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Father Elegies, previously titled The Weighted, Weighed Down World, was a finalist for the Possession Sound Poetry Series at Poetry Northwest 2022. The series publishes two select books per year, chosen by the editors during an open reading period. It showcases books that align with the press’s mission of supporting musical, language-driven work by established poets.

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This Wom­en’s His­to­ry Month, cel­e­brate with a propul­sive read! Ten writ­ers rec­om­mend books to dig into this month. From cap­ti­vat­ing con­tem­po­rary fic­tion, to engross­ing mem­oirs of sur­vival, to thrilling his­tor­i­cal fic­tion, these fif­teen titles are sure to scin­til­late.  Carlie Hoffman, the 2023 winner of the Jewish Book Council Award for poetry, recommends One Strange Country as a must-read book for women's history month in March 2024. “In Stel­la Hayes’s haunt­ing debut poet­ry col­lec­tion, One Strange Coun­try, Hayes illu­mi­nates her family’s refugee expe­ri­ence as Jews from Sovi­et Ukraine to the Unit­ed States in 1978 with lyri­cal urgency. Hayes maps a sto­ry of iden­ti­ty, exile, and belong­ing dur­ing the Cold War era. The query about where lit­er­a­ture fits into day-to-day life dur­ing the immi­grant strug­gle to sur­vive man­i­fests in “the shared breath” of a moth­er teach­ing her daugh­ter “the right way to slay a chicken.”