Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Upcoming, new, and noted books (listed in order of date of publication). Geri Lipschultz, Grace Before the Fall, DarkWinter Press, August 2025, literary fiction (novel) Grace Before the Fall is a reminder that every…
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Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Marjorie Maddox, Seeing Things, Wildhouse Publishing, February 2025, poetry With its focus on memory, illness, and their ramifications, Seeing Things explores overlapping roles of a daughter whose mother is entering the beginning stages…
MER Bookshelf – August 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Suzanne Kamata, River of Dolls and Other Stories, Penguin Random House SEA, January 2025, literary fiction (short stories) These stories, many of which riff on traditional Japanese folk tales…
MER Bookshelf – July 2025 Curated by Melissa Joplin Higley Catherine Gigante-Brown, Immigrant Hearts, Volossal, March 2025, literary fiction (novel Immigrant Hearts is a vintage love story that stretches across more than 40 years, from the 1920s to the…
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.…
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…