April 2025

Cover of BIRDS AND THE TRICK OF TIME, by Burke

Circling Rivers welcomes Mark Anthony Burke, whose poetry collection BIRDS AND THE TRICK OF TIME will be published by Circling Rivers June 2025. Read a sample and pre-order a signed copy here

“These are the marvelous poems of a life lived on the edge of the wild, homestead poems among the harsh beauties of the far North. Clean language that relies on the natural image to trace out a thin narrative thread and carry the deep feeling within…. I admire their spare lines and Stoic outlook, reminiscent of Gary Snyder or early John Haines.” — Joseph Millar, author of Shine

Pre-order signed copies of BIRDS AND THE TRICK OF TIME here! (Unsigned available at booksellers June 24.) If you would like to review BIRDS AND THE TRICK OF TIME, please request a review copy by responding to this email. As always, thank you for supporting independently published poets and poetry! 

Coming up…

See our Events page for April readings by Bryan R. Monte, author of ON THE LEVEL: POEMS ON LIVING WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS

Circling Rivers Writers

Erin Wilson | “New Year’s Eve on the Swamp,” The Literary Review of Canada, link, print. | “Small Potatoes,” Verse Daily, link. (audio available on Verse Daily Substack) | “Small Potatoes,” “Small Talk,” “The Apogee of Pencils,” Manhattan Review, link, print | “The Christ of Deer, Dishwashers, and Baristas,” Sugar House Review link, print. | “Little Manifesto,” The Crank, here, on-line | “The Understory in Autumn,” Channel, Youtube reading (Erin begins just after minute 27…), here.

Kenneth Pobo | Congratulations to Ken on new collection, out March 15 – At The Window, Silence(Fernwood Press)

One last thing…

Look for our Whitman’s Birthday sale in May! (Way better than big box “Presidents’ Day” sales, right?)