Moonflower draws upon a symbol between the journey of the speaker and the contemporary American experience, reflecting on the external and internal conflict between nihilism, hope, and redemption.| www.fernwoodpress.com
My name is Richard Jeffrey Newman, author of T’shuvah, which Fernwood Press published in 2023. I’ll be blogging here at Learning To Love The Questions about the work poetry does in the world when it engages, or is engaged by, the political and spiritual aspects of our individual and communal lives. I’ll tell you the […]|
Explore the Gulf South as setting and lens on a journey from loss to hope.| www.fernwoodpress.com
A critical look at the United States of America as a “factory of loathing.”| www.fernwoodpress.com
Learning to love the questions, a phrase that captures one of the enduring lessons I took away from my time in a yeshiva high school, also embodies the role that poetry—writing it, reading it, sharing it—plays in my life. I look forward to sharing my thoughts about this with you starting in July. Till then…|
A memoir in poems, Mary Warren Foulk’s The Show Must Go On centers on the topics of sibling loss and queer identity, including queer parenting. It pays tribute to the author older brother, St…| www.fernwoodpress.com
Reclaiming the Nectar and the Hum is an instruction manual on surviving complicated, unhappy mothers. It is a mother’s guide to loss, an inquiry into generational mysteries, and a song cycle …| www.fernwoodpress.com
Looking back, the myriad events of a life seem woven of a single cloth, and likewise, each poem in this astonishing new collection is linked in some way to the others-revealing a meaningful overall pattern.|
When I Was a King takes readers through the worst that life can give a person and show that, on the other side, a bright light is shining.|
Treefall with Bird Song explores the natural world around the poet's home in Mississippi and delves into memories of the rural landscapes of Iowa where he was raised, Flanders, and other places he has traveled.|