Fernwood Press

It's This contemplates relationships, identity, love, loss, and radical transformation, finding acceptance, joy, and growing peace, as the speaker practices meditation, and falls more deeply in love...

Christian games and toys, Sunday School supplies, and religious home decor serve as springboards for meditations on a variety of topics, including both large-scale theological concepts and more...

Viewing nature as a spiritual discipline requires focus, quiet intention, listening for the smallest noises, and watching how change happens. Let these poems guide you as you enter the world. Let...

Our love songs have no shadows. We dare not acknowledge the deep love that can coexist with loss. But in this timely and timeless collection, Peg Edera offers what we didn't know we needed: a...

In three compositional movements, these poems undertake a journey through geographies of human history into the intimacies of childhood, aging, and memory. Placement reflects on the disparate...

Three movements-philosophical, nostalgic, and romantic-shape this collection that paradoxically defies categories even while courting their overlapping edges. Ed Higgins's writing reveals a bemused...

In her new collection of poems, Ellen Rowland summons us to presence, showing us the world through an unfiltered lens that asks us to consider the beauty and truth of the ordinary. "How large each...

What is the fascination of the unfinished work of art? It is alive. That is because the unfinished is the doorway allowing the spirit of the reader to experience the universe around us and within us...

Now in Contest invites us to listen to America's many voices and how they are divided from each other and our history. From the many in contest, it listens for one hope to go forward into today and...

Emmett Wheatfall shows us how the roots of love grow deep in the soil of sacrifice. He illustrates the intensely complex relationship between idealism and realism. His poems hurt in just the right...

Pax is a book of peace, a book of love poems to the world. The poems within these pages ask us to wake to our own remarkable lives and our undeniable connections, to look with a steady eye at the...

Love chooses the people and things we name first. In these poems, Trina Gaynon attempts the more difficult task of seeking names for the new and unexplored. In the process she claims the roles of...

These poems squeeze grief through a cider press and heap addiction high on a wood pile. Smith's debut returns us to the forest, where she unearths a tenderness that aches, splinters, and renews...

The collected poems in Royal Blue Shutters explore the pull and tug of language, the tin-like sounds, the careful alignment, and robust admiration of words. Their subject matter turns the ordinary on...

She Calls the Moon by Its Name, a powerful and haunting series of poems, follows a nineteenth-century farm woman in spiritual isolation as she finds strength in naming what is alive around her-or...

Shelby's Lady: The Hog PoemsAuthor: Shelby StephensonPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Nov 20, 2020Number of Pages: 156 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980721ISBN-13:...

Songs for All Souls resonates with an invitation to explore sacred space, offering moments of awe and wonder. Krapf's poems become a source of solace, a conduit for unburdening sorrow, hurt, and even...

Since the 1970s, Norbert Krapf has been working on a collection of poems that tell the story of his stillborn sister and the effect she has had on him and on his family, as well as the spiritual...

The poems in T'shuvah consider the question of what it means to "return" from the alienation that is inherent in surviving sexual violence.Author: Richard NewmanPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication...

The poems in Lana Hechtman Ayers' The Autobiography of Rain explore the healing powers of art and nature in a world that is as rife with grief as it is as ripe with beauty. It is in the most stricken...

This astonishing new collection from poet Bethany Lee weaves the thread of her keen attention around life's joys and sorrows, draws them tightly together and offers them into our hands. With...

Step away from the shore and into the journey with Bethany Lee's The Coracle and the Copper Bell. This collection speaks of summer plums and starlight, of circuses and saltwater, all pointing to the...

The Glue Trap and Other Poems is a volume in which range should be read as trajectory, the personal and the social as reciprocal metaphors, in which my speaker's voice aspires to the credibility of a...

Nancy Thomas celebrates language-its sounds, grammar, quirks, and all that words can and can't do. She plays with common figures of speech, celebrates relationships, and approaches growing older with...

Raw, vulnerable, and powerfully relatable, The Uncovering considers the universally human struggle to countenance even the deepest parts of who we are.Author: Jennifer J CampPublisher: Fernwood...

At the center of The Weather Gods lie several paradoxes: the world is both a respite and site for grief; a salve and a source of disappointment; a place of renewal and death; a place of enduring...

This Will Be a SignAuthor: Jeffrey JohnsonPublisher: Fernwood PressPublication Date: Mar 31, 2020Number of Pages: 100 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1594980667ISBN-13: 9781594980664

With 39 pieces from a revolving cast of characters, Tobit Detours includes modern as well as biblical and literary intertextual connections, blending influences such as Nahum, Byron, and Ani DiFranco...

In her thoughtful debut collection, Theresa Monteiro uses the scenery of domestic and daily life to call forth fear and loss: the magnitude of human experience seen through the details of the...