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Quiet Diamonds 2025 is the eighth edition of the Orchard Street Press’ annual poetry journal. This year, it includes 50 poems selected from the nearly 900 individual pieces submitted to the 2025 Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest. As in previous years, this collection has assembled
some remarkable work by poets from across America.

Thoughts on Quiet Diamonds 2025

“Once again, Quiet Diamonds is a treasure chest of precious gems, from the opening First Prize-winning poem “Snatching the Sunset” (by Tanya Young of Osprey, FL) to the closing “The Poem of Going Over the Edge” (by Patrick Daly of Menlo Park, CA). As may occur with real diamonds, There is often an inner glow that draws one back to more closely examine The poem, to marvel at its many facets, its richness, its depth. Open the Cover—the metaphorical lid—and be dazzled by what you find.

Matthew J. Spireng: author of Good Work, winner of the 2019 Sinclair Poetry Prize from Evening Street Press

“Once again, the annual Poetry Contest of The Orchard Street Press has produced an amazing array of poems that have brought their readers new insights, different perspectives, and enriched experiences of the beauty and complexity of our world. Dor those of us who had the privilege of putting together this collection, there were many reactions of “I’ve never thought of that,” I’ve never seen that combination of words before,” and, just as importantly, “I wish I had written that.” These have been among the central standards applied as the submitted poems are reviewed each year. I am sure that you too will find yourself nodding in appreciation of the gems gathered for this 2025 edition of Quiet Diamonds.

Jack Kristofco: Editor/Publisher, The Orchard Street Press

Quiet Diamonds 2025 is available for $17 online or via the mail from:

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The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of Energy and Stillness, he excellent new poetry collection by award-winning poet Bob Wickless of Reidsville, North Carolina.

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of After the Harvest, the new collection of poems by John P. (Jack) Kristofco, the award-winning poet and author who has published four previous volumes of poetry. These poems were composed over the last fifteen years with most of them having first been published in various national literary journals and reviews. Here are some observations about Kristofco’s poetry:

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of  Trials by Water the exceptional new collection of poems by Laurinda Lind, award-winning poet from Sackets Harbor, New York.

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of  Marginalia: An Interactive Book of Hours the exceptional new collection of poems  by Jennifer Fair Stewart, award-winning poet from Abilene, Texas.

Quiet Diamonds 2024 is the seventh edition of the Orchard Street Press’ annual poetry journal. This year, it includes 40 poems selected from the more than 800 individual pieces submitted to the 2024 Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest. As in previous years, this collection has assembled some remarkable work by poets from across America.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Quiet Diamonds 2023 the sixth edition of its annual poetry journal. Poems chosen for this year’s book were selected from among the entries to the 2023 Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest.

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of The Secret Care The World Takes, the engaging, wide-ranging new collection of poems by Bob Wickless of Reidsville, North Carolina.

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the release of Stronger When We Touch, the remarkable and engaging collection of letter-poems exchanged by Cathy Cultice Lentes and Wendy McVicker (both of Southeast Ohio) during the time of the Covid pandemic.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of  Day  for Night, the beautiful, thoughtful poetry collection from Valerie Sopher of El Cerrito, California.

About Day for Night, Hollie Hardy, author of How to Take a Bullet and Other Survival Poems, writes: “Valerie Sopher’s first poetry collection, Day for Night, emerges like a blossom amid the aftermath of pandemic isolation’s ‘endless loop of living…Here are poems of a life richly observed and beautifully rendered, attending to dailiness, nature, healing, a longing to travel, to connect, and perhaps to love…When you read these poems, ‘you realize you are not watching/the sun rise, but the earth turn.’”

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Approximate Sonnets, an engaging new poetry collection from Alan Elyshevitz of  East Norriton, PA.

About Approximate Sonnets, Joseph Kenyon, author of All the Living and the Dead writes: “Reading the poetry of Alan Elyshevitz is akin to walking out your front door and seeing the landscape you live with every day in ways you’ve never seen it before…Elyshevitz takes the traditional sonnet form and refashions it for our perfectly fragmented age. This sense of the foreign familiar makes his poetry so urgent and alive that it not only bears re-reading but demands it. A master work from a master craftsman.”

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of How We All Fly the captivating new poetry collection from Bill Griffin of Elkin, NC.

About How We All Fly, Patricia Hooper, author of Wild Persistence (University of Tampa Press), writes: “Bill Griffin’s poems combine the trained eye of the naturalist with the metaphorical mind of the poet…boiling water poured into a frozen bird bath…becomes holy water, initiating the hope that the ‘God of holy ice’ will look after our children…Through close observations of the physical world, these clear, direct poems yield insights into the corresponding life of the spirit.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of  Guidelines For Nirvana, the engaging new poetry collection from Sue Spirit of West Salem, Ohio.