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
2019 : “Here is a collection that bursts with a riveting and engaging potpourri of style and substance, of poets connecting with the natural world, their own humanity, and the humanity of others, delving into experiences with keen intelligence and original turn of phrase…approach from the beginning or dip in at random, nothing here will let the reader down.”
John Grey: poet, playwright, musician
2020: “Readers will discover fine writing from beginning to end, and be reminded, as Bill Glose insists: ‘what a miracle it is / to be alive at all.’ This really is an impressive group of poets and poems.”
Jeff Gundy: author of Without a Plea and Somewhere Near Defiance
2021: “The lyrics of Quiet Diamonds 2021 are landscapes of memory, vision, loss, and fulfillment…These poems take readers on journeys of awareness from ancient to contemporary, personal to universal, perceived to imagined.”
Deborah Fleming: Director of the Ashland Press and author of Earthwise
2022: “These poems are treasures as found in an “old house named the Shambles” filled with our life’s moments blended into the sweet scent of cedar and saltwater. The reader will not be disappointed at any turn of the page but will read and wonder.”
Ben Onachila: author of Homecoming and Anubis Stands Close By
2023: “Themes of loss, innocence, desecration, and death move beyond living onto the realm of imagination where the ultimate path forward becomes one of growth, communicated through vivid imagery and fresh language to bolster a most identifiable reading experience.”
Michael Keshigian: widely published author of thirteen poetry collections
2024: “Each poem in Quiet Diamonds 2024 displays both craftsmanship and depth despite a wide diversity of styles and subjects…I recommend this satisfying collection to all discerning poetry readers everywhere.”
Eric Greinke: author, poet, and editor
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).
Orchard Street Press
Chapbooks: 2017-2022
A review of Duane Niatum’s poetry collection, Sea Changes will soon in the American Book Review.
