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Finishing Line Press is an award-winning small press publisher, since 1998. FLP is a proud member of CLMP

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I Wonder is a collection for the wondering, wandering heart. Flush with moments that shout, whisper, plea, and praise, this chapbook explores the relationships and questions that mold us. I Wonder delves into memory, faith, and identity with refreshing honesty and hope, emphasizing that in each moment, wonder awaits us.#americanpoetry #catholicpoet #femalepoet #faith #poetry

Originally from New Jersey, Sophia M. Giudici is a poet and artist living in Washington, D.C. Her work has been published in Nexus, Vermilion, Latin@ Literatures, Boudin, and Bainbridge Island Press. She is currently a PhD student in English at the Catholic University of America. IG: @sophiamgiudici

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Bloodroot: Voices from a Salem Household is a pastoral gothic set against the smoldering backdrop of 1692 Salem. A narrative in verse, the collection carries readers through the contrapuntal voices of an afflicted girl and the woman accused of bewitching her, an enslaved servant living under the same roof. Through motifs of blood, cloth, fire, and bone, the poems explore silence and intimate textures of domestic work, spirituality and madness, girlhood and undoing, raising questions about what it means to be believed and what it means to be accused. #women #poetry #Salem #gothic #witches

Erin Ganaway is the author of a full-length collection of poetry, The Waiting Girl, winner of The Breakthrough Poetry Prize (Texas Review Press) and a poetry chapbook, Memories of Green (Finishing Line Press). Her work has appeared in international magazines and journals and has been mentioned in The New York Times. She has been anthologized in Best New Poets, The Southern Poetry Anthology, and elsewhere. She holds a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Hollins University and currently lives in Atlanta. @eganaway

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A Poem by Erin Ganaway
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The poems in The Yellow Lectures ask questions about teaching and learning. Specifically about the directions these processes flow and the pressures on these systems. These poems take interest in classroom communities and those existing outside of formal settings. They bring us into mental health recovery spaces and in proximity with incarcerated youth. Some of the poems aim to honor the people who challenge and inspire us. Others defend or critique the structures surrounding these complicated relationships. They nerd out on art and music and literature and Michael Jordan and all the good things people make. Our culture wars exist as a backdrop to these poems which are primarily interested in justice and beauty and embracing curiosity for all things and each other. #poetry #teaching #learning #mentalhealth #recovery

Charles Malone works with writers in the community around Kent, OH. He is the co-founder and an editor at CrayfishMag with Furnace Run Press. He won the Moonstone Arts Chapbook prize for his poems After an Eclipse of Moths. He is also the author of the collection Working Hypothesis, and the chapbook Questions About Circulation. He edited the anthologies Light Enters the Grove: Exploring Cuyahoga Valley National Park Through Poetry and A Poetic Inventory of Rocky Mountain National Park. Charles now works at the Wick Poetry Center.

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A Poem by Charles Malone
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In the Needle, A Woman by Susan Michele Coronel
(Finishing Line Press) is a 2026 Finalist in the 23rd annual Best Book Awards in the category of Poetry: Contemporary (American Bookfest) #award #poetry #booktok #FLP #awardwinner

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The Art of Undoing by Hudson Plumb (Finishing Line Press) is a 2026 Finalist in the 23rd annual Best Book Awards in the category of Poetry: Chapbook (American Bookfest) #award #poetry #booktok #FLP #awardwinner @hudsonplumb

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QASIDA FOR WHEN I BECAME A WOMAN by Huma Sheikh (Finishing Line Press) is a 2026 Finalist in the 23rd annual Best Book Awards in the category of Poetry: Chapbook (American Bookfest) #award #poetry #booktok #FLP #awardwinner @hums092019

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What’s It Like To Be Old? by John Maynard (Finishing Line Press) is a Finalist in the 23rd annual Best Book Awards in the category of Poetry: General #award #poetry #booktok #FLP #awardwinner

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Teri Elam’s new FLP book was reviewed by Publishers Weekly’s BOOKLIFE: 

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New from Finishing Line Press: Portrait Studio on the Ridge by Beth Kanell

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What do you see when you walk on back roads, while the scent of earth and its inhabitants mingles with your breath? What do you hear among the bird calls and the wind’s whispers? For Beth Kanell, each morning walk offers a portrait—of family, of trauma and recovery, and of New England’s landscape. Portrait Studio on the Ridge invites readers to see their lives and selves in parallel, and to embrace the day. #poetry #trauma #recovery #Vermont #aging

Beth Kanell lives in northeastern Vermont among rivers, rocks, and writers. Her poems seek comfortable seats in small well-lit places, including The Comstock Review, Indianapolis Review, Gyroscope Review, The Post-Grad Journal, Persimmon Tree, Northwind Treasury, RockPaperPoem, and Rise Up Review. Her collection Thresholdscame out in 2026 (Kelsay Books).
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One of the most moving poems in Portrait Studio on the Ridge declares that “People who haven’t lost don’t guess/ the way old passions stir and swirl below.” Beth Kanell does know, and her keenings over loss are excruciatingly eloquent, while the poet’s voluminous heart, everywhere evident, is exactly what engenders that eloquence. It also completely steers her poems away from the mawkish. We should also note Kanell’s facility with free verse and more restrictive modes like villanelle or ballad. Her formats never seem labored, always seem precisely right for her intention. Read “Portrait Studio on the Ridge” at your own heart’s peril: be prepared, that is, for searing emotion that is rarely so beautifully presented.
–Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate 2011–2015

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This poetry collection explores themes of art, nature, history, politics and personal reflection. Poems speak to artistic and literary inspiration, nature and the seasons, the human connection, travel and cultural encounters. Most of the poems were written around the time of a Yaddo fellowship in upstate New York or focus on tramping the shores of the Atlantic after years in the East Village of New York. The poetry is inspired by visual art, classical literature, and historical paintings (Courbet, Braque, Ryder, Fra Angelico and El Greco), walking the cities of New York and Berlin and living by the sea. The “Athos” poems take the titles of monastery stations of the cross, following the contours of a journey to Mount Athos, in northeastern Greece, where hermits dwell in the mountainside. The book explores themes of truth, beauty, birth and death, the connections between art and science, with themes like travel, war, nature, human frailty and cultural rituals. It reflects on childhood memories, religious iconography and the passage of time. #art #nature #poetry #history #reflection

William Allen is a poet and visual artist, working at the United Nations in New York for many years, hoping to bring a poetry of humanism to the poetry canon. He has published six books of poems: The Man on the Moon (New York University and Persea Presses, 1987); Sevastopol: On Photographs of War (Xenos Press, 1997), North Passage (Clay Street Press, 2018), The Largest Glue Factory in the World (Spuyten Duyvil, 2024), A History of the Azores (Clay Street Press, 2025) and The Birth of the Atlantic (Spuyten Duyvil, 2026). A member of PEN America, he was awarded a 2009 National Endowment for the Arts Creative Writing Fellowship with residencies at Art Matters, Yaddo, Breadloaf and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. These days he’s working with a conservation group in the Hudson Valley to inventory natural resources and prepare people and the environment for climate change @william.allen.word.image @william.allen.word.image
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A Poem by William Allen
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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Four Seasons by Joanne Grumet

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Four Seasons is a rhythmic cartography of the human heart, mapped against the shifting face of the natural world. In this collection, Joanne Grumet explores the profound symmetry between the earth’s cycles and our own internal landscapes of grief and renewal. Whether watching a doe forage in the backyard, safe from traffic, or working in the soft rain until she is “planted deep into life,”Grumet explores the thin veil between our interior griefs and joys and the external wild. Four Seasons is a sophisticated, poetic, and visual exploration that heightens the appetite for life’s inevitable joys and necessary sorrows. #ModernPastoral #ContemporaryPoets #NatureAsMirror #JoanneGrumet #FourSeasons 

Joanne Grumet began her career analyzing language as a linguist, educator, lexicographer, and professor, teaching Linguistics and Writing to Non-native Speakers.  She brings a scholar’s precision to the evocative world of poetry and song, having turned to creative expression later in life as a way to navigate life’s complexities. Rooted in the everyday, Grumet maps the vibrant connection between the natural world and the urban environment. She is also the author of the chapbooks Garden of Eve (2020) and A Mirrored Quilt (2025), with verse featured in over thirty international journals and broadcast media.
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Four Seasons is a frank reckoning with human frailty and mortality, “the door always there/ is now ajar,” as well as a celebration of mature sensuality and rootedness in the temporal world, where a “beech tree/ thin as the base/ of a music stand” is writing a sonata “across the snowy/parchment/ of the field.” With humor and humility, Joanne Grumet wonders if she’ll still have gut feelings after some of her gut is surgically removed. The same empathic eye falls to rest on a homeless woman on the sidewalk, “Encamped where Victoria’s Secret/ used to be…combing and combing that lock of her/long dark hair” and settles with joy on the red petunias the poet plants “in the soft rain/as I work, myself planted/ deep into life.”
–Hilary Sideris, author of Calliope (Broadstone Books)
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In Four Seasons each word is set on a poetic plate before us like an horsd’oeuvre, or like a polished stone in a rock garden, with a Haiku sensibility, but liberated from the accounting of syllables. Look for structure only in the bigger picture, succinct poems gathered carefully into four baskets of messages by their seasons. Each image is a photograph in words, taken somewhere between anywhere-USA urban city and open wild country. “Never thought I’d fall in love with a little glass jar” tells us a love story, short and simple, about being captivated by a small jar of tangerine spread, imported from Dalmatia. A moment captured in time. In “Darkness” she describes a doe and fawn, but adds, “cut off from their world in my box of brick, wood, and glass, I watched them, like a hunter in his blind or king in his palace….” A telling lament of isolation. And yet we find that this sparse pallet only serves to whet the appetite for a savory poem like “April’; “A forsythia bush, yellow as a school bus, waves its branches in the breeze, like the happy arms of children released from school.” Grumet’s poems, with their skillful use of understatement, heighten our appetite for life’s joys and sorrows.
–Evan Pritchard, author of Greetings from Mawenawasic (Foothills Publishing), A Silver Feather, a Collection of Ascendant Poems (Resonance)
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The seasons come and go, and with them our passions and our loves. Joanne Grumet is watching, feeling, writing, and we are in her debt precisely because  her poems remind us to keep doing the same, if we can.
–Bill Zavatsky 

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Book Review of Sorrel Summer Sky by Shelli Rottschafer (Finishing Line Press)
Review written by Isabel Grey.
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Guest Post: How Poetry Can Repair the World by
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FLP author Ellen Rosenbloom page on Yetzirah:
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FLP CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Breaking Through Broken by Saitharn Im-Iam

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In this debut chapbook, Breaking Through Broken, is a collection of poems portraying a Thai immigrant’s imperfect and incomplete journey. Through vivid fragments, this collection delves into the unflinching and uncompromising reality of a once-broken poet’s autobiography, tracing her journey from childhood immigration to a tumultuous adolescence. Words, stories, and emotions are interwoven to offer a poignant exploration of the journey of an unyielding young immigrant who carries within her the essence of a fluctuating cultural connection, childhood dreams, brutal realities, and the yearnings of the universe. #poetry #ThaiAmerican #BIPOC #memory #childhood

Saitharn Im-Iam is a first-generation Thai American poet, writer, English instructor, and life-long dreamer. She received her MA from Emporia State University, and received her BA from Pittsburg State University where she graduated Summa Cum Laude. She loves all things nerdy–specifically anime, video games, comic books, and magic in every essence. She has been published in the Cow Creek Review, The Blue Route, Coelacanth, Runestone, Mockingheart Review, Flint Hills Review, and Midwest Quarterly. Breaking Through Broken is her debut chapbook.
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In Sai Im-Iam’s heartbreaking debut collection, we’re introduced to a speaker born as cataclysm. Fragmentation, rebirth, regeneration, and creation haunt these poems strong enough to converse with such great poetic voices as Lucille Clifton in her “Shapeshifter” poems, and as Gwendolyn Brooks, to whom she responds, “We / learn white.” Sai Im-Iam is a woman who deserves to be recognized, and I mean that quite literally—because as an immigrant child in America with “a ‘Valid for Work Only’” card, her community failed her in all the most important ways a child can be failed. “I was an immigrant daughter with a middle school education,” she writes in the collection’s third poem as the narrative body of this book builds a complex backstory for a poet whose lyrical voice (Thank goodness, she is now voiced!) will move the reader to tears. Evocative details of personal experience unspool in such skilled and beautiful poetic lines as “My mom was there with light earthen eyes, / a gentle smile, and a large pot of jok / to cure illness of the body or heart,” and:
A kid, with nowhere to go, standing in an open,
grassy plain of nowhere Kansas
with only one match.”
Sai Im-Iam, a woman who has had to go out with “lanterns looking for [her]self”; who has created toys of stars—rocking horse, flowers and pearls—“in the night sky where the stars did more than survive,” has written poems to transform a violent obscene world. In these poems she claims her place amongst American letters.”
–Laura Lee Washburn, author of Arteries, The Book of Stolen Images, This Good Warm Place, and Watching the Contortionists
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With the care she uses to describe how one of her poem’s characters prepares traditional Thai rice, this whole collection is seasoned with precision along with a keen eye for important, representative, cultural detail. This whole collection wafts with that enticing aroma and ushers in a new strong voice—like a searchlight’s strong cone of light up through the clouds, a signal from a new, promising, illuminated strain in American poetry.
–Kevin Rabas, Poet Laureate of Kansas, 2017-2019

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Part-elegy/part-love-letter,The Widow’s Calendar by Veronica Corpuz is a breathtaking collection of poems that explore the intricacies of illness and mourning, widowhood and single motherhood. Through heart-rending detail and plainspoken honesty, Corpuz invites us into themost intimate and sacred spaces of her memory: a hospital closet turned into a makeshift familyoffice, the hospice bedside, the dimly lit room of her son’s bedroom before he goes to sleep. In these carefully crafted poems and elegies, she transforms these moments of loss and grief into radiant gems of truth-telling. In the tiniest of details, Corpuz creates a looming portrait of grief and the redemptive power of faith, hope and love as seen through the eyes of her young son and the eyes of the widow. #widow #Poetry #PoetryCommunity #GriefLiterature #widows

Veronica Corpuz is a poet and interdisciplinary artist who explores themes of identity, assimilation, loss, and grief. A workshop facilitator in the Madwomen in the Attic program at Carlow University, she co-curates with Sarah Williams Devereaux Mad Bookends, a digital bulletin of creative writing by women writers of color. In addition, she is one of 13 womenartists in the notwhite collective and the poet-in-residence of Anthropology of Motherhood in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where she resides.