New Publications

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Heaven is in Truckee, the exciting new collection of poems by Nancy Cavers Dougherty of Sebastopol, California.                                                           

The Orchard Street Press is delighted to announce the release of Quiet Diamonds 2021, the fourth edition of its annual poetry journal.

Containing poems chosen from the hundreds of entries to the 2021 Orchard Street Press Poetry Contest, Quiet Diamonds 2021 presents some of the very best poetry being written in America today.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Stumbling  Into Grace, the exceptional new poetry collection by Deborah Bachels Schmidt of El Sobrante, CA.

James P. Roberts, author of One Hundred Breaths and Famous Wisconsin Authors, notes that Stumbling Into Grace “presents a world where apricot trees bear the fruit of memories, gardens grow muses, painted toy horses prance, and music is the thread that holds them all together. Like Orpheus, Schmidt’s poems are both lyrical and dynamic. We find ourselves carried along their airy currents like burning sky lanterns, rising toward ‘radiance and hope.’”

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of A Flash of Yellow Wing, the engaging new poetry collection from Frank H. Coons of Arvada, Colorado.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Bleached Bones & Sycamore, the insightful new collection of poems by Joanna McKethan of Dunn, North Carolina.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Getting it Down on Paper, the exciting new poetry collection by Pamela Ahlen and Anne Bower.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of (riding) shotgun in imaginary cars, an exciting new poetry collection by Bob Wickless of Reidsville, North Carolina.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the publication of  Zero, a Door an exciting new collection of poems by Wendy McVicker of Athens, Ohio.

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the publication of    To See in the Night, the exceptional new book from Judith A. Kennedy of Marietta, Pennsylvania. This collection of poems explores experiences of the ‘night,’ including both the pain of loss and emerging light.                               

Of Our Fatherlessness, Beth Gylys, author of Sky Blue Enough to Drink and Body Braille writes: “A father’s sudden death is the nexus of this hard-hitting new collection of poems by Mac Gay. In a book threaded with tragic loss and existential angst, Gay manages to weave insight, wry humor, and formal genius in a way that one feels at once kicked in the gut and charmed by Our Fatherlessness, his most recent and powerfully rendered collection.”

Words and Other Tyrants the new poetry collection from Jeanie Mortensen of Ludington, Michigan.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of RASP, a collection of poems of beauty and social awareness by Elaine Zimmerman of  Hamden, Connecticut.

The Orchard Street Press is very pleased to announce the publication of Grit & Grace the exciting new chapbook from poet Tobi Alfier of Torrance, California. This collection of twenty poems is truly well named because it artfully explores both the struggle and the dignity of lives lived out loud.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of The Alex Chronicles, Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, a collection of  short stories by John P. (Jack) Kristofco of  Highland Heights, Ohio.

These stories, written over the past twenty years, provide a vivid and captivating view of coming of age in a time of change in America. As award-winning novelist Paul Gaus writes about these stories: “There is magic here. If you lived those years, you’ll love the memories. If you didn’t, then here is the best way to learn….The memories suffuse every page. The memories are as true as they can be.”