Released in January
New book from Deerbrook Editions: Visit To An Extinct City by Teresa Carson. Available now.
Visit to an Extinct City, first in the series The Argument of Time, reflects on the ruins of Ostia Antica. New forms of poetry in English and Italian (facing).
Endorsements can be found on the book page. Click the cover. Teresa Carson's Website
A very popular April release
In April, Deerbrook Editions will release Things Seemed to be Breaking, a collection of Kestenbaum’s avant-garde erasure poems – and Cove Street Arts will exhibit some of Kestenbaum’s erasure poems in its Portland gallery, beginning April 1. The exhibition also will include collaborative work with the artist Susan Webster, and some of her own work as well.
April 15, in collaboration with Blue Hill Books, MWPA is pleased to host a conversation between poets Stuart Kestenbaum and Naomi Shihab Nye on Zoom.
Endorsed by Maira Kalman
In the less is definitely more department, we have arrived at perfection. Stuart Kestenbaum's extracted poems are beacons of tender, funny,minimalist illumination. And beautiful to look at. In short, it is all there. —Maira Kalman
Another April release
Harvest Time
Poems
Martin Willitts Jr.
ISBN:978-1-7343884-7-3
6 x 9; 92 pages; $18.25
Available now
publication, April 15
About the author
Martin Willitts Jr. is a retired Librarian living in Syracuse, New York.
Some of Martin's awards
He was nominated for 15 Pushcart and 13 Best of the Net awards. Winner of: the 2012 Big River Poetry Review’s William K. Hathaway Award; 2013 Bill Holm Witness Poetry Contest; 2013 “Trees” Poetry Contest; 2014 Broadsided award; 2014 Dylan Thomas International Poetry Contest; Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, June 2015, Editor’s Choice; Rattle Ekphrastic Challenge, Artist’s Choice, November 2016; Stephen A. DiBiase Poetry Prize, 2018. He won a Central New York Individual Artist Award and provided “Poetry on The Bus” which had 48 poems in local buses including 20 bi-lingual poems from 7 different languages.
Portland’s outgoing Poet Laureate’s fine collection
Endorsed by Betsy Sholl
The poems in Linda Aldrich’s new book Ballast are stunning and vital. . . . Aldrich is beautifully agile with form, whether that form is traditional or wildly inventive, as in her crown of sonnets coupled with their own erasures. These poems bring us heartbreak and longing, but also sly humor and levity, a bench that flies, books with lives of their own, buttons tossed into the toll basket instead of coins. —Betsy Sholl, author of House of Sparrows
For more about this book and author, click on the cover.
Another fine spring collection
Sufficient Emptiness
Poems
Marjorie Power
ISBN: 978-1-7368477-1-8
6 x 9; 100 pages;$18.25
The title poem, “Sufficient Emptiness” was inspired by something that happened on the winter solstice – the year’s darkest day that simultaneously burgeons with promise and new hope. This theme repeats throughout the book.
Marjorie has three collection of poetry, and a number of chapbooks. Her work has appeared in Mudfish, Southern Poetry Review, Blueline, Commonweal, The Comstock Review, and many others.
Endorsed by Amy Wray Irish, author of The nature of the Mother
Sufficient Emptiness holds life’s contradictions in balance on the fine edge of language. With elegance and grace, Power captures moments of connection and reverie. With sly wit and savvy insight, she meditates on history, memory, and art. This is a collection of those “hushed thefts” in life that change us, as well as a roadmap of how to traverse the journey. Sufficient Emptiness is more than a book, it is the balm we need for the wound of these difficult times.
—Amy Wray Irish, author of The Nature of the Mother
