New Chapbook

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Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems

My son Micah and I are thrilled to announce the publication of Mapping the Valley: Hospital Poems, a 29-page, beautifully hand-tied chapbook, selected as number 12 in Volume Four of the Seven Kitchens Press Editor’s Series! This collection of 17 poems has been over two years in the making, so if you’ve been to our pages before, you may have seen a few previews. Now we can’t wait for you to get your hands on your own copy.

Click here to purchase your copy from the publisher.

“A collaborative project between a father and son,Mapping the Valleypresents a rare series of poems in alternating voices: one, in and out of hospitals, trying to describe and connect to his world as much as his own self, and the other, digging deeper into the quandaries of fatherhood and responsibility, trying equally to connect…

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