Sheila-Na-Gig Editions

An anthology of short stories: Editor's PrizeJennifer Schomburg KankeA String of BeadsSarah KontopolousHappiness on the BeachEd DavisCeremonyYvette FlatenBlackberry HarvestWilliam BainFiresoleMary...

Dick Westheimer's debut, A Sword in Both Hands: Poems Responding to Russia's war on Ukraine, is an achievement of profound empathy, reaching across the water to those suffering while reminding us of...

NEEDS UPDATE Barbara Marie Minney is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, and quiet activist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications,...

Alone in the Burning reveals a watchful, sensitive child trying to find a way to thrive in a difficult environment. In spare, lyrical language, McVicker gives us a collection of imagistic poems that...

Grounded in a deep love of Earth and all its creatures, Arrival gathers Cynthia Anderson's lyrical poetry of place into a deeply satisfying volume. Her closely observed experiences of oceans,...

As If This Did Not Happen Every DayAuthor: Paula J LambertPublisher: Sheila-Na-Gig EditionsPublication Date: Jul 01, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

As We Cover Ourselves With Light holds warmth that was stored away and unpacked from the chest of inheritance. Found in its depth is emotive language sewn from faith, love, loss, and acceptance...

Jessica Manack's Gastromythology is a meditation on how the ways we nourish - or fail to nourish - one another can form an origin story. From enjoying it, to shunning it, to becoming it, food is...

Homing asks how we can make a home in a multifaceted world. The poems explore how we may take care of ourselves and the communities to which we belong, including non-human ones, when we and they are...

Household Gods, Bonnie Proudfoot's riveting first collection of poems, uses the lens of the speaker's life to explore both personal and universal questions: How are we shaped by place, by family, by...

"I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing" - Ohio's Appalachian Voices is an anthology focused on the unique culture of Ohio's Appalachian population. A one-of-a-kind collection, sponsored by the Academy of...

If Only There Were Stations of the Air is an outcry against human vulnerability and ephemerality: our occupancy of a tiny speck in a universe incomprehensibly vast (and itself not necessarily...

The poems in If You Keep Making that Shameface... explore how shame shapes women. These poems, by a WV poet, travel the backroads of female identity to unearth the social, cultural, geographic, and...

In Any of These Towns explores the quirky underbelly of small-town America. The poems in this collection navigate the hardships that many river, coal and factory towns face as industry has packed up...

It's not news that every plant and creature will someday cease to be, and each person will be witness to just a tiny arc of the existential drama. It's the poet's calling, perhaps duty, to praiseand...

"Kirk Judd combines 3-D images and powerful rhythm and rhyme to perfectly express his subjects-birth and death, songs and silence, and everything in between. With compassion and wisdom, he provides...

STEPHANIE KENDRICK is the author of Places We Feel Warm (Main Street Rag Publishing, 2021), editor of "Periodical Poetry." With a Masters of Social Sciences from Ohio University, she is the Major...

What happens when four poets, friends for years, gather in a beautiful place to sit on a porch to talk, live, breathe, create poetry for days at a time? These friends all have led workshops and...

MIT alum and former Bain & Co Management Consultant, Jane Yevgenia Muschenetz arrived in the US as a Jewish child refugee from Soviet Ukraine. She earned her BA in Political Science from UCSD, her...

George Franklin is the author of Noise of the World (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), Traveling for No Good Reason (winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions competition in 2018), a dual-language collection,...

The title poem of Riding With the Diaspora doesn't come until the end, but facets of the diaspora experience - scattering, displacement, migration, homesickness, alienation, otherness -build toward...

Jonie McIntire's "Semidomesticated" is looking and longing among the kitchen utensils, clearance aisles, and chemotherapy appointments that make up a life. There is so much generosity here that...

It has been my honor and delight to gather poems from the first five years of Sheila-Na-Gig online into this anthology. The selected poems from the years 2016-2021 are by seasoned writers whose work...

Sometimes what we miss is tangible: a trinket, a pet, a loved one. Sometimes we long for something less defined: a feeling, a moment, a sense of youth and wonderment. Shouting at an Empty House is an...

Art and life have a good long chat in this new book by John Palen. Starved of visual stimulation during the Covid shutdown, Palen turned to the work of Pablo Picasso, who pioneered a way of capturing...

The poet's experience of growing up near Assisi, in the shadow of St.Francis's spiritual heritage, illuminates the poems in this collection. Moving to Northern California, she discovers the ocean,...

The Arcane Mechanics of Constant Lift explores the invisible dynamic by which we and the rest of life tend to persist through the perennial threats, hardships, oppressions, and traumas that would,...

In his Collected Works, the surrealist poet Paul Eluard writes, "There is another world, but it is in this one." The poems in this collection set out to examine what it means to exist in those...

In The Way Land Breaks, award-winning poet Rebecca Brock uses time-human and geological-as both anchor and engine. These poems are revelation and love song to a faltering world. The Way Land Breaks...

PrefaceIt occurs to me that as not much narrative poetry is published these days, it might prove useful to describe how these two stories in poems came to be written. The angel first appeared in an...