Our Chapbooks
All THRUSH PRESS Chaps are now available on Amazon only, order links are below!
FRANCINE IN THE GARDEN by Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick
Shannon Elizabeth Hardwick received her MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. Her manuscript was a finalist for the Levis Prize in poetry and she is an associate poetry editor for The Boiler Journal. Her work has appeared in the following: 3:AM Magazine, Night Train, Versal, Sugar House Review, Four Way Review, among others.
Dazzling with succulence and self-flagellation, Francine in the Garden is a wondrous and tender gathering of poems. Shannon Hardwick’s Francine is magnificently alchemical. Devoted to the “consequences in the blossoms” of her being—she shimmers with pain and transcendence. These resonant, beautifully mysterious poems must be savored. - Alex Lemon author of The Wish Book and Happy: A Memoir
Part eerie fairytale and part mythic transformation story, Francine in the Garden is a quietly fierce and triumphantly imaginative narrative that pierces the heart and the ear. Perfectly balanced between rich magical scenes and a dark foreboding violence, this book is the door you wish to open when you have tried all the others. -Ada Limón author of Sharks in the Rivers
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Cover Art Courtesy of Daniel Maidman
Cover Design Walter Bjorkman
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Blood Medals by Claudia Cortese
Claudia Cortese has a forthcoming chapbook, The Red Essay and Other Histories (Horse Less Press). Her poems have appeared in Best New Poets 2011, Blackbird, Crazyhorse, Kenyon Review Online, and Sixth Finch, and her essays and reviews have found homes at Black Warrior Review, Mid-American Review, and Iowa Review, among others. Her first book of poetry has been a finalist for prizes from the Crab Orchard Series in Poetry and Black Lawrence Press. An Ohio Native, Cortese lives in New Jersey.
Driven by and into decay, darkness, and rot, Claudia Cortese understands the importance of looking directly into the truth of things, no matter how troubling and terrifying that truth might be. Navigating through the hauntingly sensual language of tumors, shrieking, sores, and knives, Blood Medals reveals the sinister underbellies of this world while still managing to glitter with the hope of transcendence. Each poem holds you by the skin on the back of your neck and dares you to look at where your own darkness hides. Cortese’s voice is morbidly beautiful, brutally honest, and “brighter than fire and cardinal.” Blood Medals will leave you haunted and broken and begging for more. —Meghan Privitello author of A New Language For Falling Out Of Love
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Cover Art Courtesy of Valentina Brostean
Cover Design Walter Bjorkman
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The Tree With Lights In It by Jeff Whitney
Jeff Whitney is the author of Note Left Like Silver on the Eyes of the Dead (Slash Pine Press, 2013). Along with Philip Schaefer, he co-authored Smoke Tones (Phantom Limb Press, 2015) and Radio Silence (winner of the 2014 Black River Chapbook competition from Black Lawrence Press). Recent poems can be found in Blackbird, Columbia Poetry Review, Cream City Review, Poetry Northwest, and Verse Daily.
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Cover Art: Khaty Xiong
Cover Design: Walter Bjorkman
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the release of Lake Story by C Dylan Bassett
C Dylan Bassett is the author of No Audience (Spark Wheel, 2014) and six other chapbooks. His recent poems are published or forthcoming in Black Warrior Review, Columbia Poetry Review, H_NGM_N, Ninth Letter, Pleiades, Salt Hill, West Branch and elsewhere. He is a teaching fellow at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and co-edits likewise folio / likewise books.
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Cover Art by Daniel Maidman *please click on Daniel's name to visit his artist website
Cover Design by Walter Bjorkman
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the relase of Pioneer by Monica Wendel
I love the muted exuberance of these poems. Wendel combines the cheerful determination of American Pragmatism with the dreamlike instability of a David Lynch Film. These poems take place at the threshold of adulthood, with future career and success bordered by the escapes of circus and dream. There is a rare quality to these poems—they love an unbroken world without ever losing sight of how easily it could break. - Jason Schneiderman
These poems transport us to cities we have been lost in—from the hallucinatory landscape of Florida (at night a trash fire illuminates that bees' nest) to ultrasaturated New York (where there has been/no hurricane). I love the sense of mobility in Monica Wendel's work; her pioneer is able to go anywhere on a map, so it's her lawless dreams which spring a trap. - Leigh Stein
Monica Wendel was born and raised on Long Island. She studied philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York at Geneseo, and received her MFA in poetry writing from New York University. Her first book, No Apocalypse, was named the winner of the Georgetown Review Press Manuscript Prize by Bob Hicok in 2012. Her chapbook Call it a Window was the national winner of the Midwest Writing Center Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Rattle, Nimrod, Forklift Ohio, and other journals. She is assistant professor of composition and creative writing at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
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Cover Art by Kate Shults
I love the muted exuberance of these poems. Wendel combines the cheerful determination of American Pragmatism with the dreamlike instability of a David Lynch Film. These poems take place at the threshold of adulthood, with future career and success bordered by the escapes of circus and dream. There is a rare quality to these poems—they love an unbroken world without ever losing sight of how easily it could break. - Jason Schneiderman
These poems transport us to cities we have been lost in—from the hallucinatory landscape of Florida (at night a trash fire illuminates that bees' nest) to ultrasaturated New York (where there has been/no hurricane). I love the sense of mobility in Monica Wendel's work; her pioneer is able to go anywhere on a map, so it's her lawless dreams which spring a trap. - Leigh Stein
Monica Wendel was born and raised on Long Island. She studied philosophy at Johns Hopkins University and the State University of New York at Geneseo, and received her MFA in poetry writing from New York University. Her first book, No Apocalypse, was named the winner of the Georgetown Review Press Manuscript Prize by Bob Hicok in 2012. Her chapbook Call it a Window was the national winner of the Midwest Writing Center Mississippi Valley Chapbook Contest in 2011. Her poems have appeared in the Bellevue Literary Review, Rattle, Nimrod, Forklift Ohio, and other journals. She is assistant professor of composition and creative writing at St. Thomas Aquinas College.
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Cover Art by Kate Shults
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the relase of Improvised Devices
by Brandon Courtney
Brandon Courtney was born and raised in Iowa, served four years in the United States Navy (Operation Enduring Freedom), and is a graduate of the MFA program at Hollins University. His poetry is forthcoming or appears in Best New Poets (’09), The Journal, 32 Poems, Whiskey Island and Boston Review, among many others. His book, The Grief Muscles, is forthcoming from Sheep Meadow Press. He is a graduate student at the University of Chicago.
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Cover Art Courtesy of Emma Powell
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the release of Subways by Joseph O. Legaspi
Joseph O. Legaspi is the author of Imago (CavanKerry Press). He co-founded Kundiman www.kundiman.org, a non-profit organization serving Asian American poetry.
Poems can be found in diode, From the Fishouse, Gay and Lesbian Review, Gulf Coast, Hayden's Ferry Review, jubilat, Poet Lore, Puerto del Sol, Rattapallax, Seneca Review, Smartish Pace, Sou'wester, Spoon River Poetry Review, The Collagist, The Drunken Boat, The Normal School, and many others.
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Cover Art courtesy of Cayla Ferari & John Breznicky ©2011 Line Posters, Inc.
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the release of Safe House by David Winter
David Winter’s Safe House is a dense and untamed collection. With marked precision and rich language, these poems tug, lure, and serenade you into a labyrinth of unexpected tales. Some toothy and smart-mouthed, others demure and at times devious, Winter’s poems change the world you thought you knew.
- Jeanann Verlee, author of Racing Hummingbirds
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Cover Art courtesy of Raena Shirali
David Winter’s Safe House is a dense and untamed collection. With marked precision and rich language, these poems tug, lure, and serenade you into a labyrinth of unexpected tales. Some toothy and smart-mouthed, others demure and at times devious, Winter’s poems change the world you thought you knew.
- Jeanann Verlee, author of Racing Hummingbirds
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Cover Art courtesy of Raena Shirali
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the release of our third chapbook,
No Memorial by Nate Pritts
No Memorial is a stirring, beautiful collection of 12 poems from Nate Pritts. It is 34 pages, perfect bound, with a full color cover
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Cover Art by Thrush Press
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the release of our second chapbook,
Blue Lake by Zeke Hudson
Blue Lake is a chapbook length poem by Zeke Hudson, with a beautiful full color cover by New York City artist Daniel Maidman.
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Cover Art courtesy of Daniel Maidman
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Thrush Press is pleased to announce the release of our first chapbook,
How to Write a Love Poem by Traci Brimhall with Illustrations by Eryn Cruft
How to Write a Love Poem is an ekphrastic piece that is truly a beautiful work of art.
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Cover Art by Eryn Cruft
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