Iris Press

Robert B. Cumming, the longtime publisher of Iris Press, has been writing poetry for over twenty-five years. After All collects some of Cumming's sonnets, sestinas, villanelles, and free verse. He...

During the pandemic Bill Brown started reading friends' poems that he loved. He chose a quote from each poem, and he wrote a tribute poem as a response. That is how this book, After Reading, got its...

Available Light is a poetry collection that illuminates what it means to be human. Balancing themes of doubt with faith, and loss with acceptance, the collection remains fiercely hopeful through the...

Black Laurel by Michele Poulos is a collection of poems, intimate elegiac gestures honor landscapes and individuals we have lost to history. Resonant and oracular, her poems travel the world, from...

Music is the motif, the pulse, of these poems. From Americana, Folk, and Bluegrass, to Country, Gospel, Blues, and Rock, Blood Harmony potently depicts the interconnectedness of musical genres...

Body BrailleAuthor: Beth GylysPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: May 21, 2020Number of Pages: 92 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1604542608ISBN-13: 9781604542608

Candescent - 9781604542578Author: Linda ParsonsPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: Aug 01, 2019Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1604542578ISBN-13: 9781604542578

The poems in Darwin's Breath ponder fossils embedded into earth's oldest mountains, explore thoughts of the mockingbird with her distinct cells "rising on the wind," travel through memories of a...

KB Ballentine gathers poems into four sections that honor the ancient rhythms of Earth, Air, Water, and Fire. Edge of the Echo explores these elements and how they weave through the human experience...

Everything in the Universe, a company founded by Norm Sperling and located in Oakland, California, offers astronomical products and services. The company features books, back issues of astronomical...

Human is a chapbook that consists of four poems dealing with environmental issues and the great difficulties we have in dealing with them. In addition to the loss of species and diversity on this...

In the backhoe's shadow, one takes a brief rest in the midst of responsibilities and needs, considering what comes next. In his debut poetry collection, ... Thomas Alan Holmes offers a measured...

Lost on Purpose is a universe of portals, a poetry collection that offers the rare invitation to be both observer and intimate, taking in the reverie of landscape and lover, travel and art. Head's...

Lunchboxes, by Dan Veach, preserves in the amber of poetry a classic 1950s Southern California childhood, complete with Superman capes, coonskin caps, cap pistols, and lunchboxes which, like this...

Red Lanterns is a collection of new poetry that navigates a borderland between the seen world and the spirit world. Occupying a tangible world is expected of us humans. We have been taught to trust...

In Socorro, poet and non-fiction author Tony Reevy (Old North, Passage) revisits his childhood hometown, Socorro, New Mexico. Although the largest community for miles in any direction, Socorro is...

The poems in The Book of Awe remind us through images of the natural world--clover, vetch, chickadees, honey bees, rainbow trout--that awe is rooted in the simplicity of awareness. Awe, we're...

The Headless AngelAuthor: Bill BrownPublisher: Iris PressPublication Date: Mar 20, 2020Number of Pages: 94 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1604542632ISBN-13: 9781604542639

Ultimately, we all end up losers, at least to the atheist or agnostic, but The Least by Mac Gay documents a sample of the myriad that get a head start, whether as the unfortunate, the infamous, or...

In Turbulence, poet and non-fiction author Tony Reevy looks at family" in the United States through the lens of one family and its members' collective experiences over the last fifty years. The poems...

Under an Adirondack Moon is the reflection and interpretation, in poetry, of an Adirondack memoir. These poems travel from birth to death, through hardship and joy, on the tractors and horses and...

The poems in Robert Lee Kendrick's first full-length collection, What Once Burst With Brilliance, explore their narrators' paths through loss -- unborn children, broken relationships, unfulfilled...