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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Free-Fall by Dana Yost
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Free-Fall is a tightly packed, often-intense #chapbook with #poems about #mental #health, today’s politics and culture and about #family — with the three sometimes interwoven. And yet there are moments when it finds beauty and wonder in the world. It’s all done with rock-solid images and language that poet Susan McLean says ‘’find a solidity as real as the stone that slips soundlessly into the river.’’
Dana Yost was an award-winning daily newspaper journalist for 29 years. He is a three-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Since 2008, he has published eight books.
PRAISE FOR Free-Fall by Dana Yost
‘’Here is a book for our times. Yost’s vivid, grounded images and candid advice speak to a generation increasingly disconnected from place and history, and therefore increasingly distressed about their lives.’’
–David R. Pichaske, Editor-Publisher of Spoon River Poetry Press
In Free-Fall, Dana Yost works at keeping a difficult balance in the midst of loneliness, loss, and the angers and fears of contemporary life. He does not minimize the starkness of depression and mental health challenges, but for ballast, he holds on to the smell of lavender, a scrap of blue flannel shirt snagged in a red maple, a “sickle-shaped moon . . . hung in the sky / like a tool on a workshop wall.” Set in small towns on the prairie, his poems find a solidity as real as the stone that slips soundlessly into the river, “the strength in the mercy and forgiveness of the meek.”
–Susan McLean, author of The Best Disguise and The Whetstone Misses the Knife
Edgy, unsettled, reckoning with those old ghosts—what was, what might have been, and the sickle moon hanging over us all—the poems in Dana Yost’s Free-Fall might wake you in the night, might, in the best ways, haunt your days.
–Joe Wilkins, author of When We Were Birds and Thieve
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Mississippi Meanderings by Barb Geiger
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The #poems in Barb Geiger’s collection, #Mississippi Meanderings, invite you to witness America’s iconic #waterway through lyrical snapshots of the #river’s many moods, moments in its rich history, and the inhabitants and travelers of its waters and shores. You’ll be awed by river wildlife and sand island sunsets, fascinated by mammoth barges and pearl button factories, and entertained with poems of mishap and moonshine. Photos accompanying the poems in the collection are available under the Photo Gallery tab at www.barbgeiger.com.
Barb Geiger lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin, with her husband, Gene, and their sweet chinchilla, Raji. She is a member of the Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets and the Authors Guild. Her poetry has appeared in anthologies and in several Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets’ Calendars. Her award-winning memoir, Paddle for a Purpose, was published in 2018. Mississippi Meanderings is her first poetry chapbook. You can find out more about her writing at www.barbgeiger.com.
PRAISE FOR Mississippi Meanderings by Barb Geiger
“Here in Barbara Geiger’s dynamic and reflective poems are the music and the pull of the Mississippi River from its “heartwaters” to the river’s end where it “transforms to saltwater sea.” This reading adventure took me from the confines of my easy chair into the meandering heart of America’s most iconic river.”
–Margaret Rozga, Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2019-2020, author of Holding My Selves Together: New & Selected Poems
“The flow of poetry and the flow of the Mississippi River merge together in strikingly natural lyricism in Barbara Geiger’s book, Mississippi Meanderings. Geiger has not only watched the river, but she’s been in it and on it as she traveled by kayak down its length. This experience turns into expression as Geiger gives the reader poem postcards of the unforgettable and unpredictable river.”
–Kathie Giorgio, author of All Told and If You Tame Me, among others
“Barb Geiger’s poems, like the Mississippi River itself, move along from gentle headwaters to natural wonders, to the folk who reside along the banks. Through Geiger’s poetry, we get to poke along with the river and the kayakers, exploring things travelers not on the river don’t get to experience. Here’s the best chance to see the Mississippi from an entirely new and delightful perspective.”
–Mary Ann Noe, author of “To Know Her”
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Mark B. Hamilton read from his new eco-poetry chapbook, UPSTREAM (Finishing Line Press, January 12, 2024). The 26-minute session, hosted by David Jibson, editor of Thrid Wednesday Literary & Arts Journa on April 11, 2024, combined selections from Mark's two other recent eco-poetry volumes, as well: OYO: The Beautiful River (Shanti Arts, 2020) and Lake, River, Mountain (Cornerstone Press, January 15, 2024). https://thirdwednesdaymagazine.org/2024/04/12/oyo-the-beautiful-river-mark-hamilton/
UPSTREAM is Mark's second chapbook published by Finishing Line Press. The first was 100 Miles of Heat, September 2017.
For additional information on the author, view: MarkBHamilton.WordPress.com
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: The Residents by Matthew J. Friday
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The Residents begins with the author’s arrival at the height of the COVID pandemic and explores his new #life as a US resident. The #poems reflect on this new journey and study what being a resident means for other people, flora and fauna. While #Oregon’s inhabitants and #landscape form the basis of many poems, others explore residency in a wider sense, crossing borders near and far away.
Matthew James Friday is a British born writer and teacher. He has an MA in Creative Writing from Goldsmith College, University of London. He has had many poems published in US and international journals from all corners of the world. He has published numerous micro-chapbooks with the Origami Poems Project (US). Matthew is a Pushcart Prize nominated poet. The Residents is his first chapbook. More of his writing can be found at: http://matthewfriday.weebly.com
PRAISE FOR The Residents by Matthew J. Friday
We have been honored to publish Matthew Friday‘s poetry. So I am delighted to celebrate this chapbook of his poems—rich in imagery, voice, and a delightful playfulness with language. The poems connect the conscious mind with the heart ( what Mary Oliver says poetry can do).
–Kimberly Hill Campbell, Editor of Oregon English Journal
The Residents challenges me to look into the world and to realize that I’m connected to it. With depth and weight, Friday’s lyrics exalt the ordinary natural world into something I can grapple and hum with. The Residents is a subtle hurricane of poems that illuminate the mysteries and paradoxes we all might experience while getting a haircut or visiting a pumpkin field, wondering why. Friday writes from a place high above, encompassing all that the land has to offer, yet not so high that he misses pumpkin seeds, hummingbirds, and Easter eggs. These poems are offerings my soul gladly accepts. In the Residents, Friday brings the reader through a glorious expedition of the natural world and that which transcends it. His poems paint lucid images of the natural, while inviting the reader to contemplate the unknown. These poems are a call for awareness in a world that might be too sleepy to wake up. I’ve been a reader of Matthew’s poetry for years, and this collection is his best yet.
–Mike Leyland, School Library Media coordinator, Craven County Schools.
Matthew’s collection of poetry, The Residents, connects the reader with the beauty and power of the natural world, the strangeness of modern life and our alternately sweet or disconnected fellow human beings. He writes with empathy and self-awareness of all he encounters, finding poetic elements in the smallest gestures and actions, as well as the ancient forces of the planet that will outlast us and our temporary dramas. Desperate migrants, unfair privilege, flying birds, rushing water, random hardship, bureaucratic paperwork, a child’s joy in jumping in puddles, unexpected connections between people from different parts of the world—all combine to capture the imagination and stimulate recognition of our shared humanity. Classical literary and mythological references flow through the observations of physics and earth science juxtaposed with human actions, both positive and negative, that in the end are only momentary. Above all, Matthew’s words capture fleeting moments that make life more beautiful in the midst of our current world.
–Vivienne Blake,Librarian, EF Academy New York
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FLP FLASH-FICTION CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: It’s Time by Katie Sullivan Hughbanks
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It’s Time is a fresh collection of #flash #fiction that focuses on the immediacy of the moment. The most valuable commodity we have is #time – time to notice, to feel, to reflect, to learn, to love. The characters in It’s Time bring this truth to life while revealing how connections to each other and the natural world are complicated and problematic, but ultimately beautiful. Each #story reminds the reader that to be fully human, we must grasp the only moment we have is now.
Katie Sullivan Hughbanks is a Kentucky poet, fiction writer, and photographer whose work celebrates the beauty of nature, the power of connection, and the value of every voice. She teaches literature and writing at Assumption High School in Louisville and spends every moment she can writing, hiking, taking photos, singing, dancing, birdwatching, and admiring dogs of all types. Her first poetry collection, Blackbird Songs, was published in 2019 (Prolific Press).
PRAISE FOR It’s Time by Katie Sullivan Hughbanks
“Katie Hughbanks‘ beautifully told stories of people from all walks of life and time periods will stir your heart and linger there before they move deeper into your soul, where they just might change you. I know I will read these again and again.”
–Han Nolan, author of Dancing on the Edge, National Book Award Winner, and Send Me Down a Miracle, National Book Award finalist
“Katie Sullivan Hughbanks‘ It’s Time is a keenly observed exploration of love, loss, and fairness set against the ever-ticking clock of life. Hughbanks chronicles the human experience with tenderness and heart.”
–Ellen Birkett Morris, author of the award-winning short story collection Lost Girls and the novel Beware the Tall Grass, winner of the Donald L. Jordan Prize for Literary Excellence
“As a writer, I have long admired Katie. As an editor, I am thrilled to see one of her submissions cross my desk. Her observations capture the universal and the intimate. She understands and shares in It’s Time that the past is the past and the future is uncertain; what we have is now, the present, a gift we must share.”
–Stephen Vest, Editor and Publisher of Kentucky Monthly and author of Unexpected Inheritance
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: East Side Solitude by Asyia Gover
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East Side Solitude is a mixed #poetry and #prose journal about love, longing, and liminality in the Pacific Northwest. Asyia Gover reveals the mysterious leading characters through a series of vignettes that trace their tragic romance from the Middle East, to the Far East, to the East and West Coasts of the US. These experimental poems and #illustrations dazzle the reader’s appetite as if they were “simmering curry, flame-licked beef, … hot shawarma.” Follow along with this heartfelt collection to find out if the semi-fictional personae in East Side Solitude ever reach reconciliation and justice in the midst of “the obscured otherworld, the / opposite of the train horn, / the ears closed to alarm, / the city subdued with stillness.”
Asyia Gover is a writer, artist, educator, and mediator. Her poetry has appeared in the multimedia collection, SEXT, and anthology zines such as Love and Outrage. She has written and co-directed three stage plays for youth performers. She and her feline familiar, Cora, have made a home in the liminal space between eastern and western Washington State.
PRAISE FOR East Side Solitude by Asyia Gover
“East Side Solitude ignites every sense while reaching across time and space. Reading this collection is like flitting through interwoven snapshots, each piece calling back and forward towards the next. Themes of loss, ancestry, intimacy are explored through deeply sensual depictions that make the narrator’s yearning real in the body of the reader.”
–Romeo Romero, author of descendant.
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NEW FROM FINISHING LINE PRESS: Beyond Cornfields by Elaine M. Seaman
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Traveling Beyond Cornfields is the heart of this collection of #poems by Elaine M. Seaman. Starting from her miniature town in Iowa to various states, especially Colorado and Michigan, and countries, especially Mexico and New Zealand, she notices intricacies in #landscape, flora, fauna, and humanity. She recognizes life lived and life lost. But she always remembers that “Home is just ahead. Warm rooms in our clover meadow, oaks and pine. Home. Ahead.”
Elaine M. (Koren) Seaman grew up near the cornfields of Iowa but has lived in Kalamazoo, Michigan, for over forty years. Her sons draw her to Colorado and New Zealand each year and wanderlust takes her to other parts of the planet. Finishing Line Press published her first book of poetry, Rocks in the Wheatfield, in 2004. Her self-published book (2019), My Mother Sewed Dresses for Five, contains quilts she made and poems she wrote that share titles. The American Quilter’s Museum in Paducah, Kentucky, has one of her quilts in their collection, as do many private collectors.
PRAISE FOR Beyond Cornfields by Elaine M. Seaman
Beyond Cornfields is alive with backroad byways, birds, Pepsi and peanuts, and patchwork landscapes. Seaman begins by saying that “everything that would come later spun out from the center of Iowa” and her clear-as-day Iowan voice drops sparks of wry humor as deftly as it alludes to grief, made all the more poignant for its spareness. From the family home in Iowa Seaman spins us outward to Michigan, west to Colorado, past sandhill cranes writing across the broad sky, then farther still to Hawai’i, Mexico, and New Zealand, where she puzzles over a recipe calling for “blue milk.” But always there is the return home, where “life doesn’t have to go far to be a life.” I urge you to settle in and read this volume straight through. Allow Seaman’s poems to offer you tender comfort as, again and again, she shows you how “the world bumps beauty right in front of your eyes.”
–Marion Starling Boyer, winner of the 2021 Wheelbarrow Poetry Prize for Ice Hours and Grayson Books 2023 Chapbook Prize for What Word for This.
In Elaine Seaman’s poem “Centrifuge,” she writes, “Everything that would come later/spun out from the center of Iowa…”. And so it is with this collection, grounded between cornfields in Iowa but taking literal flight to new worlds where her sons have settled. Drives, cruises, flights, she finds herself between the comfort and ghosts of the past and the quickly accelerating present, new geographies and adult children. Plain-spoken but not terse, Seaman wonders successfully about her shifting world.
–Elizabeth Kerlikowske, Author of The Vaudeville Horse, Art Speaks, and Dominant Hand
Elaine Seaman’s Beyond Cornfields is a must-have guide for anyone who has ever travelled, left loved ones behind, or found themselves left behind. A poet who is also a quilter, Seaman has expertly pieced together tender and fierce poems that take the reader on a vibrant journey through Iowa cornfields to New Zealand gardens, from a dinner cruise where a stranger chokes on a steak to playing extreme croquet in Kalamazoo. Seaman’s delightful collection is testament to the power of poetry, stitching together memories that open to the vast landscape of the heart.
–Jennifer Clark, author of A Beginner’s Guide to Heaven and Kissing the World Goodbye
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