#boa editions

[garadinervi]

Naomi Shihab Nye (نعومي شهاب ناي), I Still Have Everything You Gave Me, (original letterpress print), [from Fuel, BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, 1998(-2011)], Expedition Press, Seattle, WA, 2025, Printed on a 1950 Vandercook press from handset type, 1 ink / 1 pass, Type is Headline Med and Perpetua [© Naomi Shihab Nye]

[bostonpoetryslam]

Because the heart, friend, Is a shadow, a domed dark Hung with remembered doings.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Pipistrelles,” from Song

[chenchenwrites]

Bouquets of thanks to U.S. Poet Laureate (!!) Tracy K. Smith (!!!) for selecting & discussing my poem "In the Hospital" in this new episode of her podcast, The Slowdown. Poetry podcasts are joy.

Listen here. 

[grolierpoetry]

No Sleep in the night.  No sleep prowling like a caged animal. And the smell of hyacinth  heady in the air. Seductive. Flirtatious. A mummery of scent. A museum of scent:

From Song poems by Brigit Pegeen Kelly

[katiesclassicbooks]

Current Poetry I’m Reading: Why God is a Woman by Nin Andrews 

[garadinervi]

Naomi Shihab Nye (نعومي شهاب ناي), Red Suitcase, American Poets Continuum Series, No. 29, BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, (1994-)2013

Cover Design: Daphne Poulin Cover Art: Beck Whitehead Typesetting: The Typeworks

[garadinervi]

Naomi Shihab Nye (نعومي شهاب ناي), 'There's a Way' notecard, [from 'Cinco de Mayo', in 'Transfer', BOA Editions, Rochester, NY, 2011, p. 101. © Naomi Shihab Nye], Expedition Press, Seattle, WA, n.d. [2010s-2020s]

Naomi Shihab Nye (نعومي شهاب ناي) Cinco de Mayo If this is your birthday and you are dead, do we stay silent as the sheet you died under? No. You always talked. Here's a thick white candle whispering. Pour birdseed into feeders. Speak up, speak up. Tell me where they go, my friend said, in the same pain. I touched her shoulder. Here, right here. You're closer than you ever were—takes a while to know that. Every scrap of DNA, he's listening. There's a way not to be broken that takes brokenness to find it.

4x6" flat notecard Letterpress printed with archival ink 120# renewable cover weight paper 100% recycled kraft envelope included Blank on back except Expedition logo and credit line

The letterpress notecard was designed and printed from handset type by artist Myrna Keliher The type is Spartan and Standard

[bostonpoetryslam]

Like caskets, trees can be counted, together Or apart. If you stand above the woods, the tree Is one. It is many, if you walk below. Many, If you step past the stations of your thought And number your steps.

Brigit Pegeen Kelly, “Past the Stations,” from Song