better hands • E-book

Summary

Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a fervent desire of becoming. Mathews guides readers across and through “the infinity pink” in poems that drip a reverence tinged with resentment. Their debut chapbook engages myth, nature, and the body to honor the past and summon uncertain, ecstatic futures beyond.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 36 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three PDF downloads
• Order print + e-book
• Order print book only

Praise

“The eye—the I—is rigorously generous across these poems. They don't attempt to rebuild a world or define a world, rather they do something more powerful and difficult: they dare an intimate lexicon and imagery wild and energetic enough to bare the overwhelm of the unknown world and our relationship to and relationships within it. The lines flicker, from light to dark, a wet shine, an earthen darkness, a scar, a seed, the body and body of language, bordering the ecstatic. Images tremble and transform, become both familiar and surprising, under the pressure of the speakers' unrelenting desires and I was lucky to find myself wandering the blur between memory, moment, and the impossibility of what might happen next. Within these poems is a bold embrace of sensuality and how language can be our portal to collapse the temporal and spatial hierarchies of ancestor and descendant—the poems seem to say: we are who we are from and we become what becomes us next.”
        —Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem

Author

Nailah Mathews (they/them) is a nonbinary Black poet to whom books and Black lives matter. A 2022 Periplus Fellow and 2023 Anaphora Arts alumn, their poetry has been featured in Hennepin Review, Lucky Jefferson, Passenger Journal, and the Black Lesbian Literary Collective among others. You can read their work at nailahwritesnovels.com.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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better hands • Print Only

Summary

Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a fervent desire of becoming. Mathews guides readers across and through “the infinity pink” in poems that drip a reverence tinged with resentment. Their debut chapbook engages myth, nature, and the body to honor the past and summon uncertain, ecstatic futures beyond.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 36 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Order print + e-book
• Order e-book only

Praise

“The eye—the I—is rigorously generous across these poems. They don't attempt to rebuild a world or define a world, rather they do something more powerful and difficult: they dare an intimate lexicon and imagery wild and energetic enough to bare the overwhelm of the unknown world and our relationship to and relationships within it. The lines flicker, from light to dark, a wet shine, an earthen darkness, a scar, a seed, the body and body of language, bordering the ecstatic. Images tremble and transform, become both familiar and surprising, under the pressure of the speakers' unrelenting desires and I was lucky to find myself wandering the blur between memory, moment, and the impossibility of what might happen next. Within these poems is a bold embrace of sensuality and how language can be our portal to collapse the temporal and spatial hierarchies of ancestor and descendant—the poems seem to say: we are who we are from and we become what becomes us next.”
        —Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem

Author

Nailah Mathews (they/them) is a nonbinary Black poet to whom books and Black lives matter. A 2022 Periplus Fellow and 2023 Anaphora Arts alumn, their poetry has been featured in Hennepin Review, Lucky Jefferson, Passenger Journal, and the Black Lesbian Literary Collective among others. You can read their work at nailahwritesnovels.com.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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better hands • Print + E-book

Summary

Who breaks the cycle, and what does breaking it cost? Winner of the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, better hands eulogizes legacies of violence, underscored by a fervent desire of becoming. Mathews guides readers across and through “the infinity pink” in poems that drip a reverence tinged with resentment. Their debut chapbook engages myth, nature, and the body to honor the past and summon uncertain, ecstatic futures beyond.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 36 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three PDF downloads
• Order print only
• Order e-book only

Praise

“The eye—the I—is rigorously generous across these poems. They don't attempt to rebuild a world or define a world, rather they do something more powerful and difficult: they dare an intimate lexicon and imagery wild and energetic enough to bare the overwhelm of the unknown world and our relationship to and relationships within it. The lines flicker, from light to dark, a wet shine, an earthen darkness, a scar, a seed, the body and body of language, bordering the ecstatic. Images tremble and transform, become both familiar and surprising, under the pressure of the speakers' unrelenting desires and I was lucky to find myself wandering the blur between memory, moment, and the impossibility of what might happen next. Within these poems is a bold embrace of sensuality and how language can be our portal to collapse the temporal and spatial hierarchies of ancestor and descendant—the poems seem to say: we are who we are from and we become what becomes us next.”
        —Natalie Diaz, author of Postcolonial Love Poem

Author

Nailah Mathews (they/them) is a nonbinary Black poet to whom books and Black lives matter. A 2022 Periplus Fellow and 2023 Anaphora Arts alumn, their poetry has been featured in Hennepin Review, Lucky Jefferson, Passenger Journal, and the Black Lesbian Literary Collective among others. You can read their work at nailahwritesnovels.com.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian • Print Only

Summary

Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family's immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 80 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Order print + e-book
• Order e-book only

Praise

“Children of River and Trees is a celebratory meditation on nature and history. Each essay is a wisdom seed that fosters a gorgeous entanglement, a breathtaking vision of rootedness and flight. Favero is a conjurer. This collection is magic!”
        —Debra Magpie Earling

“Elissa Favero’s Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian is, at heart, about the amplitude and absences of what we can know—about place, history, and ancestry. ‘There’s the order we impose and the wild mystery that pulses beneath,’ Favero points out. And true, with thematic depth and formal intricacy, Favero negotiates between those senses of order and mystery, uncovering the palimpsestic, sometimes problematic layers encompassed by a single self. The result is a work that fuses the past and the present, intimacy and breadth, lyricism and ethics.”
        —Rick Barot

Author

Elissa Favero teaches visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and has worked as an educator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and at the Seattle Art Museum. She earned a B.A. in art history and environmental studies from Williams College and an M.A. in art and architectural history from the University of Washington. Elissa’s writing centers art and landscape, and her art criticism, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Temporary Art Review, The Rumpus, Terrain.org, and River Teeth Journal's Beautiful Things series. She is currently completing her M.F.A. in creative writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian • Print + E-book

Summary

Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family's immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 80 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three PDF downloads
• Order print only
• Order e-book only

Praise

“Children of River and Trees is a celebratory meditation on nature and history. Each essay is a wisdom seed that fosters a gorgeous entanglement, a breathtaking vision of rootedness and flight. Favero is a conjurer. This collection is magic!”
        —Debra Magpie Earling

“Elissa Favero’s Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian is, at heart, about the amplitude and absences of what we can know—about place, history, and ancestry. ‘There’s the order we impose and the wild mystery that pulses beneath,’ Favero points out. And true, with thematic depth and formal intricacy, Favero negotiates between those senses of order and mystery, uncovering the palimpsestic, sometimes problematic layers encompassed by a single self. The result is a work that fuses the past and the present, intimacy and breadth, lyricism and ethics.”
        —Rick Barot

Author

Elissa Favero teaches visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and has worked as an educator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and at the Seattle Art Museum. She earned a B.A. in art history and environmental studies from Williams College and an M.A. in art and architectural history from the University of Washington. Elissa’s writing centers art and landscape, and her art criticism, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Temporary Art Review, The Rumpus, Terrain.org, and River Teeth Journal's Beautiful Things series. She is currently completing her M.F.A. in creative writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian • E-book

Summary

Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family's immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 80 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three PDF downloads
• Order print + e-book
• Order print book only

Praise

“Children of River and Trees is a celebratory meditation on nature and history. Each essay is a wisdom seed that fosters a gorgeous entanglement, a breathtaking vision of rootedness and flight. Favero is a conjurer. This collection is magic!”
        —Debra Magpie Earling

“Elissa Favero’s Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian is, at heart, about the amplitude and absences of what we can know—about place, history, and ancestry. ‘There’s the order we impose and the wild mystery that pulses beneath,’ Favero points out. And true, with thematic depth and formal intricacy, Favero negotiates between those senses of order and mystery, uncovering the palimpsestic, sometimes problematic layers encompassed by a single self. The result is a work that fuses the past and the present, intimacy and breadth, lyricism and ethics.”
        —Rick Barot

Author

Elissa Favero teaches visual arts histories at Cornish College of the Arts in Seattle and has worked as an educator at the National Museum of Women in the Arts and at the Seattle Art Museum. She earned a B.A. in art history and environmental studies from Williams College and an M.A. in art and architectural history from the University of Washington. Elissa’s writing centers art and landscape, and her art criticism, book reviews, and essays have appeared in Temporary Art Review, The Rumpus, Terrain.org, and River Teeth Journal's Beautiful Things series. She is currently completing her M.F.A. in creative writing at the Rainier Writing Workshop.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Transuding • Print Only

Summary

Apricots grow in Suncheon, korea, where the author was born. The mountain unfurls bodies. Underneath them, the bedrock leaks saltwater. In Transuding, Yunkyo Moon-Kim seeps across dream states and borders in ecological forms. Constantly transforming, permuting, and mutating, the poems leap toward imagined oneness, toward un-demarcating both nations and gender.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 36 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Order print + e-book
• Order e-book only

Praise

“I return to Yunkyo Moon-Kim's Transuding again and again, drawn by the promise of ruin and resuscitation, the blade of the self against the whetstone of remembering. The poems here resist the mitotic impulse of borders, the stultifying boundaries of gender, following instead ‘queer orbits’: they refract, mirror, splinter, then give way.”
        —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations

Author

Yunkyo Moon-Kim is a lesbian korean. Between mountains and seas, they write about psychological and geographic locations in perpetual precarity. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, The Margins, and elsewhere.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Transuding • Print + E-book

Summary

Apricots grow in Suncheon, korea, where the author was born. The mountain unfurls bodies. Underneath them, the bedrock leaks saltwater. In Transuding, Yunkyo Moon-Kim seeps across dream states and borders in ecological forms. Constantly transforming, permuting, and mutating, the poems leap toward imagined oneness, toward un-demarcating both nations and gender.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 36 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three PDF downloads
• Order print only
• Order e-book only

Praise

“I return to Yunkyo Moon-Kim's Transuding again and again, drawn by the promise of ruin and resuscitation, the blade of the self against the whetstone of remembering. The poems here resist the mitotic impulse of borders, the stultifying boundaries of gender, following instead ‘queer orbits’: they refract, mirror, splinter, then give way.”
        —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations

Author

Yunkyo Moon-Kim is a lesbian korean. Between mountains and seas, they write about psychological and geographic locations in perpetual precarity. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, The Margins, and elsewhere.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Transuding • E-book

Summary

Apricots grow in Suncheon, korea, where the author was born. The mountain unfurls bodies. Underneath them, the bedrock leaks saltwater. In Transuding, Yunkyo Moon-Kim seeps across dream states and borders in ecological forms. Constantly transforming, permuting, and mutating, the poems leap toward imagined oneness, toward un-demarcating both nations and gender.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 36 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Purchase allows three PDF downloads
• Order print + e-book
• Order print book only

Praise

“I return to Yunkyo Moon-Kim's Transuding again and again, drawn by the promise of ruin and resuscitation, the blade of the self against the whetstone of remembering. The poems here resist the mitotic impulse of borders, the stultifying boundaries of gender, following instead ‘queer orbits’: they refract, mirror, splinter, then give way.”
        —Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations

Author

Yunkyo Moon-Kim is a lesbian korean. Between mountains and seas, they write about psychological and geographic locations in perpetual precarity. Their poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Guernica, The Cincinnati Review, The Margins, and elsewhere.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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Residence Time • Print Only

Summary

Residence Time speaks of not only who crossed the Atlantic during the Middle Passage, but who is still suspended in the water. In her debut poetry collection, Sarah Kersey investigates her linguistic, spiritual, and familial origins through storytelling. The speaker in this collection’s unique perspective of a radiation worker and writer brings readers into dreams and a reconstruction of faith. Residence Time affirms the possibility of foundation building from a fragmented history while the past keeps passing.

Details

• Selected for the 2023 Emerging Poets Chapbook Series
• Saddle-stitched, risograph cover, 32 pages, 5″ x 7.25″, FSC-certified paper
• Order print + e-book
• Order e-book only

Praise

“'We were not meant to survive / the departure,’ writes Sarah Kersey in Residence Time, which, ironically, is the kind of book that becomes possible when someone in fact does survive the cataclysm. What words are suitable to describe it? How is language irrevocably altered in its aftermath? How do we make something beautiful out of what we've lived, and out of what the ancestors, our parents, and our loves have left us? Residence Time explores the detritus of the wake, and catalogues the rippling effects of loss—of history, of faith, of family—in the voice of a poet who is both careful and profound. Residence Time is small but mighty; Kersey has managed to fit a devastating, but beautiful world into it.”
        —Destiny O. Birdsong, author of Negotiations

“Sarah Kersey's stunning debut, Residence Time, begins in origin and sinks into realities that operate like dreams. This speaker remarks on the sonic beauty of the word ‘diaspora,’ asking ‘how many iambs did it take to cross the sea?’ Kersey's forms snap apart, square, and seep—each poem scrambles excitedly, expansive like a midnight conversation between beloveds hidden under a sheet. I will turn to this poet, always, for how they trace the tangles between past and present, for how they obsess over the question of what permanence means.”
        —Taneum Bambrick, author of Intimacies, Received

Author

Sarah Kersey (she/they) is a poet and x-ray technologist who lives in Chelsea, MA. Her work has appeared in Columbia Journal, The Rumpus, The Account Magazine, and elsewhere. They were a finalist for the 2021 PEN America Emerging Voices Fellowship and have received support from Tin House Workshop. She tweets @sk__poet.

Artwork

Cover by Nora Kelly.

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