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POETRY COLLECTIONS
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Fifteen years ago, Lola Haskins stepped out of her house and was so struck by the fact that she knew almost nothing about the multitudes living in the air around her and in the earth under her feet that she spent the next many years interviewing entomologists and reading every secondary source she could get her hands on. Like Zeros, Like Pearls is the glorious result of that exploration.
The poetry in Zeros exhibits all the sharpness of eye and soulful sensitivity that have marked her 14 previous collections. Within it, you’ll find a wide range of insects, bees to beetles, mantises to ants, ladybugs to cicadas and fireflies to butterflies, to name a few, each story with its own heart-felt exploration. Furthermore, since everything in the book has been vetted by entomologists, readers can be certain that no matter how wild an account may sound, it’s scientifically accurate.
Among Haskins’ many honors are the Iowa Poetry Prize, two Florida Book Awards, two NEA fellowships, and the Emily Dickinson Prize from the Poetry Society of America. W.S. Merwin said of her poetry that she “writes with the freedom and grace of a kite flying.”
Besides 14 books of poetry, Haskins has published three of prose, including Fifteen Florida Cemeteries: Strange Tales Unearthed (University Press of Florida), Not Feathers Yet: A Beginner’s Guide to the Poetic Life (University of Nebraska Press), and Solutions Beginning with A (Modernbook), a collection of fables about women illustrated by Maggie Taylor.
Title: Like Zeros, Like Pearls | Author: Lola Haskins
ISBN: 978-1-960558-10-7 | Format: Paperback, 6″ x 9″ | Publication Date: May 2025
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In Mountains of the Moon, her fifth collection, Irene Blair Honeycutt takes readers on a journey from creeks of childhood through rivers and inlets all the way to the Red Sea and back again. The natural world has always been Honeycutt’s closest companion and theme, never more so than in these poems—so many of them written during the forced exile of the pandemic—through which we learn the power of living within the paradox of joy and sorrow. This lyric, elegiac collection demonstrates the power of evolution and reveals a storehouse of treasures left by the dead for the living. In rich and surprising language, Honeycutt shows us how to transmute grief into a conscious letting go. How to embody forgiveness, accept the unacceptable. How, in a world that sometimes seems to lack it, to find hope.
Born in Jacksonville, FL, Irene Blair Honeycutt, award-winning poet and teacher, is the author of four previously published poetry collections. Her debut collection won Sandstone Publishing’s New South Poetry Book Regional Contest. Her third book, Before the Light Changes (Main Street Rag), was a finalist for the Brockman-Campbell Book Award.
Title: Mountains of the Moon: Poems & Pieces | Author: Irene Blair Honeycutt
ISBN: 978-1-960558-09-1 | Format: Paperback, 6.0″ x 9.0″ | Publication Date: December 2024
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In Adam in the Garden, AE Hines lyrically examines the thresholds we cross: from childhood to adulthood, youth to old age, from rejection to self-acceptance. Using both personal narrative and persona, and with a variety of forms, these poems are rich in both eros and pathos as Hines explores queer love and joy that is hard won. Whether set in the garden of the body, our fragile earth, or the biblical Eden, these poems fall through gaps in their subjects to reveal the extraordinary that is hidden in the middle of everyday life.
AE Hines is the author of Any Dumb Animal (Main Street Rag, 2021). He has won the Red Wheelbarrow Prize and Palette Poetry’s Love and Eros Prize, and has been a finalist for the Montreal International Poetry Prize. His poems have been widely published in such journals as The Southern Review, Prairie Schooner, Rattle, The Sun, and Alaska Quarterly. His literary criticism can be found in American Poetry Review, Rain Taxi, and Northwest Review. He currently resides in Charlotte, NC, and Medellín, Colombia.
Title: Adam in the Garden | Author: AE Hines
ISBN: 978-1-960558-07-7 | Format: Paperback, 6″ x 9″ | Publication Date: March 2024
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2023 Poetry Book of the Year
Homelight, by Lola Haskins—the first full-length poetry collection published by Charlotte Lit Press—is Southern Literary Review’s 2023 Poetry Book of the Year.
Haskins has published 13 previous poetry collections, the most recent of which, Asylum: Improvisations on John Clare (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2019), was featured in the New York Times Sunday Magazine. Past honors include the Iowa Poetry Prize, two NEA fellowships, two Florida Book Awards, narrative poetry prizes from Southern Poetry Review and New England Review, a Florida’s Eden prize for environmental writing, and the Emily Dickinson prize from Poetry Society of America.
Title: Homelight | Author: Lola Haskins
ISBN: 978-1-960558-03-9 | Format: Paperback, 6″ x 9″ | Publication Date: September 1, 2023
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