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Coming in August 2019, Painting South Pier

Painting South Pier

Painting South Pier is a book of poetry by Dawn Hogue that considers each season at Sheboygan’s South Pier neighborhood.

These are the poems of a fascinated heart and mind, of lucid seeing and simple language that celebrates both nature and our part in it. Broken up by season, Painting South Pier does more than merely describe the earth’s subtle and not-so-subtle changes; it paints an intimate human portrait rooted in ecstatic love for all things bright and not-so-bright. A quiet, humble wisdom hums from within each poem, as does a refreshingly sanguine yearning to “shout life in spring’s cold sun.” — John Sibley Williams, author of As One Fire Consumes Another

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Two new books slated for spring 2019 release

Icarus

First is Icarus: Anthropology of Addiction, a chapbook by Sylvia Cavanaugh. The poems take readers on a poetic sojourn through the effect addiction can have on a family.

Earth to Sky

Next in line is Stitching Earth to Sky, a full-length book by The PaperBirch Poets, a group of nine women, mostly Wisconsin writers. These poets consider life through a variety of lenses and help us understand nature, history, love, and family.

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From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology

Migration Anthology

We’re thrilled to present From Everywhere a Little: A Migration Anthology, a collaborative effort from editors Dawn Hogue and Lisa Vihos. The book began as an idea at a 100 Thousand Poets for Change event in Sheboygan, WI, September 2018. According to Vihos, “People of all ages shared original poems at the event. Throughout the open mic reading, I kept saying, We have to make a book of these poems. And I’ve learned if you say something enough, it will happen.”

Vihos’s vision is fully realized in this 96 page collection of poems from award-winning poets across the U.S. and beyond. About this book, Wisconsin’s newest poet laureate Margaret Rozga said, “At home or driven from home. Doors opening or shut fast. Migrants, immigrants, refugees. People moving and being moved. The poems in From Everywhere A Little: A Migration Anthology touch on all that. They will touch and move you, too.”

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The Aging Poems available September 30

The Aging Poems

The newest project from the Grand Avenue Poetry Collective is a chapbook called The Aging Poems. About this book, Wisconsin Poet Laureate Karla Huston says, “This book will delight you with its joy of language, its delicious imagery, and its collective wisdom.”

Poets in the Grand Avenue Poetry Collective are Sylvia Cavanaugh, Nancy Harrison Durdin, Dawn Hogue, Maryann Hurtt, Georgia Ressmeyer, Lisa Vihos, and Marilyn Zelke Windau.

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