Blowdown
by Jessica L. Walsh
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In an effort to understand how people grow from the soil of their family’s past—and, more specifically, how the poet came to be who she is as both a person and an artist—Blowdown takes on the work of archaeology. Historical evidence, much of it uncovered during the writing process, reveals so little of the truth; what emerges instead is fully fragmented, like pieces of bone unearthed after centuries. These poems attempt to assemble those fragments into story, building a narrative where none has been preserved.
13.8 Billion Years of
Never Enough: Until Now
by John Langmack
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Spiritual and playful poems to connect you deeper to your heart. This work invites you into the humorous predicament that we are all living in by our mere existence and then reminds you to take a breath.
Taking influence from Rumi and Mary Oliver, this collection of poems varies in style with gentle reminders of self love to verbal sledgehammers to knock it's sometimes over the top message into you. With all it's variation in style and voice, it's message remains clear that we are all divine and that freedom is in that remembering.
Becoming
by Gray Lee
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A fresh and singular voice for today’s young poetry audience, Gray Lee (they/them) represents a new generation of Appalachian poets--bold, unyielding, and unapologetically themselves. Their work is deeply personal and transformative, reaching for connection but never hinging on approval. Whether embraced or not, Lee’s voice remains steady, powerful, and necessary. A rising force from the South, Gray Lee’s first chapbook, Becoming suggests a poet to be reckoned with--and the future is certain to hear more of their voice.
Imposters
by Ivy Rozen
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Imposters is a fearless and unflinching poetry collection published by Bottlecap Press in 2025 that tears through the illusions of identity, society, and survival. With the raw defiance of punk and the unyielding pulse of revolution, these poems challenge the myths we’re told about heroism, tradition, and belonging. They lay bare the broken systems that try to define us—and the rebellion required to break free.
From the stark realism of “Adam” and “Oklahoma” to the biting social commentary in “What Happened to Punk?” and “I Am America”, this collection is a visceral confrontation with both the self and the world. Every page is an unapologetic reckoning—gritty, urgent, and impossible to ignore.
This is not poetry that sits quietly. Imposters is for the outcasts, the wanderers, and the ones who refuse to be erased. It speaks to the America they don’t put in history books—the one built on blood, sweat, and resistance. If you’ve ever questioned your place in a world that wants to silence you, if you crave poetry that dares to burn down the old to build something new—this book is for you!
Book of Gods & Grudges
by Jessica L. Walsh
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​Jessica Walsh's Book of Gods and Grudges tells a tale of generational trauma and transcendence. She declares early on that "My first kin were killers," people for whom "burnout was a luxury" they could not afford. Her speaker struggles through illness and sobriety and grappling with God as a problem she tries to solve as she finds her own calling. The poems are unflinchingly honest and impeccably crafted. They show us what it means to stay "flagrantly alive."
Drinking With Others: Poetry by the Pint
by Kincaid Jenkins
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“This collection begins with an introduction so compelling to me, as a career educator who often worked with student-athletes, that it must be mentioned here. What follows is the antithesis of the modern workshopped manuscript, a thoroughly accessible document that engages and surprises the reader on a journey that starts in Western North Carolina, then proceeds to cross and recross a myriad of geographic and imaginative borders.”
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—Tim Peeler, author of First Season and The Life of Jaysus Christopher Duende and Darrell Cobb Runkle
Dislocated
by Dylan Webster
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​Dylan's debut collection of poetry, published by Quillkeeper Press in 2022, is an introspective look into the mind and soul of a writer ardently finding his way through a fractured world of religion, spirituality, and coming of age. Divided into five sections, he takes the reader on an exploration of self-discovery. Christening the collection with "Pose" as his first title, Dylan Webster grabs his readers by the throats and holds tight until the very end with his final selection titled "Vision". The compilation taps into the emotional recesses of one's mind while offering a glimmer of hope and light at the end of the reading adventure. Strap yourself in for this beautifully crafted book, leaving plenty of time for the digestion of its layered passages and metaphors. ​
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The List of Last Tries
by Jessica L. Walsh
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“Jessica Walsh’s The List of Last Tries is a miracle of focus, a sustained gothic nursery rhyme that describes a girl’s coming of age and coming into power, for which she is shunned and exiled as freak, witch, and murderer. This collection is a captivating female picaresque, each poem taking a step deeper into marginality’s fierce power.”
— Diane Seuss, Still Life with Two Dead Peacocks and a Girl, Four- Legged Girl, Pulitzer Prize Finalist
How to Break My Neck
by Jessica L. Walsh
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The poems in the second edition of Jessica Walsh's HOW TO BREAK MY NECK are palpable. With tales of mortality, morality, womanhood, and breaths of life often unnoticed or taken for granted, Walsh transfigures words into strokes of paint that blend into a zenful yet heart-wrenching portrait of the world women live in. With new poems not previously seen in the first edition, HOW TO BREAK MY NECK is not only beautiful and mournful, but new, fresh, breathing, and very much alive.
