We here at Philly Poetry Chapbook Review love poetry, whether it’s in chapbooks or full-length collections. We have a hunch that our readers do, too. Every Tuesday, we publish an update about what poetry titles we know are releasing in the following week.

Information, including product descriptions, are provided by the publisher. If we cover the book on this site, links will be included.

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Chapbooks

Reacquaint, Allison Thung

Publisher: Kith Books
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

A fluid blend of poetic forms, Reacquaint urges the reader to look back at how far they have come. There is a clarity that becomes apparent as our earlier selves pass into the rearview, and Thung stands in this first light of distance reflecting back on all that has been said and done. Flowing through embodiment and illness, burgeoning adulthood, and the emotional detritus of loves lost and found, Thung’s poems are narrational and intimate. Peppered with questions and lines inviting introspection, Reacquaint tells one side of a story, leaving each reader to find their own You.

Allison Thung is a Singaporean poet and project manager. She is the author of Reacquaint (kith books, 2024) and Things I can only say in poems about/to an unspecified ‘you’ (Hem Press, 2025). Her poetry has been published in ANMLY, Heavy Feather Review, Cease, Cows, The Daily Drunk, and elsewhere, and nominated for Best of the Net, Best Microfiction, and Best Small Fictions. Allison reads poetry for ANMLY.

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PORTRAITS, Kyle Brosnihan

Publisher: GASHER Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2024
Format: Paperback

PORTRAITS, the new poetry project of Kyle Brosnihan, is a ‘family-album’ of artists, their words, and their outward lookings at the world, craft, and meaning. Comprised of ‘portraits’ of various artists throughout history, Brosnihan collages found text and speech from each featured artist to create a new way of looking at the familiar faces of art history, and in turn, at ourselves.

Kyle Brosnihan is a Filipino-American poet and playwright. Raised in Nebraska, he now lives in Brooklyn. He received his MFA in Poetry from Brooklyn College in 2022. His poetry has been published in Electric Literature, The Brooklyn Rail, The Margins, HAD, Barrelhouse, Beautiful Days Press, and elsewhere. His chapbook TISOY was published with Bottlecap Press. His chapbook Lemons was published with Bullshit Lit. His plays include The Performance and The Cappuccinos.

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Here in Sanctuary—Whirling, D. Dina Friedman

Publisher: Querencia Press
Publication Date: February 16, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

“Whatever else it may be, poetry is foremost a witnessing, and D. Dina Friedman is our conscience and guide as she transports us to the border—physically and poetically—so we can better understand the pain and struggle that keeps “the machinery of the world running,” and what drives a person to become so desperate that “he might send his daughter over the bridge alone to face the guards.” How is it that we have become “people who love each other / hating the people across the river, who love each other.” In deceptively plain-spoken language that reaches deep into what it means to be human, Dina uses her words to sharpen our senses and focus our attention. But if we listen closely, we will also find a necessary courage in “a child’s pair of striped overalls hanging on barbed wires,” or even in “a makeshift tent / called school,” where hope hides in every heart “soft as the young cat / stretched luxurious across the bed,” or a “puff / of milkweed riding the wave of the wind.” Dina’s words burst forth like a “bashful baby suddenly smiling.” She teaches us, with humor, horror, love, and concentration what it means to truly see and listen to those in need. Here in Sanctuary—Whirling is a beautiful and important book of poetry.”
—Richard Michelson, National Jewish Book Award Winner, author of Sleeping As Fast As I Can

D. Dina Friedman has published in over a hundred literary journals and anthologies (including Rattle, The Sun, Calyx, Lilith, Negative Capability, Chautauqua Literary Journal, The Ekphrastic Review, and Rhino) and received four Pushcart Prize nominations. She is the author of two young adult novels: Escaping Into the Night (Simon and Schuster) and Playing Dad’s Song (Farrar, Straus, Giroux), a short-story collection: Immigrants (Creators Press), and one previous book of poetry: Wolf in the Suitcase (Finishing Line Press). She has an MFA from Lesley University.

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Vanishing Below the Waist, Ellie White

Publisher: Querencia Press
Publication Date: February 16, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

Winner of the Heartland Review Chapbook contest, finalist in the Wolfson Press Chapbook Competition & Two Sylvias Press Chapbook Contest, semi-finalist for Yellow Arrow Publishing’s Chapbook Contest, shortlisted for Galileo Press Chapbook contest, & longlisted for The Rachel Wetzseon Chapbook Award.

Ellie White has been trying really hard since 1986. She holds an MFA from Old Dominion University. Her volume of work includes poetry, creative nonfiction, and the comic strip “Uterus & Ellie.” Ellie’s writing has appeared in Painted Bride Quarterly, Breakwater Review, The Columbia Review, and many other journals. She has published two other poetry chapbooks, Requiem for a Doll (ELJ Publications, 2015) and Drift (dancing girl press, 2019), as well as a hybrid memoir, and for too long after (Unsolicited Press, 2019). Her work has won an Academy of American Poets College Poetry Prize, a Best of the Net nomination, two Pushcart Prize nominations, and was a finalist for the Meridian Short Prose Prize. She is currently a reader at Muzzle Magazine, where she has served on staff since 2016.

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maybe., by Sydney Cloonan

Publisher: Bottlecap Press
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

maybe. is a collection of poetry that chronicles the lifespan of a relationship that was never meant to last. From the thrill of new feelings, to the searing ache of letting go, to renewed hope for something better, maybe. invites the reader to remember the exhilarating highs and heartbreaking lows of falling into and out of love.

Written in simple, straightforward language, maybe.’s aim is to be at once deeply confessional and widely accessible to poetry lovers and novices alike. The writing in this collection is intended to give shape to and space for our most secret feelings, the ones that aren’t always easy to name, but are too profound to ignore.

Sydney Cloonan is a speech-language pathologist living in Queens, New York. Sydney has been writing for close to 25 years, but this is her first published chapbook. When she’s not working at a special ed elementary school in Brooklyn, you can find her baking treats for her small business, Bird & Bear Bakeshop, listening to true crime podcasts, or eating peanut butter right from the jar.

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(Women) In STEM, by Sara Matson

Publisher: Bottlecap Press
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

Sara Matson’s collection of speculative poetry celebrates the fantastic achievements of women in STEM while disrupting the societal norms that have kept them hidden. Inspired by the lives and accomplishments of 21 remarkable women, (Women) In STEM explores their incredible contributions in science, technology, engineering, and math.

Quiet yet monumental, subtle yet scorching, these poems elucidate the beauty that flourishes despite (often to spite) the overwhelmingly white, heterosexual, male scientific fields.

Utilizing the intricate flexibility of poetry, Matson highlights their immense contributions to their respective fields while celebrating the determination, resilience, and joy of the women detailed within its pages.

Grounded in science fact but appreciative of science fiction, these poems offer a glimpse into the forgotten world of outstanding women whose accomplishments have been overlooked. With great reverence, Matson desires to bring historically disregarded women into a hopeful future, where the intersections of race, gender, and ability are celebrated.

Sara Matson (she/her) is a poet in Chicago. Her poems can be found in Bone Bouquet, Impossible Task, Ghost City, The Chicago Reader and crumpled in recycling bins from Berlin to Waukegan. Sara can be found with her husband under a pile of her three cats and four goats or on BlueSky as @saramatson.bsky.social and on Instagram as @skeletorsmom

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Sea Bird, by Brianna Lemarier

Publisher: Bottlecap Press
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

Sea Bird is a collection of poetry about growing up and changing in this life. It is an expression of joy, pain, fear, and honesty, and a contemplation of relationships with people, and of the many selves we are all made up of. Growing up is a universally shared tragedy, but also an honor that not all are lucky enough to experience. It is a loss of a certain shade of the world that will only fade as time goes by. Sea Bird is an attempt to drag that color back into the world.

Through art and the courage to feel, we can bring back echoes of the beauty of the past, and maybe find new colors in the now. This collection is a journey that hopefully resonates with readers, and brings the comfort that we are not alone. Here’s to the sensitive ones, and the beauty of all that they feel.

Brianna Lemarier is a student of literature and a writer currently studying at the University of Maine. She is passionate about storytelling in it’s many forms, and she calls New England her home. Her one vice she vows to never change is the copious amounts of coffee she consumes. Sea Bird is her first chapbook.

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Full-length

Song of My Softening, Omotara James

Publisher: Alice James Books
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback

The raw poems inside Song of My Softening studies the ever-changing relationship with oneself, while also investigating the relationship that the world and nation has with Black queerness. Poems open wide the questioning of how we express both love and pain, and how we view our bodies in society, offering themselves wholly, with sharpness and compassion.

Omotara James is a writer, editor and visual artist. She is the author of the chapbook Daughter Tongue, selected by African Poetry Book Fund, in collaboration with Akashic Books, for the 2018 New Generation African Poets Box Set. A two-time Pushcart Prize nominee, she is a recipient of the 2019 92Y Discovery Poetry Prize. She earned her BA from Hofstra University and received her MFA from New York University. Her poems have appeared in Poetry Magazine, The Paris Review, The Academy of American Poets, and elsewhere. She is a fellow of Lambda Literary and Cave Canem Foundation. Born in Britain, she is the daughter of Nigerian and Trinidadian immigrants and currently lives in New York City.

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Thick with Trouble, Amber McBride

Publisher: Penguin Books
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

In Thick with Trouble, award-winning poet Amber McBride interrogates if being “trouble”—difficult, unruly, fearsome, defiant—is ultimately a weakness or an incomparable source of strength. Steeped in the Hoodoo spiritual tradition and organized via reimagined tarot cards, this collection becomes a chorus of unapologetic women who laugh, cry, mesmerize, and bring outsiders to their knees. Summoning the supernatural to examine death, rebirth, and life outside the male gaze, Amber McBride has crafted a haunting, spellbinding, and strikingly original collection of poems that reckon with the force and complexity of Black womanhood.

Amber McBride is the author of Me (Moth), a young adult novel that was a finalist for the National Book Award for Young People’s Literature and won the 2022 Coretta Scott King–John Steptoe Award for New Talent. Her work has been published in Ploughshares and Provincetown Arts, among other publications. She is a professor of creative writing at the University of Virginia.

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Shining Sheep, Ulrike Almut Sandig, Karen Leeder

Publisher: Seagull Books
Publication Date: February 19, 2024
Format: Hardcover

In the beginning, was the light, or was it the Lumières? In Ulrike Almut Sandig’s latest volume of poetry, it is only a leap from the creation of the world to the symphony of the Berlin metropolis. And there is a question holding out off the coast of Lampedusa: Can shining sheep be used as night storage for the dark hours, when we are overwhelmed with fears of God, of a gym teacher with a whistle, of mothers with eyes as black as coal? In devastating sequences, Sandig charts the reality of an abused child, victims of contemporary war, or a fourteenth-century Madonna. Full of humor, musicality, lightness, and rage, Shining Sheep is not just visual poetry—it has loops in your ear and filmic explosions of imagery for all your senses.

Born in former East Germany in 1979, Ulrike Almut Sandig has written two books of short stories, and four volumes of poetry as well as a novel. In 2021 she was invited to give the prestigious Thomas-Kling Poetics Lectures.

Karen Leeder is a writer, translator, and academic, and teaches German at New College, Oxford, where she works on modern poetry. For Seagull Books, she has translated works by Durs Grünbein, Ulrike Almut Sandig, and Michael Krüger.

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Softly Undercover, Hanae Jonas

Publisher: Mad Creek
Publication Date: February 14, 2024
Format: Paperback

From its opening insistence on “not love but procedure,” Hanae Jonas’s Softly Undercover explores the possibilities and limitations of ritual and repetition, asking what it means to believe and see clearly. Formally rangy poems map out territories of devotion and divination, contrasting the realm of mystery, dreams, and symbols with the alienation of the mundane. Against a backdrop of intimate relationships, small towns, rural landscapes, and claustrophobic interiors, Jonas casts her gaze on isolation, nostalgia, repression, visibility, and loss while examining the desire “to go anywhere more docile / than facts.” Animated by uncertainty, this elliptical and lyrical debut dwells in the pleasures and hazards of illusion.

Hanae Jonas is the author of the chapbook Lowlands. She was born in Vermont and lives in Los Angeles.

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Diver Beneath the Street, Petra Kuppers

Publisher: Wayne State University Press
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

A decaying psychogeography unfurls the landscapes of the 1967–69 Michigan Murders, the 2019 Detroit serial killer, and the COVID-19 lockdown in this visceral poetry collection. Author, performance artist, and disability culture activist Petra Kuppers dissects traces of violence in the richness of the soil while honoring lost community members. Dynamic and somatic poems traverse the realms of urban space, wild rivers, and the hinterlands of suburbia, glimpsing the decay of bodies, houses, carpets, hair, and bones by way of ecopoetry. Poems like “Reintegration” and “Earth Séance” delve into cycles of decomposition and decreasing biodiversity across the micro- and macroworlds. Others such as “Dancing Princesses” tie timeless fairy-tale tropes of violence toward women to modern murders and lived experience. Moments in lockdown are embodied through somatic exploration of nature and self in works like “Dear White Pine in My Garden.” This evocative entanglement of life and death, joy and horror, natural and artificial processes and particles offers an intriguing lyrical and poetic quality as well as unique perspectives through the lenses of feminist, queer, and disability studies.

Petra Kuppers is a disability culture activist and a community performance artist who uses somatics, performance, and speculative writing to engage audiences toward more socially just and enjoyable futures. She is the Anita Gonzalez Collegiate Professor of Performance Studies and Disability Culture at the University of Michigan, a 2023 Guggenheim Fellow, and codirector of the somatic writing studio Turtle Disco.

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Occupy Whiteness, Joaquín Zihuatanejo

Publisher: Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication Date: February 13, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

Starting from long-form works of literature by straight, white men, Joaquín Zihuatanejo occupies their pages, erasing words and sections, leaving only his poetry behind — the white space that remains becoming colonized Brown verse. Occupy Whiteness is an act of rebellion that reclaims spaces and highlights a history of erasure of Brown life.

An unflinching look at the present day, the collection is haunted and blessed by the image of ancestors who braved the river and desert to travel into border states for the opportunity of freedom. These are poems meant to agitate and create unease, to make the reader realize that neither their author nor the immigrant children he describes are Other. Through poems and interspersed photography from the border, Zihuatanejo poignantly depicts this equally beautiful and brutal place we call home.

Joaquin Zihuatanejo is a poet, spoken word artist, and award-winning teacher. Born and raised in the barrio of East Dallas, in his work Joaquín strives to capture the duality of the Chicano culture. Joaquin was a National Poetry Slam Finalist, a Grand Slam Spoken Word Champion, and HBO Def Poet, performing at universities, conferences and poetry slams all over the North America and Europe.

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PORTAL, Tracy Fuad

Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: February 19, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

Tracy Fuad’s second collection of poems, PORTAL, probes the fraught experience of bringing a new life into a world that is both lush and filled with gloom. A baby is born in a brutalist building; the planet shrinks under the new logic of contagion; roses washed up from a shipwreck centuries ago are blooming up and down the cape. PORTAL documents a life that is mediated, even at its most intimate moments, by flattening interfaces of technology and in which language—and even intelligence—is no longer produced only by humans. The voices here are stalked by eco-grief and loneliness, but they also brim with song and ecstasy, reveling in the strangeness of contemporary life while grieving losses that cannot be restored. Through Fuad’s frank, honest poetry, PORTAL vibrates with pleasure and dread.
 
Peeling back the surfaces of words to reveal their etymologies, Fuad embraces playfulness through her formal range, engaging styles from the tersely lineated to the essayistic as she intertwines topics of replication, reproduction, technology, language, history, and biology.

Tracy Fuad is the author of about:blank, a finalist for the National Poetry Series and the winner of the Donald Hall Prize. She is the recipient of fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Hedgebrook, and the Berlin Senate Fund. She lives in Berlin, where she teaches at the Berlin Writers’ Workshop.

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Mandible Wishbone Solvent, Asiya Wadud

Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication Date: February 19, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

The poetry of Mandible Wishbone Solvent is situated in the space of bridges, fragmentary overlays, spectral reach, and the desire to keep reaching. Asiya Wadud’s poems engage in this act, not to stake a claim or to fasten themselves, but to hold fragments together in order to offer possibilities for connection and extension. Throughout the collection lies an acknowledgment that any hold will drift, meander, and find new paths, with each separation making space for new entanglements. Drawing on a keen interest in tactility and ekphrasis, Wadud mines the repetition and extension that comes with any fractured state of existence and considers the nature of a residual and roving we.
 
Following this selection of lyrical, ekphrastic, fragmented poems, the book concludes with two prose pieces that dwell on the concepts of “isthmus” and “drift,” respectively, which offer further grounds for contemplation and provide a frame for the poems.

Asiya Wadud is the author of several poetry collections, including, most recently, No Knowledge Is Complete Until It Passes Through My Body. Her writing has been published in e-flux journal, BOMB Magazine, Triple Canopy, Poetry, Yale Review, and elsewhere. Her work has been supported by the Foundation Jan Michalski, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Danspace Project, Finnish Cultural Institute of New York, Rosendal Theater Norway, Kunstenfestivaldesarts, and Beirut Arts Center, among others. Wadud lives in Brooklyn, New York, where she teaches poetry at Saint Ann’s School and Columbia University.

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Pure Filth, Aidan Matthews

Publisher: The Lilliput Press
Publication Date: February 16, 2024
Format: Paperback

Pure Filth, Aidan Mathews’ fifth volume of poetry, follows upon Windfalls (Dolmen, 1977), Minding Ruth (Gallery, 1983), According to the Small Hours (Cape, 1998) and Strictly No Poetry (Lilliput, 2017). At its heart, the collection is about reflections on a career and sustained loves for people, God and art, with themes threaded throughout such as the pandemic, suburban Dublin, Irish landscape and history and the Holocaust.

Aidan Mathews was born in Dublin in 1956 and attended UCD and Stanford University in the USA. He is an award-winning playwright, novelist and short-story writer, whose last collection, Charlie Chaplin’s Wishbone and Other Stories, was published by the Lilliput Press in 2015. His last book of poetry, Strictly No Poetry, was published by Lilliput in 2017.

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Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale, Stephen Gibson

Publisher: Able Muse Press
Publication Date: February 16, 2024
Format: Hardcover / Paperback / eBook

Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale explores Kahlo’s passions and pains through vivid persona poems. It is an ekphrastic epic inspired by the paintings, photos, and personal effects on display in a 2015 Fort Lauderdale exhibition.

Stephen Gibson’s Frida Kahlo in Fort Lauderdale chronicles Frida Kahlo’s life and art, including her bittersweet marriage to Diego Rivera. Realized entirely in a modified triolet form, it is an ekphrastic epic that delves deep into brilliance and the tumult of Kahlo’s famous oeuvre. It is further enhanced by musings on the catalogue of photographs of or on Frida Kahlo and her interests and circle of family and friends. Even acknowledged Kahlo fans will find something fresh and enlightening in this book to command their attention. This is a unique take and interpretation of this universally acknowledged great artist-and uniquely deployed-unlike any other extant.

Stephen Gibson’s seventh collection, Self-Portrait in a Door-Length Mirror (University of Arkansas Press, 2017), won the Miller Williams Poetry Prize, selected by Billy Collins. Earlier collections include The Garden of Earthly Delights: Book of Ghazals (Texas Review Press, 2016); Rorschach Art Too (Story Line Press, 2014; reprint, Red Hen Press Legacy Title, 2021), winner of the Donald Justice Prize; Paradise (University of Arkansas Press, 2011), finalist for the Miller Williams Poetry Prize; Frescoes (Lost Horse Press, 2011), winner of the Idaho Prize for Poetry; Masaccio’s Expulsion (Intuit House, 2008), winner of the MARGIE Book Prize; and Rorschach Art (Red Hen Press, 2001). His poems have appeared in such journals as Able Muse, American Arts Quarterly, the American Journal of Poetry, Boulevard, Cimarron Review, Copper Nickel, Court Green, the Evansville Review, EPOCH, Field, the Gettysburg Review, the Hudson Review, the Iowa Review, J Journal, Measure, New England Review, Notre Dame Review, the Paris Review, Pleiades, Ploughshares, Poetry, Prairie Schooner, Quiddity, Raleigh Review, Salamander, the Sewanee Review, Shenandoah, Southern Poetry Review, the Southern Review, the Southwest Review, Upstreet, the Yale Review, and elsewhere.

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A Muckleshoot Poetry Anthology, Susan Landgraf, Samuel Obravac

Publisher: Washington State University Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2024
Format: Paperback

As part of workshops held on the Muckleshoot Indian Reservation, fifty-four poets-most from the Muckleshoot Tribal School-created the works in this collection. Their pieces are about searching and belonging. Loss and finding. All share a common theme-a reaching back and a reaching forward-sometimes in the same poem. They highlight Muckleshoot history and culture, but also spotlight individual histories, lessons, and beliefs.

The collection features compositions by fifty-four poets ranging from elementary school age to adult-most from the Muckleshoot Tribal School-along with Samuel Obrovac’s artwork inspired by several of the included poems. Expressive and moving, their pieces are about searching and belonging, loss and discovery. The writers share a common theme-a reaching back and a reaching forward-sometimes in the same poem. Their work highlights Muckleshoot history and culture, but also spotlights individual histories, lessons, beliefs, and emotions.

Poet and journalist Susan Landgraf is the author of What We Bury Changes the Ground and The Inspired Poet, a book of writing exercises. Her newest title is Crossings. She has taught at Highline College and Jiao Tong University in Shanghai, as well as the Port Townsend Writers’ Conference. She served as Poet Laureate of Auburn, Washington, from 2018 to 2020.

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Light of Wings, Sarah Kotchian

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

This haunting collection merges spirit and nature in a voice both elegiac and celebratory. Kotchian explores our deep connection to the natural world, one increasingly at risk even as it continues to surprise and inspire. From meditations on the dangers of global warming to supporting a friend with cancer, from grieving the loss of her own mother to celebrating nature from New Mexico to a wild Scottish island, the poems celebrate both solitude and companionship and enlarge our concept of belonging and community, offering us threads of resilience, persistence, and hope.

Sarah Kotchian is also the author of Camino, winner of the New Mexico-Arizona Book Award and the Seven Sisters Book Award.

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Singing Forever in My Memories, Michael J. Walsh

Publisher: Mosaic Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2024
Format: Paperback

Singing Forever in My Memories is true to its title because Mike’ s shared verses cover a lifetime of the visions and experiences of a literary artist. In fact, the title could have been called a Swinging collection of memories that dance across the page in rhythmic patterns & accompanying, lyrical harmonies. The words become his metaphorical pictures, images and feelings of happiness, comfort and our own uncertainty about the future when like him, “Who am I & why am I here?” lingers still in our memories. Mike’ s poems become an album of his life filled with the benchmarks of his journeys and challenges over sixty years. For example, when a piece of burning cigarette foil become his concern for our survival on Earth in 1962 (Cuban Missile Crisis). Then a 1973 update of the same poem became a team exercise with Arts students in a classroom. Then with his Vignettes he captures snapshots of Nature’s landscape, which then reappears in a Walt Whitman-styled poem, “Life’ s Journey is a River” detailing the colours, smells, sounds, tastes, and touches of our journeys on the river of time and finally reaching the Oasis.

Michael J. Walsh is a retired professor from Sheridan College in Oakville, Canada. He has been involved in Canadian book publishing since 1967 and involved in the United States, the UK, Europe, and China . He co-founded Mosaic Press in the early 1970s.

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Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma, Sy Hoahwah

Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication Date: February 15, 2024
Format: Paperback / eBook

Trials and Tribulations of Dirty Shame, Oklahoma beautifully showcases Comanche gothic literature, a new genre in Indigenous literature, at its creative best. In the tradition of The Iliad and Paradise Lost, this book is an epic poem of heroic and biblical proportions. Three Indigenous young people discover that the Holy Grail has been on the North American continent for centuries, and in Oklahoma for the last two. Battling both human and supernatural enemies, Velroy, Mia, and Stoney struggle to get the Holy Grail out of Indian Country to save their families and community and bring true peace back to their ordinary, Dirty Shame lives.

Sy Hoahwah is the author of several other poetry books and chapbooks, including Ancestral Demon of a Grieving Bride and Velroy and the Madischie Mafia(both from UNM Press).

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