Catalog (by title)

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Duets: Love Poems & Prayers by Stephanie Baird of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania.

This is an exceptional collection of poems that go to the very soul of human relationships, unafraid to explore the truths, textures, and tensions that inhabit that complex realm. Baird embraces nature, science, and art in her work. Indeed, several pieces in the book are matched with art done by both the poet and her husband Ben Sears, enriching and broadening the reader's experience. This is truly a book for the mind, heart, eyes, and ears.

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 first full-length collection by Joanne Lehman takes us into the nooks and founts of her imagination and memory where rural family members “kept their distance” and their wits and teach her the balanced nature of life deeply lived on “this  side of the river,” where, for “every seven sours” there are “seven sweets.” The book celebrates both loss and wonder-filled discovery in poems that sustain us all.”

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.

In the summer of 2016, Scott Gregory, having completed a successful career as a special ed teacher, took a ‘trip of a lifetime’ to Africa, an adventure more than fifty years in the making, deriving from his boyhood experience, his passion and sense of curiosity, and an abundant sense of pride in his heritage. This travel journal, along with its pictures, engages us from the beginning with its sense of excitement, wonder, and the ever-present voice and wit of its author.

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  Gwen and the Big Nothing, an engaging and wonderfully  imaginative new chapbook from Mary Ann Honaker of Beaver, West Virginia.

As Chad Parenteau, author of Patron Emeritus and emcee for the long-standing Stone Soup Poetry open mic in Boston, notes:

(Second Place winner in the 2017 Orchard Street Press Chapbook  Contest)

This is a book of remarkable images and insights. Consider these lines from “Deaf Mary:” When you signed, a magician’s doves flew/ from your hands. Some words burst/through the air like pheasants/surprised in tall grass.” Waters’ engagement with the details of life and living create a truly rewarding experience for the reader.