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Folk music legend Noel Paul Stookey, now 88, and his daughter AS Aubrey will perform music and poetry about listening at the Camden Opera House. AS will be performing poems from her new FLP book Hide & Seek: Poems for Being Found in a Lost World (Finishing Line Press): available for preorder now.

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: HIDE & SEEK by A.S. Aubrey On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/hide-seek-by-a-s-aubrey/ In Hide & Seek, A.S. Aubrey writes into the places we often turn away from: grief, illness, mortality, and the longing for meaning and connection. At once fragile and fierce, Hide & Seek offers companionship for readers navigating loss, change, or spiritual seeking. This collection reminds us that within endings lie openings — and that in listening carefully, we may find ourselves met by life’s inevitable embrace. #poetry #grief #illness #mortality #identity A.S. Aubrey’s work has been seen or is forthcoming in The Plentitudes, POETICS (Bainbridge Island Press), The Bangalore Review, Querencia Press and as a winner of The Poets Corner’s Art & Ekphrastic Poetry exhibit, among others. She was longlisted for the 2025 Westword Prize and shortlisted for the 2025 Clarissa Dalloway Prize. She lives in Los Angeles, where the urban sprawl inspires humor and existential angst. www.aspages.com. PRAISE: “Such rapturous lyricism, such enthralling language, such deft metaphors. These poems exemplify what poetry does best. They transform and transfix us. They lift the proverbial veil from our mortal eyes, so that we can see what we have always seen through the senses of our (in)visible souls. Namely, that each of our lives is a poem, as intricate and complex as these poems remind us: full of questions and answers, full of beauty and harshness, full of convictions and doubts. But ultimately, full of hope and triumph.” –Richard Blanco, 2013 Presidential Inaugural Poet, author of Homeland of My Body “These poems bring to mind the intricate rhythms, sounds, and exquisite structure/form of Wallace Stevens, with the adventure, vision and bravery of Mina Loy. We are lucky to encounter these stunning poems as a chapbook; AS Aubrey is a rising star in the American poetry world. I dare you to put the book down, without finishing it.” –Jose Hernandez Diaz; author of Bad Mexican, Bad American and Portrait of the Artist as a Brown Man “A.S. Aubrey brings a lover’s tenderness to this gorgeous, intimately-observed collection, transforming the matters of daily life into found objects of great beauty. Sinuous, elegant, charged with emotion, these poems are a testament to spiritual survival in a world gone mad.” –Mark Matousek, author of When You’re Falling, Dive: Lessons in the Art of Living, Founder of Inquire Within: The Writing to Awaken Community “This debut collection leaves me breathless. Every morning, returning to the pages, I am awestruck by the skill of the pen, transported to places I have dared not venture alone. These poems have become my companions. Aubrey is a remarkable poet who has found a place in my heart. I will revisit them repeatedly.” –Hannah Sward, award-winning author of Strip: A Memoir Please share/please repost #flp #booktok #poetry #chapbook

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New from Finishing Line Press: Rift in the Universe by Lina Belar On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/rift-in-the-universe-by-lina-belar/ Lina Belar’s poetry collection, A Rift in the Universe, traces a journey from New York City roots to Midwestern skies, blending childhood memories, imagination, and roadside nostalgia with a philosopher’s eye. Written in warm, conversational free verse, these poems uncover quiet joy and meaning in life’s small ruptures and unexpected turns. Curated soon after the diagnosis of a serious illness, they are being published while Lina is recovering from a serious automobile accident. The final poem in the collection, Rift in the Universe, represents Linas pondering of what is to come in terms in her future poetry. #poetry #nostalgia #life #illness #recovery Lina Belar’s poetry blends her love for nature and all its creatures, including the human ones, with a foolish love of language. She has been featured in Talking Stick, Lake Region Review, and Poets Across Minnesota. In 2018 Lina received the first prize poetry award at the Brainerd Writer’s Alliance Festival and she published her first chapbook, Rural Score. In 2021 she received a Creative Support for Individuals grant from the Minnesota State Arts Board and in 2024 she published her second chapbook, At the Crossroads. A number of her poems have been translated into Slovenian and in 2026 were celebrated at an event at Triglav National Park in her honor. Most recently, the Northern Lights Library Network has named Lina as the recipient of its 2026 Life Achievement Award, recognizing more than 50 years of extraordinary service to libraries, museums, history and the arts throughout Minnesota. Please share/please repost #FLP #preorder #poetry #booktok #poetrytiktok

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New from Finishing Line Press: Hi, It’s Me, The Love of Your Life by Caitlin Brady On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/hi-its-me-the-love-of-your-life-by-caitlin-brady/ Hi, it’s me, the love of your life follows a narrator whose identity, shaky from heartbreak, is stolen. As mysterious charges mount and new lines of credit open, the narrator grapples with simultaneous rejection and impersonation. All call and no response, their messages chart the disintegration of one reality, once very sure, into another – by turns bitter and effervescent, mutating, flecked with delusion, ecstatic emptiness, and possibly even truth. #identitytheft #scam #scammers #loveisascam #scammed #poetry Caitlin Brady is a writer from Texas. Her work has appeared in McSweeney’s Internet Tendency, The Rumpus, Writer’s Digest, Misery Tourism and elsewhere, and her first chapbook of poetry, Heartless Ambition Machine, was published by Dancing Girl Press. She lives in New York. Instagram: @caitfayealldaye PRAISE: “This poetry is infinitely more potent than anything else out there. It should come with a warning label.” –John Tottenham, Service, Hate Poems “My identity was also stolen, and still this made me laugh.” –Kat Giordano, Thumbsucker Please share/please repost #FLP #preorder #poetry #booktok #poetrytiktok

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HOW SHOULD WE DRESS TO SPREAD ASH? includes poems that encompass caregiving, saying goodbye to aging parents, grief and resolution. In this debut chapbook, the author reflects on her parents’ paths, personalities and personae with raw truth, tenderness and humor. The personal becomes universal in this narrative exploration of intertwined lives, love, loss and acceptance. #poetry #caregiving #love #grief #resolution

Jennifer Weiss, J.D., grew up in rural New Jersey and graduated from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and University of Virginia School of Law. After a career of practicing law, serving in the North Carolina House of Representatives and running a nonprofit, she is devoting more time to writing. She was awarded the 2022 NC State Poetry Prize, and her poems appear in Kakalak, North Carolina Literary Review, Qu Literary Magazine, The Main Street Rag and other publications. When she is not writing, she is volunteering, swimming, reading, gardening, hiking and spending time with her family. She is passionate about children’s literacy. Jennifer and her husband live in North Carolina. For more information about Jennifer’s poetry, visit jenniferweisspoetry.com.

A Poem by Jennifer Weiss

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Only Child by Freyda K. Libman On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/only-child-by-freyda-k-libman/ Only Child is a collection of poems which convey life from the perspective of an only daughter of Jewish immigrants, fiercely loved and fiercely protected. In love with words and the companionship of stories, her poems somehow become the inchoate dreams of her parents, a longing for agency and affirmation denied to them but increasingly hers through poetry. Her poems develop on the streets and fire-fly nights of Chicago. The collection proceeds through the emotional and sensual awakening of her early years, the European landscapes of the Holocaust and Israel, the inevitability of loss and relinquishment, and finally in an unlikely second blossoming in Arizona following retirement. Only Child traces the evolution of her artistic voice and consciousness, always joyful in its acceptance of the poetic mantle, the sheer delight of wielding images. #poetry #Chicago #memory #ComingOfAge #family #JewishHeritage #Holocaust #grief #nature Freyda Libman graduated from Northwestern University where she also pursued graduate studies in American literature. A tenured professor in the English Department at the College of DuPage, she was honored as Outstanding Faculty Member by both students and colleagues. She made a lasting impact on her students through her courses on Holocaust literature, refugee studies, poetry, creative writing, and the works of Hemingway and Fitzgerald. Now retired in Arizona, she leads poetry study groups for the charitable arm of Brandeis University. She has published poems in Prairie Light Review, The Thing About Love Is…, and The Thing About Second Chances Is… This is her debut collection. @freyda.libman PRAISE: . Only Child is a journal, a symphony, and a painting of a life in a city in all its grit, anguish, beauty, and emotional tumult. A masterpiece. Freyda K. Libman’s poetic magic turns her past into our past, beaming us to Chicago on her journey of longing, isolation, love, heartbreak, and sublime joy. –David McGrath, author of Far Enough Away and contributing columnist for the Chicago Tribune . Love is a rebellious bird,” Freyda Libman writes in her new collection, Only Child, suggesting the beauty and struggle of her upbringing in Chicago as the daughter of Jewish immigrants. She explores and carefully reassembles fragments of her memory with a rare emotional acuity, turning them into a moving portrait of a family, a city, and of her own life as a poet and teacher.–Tom Montgomery Fate is a retired English professor in Chicago. His most recent book is The Long Way Home, a travel memoir. . Freyda Libman‘s poems weave together a complex autobiography steeped in Jewish tradition and a childhood flavored by secrets and loss, a kind of bildungsroman that begins in earnest in the arms of the wilderness, comes of age in European cities, and transitions into a “season of severance.” As Libman’s mother fades into the fog of dementia, she posits the question, can a “poem prick…memory’s pale flesh” into remembrance? These poignant and beautifully crafted poems are themselves the act of remembering, a kind of modern-day Kaddish. The collection concludes in the Sonoran desert, where the speaker, once again, is wrapped in a kind of “wilderness comforter.” –Dr. Rosemarie Dombrowski, Poet Laureate of Phoenix Please share/please repost #flp #booktok #poetry #chapbook

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FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: Finding the Light by Charles Ghigna On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/finding-the-light-by-charles-ghigna/ https://finishinglinepress.com/product/finding-the-light-by-charles-ghigna/ Charles Ghigna poems explore the liminal world, the real and imaginary “in-between” spaces that fill our lives with a kind of mystery and vision that gives us hope and shows us that it is often the ordinary and overlooked where our greatest treasures lie. #poetry #aging #time #eternity #life Charles Ghigna is a poet, children’s author, and nationally syndicated feature writer. He is the author of more than 5000 poems and one hundred books for children and adults ranging from the 1990 Pulitzer Prize nominee Returning to Earth to the popular children’s books The Father Goose Treasury of Poetry for Children and The Very Hungry Caterpillar’s First Poems. His books have been published by Disney, Random House, Scholastic, Simon & Schuster and others. His poems for adults have been published in Harper’s, The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, The Saturday Evening Post, The Wall Street Journal, and numerous other publications. Ghigna served as poet-in-residence at the Alabama School of Fine Arts, instructor of creative writing at Samford University, and has received fellowship grants and various awards and recognitions from the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation, the Rockefeller Brothers Fund, the National Endowment for the Arts, and the Library of Congress. A popular speaker at schools, colleges, conferences, and libraries, Ghigna has spoken at the American Library in Paris, the American International Schools in the Americas in South America and Alaska, and at other events throughout the U.S. and overseas. For more information please visit CharlesGhigna.com . PRAISE: . “Finding the Light is a study in contrasts and an exploration of “the in-between” — those places in transition. Dawn and dreams feature prominently in this book that is both deeply serious yet playful. Each word is weighted, explosive. The “Eucharist of moon” was a phrase that I felt in my heart. Dawn, the landscape of dreams and nightmares, the world between conscious and unconscious thought, thresholds between rooms and time (present and past), this is the terrain Charles Ghigna explores with tenderness and surgical expertise. Ghigna is one of the best poets of our time. Treat yourself to this book and step into those spaces where everything can change.” —Carolyn Haines, USA Today bestselling author of the Sarah Booth Delaney mystery series . “In Finding the Light, poet Charles Ghigna addresses concerns of aging, the urgency of time, mortality, pride, war, forgiveness, and eternity. By metaphorically exploring the spaces that surround words, Ghigna examines both making poems and living life. Though each process can be “all shovel / and pick and fingernail dirt,” Ghigna’s fierce meditations arm us to face our own empty spaces.” —Marjorie Maddox, author of Seeing Things . “Yes, I am / still here / telling you / what’s left / of the poems / still in me.” Admired poet and children’s author Charles Ghigna lets readers know up front that he has plenty of words to share with the world in his latest collection Finding the Light. “It is not the words / in the air / or on the page / that matter most, / it is that white space / we must behold.” This collection weaves the language of light and shadow, and one that readers will pick up again and again to “reach out / in the dark / for a life line” to find comfort and even some humor. In “Flying Awake” Ghigna reminds us “a good dream is all it takes.” —KB Ballentine, author of All the Way Through . In Finding the Light, Charles Ghigna casts a fairytale in-verse in which poetry becomes the light that will find where all the light has gone. This book shines as a love letter, a whispered prayer, a grimoire, a skeleton key, a secret cupped to an ear, a map back to meaning, a compass that points home. –M.K. Foster, author of The Great Dying

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This is the 2nd edition and 5th printing of this best-selling poetry book.

Looking to the East with Western Eyes officially launched the New Women’s Voices Chapbook Series (as No. 1) for Finishing Line Press. The series is now in its 28th year, with over 200 books in the series.

The book achieved widespread local acclaim, reaching #10 on the Cincinnati/Tri-State Best Sellers List published by the Cincinnati Enquirer.

The new edition is in preorder now at https://finishinglinepress.com/product/looking-to-the-east-with-western-eyes-by-leah-maines-nwvs-1/ #poetry #book #bestseller #booktok

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A Fistful of Garnets is a glossary of 32 of the words/concepts Weaver encountered during the most painful season of her life. It is a record of her own lived experience and an attempt at reconciliation with what she gained, like it or not. It also seeks to offer a way for those who live with (and/or who love someone with) mental health challenges to recognize some of what happens in minds, hearts, bodies, and spirits during distress. In gemology, garnets are said to evoke the pomegranate seeds Persephone ate in the Underworld. Over time, the stones that looked like what bound Beauty to Hades somehow also became symbols of protection and the safe return of loved ones from dangerous journeys. These clusters of syllables are a testament to that unlikely transformation. #poetry #MentalHealthAwareness #emotionalwellbeing #healingjourney #hope

Melissa Weaver’s work has appeared in The Christian Century, Ekstasis Magazine, Bravery Magazine, Mothers Always Write, Anabaptist Witness, The Harrisonburg Citizen (editorials) and The Soil and the Seed Project (illustration). Her first chapbook, Welcome, Stranger: Poems of Making and Keeping Our Children (Finishing Line Press, 2021) explored the radical hospitality that is parenting. She lives in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia with her family, where she coordinates intergenerational faith formation for a small church and volunteers to cultivate networks of care at schools and with her neighbors. She is passionate about approaching mental health challenges with curiosity and compassion. You can follow her work on Instagram @melissaweaverpoet

A Poem by Melissa Weaver

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Coal People takes the reader on a journey through the author’s family history. Rooted in the green serpentine vein of the southern Appalachian Mountains, Pross’s people have “heart cells coated in black dust” but these poems journey from the wilds of the mountains to the calm of a Gulf Coast beach, the cold of Detroit to the coal camps of Kentucky and East Tennessee. Even though she comes from a long line of “gypsies,” who “never settled, even when they meant to,” Pross herself is “rooted” in these mountains. #coal #Appalachia #family #history

Sarah Pross was born and raised south of Knoxville, Tennessee in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. She shares a home with her rescue pup Charley (who is the real alpha). Sarah has been published in Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel, Watershed Review, Kakalak, and Cathexis Northwest. She is the author of Grounding (Main Street Rag, 2021). Instagram: @sarahp0529

FLP BOOK OF THE DAY: The Only Map You’ll Need by John Findura On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/the-only-map-youll-need-by-john-findura/ The Only Map You’ll Need winds through suburban New Jersey and ends up in a coffee-stained notebook at a roadside diner at 2am, somewhere in the hypnagogic state between the waking world and dream, where the only certainty is the uncertainty of modern anxiety and the need for the grounding nostalgia that always seems to slip through your fingers. #Poetry #Nostalgia #NewJersey #life #booktok John Findura is the author of the poetry collection Submerged (Five Oaks Press, 2017). His poetry and criticism appear in numerous journals including Verse; Fourteen Hills; Copper Nickel; Pleiades; Forklift, Ohio; Sixth Finch; Prelude; and Rain Taxi. A guest blogger for The Best American Poetry, he lives in Northern New Jersey with his wife and two daughters.Socials: X, BSky, Insta @jfindura PRAISE: These wonderful poems tunnel through everyday life doggedly yet with a crooked grin. Along the way, reality unravels, weaves itself together, falls apart again. Witty and oddly moving, this book invites you to linger in its dream logic. Here melancholy flirts with absurdity, and the result is an opera, not one with dukes and varlets and castles in Italy, but a tale of ordinary life. You get the feeling that our keen-eyed author is telling his own story, reader, and then you realize he’s telling yours. –David Kirby, author of The Winter Dance Party, Poems 1983-2023 In The Only Map You’ll Need, John Findura charts a modern Darwinian road trip through the landscape of the self, exploring the complex disorderliness of the mind one pain at a time. These poems, humorous and strange, deceptively plainspoken and full of longing, translate the poet’s relentless compulsions into language capable of turning the world’s chaos into moments of clarity and resonance: “And I tell you, truthfully, because there is no / other way of telling you anything, that, yes, / everything hurts, even if you can’t see it.” Findura has given us a radiant atlas—we should study it closely. –Joshua Poteat, author of The Regret Histories Please share/please repost #booktok #poetry #FLP #book

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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Late Flowering by Paula Goldman On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/late-flowering-by-paula-goldman/ Paula Goldman’s Late Flowering takes us on a journey from every day life with her husband of 60 years, a notable achievement, to Degas’ bathers in the locker room at a community center. Also included are her exploits as a child in Atlantic City, NJ where she grew up in a small apartment above her father’s meat market for the first five years of her life, continuing to return through high school . The Atlantic City boardwalk and beach and ocean form a great part of her life as does poems including her husband met on a blind date. Late Flowering is about growing up at a later age in life. Goldman’s involvement in the arts influences these poems a great deal, writing about Paul Klee’s works, Edgar Degas’s, Henry Moore’s, Johannes Vermeer’s, and others. Combining her life with these works is a well established part of her journey through life. #life #AtlanticCity #ocean #beach #booktok Paula Goldman‘s book, The Great Canopy, won the Gival Press Poetry award, an honorable mention for the Independent Booksellers’ Award. Her work has appeared in theravensperch, Passager, Visions International, Rattle, Across the Margin, Oyez Review, Slant, Briar Cliff Review, Calyx, Passager, Ekphrasis, Prairie Schooner, Manhattanville Review, Cream City Review, Comstock Review, Harvard Review, The North American Review, Poet Lore, Poet Miscellany, Hawaii Pacific Review, Cæsura,and other magazines. Her poems have appeared in Boomer Girls published by the University of Iowa Press, The Party Train: A Collection of North American Prose Poetrypublished by New Rivers Press and Conversation Pieces published by Knopf. She was first prize winner in Inkwell’s (Manhattanville College) poetry competition and the Louisiana Literature Award for poetry. She holds an MA degree in Journalism from Marquette University and an MFA in Writing from Vermont College. Former reporter for The Milwaukee Journal, she served as a docent and lecturer at the Milwaukee Art Museum for 25 years. “Late Love,” a book of poems published by Kelsay Books in Utah, is her most recent book of poems. She lives in Milwaukee, WI with her husband, a retired rheumatologist, volunteering, biking, swimming, walking, lifting weights at a nearby community center from where some of her poems emanate in the locker room. Paula has three grandchildren establishing themselves in real estate, global engineering and a soon to be film maker. She takes great pride in her family life and long wedded husband. Her friends are supportive and helpful, especially in reading first drafts of poems. PRAISE: Rilke once described “the indescribably swift, deep, timeless moments of this godlike in-seeing,” a way of being both observer and observed at once, and Paula Goldmandescribes “my mind fluttering over / the expanse,” echoing Genesis as she both observes and enters worlds of artists and literary figures, from Lupercalia to Van Gogh. Like Stevens reader in his quiet house Goldman makes of this varied world a place to create her own world where personal relationships are given transcendent value, and larger visions are defined in intimate terms. She does this though acute observation, dramatic monologue, and that Rilkean in-seeing—a gift which is this book of fabulous poems itself, and which will, indeed, change your life.–Richard Jackson, Author of Footprints and The Heart as Framed: New and Select Poems Please share/please repost #flp #booktok #poetry #chapbook

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New from Finishing Line Press: The Distances Between by George Vose III On SALE: https://finishinglinepress.com/product/the-distances-between-by-george-vose-iii/ The Distances Between is a collection of poems written during a period of examination and introspection— a season of reckoning with what endures and what fades. These pieces explore how history and inheritance, faith and doubt, intimacy and estrangement echo through the rooms we inhabit and the rituals we repeat. The collection moves from the domestic and immediate — fractured households, remembered gestures, fragile truces — toward a broader meditation on community and loss. In early pieces such as A Fragile Impasse and Procession, the private intersects with the ceremonial; small familial dramas unfold within the larger choreography of belief and belonging. From there, the poems widen their gaze — toward mortality, labor, and the uneasy inheritance of history — yet always return to the intimate human pulse beneath it all. Written in a style that prizes restraint over excess, these poems aim to reveal the weight of feeling through precision rather than flourish. Each piece, in its way, measures the distance between what is said and what is felt — between the living and the dead, the personal and the public, the sacred and the profane. Together, they navigate what remains unspoken: the distances between what we remember, what we love, and what we become. #poetry #history #faith #life #booktok George Vose’s work explores the distances between memory and myth, the domestic and the historical, the sacred and the ordinary. His style emanates from a New England sensibility—measured, austere, and haunted by inheritance—where restraint and compression become their own forms of revelation and expression. George resides in Kingston, MA with his wife and daughter. He enjoys golfing and curating a humble but burgeoning vintage watch collection. PRAISE: At its heart, The Distances Between by George Vose is a book about echoes: the rituals we repeat, the silences we inherit, and the emotional landscapes we carry from room to room, generation to generation. Each poem measures the distance between what is spoken and what is felt, what endures and what fades, what we lose and what still calls us home. Thoughtful, intimate, and deeply human, this collection invites readers to sit with the ache of becoming—and the quiet beauty of what remains. —Leah Huete de Maines Please share/please repost #FLP #preorder #poetry #booktok #poetrytiktok

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Part time travel, part investigative wonderment, Let Me Lay One On You, Dan Butler’s debut chapbook of poetry, takes you on a kaleidoscopic journey of people, places, and things that continue to haunt, surprise, and inform the writer – as they will you. #time #travel #people #places

Dan Butler is known primarily as an actor, having played major roles On and Off Broadway, on tv, and in film, as well as writing, directing, and producing in all of those mediums. Dan’s poetry has been seen in ONE ART; a journal of poetry as well as the anthology The Path to Kindness, Poems of Connection and Joy. Let Me Lay One On You marks Dan’s debut poetry collection.

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