Congratulations to our members for the publications of these poems and collections!
Collections
Paris Paint Box, New and Selected Poems
Paris Paint Box, New and Selected Poems, brings together over forty-five years of poetry by Helena Minton. The book opens with a sequence about the life and work of the French Impressionist painter, Berthe Morisot. Additional new poems focus on everyday moments, and meditations on the past. In selections from her previous work, poems touch on family, gardens, New England history and landscapes, and the Alaska wilderness. In a quiet but determined voice, the poet draws the reader into her world with direct, spare language and a keen eye to detail. Available to purchase and published by Loom Press.
Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems
“Susan Rich’s Gallery of Postcards and Maps: New and Selected Poems is a wondrous and wonderful collection. It gathers poems from her four volumes of poetry while featuring a stellar selection of new work. Perceptive and honest, these masterful poems represent a life’s journey full of imagination, desire, and craft, always striving for transcendence—“knowing yes! is the one chosen thing.” This expansive collection is both a work of art and a map for what it means to be an artist.” — January Gill O’Neil. Available to purchase through Salmon Poetry.
the Colored page
This stunning new poetry collection by Matthew E. Henry (MEH), the Colored page, is a visceral meditation on the multi-layered experience of a Black body in educational spaces. Sprawling with metaphors and allusions to both the contemporary and the historic, Henry brings us an intense narrative chronicle of the speaker’s life as student, educator, and finally as a writer. At the center there is a reckoning with the racism written into the pages of America, and Henry leads us from the microaggressions of educational oversight, to the horror of blatant dehumanization. In pieces that directly call out those responsible—educators, institutions, and peers alike—the speaker moves via Henry’s generously vivid poems through open letters, vignettes, and poetic narratives that uncover the realities of an educator’s life’s work in the “United” States today… Read more.
Available to purchase on MEH’s website.
Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble
Selected by Matthew Olzmann for the Agha Shahid Ali Prize
Inside this debut collection by Carolyn Oliver, girlhood’s dangers echo, transmuted, in the poet’s fears for her son. A body just discovering the vastness of “want’s new acreage” is humbled by chronic illness. Epithalamion turns elegy. But this world that so often seems capricious in its cruelty also shelters apple orchards, glass museums, schoolchildren, century-old sharks; “there’s no accounting for / all we want to save, no names.” Published by University of Utah Press.
Journals
DeWitt Henry published several poems: “Rabbit,” Plume (August); “Gone Phishing,” Blyden Square Review (Summer); “On Fits,” Ibbetson Street 51