Etched Press

This Frayed Universe by Sarah Brashear

This Frayed Universe is a chapbook of poems by Sarah Brashear. It describes our heavy and beautiful world and the crisis of the ordinary human coping with the everyday effects of life. Brashear’s rich language shows that not only is being a person a blessing, but at times, an unexpected disaster. Through her strong images, she is able to illustrate what many other authors have also shown—that within the unordinary is the ordinary, and that perhaps this insanity we diagnose in others is actually our sanity.

ISBN: 978-1935847-11-3

Sarah Brashear lives in Pennsylvania and has an MFA in Creative Writing from Chatham University. Her first full-length book of poetry, On Beacon Street, was published by Cawing Crow Press. She is currently a writing instructor at Lebanon Valley College. When she isn’t writing or teaching, she enjoys playing tennis and going to concerts.

The Girl with the Green Violin by Kirby Wright

The Girl with the Green Violin is a chapbook of poems.

ISBN: 978-1935847-07-6

Kirby Wright was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. He is a graduate of Punahou School in Honolulu and the University of California at San Diego. He received his MFA in Creative Writing from San Francisco State University. Wright has been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes and three Best of the Webs. Wright is a past recipient of the Ann Fields Poetry Prize, the Academy of American Poets Award, the Browning Society Award for Dramatic Monologue, and Arts Council Silicon Valley Fellowships in Poetry and The Novel. Excluding The Girl with the Green Violin, He is the author of eight full-length collections including Notes Above Water, Selected Poems (Lemon Shark Press, 2014) and three other chapbooks. You can read more about Wright on his website.

Singing is My Favorite by Susan Elliott Brown

The Singing Is My Favorite Part is a chapbook of poems.

ISBN: 978-1935847-09-0

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“Susan Elliott Brown’s poems are so whip-smart, so elegant I need to dress up to read them. I’d like to take them to a Montmartre café so they can feel the sun of Paris as I savor each with coffee and croissant. I’d like to make them my tiny house, and open my eyes to them every day.”

–Angela Ball, author of The Night Clerk at the Hotel of Both Worlds

Susan Elliott Brown is a PhD student at the University of Southern Mississippi where she received the 2014 Joan Johnson Award in Poetry. The Singing is My Favorite Part is her debut chapbook. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Best American Poetry blog, Measure: A Review of Formal Poetry, The Atticus Review, The Ampersand Review, and Alehouse, among others. You can follow her on Twitter @selliottbrown.

Flotsam by Catherine Kyle

Flotsam by Catherine Kyle is a chapbook of poems.

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ISBN: 978-1935847-05-2

"Kyle affirms women’s stories, as well as womanhood in general. And, most pressing, a woman's firm, fierce desire to be her own person."

-H.L. Nelson, author of The Sea is Only Meat, on Catherine Kyle's Work

Catherine Kyle is the author of Fulgurite (Cornerstone Press, forthcoming), Shelter in Place (Spuyten Duyvil, 2019), and other poetry collections. Her writing has appeared in Bellingham Review, Colorado Review, Mid-American Review, and other journals. She was the winner of the 2019-2020 COG Poetry Award, a finalist for the 2021 Mississippi Review Prize in poetry, and a finalist for the 2021 Pinch Literary Awards. She is an assistant professor at DigiPen Institute of Technology, where she teaches creative writing. Her hybrid-genre chapbook Feral Domesticity, which contains poetry, fiction, and paintings, was published by Robocup Press. You can read more about Catherine on her website: www.catherinebaileykyle.com.

Poems in Which I Am by Zack Rearick

Poems in Which I Am Chopped up, Stepped on, and Sleep Deprived is a chapbook of poems by Zack Rearick.

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ISBN: 978-1-935847-02-1

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Zack Rearick is a Ph.D. student in Literary Studies at Georgia State University. He obtained his Master of Arts in English at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. He cultivates his passion for poetry via public readings of his own work and those of his favorite poets, including Plath, Barrett Browning, Sexton, Manley Hopkins, and Keats. Poems in Which I Am Chopped Up, Stepped On and Sleep Deprived is his first chapbook. He currently resides in Atlanta, Georgia. Learn more about Zack and the American Literary Canon.