Catalog (by title)

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  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.

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.                                                           

These are poems that bring our eye and mind close to the beauty of nature in both its finest detail and in its grandeur. In “The Ocotillo Forest,” he writes: “The Ocotillo forest bides its time. It combs the lean light of dawn and dusk/choosing only the finest threads, thin as a melody line, upon which to weave its desert song.” This is an exquisite gallery from Mr. Onachila’s very capable pen.

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.

From places and time that go back to the fifties, Joe Cheslock thoughtfully considers his experiences in “poems of Cleveland and other sacred places.” We are, as Cheslock says, very much who and what we are because of  “where we were born, grew up, and worked. These poems explores this ‘ancestry’ of his life in engaging and thought-provoking lines.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of In The Diamond Light of an Always Morning an exciting new chapbook by Larsen Bowker of Blacksburg, Virginia

Thoughts about The Diamond Light of an Always Morning:

"Larsen Bowker's poems are stark, vivid, tough, gentle, stricken, joyful—all of that, sometimes in the same poem. He has forged a clear, credible voice out of a lifetime of varied and sometimes difficult experience, and I for one am grateful for it."
-Chris Wiman: Professor of Christian Studies, Yale University