It’s the spring of 1962, and the world stands on the threshold of its own ‘coming of age.’ In McKinley Heights, Ohio (a semi-fictional suburb of Cleveland), people are preparing for the Sabin Oral Sundays polio vaccine program. Suddenly, late on a Monday afternoon just like any other, a local high school girl goes missing. Early in their investigation, the police are certain that she “must have known her abductor.” Terrified, the tight-knit community reacts.
The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of Energy and Stillness, the excellent new poetry collection by award-winning poet Bob Wickless of Reidsville, North Carolina.
We at The Orchard Street Press are very pleased to announce that Jack Kristofco, our publisher, has just come out with a new chapbook, After the Harvest, a collection of thirty-five poems most of which have appeared in various publications over the past fifteen years.
Jack’s work has won critical praise from his first published volume, A Box of Stones, over twenty years ago: “Kristofco impresses with his intelligence, his music, and his language,” John Berbich of Bone World Publishing observed, to Sunlight in the Stream, just two years ago, about which Peter C. Leverich wrote “Good poetry begins with observations, and John P. Kristofco is indeed a keen observer…he finds clues to life’s riddles, small and large, which he shares with the reader in this smart collection of wonderfully accessible and finely crafted poems.”
Thoughts on Quiet Diamonds through the years…what reviewers have had to say about our annual poetry journal:
2018: “Sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes showing how the ordinary is anything but, these poems have a lot worth saying and hearing. Quiet Diamonds is a terrific poetry collection, one I shall keep for a long time.”
Thomas Dukes: professor, poet, and author
The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of three new volumes:
Quiet Diamonds 2024
the annual poetry Journal of The Orchard Street Press
Marginalia: An Interactive Book of Hours
by Jennifer Fair Stewart of Abilene, TX
Trials by Water
by Laurinda Lind of Homer, NY
These books are all now available from The Orchard Street Press
We are delighted to announce the release of four new chapbooks! All of them come from poets whose work was submitted to our 2022 Poetry Contest. We are currently working with other projects that will be published within the next couple months, among them the 2023 edition of Quiet Diamonds.
The four books we are announcing this August are:
Day for Night by Valerie Sopher of El Cerrito, California
How We All Fly by Bill Griffin of Elkin, North Carolina
Approximate Sonnets by Alan Eleshevitz of East Norriton, Pennsylvania
Guideline for Nirvana by Sue Spirit of West Salem, Ohio
All of these titles can be ordered here at our website (click here).
A review of Duane Niatum’s poetry collection, Sea Changes will soon in the American Book Review.