The cover image reads Chrys Buckley, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays. Plus the quote, "A fierce manifesto about claiming your own story. This book will change you and linger long after the final page." Tarn Wilson, author of In Praise of Inadequate Gifts
Portland Peeps!
Don't miss the release of @chrysbuckley.bsky.social's powerful debut, Invisible Violets: A Mixtape in Lyric Essays, 7p tonight @boldcoffeeandbooks.bsky.social!
Chrys will read excerpts and be in conversation with Domi Shoemaker of Corporeal Writing.
Musical guest: Tracy McFarland
13.03.2026 19:10
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So proud to share that Daniel Meltz’s poetry collection, It Wasn’t Easy to Reach You, that we published last year is one of five Finalists for Foreword Reviews’ INDIES LGBTQ Award.
@wapress.bsky.social
12.03.2026 06:50
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Book cover shows nighttime illustration of blue, treed mountains below deeper blue sky dotted with stars. The text reads: Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, L. Annetter Binder, "an illumination and moving meditation on dementia"--Kirkus
Simply delighted to share that L. Annette Binder's touching #memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, is a Finalist for the Foreword Reviews INDIES Book Award for Grief/Grieving.
www.forewordreviews.com/reviews/chil...
10.03.2026 19:27
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Ack. That should be In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls.
Insert usual complaint about Bluesky's lack of edit capabilities here.
04.03.2026 21:57
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The cover of Majda Gama's poetry collection reads:
In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls
poems
Majda Gama
The title text is interwoven amid an illustration of leaves and flowers.
Huge congrats to @majda.bsky.social whose collection, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Modern Girls is a finalist for the Da Vinci Eye Eric Hoffer Award.
The poems serve as tribute and elegy to a girlhood spread across Islamic & Western worlds and are now more poignant than ever.
04.03.2026 19:39
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Last day to submit! Send us your gorgeous, brilliant, amazing full-length literary fiction, nonfiction, and poetry manuscripts. We can't wait to read your future books!
31.01.2026 18:37
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Blue and white illustrated winter scene with tree trunks, falling snow, and red-capped mushrooms with brown stems.
Note reads:
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards
Submissions open December 1 to January 31
www.wanderingaenguspress.com
Are you hunkered down getting your manuscript ready to submit for the Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards?
We're eager to read full-length mss of *literary* fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. One submission fee ($30USD) -- up to four prize winners published.
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
03.12.2025 10:27
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Wandering Aengus (& Trail to Table Press) Book Award
Submissions open December 1 to January 31
wanderingaenguspress.com
Our annual contest opens today for literary #fiction, #nonfiction, and #poetry manuscripts. Up to 4 books published with Wandering Aengus Press and our imprint, Trail to Table Press.
Would love to see some short fiction &/or #flash fiction collections this year!
duotrope.com/duosuma/subm...
01.12.2025 09:58
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Well deserved, Jessica!!!
01.12.2025 09:49
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Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press 2025 Pushcart Nominations
Barret Baumgart: "The Refusal to Be Useful"
L. Annette Binder: "The Residents of the Second Floor"
Majda Gama: "Ode to One Thousand"
Jessica Gigot: "Territory"
Amanda Hawkins: "Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands"
Daniel Meltz: "Intrinsic Marimbas"
Our Pushcart Noms!
Barret Baumgart: The Refusal to Be Useful
L. Annette Binder: The Residents of the Second Floor
@majda.bsky.social: Ode to One Thousand
@jessicagigot.bsky.social: Territory
Amanda Hawkins: Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
Daniel Meltz: Intrinsic Marimbas
28.11.2025 16:37
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Graphic shows photos of poets Amanda Hawkins and Christopher Martin along with the covers of their books, When I Say the Bones I Mean the Bones and Firmament, respectively. The text reads:
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday, November 6
Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin
4 to 5 pm Pacific, 7 to 8 pm Eastern
The last reading of our 2025 series will come to you from the Portland Book Festival #portlandbookfestival with poets Christopher Martin & Portland's own Amanda Hawkins.
Please join us on Zoom, Thursday, November 6, 4-5 pm Pacific, 7-8 pm Eastern
Pre-register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
05.11.2025 17:44
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Flood Patterns
A re-issue of Jessica Gigot's acclaimed poetry debut The poems [in Flood Patterns ] are informed by the determined if contested optimism of someone who knows the ground she walks on and its potential....
At Wandering Aengus, we love the idea of being a home for our authors, so we're super excited to re-issue @jessicagigot.bsky.social first #poetry collection, a beautiful meditation on nature (and living in the Anthropocene).
wanderingaenguspress.com/flood-patter...
15.10.2025 00:21
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The fine art of the book review is alive and thriving with @writerstevens.bsky.social!
Check out his thoughtful, beautiful review of L. Annette Binder's memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven...
09.10.2025 19:08
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Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday, October 9
Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker
4-5 pm Pacific - 7-8 pm Eastern
Graphic includes a photo of Peter in a blue plaid shirt and standing in front of a tree, and a photo of Jan wearing glasses and with her hair pulled back in a ponytail.
The cover of Peter's poetry collection, An Altar of Tides, shows water flowing over rounded stones and sand. The cover of Jan's essay collection, Slow Learner, depicts a bright green fern opening in front of a black background.
Drop everything and join us for this fab reading today with Jan Shoemaker reading from her essay collection, Slow Learner, and Peter Ludwin reading from his poetry collection, An Altar of Tides!
4p Pacific, 7p Eastern on Zoom. Pre-register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
09.10.2025 18:59
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Reading graphic shows author photos of Marcia Aldrich and Benjamin Cutler with their books, Studio of the Voice, and Wild Silence, respectively.
Text reads:
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday, September 11
Marcia Aldrich & Benjamin Cutler
4-5 pm Pacific - 7-8 om Eastern
www.wanderingaenguspress.com
Upcoming readings include Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker on Oct. 9, and Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin on Nov. 6
Super excited for this online reading with master-of-the-essay, @marciaaldrich.bsky.social, and eco-poet extraordinaire, Benjamin Cutler.
Thursday, Sept 11, 4-5p Pacific, 7-8p Eastern
Click here for details and the link to pre-register:
wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html
05.09.2025 02:10
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Less than an hour until this powerhouse reading with @humbleessayist.bsky.social Steven Harvey and Martha Gies.
Come get a literary (and socio-political) boost!
wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html
21.08.2025 22:21
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Events
Join us for a powerhouse reading from Martha Gies' highly acclaimed memoir in essays, Broken Open , a CLMP featured title, and Steven Harvey's essay collection, The Beloved Republic , winner of the.....
Don't miss this online reading with @humbleessayist.bsky.social & Martha Gies!
Thursday, August 21.
If you're feeling discouraged about the state of affairs in the world, Steven and Martha's words are perfect for this moment in history. Come be inspired!
wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html
15.08.2025 22:56
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Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday July 10
L. Annette Binder & Jed Myers
4-5 pm Pacific - 7-8 pm Eastern
Upcoming readings:
Aug 21 - Martha Gies & Steven Harvey
Sept 11 - Marcia Aldrich & Benjamin Cutler
Oct 9 - Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker
Nov 6 - Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin
www.wanderingaenguspress.com
Hey lit lovers! Have you registered for this amazing reading and Q&A with L. Annette Binder and Jed Myers?
Thursday, July 10, 7-8 pm Eastern, 4-6 pm Pacific.
We hope you'll join all of the 2025 Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Press readings!
Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...
09.07.2025 23:01
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All love back to you, Alina, for your incredible poetry! 💙
09.07.2025 22:51
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Consider the Joshua Tree
A Review of Barret Baumgart's YUCK
If you care about Joshua Trees or the desert in general, read Barret Baumgart's YUCK!
If you're not sure, check out VM Harrigan's review:
"With humor and prose, Baumgart affords us a ... view into ... the history of this country, of the West, and of LA."
manifoldhouse.substack.com/p/consider-t...
14.06.2025 18:24
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Join us for a Zoom reading with @majda.bsky.social & Barret Baumgart reading from their new books:
In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls
YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree.
Thurs, 6/12, 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern
email publisher jill @ jillmccabejohnson .com for the link
11.06.2025 20:09
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Cover of WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES by Amanda Hawkins
Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands
What gods do we grope in common-what land sprawls to the west-
what oceans will swallow
our solid continents? I wanted
the remnants, the salvageable
bones kept clean and away from light.
The paintings-one might stand too close the breath
to carry the unseen,
water droplets decay what would be
preserved. Kept, I thought, was the operative
word suspended-the holy
space set aside.
Who says such preservation is
in contention with logic-
land lies
bare, flat, folded,
stacked, and ripped along a seam. The bones of
the dead are everywhere
believed to be sacred. The land exposed,
but most hidden
by oceans rising, by the land being by nature
a surface. When I say land
sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean
I mean all the rest
unarticulated with the mouth's
profane shape.
I mean to say how the body moves
is praxis, the paintings
on the stone were roped off to keep
pilgrims from touching-to preserve
what could be lost.
But when I say the bones
I mean the bones.
"When I say land
sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean
I mean all the rest
unarticulated with the mouth's
profane shape"
-Amanda Hawkins from WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES @wapress.bsky.social
24.04.2025 14:02
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Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press
Online Reading Series
Sunday May 4
Daniel Meltz and Tina Schumann
June 12 - Barret Baumgart & Majda Gama
July 10 - L. Annette Binder & Jed Myers
August 21 - Martha Gies & Steven Harvey
September 11 - Marcia Aldrich & Benjamin Cutler
October 9 - Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker
November 6 - Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin
Check out our 2025 reading series lineup!
5/4 Daniel Meltz, @tms2072.bsky.social
6/12 Barret Baumgart, @majda.bsky.social
7/10 L. Annette Binder, Jed Myers
8/21 Martha Gies, Steven Harvey
9/11 Marcia Aldrich, Benjamin Cutler
10/9 Peter Ludwin, Jan Shoemaker
11/6 Amanda Hawkins, Christopher Martin
22.04.2025 22:22
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O Pope, Where Art Thou?
22.04.2025 22:09
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@majda.bsky.social's debut collection is a treasure!
"In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility of history and the grief and joy of being in this world and on this earth."
@emanquotah.bsky.social
06.04.2025 01:48
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YUCK
Barret Baumgart's YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia is winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Nonfiction . Are you headed to Joshua Tree this summer?....
Happy release day to Barret Baumgart for his amazing, bizarre, riveting, and indescribable book YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird and Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia.
Part history, part environmental justice, part poetry, part scandal and all brilliant.
wanderingaenguspress.com/yuck.html
26.03.2025 02:53
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