"Todd Robinson has written such tender love poems in MASS FOR SHUT-INS that you might read them to your significant other and hope for success—a veritable Neruda of Nebraska."—Terese Svoboda. Save 50% during our Summer Reading Sale:

TWANG offers readers the increasing power of the voice and the danger of one's word being used against them. What can save you can also make you wretch. Get you next summer read 50% off:

RT @AdairWriter: Yes! Ode to a laundromat with a nod to everyone's favorite Buddhist teacher @JackKornfield Thank you @BFdeB The laundromat….

This collection of poems covers significant emotional territory while remaining firmly grounded in the landscape. In ROCK TREE BIRD, Twyla M. Hansen offers poems that are alternately sad, sweet, funny, moving, human, and humane. Get books 50% off:

In LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL @BFdeB builds a temple to the perpetual motion of transformation, the wondrous churn of change and exchange that defines companionship, marriage, and ceding our place on Earth. Get books 50% off:

The poems in AN AOTHERWISE HEALTHY WOMAN delve into the complexity of modern health care, illness, and healing, offering an alternative narrative to heroics and miracles. Get 50% off during our Summer Sale:

BUTTERFLY NEBULA by @laurarhogan charts intersections of the physical universe, the divine, the human, and the constantly unfolding experience of being “one thing in the act of becoming another.”. Save 50% on this book and more during our Summer Sale:

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"LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL speaks to the tension between my desire for stillness/eternity and the unstoppable propulsion of change," says @BFdeB in an interview with @TupeloQ.

Although memories pervade this collection, the poems in ANTILLIA also look forward and outward into a world where social inequality and environmental disaster meet the possibility of metamorphosis. Save 50% during our Summer Reading Sale:

RT @laurarhogan: I’m happy to share the NYC premiere of LEAN, FIRE, a choral setting by composer Shanan Estreicher of poems from BUTTERFLY….

Tomorrow, join Julie Choffel (DEAR WALLACE) and Brandel France de Bravo (LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL) in conversation with Maria Fernanda at @PoliticsProse! The discussion starts at 5pm EDT and will be livestreamed. Get more details here:

A book-length poem in six sections, LONG RULES takes readers to five Trappist monasteries in the southeastern United States to consider the intersections of solitude, family, music, and landscape. Save 40% during our National Poetry Month Book Sale:

In these brutally honest, beautiful poems, we face the death of one who is dearly loved, and recognize, as the poet says, that grief is at least part of what you / will grow into. Save 40% during our National Poetry Month Book sale:

RT @UnivNebPress: The @BackwatersPress Prize in Poetry is open for submissions now through May 1, 2025! . This year's judge is @maggiesmith….

With wit and vulnerability, @BFdeB explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as “baptism on repeat.”. Save 40% during National Poetry Month:

RT @South85Journal: Interview with poet/essayist @BFdeB: . Locomotive Cathedral explores <resilience in the face of climate change and a g….

Those attending #AWP25, stop by booths 359/361 to meet the 2025 Backwaters Press Prize winners! . 2:00-2:30pm - @BFdeB, author of LOCOMOTIVE CATHEDRAL. 4:00-4:30pm - Julie Choffel, author of DEAR WALLACE

With wit and vulnerability, @BFdeB explores resilience in the face of climate change and a global pandemic, race, and the concept of a self, all while celebrating the power of breath as "baptism on repeat." . Order a copy:

RT @UnivNebPress: Announcing the Judge for the 2025 @BackwatersPress Prize in Poetry: @maggiesmithpoet, the @nytimes bestselling author of….