Crystal Simone Smith
“The book’s pamphlet design echoes Paine’s original format while the visual erasure technique creates a haunting reminder of whose voices were erased from our nation’s story.”
– The Literate Lizard bookstore
Ordering details for Common Sense … An Erasure, are available from Crystal’s website.
Jay Bryan
Upcoming from Finishing Line Press: A Slender Reed, Haiku Vignettes, by Jay Bryan.
See also Jay’s recent book, Behold, A Poetic Exploration of Migrant Stories from North Carolina and Florida, available from Mainstreet Rag. Details are available from Jay’s website and this link to Bryan reading three poems and explaining how he came to write Behold.
Gideon Young
“Teacher contains a vibrant deskful of poems that illuminate the lightning of teaching and thunder of learning. Many of these poems began as teachable moments experienced in classrooms, on field trips, and at summer camps, and Young generously regifts them to us, his grateful readers.”
– Brad Bennett, haiku poet, scholar, former elementary school teacher
Teacher, by Gideon Young, is the Winner of the 2025 Aquarius Press/Willows Books Fall Poetry Chapbook Competition. You can order it from Aquarius Press/Willow Books.
