Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Pramila Venkateswaran, Exile is not a Foreign Word, Copper Coin, November 2024, poetry Exile is not a Foreign Word addresses the kinds of barriers we experience in our lives that affect us for generations.…
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Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Lisa Marie Oliver, Birthroot, Glass Lyre Press, December 2024, poetry (chapbook) The poems in Birthroot explore themes of new motherhood, loss, renewal and the natural world. This chapbook follows the first months of…
MER Bookshelf – April 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Highley Alice B Fogel, Falsework, Bee Monk Press, August 2024, poetry These poems refuse sleep. They remind us that life is a cycle of filling and emptying, of finding…
MER Bookshelf – March 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Lynn McGee, Science Says Yes, Broadstone Books, January 2025, poetry Science Says Yes by Lynn McGee addresses human empathy and resilience in relation to nature, advances in technology…
MER Bookshelf – February 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Julia C. Alter, Some Dark Familiar, Green Writers Press, April 2024, poetry Julia C. Alter’s Some Dark Familiar begins as an excavation of the shadow sides of motherhood– often…
MER Bookshelf – January 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Dzvinia Orlowsky, Those Absences Now Closest, Carnegie Mellon University Press, October 2024, poetry. In her newest collection, Ukrainian American poet Dzvinia Orlowsky is a witness, never a bystander, ready…
MER Bookshelf – December 2024 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Megan Merchant & Luke Johnson, A Slow Indwelling, Harbor Editions, November 2024, poetry. This unique collaborative work explores parenthood, illness, and the beauty found in life’s fragile moments through…
Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Books on our radar this month, new and coming soon! Jennifer Gravley, The Story I Told My Mother: Poems and an Essay, Twelve Winters Press, September 2023, poetry. The first book from short…
Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Upcoming and new books on our radar! Megan Merchant, Hortensia, in Winter, New American Press, October 2024, poetry Hortensia, in Winter, winner of the New American Poetry Prize, is a series of prose poems…
MER Bookshelf – September 2024 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Jennifer Lang, Landed: A yogi’s memoir in pieces & poses, Vine Leaves Press, October 2024, creative nonfiction (memoir) American-born Jennifer traces her journey—both on and off the yoga mat—reckoning…