 PM (Eastern) Enjoy the video from October's show: October Featured Poets: • Christopher Bogart, author of BREAKPOINT and THE EATER OF DREAMS (New Jersey) • Kaja Weeks, author of MOUTH QUILL (Maryland) • Wendy Colby, ...

The Poetry Box LIVE - September Edition Sept 12, 2020@ 4:00 PM (Pacific) Enjoy the video from September's show: September Featured Poets: • Joanne Godley, author of PICKING SCABS FROM THE BODY HISTORY (Virginia) • Pamela Anderson-Bartholet, author of JUST THE GIRLS: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees ...

The Poeming Pigeon: Cosmos Scheduled Release Date: Dec 1, 2020 Our 10th Issue From entertainment to fashion to techno-widgets, pop culture can mirror the beliefs and lifestyles of a society at any given time. Not only does the iconography of pop culture influence consumerism, the objects associated with it can ...

Excoriation by Rebecca Smolen Scheduled Release Date: Dec 1, 2020 Excoriation is an honest, thought-provoking exploration via poetry, into motherhood, relationships, heartache, love, and the cosmos. Rebecca Smolen shares her experiences in a way that’s meant to dig a little deeper, delving into each wound until nothing but truth remains ...

My Mind's Eye by Marshall Witten with illustrations by Elaine Franz Witten Scheduled Release Date: Dec 1, 2020 Drawn from episodes over a long life, the poems of My Mind’s Eye survey the joys and sorrows, the affirmations and contractions of the world. The natural world becomes a mirror for ...

Before the Distance by Pasquale Trozzolo Scheduled Release Date: Dec 1, 2020 Pasquale Trozzolo’s Before the Distance is an invitation. Here, we enter the life of a fully lived man in a time of social and global upheaval. But unlike today’s social media or news feeds, this is not a rant, and ...

Mouth Quill: Poems with Ancestral Roots by Kaja Weeks Scheduled Release Date: Sept 30, 2020 “I am a refugee’s child . . . I long for the resting sigh she was ripped from . . .” writes Kaja Weeks in her poem “Coastal Meadows” from her collection, Mouth Quill: Poems ...

The Kingdom of Birds by Joan Colby Scheduled Release Date: Sept 8, 2020 I wake to wings crashing into my window, Joan Colby informs us in this congregation of bird poems, as casually as if we’d just sat down with her morning coffee and toast. There is, however, nothing casual ...

Just the Girls: A Kaleidoscope of Butterflies; A Drift of Honeybees by Pamela R. Anderson-Bartholet Scheduled Release Date: Aug 15, 2020 Pamela Anderson’s Just the Girls is a poetic celebration of female friendship. In brilliantly created portraits of a family of sisters, aunts, mothers, and daughters, Anderson gives us a ...

We are very excited to announce the winners of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our third annual contest. And special thanks to our wonderful judge, Amy Miller! FIRST PLACE Tiel ...

We'd like to take this opportunity to share our support for the Black Lives Matter movement by lifting the voices of our Black poets/authors. We stand by them in the fight for racial justice and equality, and we look forward to publishing more poets of color in the coming months ...

Songs of an Indomitable Spirit by Michael B. Carroll Jr. Scheduled Release Date: Aug 15, 2020 Songs of an Indomitable Spirit opens with a proclamation: I swear there’s a vision on the tip/ of my tongue…/ sitting, standing, tap-dancing on/ the edge, daring to be savored (“Visions”). What readers will ...

Picking Scabs from the Body History by Joanne Godley Scheduled Release Date: July 15, 2020 From the opening scene in a child’s library through historical and personal locations that remind, inform, and gut punch with stark imagery and pared-down language, Joanne Godley’s Picking Scabs from the Body History tracks the ...

Sitting in Powell's Watching Burnside Dissolve in Rain by Doug Stone Updated Release Date: Aug 11, 2020 “Here the rain tells the truth about everything it touches.” Combine elegiac Oregon rain with the spareness of Tang dynasty poets, and you get the honest lyricism of Doug Stone where the joy ...

Catching Narcissus by Rheanna Haaland Scheduled Release Date: June 23, 2020 From broken to passing, Catching Narcissus begins fragmented and broken and ends with an idea of composure that invokes hope for a future. Haaland climbs out of a hole, carrying all the baggage that came out, and finds a way to ...

The Winter of J by Gary Percesepe Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2020 In The Winter of J, Gary Percesepe writes compellingly about the commingled passion, loneliness, and surprising bliss of a doomed relationship with “J,” a woman who moves fleetingly and luminously through his life one winter season. It ...

The Eater of Dreams by Christopher Bogart Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2020 "Christopher Bogart’s poems demonstrate that poetry’s embrace can include the idea of justice and the feeling of outrage." —Robert Pinsky, United States Poet Laureate (1997–2000) The Eater of Dreams begins with a vulgar curse and ends with ...

My Miscellaneous Muse: Poem Pastiches & Whimsical Words by Ralph La Rosa Scheduled Release Date: May 15, 2020 Ralph La Rosa, as the title indicates, has created a delightful collection of poetry pastiches and whimsical words-of-play, including playful sonnets, weird lists, clerihews, proverbs and converbs, tailgating couplets, strange rhymes, and ...

Due to the COVID-19 Pandemic, this event has been postponed. Stay tuned for the rescheduled date this summer.  Broadway Books to host Margaret Chula and Shawn Aveningo Sanders Wed, Mar 25, 2020 at 7:00 pm Broadway Books 1714 NE Broadway Portland, OR 97232 A poignant portrayal of love and forgiveness ...

Westchester Buddhist Center to host Meg Lindsay reading from her new chapbook Sun, March 1, 2020 at 2:45 pm Eileen Fisher Headquarters 2 Bridge Street Irvington, NY 10533 About the Book: Inspired by the doctor and poet, William Carlos Williams, who wrote poetry on his prescription pad when on house ...

The Screaming Silence by Lanser Howard Updated Release Date: April 21, 2020 Silence can be as sweet as the most beautiful symphony. Or it can be a scream—so terrifying it will keep you up all night trying to get it out of your head. Loss has followed Lanser Howard his ...

Breakpoint by Christopher Bogart Scheduled Release Date: April 15, 2020 Breakpoint is a collection of poems that speaks to a nation in crisis. Its poetry is commentary on a country that was built on the promise of the American Dream, and yet is now led by a president who, in ...

(good cape weather) by Wes Jordans Scheduled Release Date: April 15, 2020 With the quick passing thoughts that we so rarely catch, Wes Jordans takes readers on a flurry of perspectives and relationships, while trying to move forward down the only open road, enjoying the process of being on the ...

Between States of Matter by Sherry Rind Scheduled Release Date: March 31, 2020 Nothing stays at rest, writes Sherry Rind, and, indeed, these are restless poems—probing, examining, taking nothing for granted—by a poet who is not fooled by easy appearances. There is an edge to Rind that has been honed ...

Saturday, Feb 22, 2020 2:00-4:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: "Cosmos" Book Launch at Milwaukie Poetry Series The New Ledding Library 10660 SE 21st Avenue Milwaukie, Oregon 97222 Featured readers include: Pattie Palmer-Baker • Trina Gaynon • Colette Tennant • Liz Nakazawa • Casey Bush • Dale Champlin • Melody Leming-Wilson ...

Staring Down the Tracks by Julia Paul Scheduled Release Date: March 15, 2020 Staring Down the Tracks is a collection of poems that gives voice to those affected by addiction, a population that, despite their numbers and diverse demographics, is often harshly judged and silenced by shame. The mother and ...

The Widow at the Piano by Sue Fagalde Lick Scheduled Release Date: March 15, 2020 The aging woman playing the piano at church may look saintly, but her mind is busy wondering things like what’s under the priest’s robes and why Jesus didn’t invite the women to join him. Also, ...

Flagler College to host Lauren Tivey's Book Launch Tues, Jan 28, 2020 at 6:30 pm Flagler College Crisp Ellert Art Museum 48 Sevilla Street St. Augustine, Florida A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner – First Place, 2019 Moroccan Holiday is a poetic series following a married couple—an American woman, and her Scottish ...

Anastasia Books to host Lauren Tivey's Book Signing Sat, Jan 25, 2020 at 4-6 pm Anastasia Books 76A Marco Avenue, St. Augustine, Florida A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Winner – First Place, 2019 Moroccan Holiday is a poetic series following a married couple—an American woman, and her Scottish husband—on an extended ...

Annie Bloom's to host Shawn Aveningo Sanders' Book Launch Wed, Jan 8, 2020 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's Bookstore 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 The #metoo story that took over 30 years to reveal. Inspired by the countless number of women who are bravely opening up to ...

Matrimony by Laurel Feigenbaum Scheduled Release Date: Feb 18, 2020 Matrimony is the story of a long marriage, a family, and the inevitable changes that occur over time. Married for 66 years when her husband passed away, the poet shares her journey of learning to live alone for the first time, ...

The Poeming Pigeon: Cosmos Scheduled Release Date: Feb 22, 2020 Our 9th Issue What's out there in the great beyond? Could we survive on Mars? What is dark matter? Are wormholes the secret to time travel?  Human curiosity is as vast as the universe itself, and these poems may provide some unique answers—or ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2019.  2019 “The Cup is Half Full” by Judith Terzi, published in The Poeming Pigeon: Sports, released in May 2019 by The Poetry Box. "A" by ...

Michigan State University to host Elizabeth S.E. McBride, Dr. Mary Anna Kruch, and Joyce Benvenuto Friday, Nov 15, 2019 at 7:00-9:00 p.m. Michigan State University Bessey Hall East Lansing, Michigan The reading will celebrate a few of the National Writing Project’s “Red Cedar Writing Project” Alumni for a combined reading ...

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Margaret Chula, Melanie Green, and Carolyn Martin Thurs, Nov 14, 2019 at 7:00 pm Annie Bloom's 7834 SW Capitol Hwy (Multnomah Village) Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 The poems in Melanie Green's A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm (The Poetry Box) are an invitation to slow ...

Moroccan Holiday by Lauren Tivey The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2019 1stPlace Winner Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2020 Moroccan Holiday is a poetic series following a married couple—an American woman, and her Scottish husband—on an extended vacation in Morocco. As the husband suffers an extreme alcoholic relapse, the couple confronts ...

Hello, Darling by Christine Higgins The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2019 2nd Place Winner Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2020 Hello, Darling explores the relationship of a mother with her daughter struggling with mental health. Christine Higgins shares both the joy and the complexity of childrearing, while paying tribute to ...

Falling into the River by Debbie Hall The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2019 3rd Place Winner Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2020 “How many close calls before we become ghosts?” wonders the author of this collection, where she reflects upon her experiences—emotional, relational and spiritual--during her partner’s yearlong battle with ...

Notes from a Caregiver by Meg Lindsay Scheduled Release Date: Jan 21, 2020 Inspired by the doctor and poet, William Carlos Williams, who wrote poetry on his prescription pad when on house calls, the poems in Notes from a Caregiver originated in waiting rooms and doctors’ offices when Meg Lindsay’s ...

Pamlico Writers Group presents Lunch & Learn with Author, Jeanne Julian Jeanne Julian will read from her latest book, Like the O in Hope, and discuss her writing process. Thursday, Oct 3, 2019 at 12:30 p.m. China Bay Buffet 2871 US-17 (BUS) Chocowinity, NC Join Pamlico Writers Group for an ...

Shadow Man by Margaret Chula Tentative Release Date: November 5, 2019 In Shadow Man, Margaret Chula brings her father out of the shadows where he had been since 1957, the day her mother packed their five children—all under the age of ten—into the car and drove away. Over the years, ...

What She Was Wearing by Shawn Aveningo Sanders Tentative Release Date: November 12, 2019 In What She Was Wearing, Shawn Aveningo Sanders uses poetry to tell her #MeToo story—one that has been over 30 years in the making. Inspired, by the courage of so many women who have bravely opened up, Aveningo ...

A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm by Melanie Green Tentative Release Date: November 5, 2019 The poems in A Long, Wide Stretch of Calm are an invitation to slow down, to rest deep into quiet and the contemplative. Melanie Green’s poetry explores the connection with the numinous—as well as speaking ...

Most Beautiful by Elizabeth S.E. McBride with artwork by Connie Cronenwett Tentative Release Date: November 5, 2019 A collection of poems, prose, and paintings inspired by the village of Glen Arbor, Michigan and the Sleeping Bear National Lakeshore, voted “Most Beautiful Place in America” in 2011. It's not always easy ...

The Very Rich Hours by Gregory Loselle Tentative Release Date: October 22, 2019 In The Very Rich Hours, Gregory Loselle recounts experiences, in childhood and later, in and around his grandparents’ house on Grosse Ile, Michigan, an island in the Detroit River near the mouth of Lake Erie. Loselle’s mastery ...

Mary Dyer's Hymn and Other Quaker Poems by Stanford Searl Tentative Release Date: October 22, 2019 Mary Dyer’s Hymn and other Quaker Poems, constructs poetic songs which open-up multiple dimensions of an embodied sensibility of the conflicts between Puritans and Quakers in 17th century Massachusetts. “Stanford Searl at his strongest, ...

Room 12 Lounge to host Michael B. Carroll, Jr. Saturday, Sept 28, 2019 at 7:00-9:00 p.m. Room 12 Lounge 1200 Sansom Street Philadelphia, PA These poems speak to struggle stemming from both the internal and the external—a collection deeply rooted in the human experience, life philosophies, identity politics, faith, shame, ...

Nexus Poets to host Jeanne Julian Tuesday, Sept 3, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. The Harrison Center 311 Middle Street New Bern, North Carolina The poems in Like the O in Hope take the reader on a journey, a quest from dark to light—both literally and spiritually. Beginning with hesitation and ...

Books are available in our Bookstore. Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs & Spices by Cynthia Gallaher The Poetry Box, 2018. 96 pages. Reviewed by Gail Goepfert for RHINO Gallaher’s book, Epicurean Ecstasy, is a poetic smorgasbord about food, drink, herbs & spice. From the first flip of ...

Botanic Gardens to host poet Melissa Fournier Sunday, July 14, 2019 at 3:00 p.m. Botanic Gardens at Historic Barns Park 1490 Red Dr Traverse City, Michigan Melissa Fournier is a wife, mother, and social worker living in Traverse City, Michigan. Her poetry has appeared in Dunes Review, The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Pulse: ...

 We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our second annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision ...

The Dichotomy Between Light & Dark by Michael B. Carroll Jr. Tentative Release Date: August 1, 2019 Deeply rooted in the human experience, these poems dare to ask how we strive to see the light in other people and in ourselves, despite a world in turmoil—this dichotomy between light and ...

Like the O in Hope by Jeanne Julian Tentative Release Date: August 1, 2019 The poems in Like the O in Hope take the reader on a journey, a quest from dark to light—both literally and spiritually, where revelations about the magic of place and of connection lead to contentment ...

Abruptio by Melissa Fournier Tentative Release Date: July 15, 2019 A mother’s worst fear is realized at 23 weeks into the pregnancy, and a baby girl is born at the edge of viability. Melissa Fournier shares her profound grief for her daughter’s brief life in these intimate poems that reflect ...

Gospel Gone Blues by Jimmie Ware Tentative Release Date: June 15, 2019 In Gospel Gone Blues, Jimmie Ware speaks directly from her soul to share her poetic truth—thoughts on the human condition alongside an intimate look into her personal life. Employing her talents as an acclaimed spoken word performer, she weaves ...

Call My Name by Heather Wyatt Tentative Release Date: June 15, 2019 Call My Name by Heather Wyatt is a collection of poems from the voice of a small-town southern woman working through relationships with her family and discovering who she is along the way. She writes of loved ones ...

Bee Dance by Cathy Cain Tentative Release Date: June 15, 2019 In Bee Dance, Cathy Cain offers a series of meditations on our relationship as humans with nature and with technology. She speaks from many perspectives, sometimes distraught, often playful or mystical, but always hopeful. She invites us in — to ...

Annie Bloom's welcomes local poets Cathy Cain and Piper Bringman Thursday, June 20, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Annie Bloom's 7834 SW Capitol Hwy (Multnomah Village) Portland, OR 97219 503-246-0053 Cathy Cain, like a bee to flower, gathers thought from one encounter with nature to another. She speaks from many perspectives—as ...

From learning how to locate the Little Dipper to standing awe-struck under the Milky Way, humans have been asking: What's out there in the great beyond? Could we survive on Mars? What is dark matter? Are wormholes the secret to time travel?  Our curiosity is as vast as the universe itself. Send us ...

Saturday, May 4, 2019 2:00-4:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: "Sports" Book Launch at Milwaukie Poetry Series The Pond House 2215 SE Harrison Street Milwaukie, OR 97222 Featured readers include: Brittney Corrigan • Sharon Wood Wortman • Kris Demien Penelope Scambly Schott • Margaret Chula • Toni Partington Joshua Plack • ...

Today immigration is at the forefront of our national conversation. For some, it's a security issue, for others, a humanitarian crisis. This program will address the humanitarian crisis this issue presents – and it will be done through poetry. Sunday April 7, 2019 at 2:00 p.m. Poetry reading featuring: Christopher ...

The Poeming Pigeon: Sports Scheduled Release Date: May 4, 2019 Our 8th Issue Dive into this sports-themed collection and you’ll quickly become a fan, as our poets relive their glory days and share their love of the game. Whether you’re a competitive athlete, a dedicated amateur, or an armchair quarterback, ...

Cardboard Wings By Piper M.L. Bringman (age 14) Scheduled Release Date: April 15, 2019 Cardboard Wings is the debut poetry collection by Piper Bringman, a 14-year-old poet who is coming of age. And, although her writing originally grew from a child’s grief for her beloved pet, it has blossomed into a ...

Impossible Ledges by Dianne Avey Tentative Release Date: Apr 23, 2019 A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize (2018) Finalist Sometimes our lives are divided in two — the before and the after. Insert something in between that is so profound, and it feels as if your very molecules are rearranged. For ...

Friday, April 5, 2019 at 7:00 p.m. Poetry reading featuring Sally Zakariya ArtSpace Herndon 750 Center St Herndon, VA Hosted by Mike Maggio VP, Poetry Society of Virginia Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore ...

  Wed, March 20, 2019 at 7:00 pm Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher, Susanna Lang & Jennifer Steele Oak Park Public Library 834 Lake Street Oak Park, IL 60301 708-383-8200 Saturday, March 23, 2019 at 1:00 pm Poetry reading featuring Cynthia Gallaher & Jamie Wendt Normal Public Library 206 W. College Ave ...

Today immigration is at the forefront of our national conversation. For some, it's a security issue, for others, a humanitarian crisis. This program will address the humanitarian crisis this issue presents – and it will be done through poetry. The poetry in this presentation was written to put a human ...

Submissions Open Feb 1 thru Feb 28 Last year, we held our first Poetry Box Chapbook Prize competition and were blown away by a windfall of quality, thought-provoking, emotionally riveting poetry by writers from across the nation. Now, it's time to do it all over again. I'm thrilled to announce that this year's judge ...

Small Blue Harbor by Ahrend Torrey Tentative Release Date: Mar 15, 2019 In Small Blue Harbor, Ahrend Torrey exalts the ordinary, everydayness of life spinning his keen observation into lyrical poems and proems. This collection celebrates our human connection with nature, influenced by a New Orleans backdrop, and gives us a ...

Surreal Expulsion by D. R. James Tentative Release Date: Mar 15, 2019 Surreal Expulsion’s title poem responds not only bluntly to the 2018 mass shooting that left seventeen dead at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School but ultimately to the socio-political negligence and indifference behind violence and injustice worldwide. In assorted other ...

The Unknowable Mystery of Other People by Sally Zakariya Tentative Release Date: Mar 15, 2019 Take a peek into the mystery of other people as Sally Zakariya shares stories of those she knows, those she remembers from childhood, and the ones she’s merely observed throughout her daily walk in life ...

The Secret Land by Patrick Sheils Tentative Release Date: Feb 20, 2019 The Secret Land examines the tension between individual purpose that propels us to live our day-to-day lives, contrasted against the backdrop of a seemingly purposeless universe governed by indifferent laws. Through this conflict, Sheils strives to find moments we ...

Sunday, Jan 13 @ 4:00 pm BOOK LAUNCH CELEBRATION Prizewinning Chapbook – November Quilt by Penelope Scambly Schott at Like Nobody’s Business 904 NW 23rd Avenue Portland, OR 97210 Like Nobody’s Business and The Poetry Box present a poetry reading for Penelope Scambly Schott’s new chapbook, November Quilt, which won 2nd ...

Saturday, January 12, 2019 at 11:30- 1:30 The River Read Reading Series featuring Christopher Bogart with Jesse Bridges Red Bank Public Library 84 West Front St. Red Bank, NJ 07701 View Flyer Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore ...

Thursday, Dec 13 @ 7:00 pm featuring Sherri Levine at Ike Box 299 Cottage St NE Salem, OR 97301 Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore ...

Sunday, Dec 2 @ 2:00 pm featuring Penelope Scambly Schott, Barbara Drake & Bill Siverly at Powell's City of Books 1005 W Burnside St. Portland, OR 97209  Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore ...

Sunday, Dec 2 @ 2:00 pm featuring Judy K. Mosher & Miriam Sagan at Southside Public Library Community Room 6599 Jaguar Dr. Santa Fe, New Mexico Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in ...

Poetry Reading featuring Caroline Goodwin & Ralph Long Saturday, Dec 1 @ 2 pm at Octopus Literary Salon 2101 Webster Street Oakland, CA Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Books will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore ...

The Poet's Curse: A Miscellany by Michael Estabrook Tentative Release Date: Jan 15, 2019 A delightful miscellany of poems on a multitude of subjects in various forms and genres including: ancestral portraits, bestiary, commonplace, complaints, catalogs, concrete, dialog, dreams, ekphrastic, erotica, experimental, found poems, free verse, light poems, imagistic, list poems, ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2018.  2018 “Columbine” by Linda Ferguson, published in The Poeming Pigeon: In The News, released in August 2018 by The Poetry Box. “Misha” by Gudrun Bortman published ...

Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems about Food, Drink, Herbs & Spices by Cynthia Gallaher Tentative Release Date: Dec 15, 2018 In Epicurean Ecstasy: More Poems About Food, Drink, Herbs and Spices, Cynthia Gallaher celebrates not only historical and modern pleasures of the kitchen and the table, but also the seasonal evolutions that take ...

Many Sparrows by donnarkevic Tentative Release Date: Dec 15, 2018 A young boy grows up in a small steel town along the Ohio River between 1963 and 1968, while another boy’s suicide overshadows the community. These poems tell their story. “Do not be afraid. You are worth more than many ...

FRIDAY, Nov 2 @ 7 pm at ENCORE CHOCOLATE & TEAS 116 5th Ave SE Downtown Olympia, Washington Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Linda’s Book will be available at the event or you can also order copies of the book in our Bookstore ...

JOIN US AT THE PORTLAND BOOK FESTIVAL (formerly known as WORDSTOCK) SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 10th, 2018 PORTLAND ART MUSEUM 1219 SW Park Ave Portland, OR 97205 BOOTH #42 in the GRAND BALLROOM (third floor, PAM Mark Building) We will have current and past issues of THE POEMING PIGEON available for sale AND our prizewinning chapbooks, ...

Shrinking Bones by Judy K. Mosher Tentative Release Date: Dec 1, 2018 Shrinking Bones by Judy K. Mosher is the first place winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize for 2018. These poems grew from the author’s journey with her aging mother and her memory of her “past paid work-life” as ...

November Quilt by Penelope Scambly Schott Tentative Release Date: Nov 10, 2018 Reading November Quilt, by acclaimed author and poet, Penelope Scambly Schott, is akin to making a new friend. Brew a cup of tea and curl up in your favorite reading chair as you’re invited to share life experiences, aphorisms, ...

A Democracy Divided by Ralph J. Long Jr. Tentative Release Date: Nov 10, 2018 A Democracy Divided examines the sharp split that exists in the body politic of America. The first section, “answers” each amendment in the Bill of Rights with an original poem, while the second half addresses topics like origin, faith, leadership ...

Fireweed by Gudrun Bortman Tentative Release Date: Oct 15, 2018 In November 2008, a vicious wildfire swept through Santa Barbara, California, forcing many residents to flee in fear, while wondering what would survive the angry flames. These poems tell that story through one woman’s experience of loss and her resiliency ...

Saturday, Sept 15, 2018 2:00-4:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: "In the News" Book Launch at Milwaukie Poetry Series The Pond House (at the Ledding Library) 2215 SE Harrison Street Milwaukie, OR 97222 Featured readers include: Nancy Flynn, Christopher Luna, Linda Ferguson, Dan Raphael, Julene Tripp Weaver, Eleanor Berry, Lindy Low ...

14: Antología del Sonoran  by Christopher Bogart Tentative Release Date: Oct 15, 2018 Twenty-six Mexican migrants were discovered in the Sonoran desert near Yuma, Arizona. Twelve of them were wandering around the desert, delirious and dying of thirst. Fourteen were taken by pickup truck to the morgue. The deceased became ...

My Life in Cars by Linda Strever Tentative Release Date: Oct 15, 2018 Through a myriad of experiences with cars, these poems explore the events, relationships and evolution of a woman’s life. For complete details and ordering information click here ...

We're looking for the best Sports poetry for our 8th issue of The Poeming Pigeon. We're open for submissions Aug 15-Sept 30. Click HERE for all the details ...

WED, Sept 26 @ 7 pm at ANNIE BLOOM'S BOOKSTORE 7834 SW Capitol Hwy Portland, Oregon 503-246-0053 SHERRI LEVINE In These Voices  More details here About the Author:  Sherri Levine lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches English as a Second Language to adult immigrants and refugees at Portland Community College and ...

THURS, Sept 27 @ 7 pm at ANOTHER READ THROUGH 3932 N Mississippi Ave Portland, Oregon 503-208-2729 SHERRI LEVINE In These Voices  More details here About the Author:  Sherri Levine lives in Portland, Oregon where she teaches English as a Second Language to adult immigrants and refugees at Portland Community College and ...

Painting the Heart Open by Liz Nakazawa Tentative Release Date: Sept 1, 2018 These are poems of memory, thanks, prayer, bliss, dreams and blessings, embedded in color, and, while ethereal, are also rooted firmly to the earth. Hope is the sustaining thread even if some poems veer into darkness. Light ...

Womanhood & Other Scars by Rebecca Smolen Tentative Release Date: Sept 1, 2018 This collection of poems explores what it means to be a woman in the 21st century. Through the eyes of the poet as young girl, teenager, daughter, granddaughter, wife and mother, we traverse both the triumphs and heartbreaks ...

An Eyeful of Hennepin Neon by Rheanna Haaland Tentative Release Date: Sept 1, 2018 An Eyeful of Hennepin Neon is a story of loss, thrill, and temptation, for anyone who has ever tried to claw their way out of savage memories with lonely sex and hard liquor. Haaland’s poems will lie ...

In These Voices by Sherri Levine Tentative Release Date: Sept 1, 2018 A collection of voice poems, In These Voices, allows us to peek inside the lives of a variety of characters. Levine, through the magic of language, embodies a jilted lover, a worried husband, a young woman, a son, a granddaughter and ...

The Poeming Pigeon "In The News" Vol 4.1, Issue #7 Release Date: Sept 15, 2018 We live in a world where access to breaking news is available 24/7. But how often do we go beyond the headline? What happened next? What was the impact on our fellow humans across the ...

All That She Can by Kali Rose Schmidt Tentative Release Date: July 15, 2018 All That She Can is a collection of poetry that encompasses motherhood, family history, what it means to be a woman today—and the lust inside of us all. All That She Can tells the story of ...

Saturday, 14 July, 2018 1:00 - 3:00 Book Launch Psyche's Scroll by Karla Linn Merrifield at Lift Bridge Book Shop 45 Main Street Brockport, NY  14420 Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Karla's Book will be available at the event or you can also order copies ...

Looking for the current contest? Go to the link below: https://thepoetrybox.com/the-poetry-box-chapbook-prize-2023 We are very excited to announce the winners and look forward to sharing their chapbooks with you this Winter. Thank you to all of the poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions ...

Saturday, 2 June, 2018 10:00 - 1:00 Book Launch Impressions by Dr. Paul T.M. Jackson at English Book Centre 12 Rue Alexis Julien Valbonne, France ph: 04 93 12 21 42 Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Paul's Book will be available at the event or ...

Psyche's Scroll by Karla Linn Merrifield Release Date: June 15, 2018 Psyche’s Scroll is a post-postmodern epic poem that pushes at the frontiers of what is possible and invites you to participate in a woman’s psychosocial self-analysis as she struggles to move through and beyond psychological trauma. Become a voyeur ...

  Thank you to all of the 156 poets who entered our first annual contest. We were astounded by the quality of submissions we received from all over the country, making our decision joyously difficult! Announcing the Finalists: Christopher Bogart of Eatontown, New Jersey Fourteen: Antología del Río Grande Clela Reed of Athens, ...

Impressions by Dr. Paul T. M. Jackson Release Date: June 1, 2018 Impressions is a small collection of traditional formal poetry by Dr. Paul T.M. Jackson, inspired by quiet moments and observations—whether they occurred while cycling through Provence, rambling in Wales, trekking through Galicia, hunting for castles in Corsica, or even ...

We're open for submissions for our first annual Chapbook Prize now thru Feb 28. Winner receives $200 honorarium plus publication of their chapbook later this year. Contest is open to all poets residing in the U.S. Click HERE for all the details and guidelines ...

Thank you to everyone who submitted their poems for The Poeming Pigeon: In the News issue.  We received 682 submissions from around the globe, including 5 continents, 13 countries and 39 states.  We're busy reading through each and every poem and WOW!  We're blown away by the work. It's going ...

Only Two Weeks left to submit your poems about topics found "In the News" for the next issue of The Poeming Pigeon.  Find out more about our flagship journal and how to submit HERE ...

THE POEMING PIGEON LOVE POEMS Release Date: Dec 1, 2017 What our world needs now is love! So, for our 6th issue, we bring you 85 love poems. Throughout these pages you’ll find poetry that speaks from the heart directly to yours. Our poets go beyond flowers and candy romance ...

We are thrilled to announce the following poets have been put nominated for a Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Press Awards, for poetry published in 2017.  “Crossing” by Lynn M. Knapp, published in Giving Ground, released in February 2017 by The Poetry Box. “Lilith” by Brittney Corrigan published in The Poeming Pigeon: ...

Saturday, Dec 9, 2017 2:00-4:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Love Poems Book Launch at Milwaukie Poetry Series The Pond House (at the Ledding Library) 2215 SE Harrison Street Milwaukie, OR 97222 Featured readers include: Barbara A. Meier • Brad G. Garber • Carolyn Martin • Claudia F. Savage • Delia ...

Homer's all dressed up and ready for his big date! Check out our latest cover, designed and illustrated by Robert R. Sanders, for the upcoming issue of The Poeming Pigeon.   The Love Poems issue is coming together beautifully and will be available for pre-order in a few weeks, with ...

Thursday, July 27, 2017 7:00 pm Book Launch Broadfork Farm by Tricia Knoll at Another Read Through 3932 N. Mississippi Avenue Portland, OR 97227 Featured readers include: Tricia Knoll, Sara Bokich and Vargus Pike Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry. Tricia's Book will be available at ...

Saturday, May 6, 2017 2:00-4:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Poems from the Garden Book Launch at Milwaukie Poetry Series The Pond House (at the Ledding Library) 2215 SE Harrison Street Milwaukie, OR 97222 Featured readers include: Annie Lighthart • Barbara A. Meier • Brad G. Garber • Brittney Corrigan • ...

Thursday, Feb 23, 2017 7:00 pm Book Launch Giving Ground by Lynn Knapp at Another Read Through 3932 N. Mississippi Avenue Portland, OR 97227 Featured readers include: Lynn Knapp reading from Giving Ground, Tiffany Burba reading from Meet Me Where I Left You, and Leah Noble Davidson reading from Doors ...

Monday, Dec 5, 2016 6:30 pm Free Range Poetry Presents The Feral Poets Carolyn Martin • Cathy Cain • Tricia Knoll • Pattie Palmer-Baker • Shawn Aveningo Northwest Branch Multnomah County Library 2300 NW Thurman St., Portland, Oregon Everyone welcome to attend and share the love of poetry.  Open Mic ...

Sunday, Nov 13, 2016 5:00-7:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Music Book Launch at Ford Food & Drink 2505 SE 11th Avenue Portland, OR 97202 Featured readers include: Brad G. Garber, Christopher Luna, Dan Raphael, Helen Kerner, Judith Arcana, Julene Tripp Weaver, Leah Mueller, Michael T. Coolen, Sarah Key, Tiffany M ...

Saturday, Nov 12, 2016 2:00-4:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Music Book Launch at Milwaukie Poetry Series The Pond House (at the Ledding Library) 2215 SE Harrison Street Milwaukie, OR 97222 Featured readers include: Carolyn Martin, Claudia F. Savage, Colette Tennant, Douglas Spangle, Eileen McGurn, Jennifer Hambrick, Josh Gaines, Linda ...

Sunday, April 24, 2016 1:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Doobie or Not Doobie? Vancouver Book Launch at High End Market Place Sunday Sessions 1906 Broadway St. Vancouver, WA Featured readers include: Christopher Luna, Lori Loranger, Jennifer Pratt-Walter, Nathan Tompkins, Shawn Aveningo, Casey Bush and Tiffany Burba-Schramm PLUS Bonus Reading featuring ...

Wednesday, April 20, 2016 7:00-9:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Doobie or Not Doobie? Book Launch at Ford Food & Drink 2505 SE 11th Avenue Portland, OR 97202 Featured readers include: Brad G. Garber, Burky Achilles, Casey Bush, Christopher Luna, D. Russel Micnhimer, David Belmont, Jake Grieco, John Smistad, Leah Mueller, ...

Saturday, March 5, 2016 7:00-9:00 pm Of Course, I'm a Feminist! at Tsunami Books 2585 Willamette Street, Eugene, Oregon 97431 A Reading in Celebration of National Women's Month (Plus Open-Mic follwing the feature) Featured readers include: Shawn Aveningo, Linda Ferguson, Tricia Knoll, Elise Kuechle, Carter McKenzie and Sharon Wood Wortman Books will ...

Monday, Nov 11, 2015 7:00-9:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food and Poeming Pigeons: Poems about Birds at Parkplace Books 348 Parkplace Center Kirkland, WA 98033 Featured readers include: Lynn Knapp, Chris Jarmick, Linda Strever, Irene Bloom, Lillo Way, Pattie Palmer Baker, Judith Skillman and Shawn Aveningo Hosted by ...

Wednesday, Nov 4, 2016 7:00-8:30 pm Of Course, I'm a Feminist! Book Launch Reading & Open Mic at Milwaukie Poetry Series The Pond House (at the Ledding Library) 2215 SE Harrison Street Milwaukie, OR 97222 Featured readers include: Judith Arcana, Tricia Knoll, Sharon Wood Wortman, Carter McKenzie, Ila Suzanne, Brittney Corrigan, Pam ...

Monday, Nov 2, 2015 7:00-9:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Food Book Launch at Ford Food & Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave (at Division), Portland, Oregon Featured readers include: Annie Lighthart • Barbara A. Meier • Brad G. Garber • Brittney Corrigan • Carolyn Martin • Cathy Cain • Eric ...

Monday, June 29, 2015 7:30-9:00 pm Poeming Pigeons Book Launch Celebration at Sacramento Poetry Center 1719 25th Street Sacramento, CA Featured Readers: Allegra Silberstein, Katy Brown, Tim Kahl, Georgette Howington, Connie Post, Genea Brice, Kate Wells, Taylor Graham, Deborah Meltvedt, Kimberly White, Lytton Bell, Martie Odell-Ingebretsen and Shawn Aveningo Books will be ...

Monday, May 4, 2015 7:00-9:00 pm The Poeming Pigeon: Poems about Birds Book Launch at Ford Food & Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave (at Division), Portland, Oregon Featured readers include: Annie Lighthart, Brenda Taulbee, Carolyn Martin, Christa Kaainoa, Douglas Spangle, Eileen McGurn, Irene Bloom, Jennifer Kemnitz, 'M', Lynn Knapp, M.F. McAuliffe, ...

Sunday, March 22, 2015 7:00-9:00 pm The Way A Woman Knows Book Launch Celebration at TaborSpace (Dining Room) 5441 SE Belmont Street Portland, Oregon, 97215 The Poetry Box is proud to announce the release of Carolyn Martin’s poetry collection, The Way A Woman Knows. We invite everyone to join in ...

Monday, Nov 10, 2014 7:00-9:00 pm Keeping It Weird Book Launch Celebration & Live Music at Ford Food & Drink 2505 SE 11th Ave (at Division) Portland, Oregon Featured readers include: Matt Amott, Michael Berton, Elijah Cordero, Simon del Valle, Tricia, Knoll, M, Carolyn Martin, Shawn Aveningo, Justin Price, Michael Shay, ...

Wednesday, Dec 4, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 It's our last show of the year and we're very proud to present two extremely talented and popular performers. Shawn Pittard's poetry is ...

Wednesday, Oct 2, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Verse on the Vine presents two very talented poets: Molly Fisk & Stanley Zumbiel. We invite you to step inside the art covered ...

Wednesday, Aug 7, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Hot August Nights: Poetica-Erotica & NSAA Hot Temperatures and Hot Poetry just naturally go together! Verse on the Vine presents Hot August Nights ...

Wednesday, June 5, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Triple Play: Laura Martin, Catherine Fraga & Matthew Brouwer What do you get when you combine Zombie Haiku, Gary The Mattress Salesman & ...

Wednesday, April 3, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Nationally Acclaimed Poet, Indigo Moor Indigo Moor was born in 1964, in Charlotte, North Carolina and currently resides in Sacramento, California. His collection, ...

Wednesday, Feb 6, 2013 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Poet Laureate of Sacramento, Jeff Knorr! Jeff Knorr is the author of the three books of poetry, The Third Body (Cherry Grove Collections), ...

Wednesday, Nov 19, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Our Final Show of the Year Todd Cirillo & Phillip Larrea Todd Cirillo was born of bastard lineage in the dark waters outside ...

Wednesday, Oct 10, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Love & Lust Times Three As cooler weather approaches, we're heating things up a bit. Breathe in the sensual poetry of these three ...

Wednesday, Sept 12, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Double Feature Brigit Truex & Dave Boles Brigit Truex has lived in the four quarters of the States since beginning her writing career ...

Wednesday, Aug 8, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Popular Poet: Lytton Bell Lytton’s poetry resonates with audiences everywhere, her stories providing a feast of emotion with a dose of humor sprinkled ...

Wednesday, July 11, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 A Night of Poetry & Humor with Telemachos Greanias Dr. Telemachos Greanias is psychologist, researcher, author, and lecturer.  His work in the exploration ...

Wednesday, June 13, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 SPECIAL FUNDRAISER SHOW FOR SACRAMENTO BALLET Our featured performer for June is Jack Donaldson, sharing not only his poetry, but his music as well ...

Wednesday, May 9, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 SPECIAL DOUBLE FEATURE FOR MAY Two dynamic and talented ladies bring their poetry to Folsom. Patricia Hickerson, whose colorful life stories are unveiled ...

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Cynthia Linville We're proud to announce that our featured poet for April 11th is Cynthia Linville. Cynthia teaches writing at California State University ...

Wednesday, March 14, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Sacramento Poet Laureate, Bob Stanley We're proud to announce that our featured poet for March is Bob Stanley, Poet Laureate of Sacramento. Bob ...

Wednesday, Feb 8, 2012 7:00-9:00 pm Verse on the Vine Poetry Series at Petra Vineyard Wine Gallery 627 Sutter Street (Old Town Historic Folsom) Folsom, CA 95630 Shawn Aveningo The inaugural event on Wed Feb 8th will feature one of Sacramento's favorite spoken word performers, Shawn Aveningo. Shawn was voted ...