Pleiades Press is pleased to announce The Best Prey by Paige Quiñones was selected by Tiana Clark as the winner of the 2020 Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry, and will be published in 2021. Tiana Clark praised the book, saying, “The Best Prey is a lush collection converging at the vibrating intersection of danger and…
Pleiades Press is pleased to announce that after an open reading period during the summer of 2019, we have selected Rodney Gomez’s Geographic Tongue to be the fifth book published in the Visual Poetry Series. The book will be released in Fall 2020. Rodney Gomez is the author of Citizens of the Mausoleum (Sundress, 2018), a finalist for the…
We are pleased to announce dark // thing by Ashley M. Jones was selected by Marcus Wicker as the winner of the Lena-Miles Wever Todd Prize for Poetry and will be published next year. Marcus Wicker praised this book, saying “dark // thing explores the operating costs incurred when blackness—black hair, black bottom, black diction…
by M. J. Chrisman Bruce Snider’s Paradise, Indiana tells pieces of Indiana history through vivid imagery and detail, often through the eyes of characters and perspectives the reader wouldn’t normally expect. Throughout the book, he describes elements of life after death through several interspersed poems titled “Afterlife,” each one displaying a new viewpoint and containing its own…
Here’s something new we are working on. The selected poetry comics of Bianca Stone will be in the bookstore next fall. You can find glimpses here. BIANCA STONE is a poet and visual artist. Her books include the poetry collection Someone Else’s Wedding Vows (Tin House/Octopus Books 2014), Antigonick, a hybrid collaboration with Anne Carson (New Directions 2012),…
by Luke McKiddy Katie Bickham’s poems have appeared in The Missouri Review, Deep South Magazine, The Road Not Taken: A Journal of Formal Poetry and elsewhere. Her work has won the The Missouri Review Editor’s Prize and her first book, The Belle Mar, was selected by Alicia Ostriker as the winner of The Lena-Miles Wever Todd Poetry Prize. Katie…
If you are going to be in Minneapolis this year for AWP, plan to come out and see Katie Bickham read at the Segue Cafe Friday, April 10th at 6 p.m. along with Rebecca Hazelton, Jessica Cuello, Francesca Bell, Joseph Haske, and Debra Kang Dean.
Katy Didden’s new poem “Eve of the Ascent” appeared in the most recent issue of 32 Poems Magazine. Kjerstin Kauffman praised the poem over on the 32 Poems blog saying: “There’s a moment in “Eve of the Ascent” when the speaker’s thoughts move from Dante’s Purgatory to what’s immediate and in front of her: “Behind gnarly junipers our…
Abigail Cloud’s book, Sylph, has been getting some good press lately. Rebecca Dunham at Devil’s Lake says: “In poems that are imagistically and musically rich, Cloud considers the nature of love and desire—particularly desire’s attraction to that which is missing.” Read more. NewPages glows: “…graceful, self-assured poems, beautifully executed with a tightly focused imagistic sensibility.” Read…