New Publications

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.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Family Stories, the exceptional new collection of poems by Christine Holland Cummings of  Menlo Park, California.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of An Angle of Grace, the exceptional new poetry collection from Ruth Ann Meyers Kulp of Lancaster, PA

The Orchard Street Press  is pleased to announce the release of  Dream Rider, the thoughtful and thought-provoking new collection of poems from Alan Catlin of Schenectady, New York.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of A Song of Ascents, the remarkable new collection of poems by Jennifer M. Phillips of Barnstable, Massachusetts.

Of The Song of Ascents, Margaret Miles, Emerita Professor of Historical Theology writes: “In Song of Ascents, the poet loves both earth’s bodies and the vivid language that assists us to see, hear, touch, and smell the id quod est we live among but forget to notice…The poems in this volume conjure what there is in all its ‘ungainly tenderness,’ from roses and lilies to ‘rot and roots.’ These words show, and one sense is not enough; they activate in the reader a complex synesthetic response. They smile, and this reader found herself smiling back.”