Tags: poetry collections

Every poetry collection has its “maybes” and “almosts,” the poems that didn’t make it to publication. A debut poet considers the poems that haunt a book from the outside.

The author of the debut poetry collection Good Dress highlights a thoughtful selection of literary journals that helped shepherd her poems into the world, including Underbelly and Hopkins Review.

The first lines of a dozen noteworthy books, including Yr Dead by Sam Sax and Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami.

Founded seventeen years ago to support poetry from the Pacific Northwest, Airlie Press is a nonprofit publisher guided by a unique rotating editorial board of poets from Oregon, Washington, and Idaho.