WHAT TO GIVE? Carl Sandburg: Poetry is the journal of a sea animal living on land, wanting to fly the air.Rita Dove: Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.James K. Baxter: The poem is a plank laid over the lion’s den. Read poetry, give poetry. Our books, signed by the poets, are … Read more
Free books! Reviews are so very important (and hard to get) for small presses! Whether you’re a blogger or a journalist (or both) – we have a limited number of print review copies available for TRAVELERS: POEMS, by David Michael Belczyk and LOVE’S FINGERPRINTS: POEMS, by Bernard Horn. We have digital (PDF) copies available for all our titles. Contact … Read more
This May I went to check the Circling Rivers Post Office box. In it was a letter from Bill Henderson… I am pleased to announce that work from your press has been selected to be included in Pushcart Prize XLVIII (2024 edition)…. The work in question is “Blue,” the title poem from Erin Wilson’s … Read more
NEWS Congratulations to David Michael Belczyk, whose collection TRAVELERS: POEMS was published June 20! And thanks to all who pre-ordered! (You should have your copies in hand by now.) We have a limited number of TRAVELERS review copies available. If you’re interested in reviewing the book – whether on your blog, at an online bookseller, … Read more
You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. – John Adams author-signed | free shipping | easy pay via PayPal or credit card Circling Rivers welcomes David Michael Belczyk, whose poetry collection Travelers will be published by CR in June 2023. “These are poignant songs of longing and desire that evoke the complexities of … Read more
Poetry is the liquid voice that can wear through stone. – Adrienne Rich author-signed | free shipping | easy pay via PayPal or credit card– limited quantities of signed books – You will never be alone with a poet in your pocket. – John Adams CIRCLING RIVERS WRITERS Jean Huets | Review of Before All the … Read more
What to give? A gift card for a couple of cups of mediocre coffee? You glug it down in the car, you get heartburn and/or the jitters, and you’re left with a throwaway cup. Or there’s poetry. You read a poem, and your mind and imagination ignite each other. Another poem, or even another read … Read more
Signed copies of BLUE: POEMS, by Erin Wilson, and ON THE LEVEL: POEMS ON LIVING WITH MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS, by Bryan R. Monte, are available for pre-order! Visit our bookstore to order these and other CR books. EVENTS October 27, 7-8:30 pm Eastern US | At the Writer’s Center in Bethesda, MD | Bryan R. Monte and Claudia Gary … Read more
Getting close! June 21 — the Summer Solstice — is publication date of Nothing But Light: Poems, by Barbara Schwartz and Krista J.H. Leahy. Nothing But Light explores the sacred feminine through the poets’ shared visits to places and people of spiritual revelation—a mosque, a temple, a shaman, a tree. Its poems form a guidebook … Read more
Circling Rivers stands with poet and translator Nina Murray and her colleagues in condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Letter in LA Review of Books. Recently published book lists help us grasp the dimensions of the crisis. But nearly all the compilations, however worthy, neglect the most raw and immediate medium of literary expression, a medium that, … Read more