April 2023: Trapped in Amber Poems by Nikia Leopold
Ekphrastic Poems—With paintings and sculpture by Marc Chagall, Piero della Francesca, Alberto Giacometti, Edward Hopper, Simone Martini, Tommaso Masaccio, Giorgio Morandi, Henri Rousseau, Johannes Vermeer, and unidentified early artists.
In Nikia Leopold’s poetry—responding to and creating great art anew—the theme of a woman feeling trapped creates a courageous sense of unease. Alongside is a a liberating tone of mystery, tenderness, and power.
Handmade Limited Edition: 100 numbered copies; 6”x9”, 68 pages, full color, 100-lb paper; Cover made with Thai Momi marbled and Bugra papers, sewn with stone beads.
May 2023: We Eclipse into the Other Side Twoness poems by Miho Kinnas and E. Ethelbert
Miller, Handmade Limited Edition
“Through ‘tender darkness’ and ‘the last bright light of day,’ these poets achieve creative balance. These poems smell the ocean waves, play piano chords, and translate touch. With lyricism and declarative power, two poetic forces momentarily conjoin during an eclipse of passing souls.”
—TIM CONROY, writer and poet
May 2023: Soft Serve Haiku Remains by Gary Hotham
Handmade Limited Edition
The ocean and the breath, the small and the immensity fit into each other. Time and space are brought into focus and then destroyed. Fireflies, as star-muses, dance through this internal-universal flux.
September 2023: Ghost Terrain Poems by Miles Waggener, with Art by Amy Haney, Handmade
Limited Edition
Seamless blending of natural images, movie-reel-like scenes, love and hurt, transience. Boy-father relations move the story and create an expanding sense of what is alive. A tender and raw composition of images, sounds, and rhythms. Amy Haney’s powerful art creates a penetrating counterpoint that taps into the unspoken messages in Waggener’s poems.
January 2024: Pinyon Review #23, Garden Chaotic Strings
Contributions by: Geer Austin, Diane Vreuls, Benjamin Green, Erika Moss Gordon, Linda Lerner, Eric Lunde, John Grey, Phil Flott, Nikia Leopold
January 2024: Spring Flowers, Autumn Moon
Poems of Li Yu, Translated by Jiann I. Lin and David Young
From prince to prisoner, Li Yu (937-978) came to know sorrow, homesickness, and the need to reconcile his melancholy with the passage of seasons and the fragility of life.
January 2024: If it’s darkness we’re having, let it be extravagant
The Jane Kenyon Erasure Poems by Ahrend Torrey
We find ourselves in a story of humid primal earth and man. A story of choice of perception. Drawing his respect for Kenyon’s work into his and our imaginations: dark red veins rich with memory and forgetting.
June 2024: This Moment Poems by Ahrend Torrey
Ahrend Torrey invites readers to be participants in the play. He takes us into nature, inside and outside of the city; we emerge into fresh air. With humility, we’re conscious of destructive forces, from aging to gas-powered engines. We rebel against misery, choosing transfiguration into action. Through examining the nature of reality, consciousness, and the shared or no-time life experience, we walk away with a universal here-now. In THIS MOMENT, Now, is not a question:
To Wonder about Dandelion Seeds Is to Wonder about Ourselves
I watch brown puffs of sparrow. So many, so common. / In an instant this could be over. In an instant a nuke or storm could / hit, as it has, or worse. Now only, we feel air settle in our lungs, / we can preserve the earth, we can blow at the stalk of dandelion / seeds. This is not a question. Now, is not a question. / —The yellow-fanned dandelions are alive!—But what about their seeds / blown in today’s noon air—lifting off rooftops … how will they / survive?
October 2024: Good Ash Poems by Kika Dorsey
Bone and blood, ghost and grave achieve their songs in the poet’s voice: ‘I have pinned to the wind every ghost that haunts me.’ In describing loved ones’ fates, both accidental and intentional, Dorsey’s language despairs and longs, celebrates and loves: ‘… what we unbury / can fly.’
—Jessica Purdy, author of The Adorable Knife: Poems after The Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Death by Frances Glessner Lee
Kika Dorsey remains one of the best poets writing today. Her confessional style may be influenced by Plath and Sexton, but her voice is uniquely her own. Her language is replete with surprise and revelation, her images brilliant and indelible.
—James Cherry, author of Between Chance and Mercy
Page last updated: November 3, 2024
All pages copyright © 2024 by Pinyon Publishing
