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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · 7h

At Wandering Aengus, we love the idea of being a home for our authors, so we're super excited to re-issue @jessicagigot.bsky.social first #poetry collection, a beautiful meditation on nature (and living in the Anthropocene).

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Flood Patterns

A re-issue of Jessica Gigot's acclaimed poetry debut The poems [in Flood Patterns ] are informed by the determined if contested optimism of someone who knows the ground she walks on and its potential....

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · 5d

The fine art of the book review is alive and thriving with @writerstevens.bsky.social!

Check out his thoughtful, beautiful review of L. Annette Binder's memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven...

Mark Stevens @writerstevens.bsky.social · 22d

REVIEW:
@wapress.bsky.social
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L. Annette Binder, “Child of Earth and Starry Heaven”

Near the end of Child of Earth and Starry Heaven, L. Annette Binder draws solace from a poem that’s 3,000 years old. The Epic of Gilgamesh. It’s Binder’s husband who thinks there might be something…

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Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · 5d

Drop everything and join us for this fab reading today with Jan Shoemaker reading from her essay collection, Slow Learner, and Peter Ludwin reading from his poetry collection, An Altar of Tides!

4p Pacific, 7p Eastern on Zoom. Pre-register here:
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Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday, October 9
Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker
4-5 pm Pacific - 7-8 pm Eastern

Graphic includes a photo of Peter in a blue plaid shirt and standing in front of a tree, and a photo of Jan wearing glasses and with her hair pulled back in a ponytail.

The cover of Peter's poetry collection, An Altar of Tides, shows water flowing over rounded stones and sand. The cover of Jan's essay collection, Slow Learner, depicts a bright green fern opening in front of a black background.

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Sep 5

Super excited for this online reading with master-of-the-essay, @marciaaldrich.bsky.social, and eco-poet extraordinaire, Benjamin Cutler.

Thursday, Sept 11, 4-5p Pacific, 7-8p Eastern

Click here for details and the link to pre-register:
wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html

Reading graphic shows author photos of Marcia Aldrich and Benjamin Cutler with their books, Studio of the Voice, and Wild Silence, respectively.

Text reads:
Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday, September 11
Marcia Aldrich & Benjamin Cutler
4-5 pm Pacific - 7-8 om Eastern
www.wanderingaenguspress.com

Upcoming readings include Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker on Oct. 9, and Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin on Nov. 6

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Aug 21

Less than an hour until this powerhouse reading with @humbleessayist.bsky.social Steven Harvey and Martha Gies.

Come get a literary (and socio-political) boost!

wanderingaenguspress.com/events.html

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Aug 15

Don't miss this online reading with @humbleessayist.bsky.social & Martha Gies!
Thursday, August 21.

If you're feeling discouraged about the state of affairs in the world, Steven and Martha's words are perfect for this moment in history. Come be inspired!

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Events

Join us for a powerhouse reading from Martha Gies' highly acclaimed memoir in essays, Broken Open , a CLMP featured title, and Steven Harvey's essay collection, The Beloved Republic , winner of the.....

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Jul 9

Hey lit lovers! Have you registered for this amazing reading and Q&A with L. Annette Binder and Jed Myers?

Thursday, July 10, 7-8 pm Eastern, 4-6 pm Pacific.

We hope you'll join all of the 2025 Wandering Aengus and Trail to Table Press readings!

Register here:
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Online Reading Series
Thursday July 10
L. Annette Binder & Jed Myers
4-5 pm Pacific - 7-8 pm Eastern

Upcoming readings:
Aug 21 - Martha Gies & Steven Harvey
Sept 11 - Marcia Aldrich & Benjamin Cutler
Oct 9 - Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker
Nov 6 - Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Jul 9

All love back to you, Alina, for your incredible poetry! 💙

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Jun 14

If you care about Joshua Trees or the desert in general, read Barret Baumgart's YUCK!

If you're not sure, check out VM Harrigan's review:

"With humor and prose, Baumgart affords us a ... view into ... the history of this country, of the West, and of LA."

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Consider the Joshua Tree

A Review of Barret Baumgart's YUCK

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Jun 11

Join us for a Zoom reading with @majda.bsky.social & Barret Baumgart reading from their new books:
In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls
YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree.

Thurs, 6/12, 4p Pacific, 7p Eastern

email publisher jill @ jillmccabejohnson .com for the link

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Nicholas Yingling @nyingling.bsky.social · Apr 24

"When I say land
sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean

I mean all the rest

unarticulated with the mouth's
profane shape"
-Amanda Hawkins from WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES @wapress.bsky.social

Cover of WHEN I SAY THE BONES I MEAN THE BONES by Amanda Hawkins

Bears Ears National Monument and Other Diminishing Lands

What gods do we grope in common-what land sprawls to the west-

what oceans will swallow
our solid continents? I wanted

the remnants, the salvageable
bones kept clean and away from light.

The paintings-one might stand too close the breath

to carry the unseen,
water droplets decay what would be

preserved. Kept, I thought, was the operative

word suspended-the holy
space set aside.

Who says such preservation is
in contention with logic-

land lies
bare, flat, folded,
stacked, and ripped along a seam. The bones of

the dead are everywhere

believed to be sacred. The land exposed,

but most hidden
by oceans rising, by the land being by nature

a surface. When I say land
sometimes I mean belief. When I say ocean

I mean all the rest

unarticulated with the mouth's
profane shape.

I mean to say how the body moves

is praxis, the paintings
on the stone were roped off to keep

pilgrims from touching-to preserve
what could be lost.

But when I say the bones
I mean the bones.

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Apr 22

Check out our 2025 reading series lineup!

5/4 Daniel Meltz, @tms2072.bsky.social
6/12 Barret Baumgart, @majda.bsky.social
7/10 L. Annette Binder, Jed Myers
8/21 Martha Gies, Steven Harvey
9/11 Marcia Aldrich, Benjamin Cutler
10/9 Peter Ludwin, Jan Shoemaker
11/6 Amanda Hawkins, Christopher Martin

Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press
Online Reading Series
Sunday May 4
Daniel Meltz and Tina Schumann

June 12 - Barret Baumgart & Majda Gama
July 10 - L. Annette Binder & Jed Myers
August 21 - Martha Gies & Steven Harvey
September 11 - Marcia Aldrich & Benjamin Cutler
October 9 - Peter Ludwin & Jan Shoemaker
November 6 - Amanda Hawkins & Christopher Martin

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Apr 22

O Pope, Where Art Thou?

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Apr 19

Fabulous review and Book of the Day Roundup feature from Foreword Reviews for CHILD OF EARTH AND STARRY HEAVEN, L. Annette Binder's "compassionate" memoir "infused with love, exhibiting the grace Binder found in others and for herself."

www.forewordreviews.com/articles/art...

Book of the Day Roundup: April 14-18, 2025

The Harmattan Winds / Sylvain TrudelDonald Winkler, translator / Archipelago Books / Softcover $19.00 (172pp) / 978-1-962770-22-4 / Buy: Local Bookstore (Bookshop), Amazon / Sylvian Trudel’s nove...

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Prairie Schooner @prairie-schooner.bsky.social · Apr 9

In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls by @majda.bsky.social, @wapress.bsky.social, April 2025

"a tactile beauty of stark contrasts" —Jessica Cuello, author of Yours, Creature

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In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls

Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility...

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Apr 6

@majda.bsky.social's debut collection is a treasure!

"In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility of history and the grief and joy of being in this world and on this earth."
@emanquotah.bsky.social

Jill McCabe Johnson @jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social · Apr 5

Happy release day to @majda.bsky.social for her extraordinary debut #poetry collection, In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls!

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In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls

Winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Poetry In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls vividly chronicles girlhood, womanhood, personhood, humanhood, the passage of time, the indelibility...

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 26

Happy release day to Barret Baumgart for his amazing, bizarre, riveting, and indescribable book YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird and Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia.

Part history, part environmental justice, part poetry, part scandal and all brilliant.

wanderingaenguspress.com/yuck.html

YUCK

Barret Baumgart's YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wondrous Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia is winner of the Wandering Aengus Book Award in Nonfiction . Are you headed to Joshua Tree this summer?....

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 23

Protect the Desert Night at the Brewery!

#AWP25 offsite Wednesday, March 26, at Angel City Brewery

7p Release party for Barret Baumgart's YUCK with guest Deanne Stillman

8:30p Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table reading

Hands down THE BEST OFFSITE OF AWP25!!!

And we're not the tiniest bit biased!

Protect the Desert Night at the Brewery
Hands down the best offsite party of AWP25!!!

7 pm YUCK Release Party
Celebrate Barret Baumgart's YUCK: The Birth & Death of the Weird & Wonderful Joshua Tree, Yucca brevifolia, with guest Deanne Stillman

8:30 pm Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press Reading
With Barret Baumgart, L. Annette Binder, Gail Folkins, Amanda Hawkins, Holly J. Hughes, Jill McCabe Johnson, Julie Riddle, and Tina Schumann

At Angel City Brewery
216 Alameda Street, LA Arts District

Featuring the release of Bier De Mars -- Desert botanical beer
Proceeds benefit the Mojave Desert Land Trust

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🎃Monster Mashda🎃 @majda.bsky.social · Mar 23

“In the House of Modern Upbringing for Girls” is out in early April from @wapress.bsky.social & is available for pre-order from Bookshop bookshop.org/p/books/in-t...

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 22

@gailfolkins.bsky.social
@alinaetc.bsky.social
@jillmccabejohnson.bsky.social

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 22

AWP peeps! Come find us at Booth 1041 in the Bookfair, March 27-29.

We'll have books (ofc), book-signings, and other shenanigans!

Ask about our DIY Talent Show!

See you in LA!!!

Meet the authors! Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Press at AWP 2025!

Thursday, March 27
11 am to Noon - L. Annette Binder & Jill McCabe Johnson
3 to 4 pm - Amanda Hawkins & Alina Ștefănescu

Friday, March 28
11 am to Noon - Holly J. Hughes
3 to 4 pm - Gail Folkins & Tina Schumann

Saturday, March 29
10 to 11 am - L. Annette Binder & Tina Schumann
11 am to Noon - Alina Ștefănescu & Jill McCabe Johnson
Noon to 1 pm - Barret Baumgart & Andrew Gottlieb
1 to 2 pm - Gail Folkins & Barret Baumgart
2 to 3 pm - Holly J. Hughes & Amanda Hawkins

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 19

Finalists (continued)
Jacqueline A. Kolosov
@janlaperre.bsky.social
Yetvert S. Majian
Linda Martin
Rachel Neve-Midbar
Hilary Plattner
Sheri Rysdam
Phyllis L. Thompson
Daniel Webre

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 19

Finalists:
Sasha Bailyn
@jessicainclan.bsky.social
Lisa Birman
@cindybradleywriter.bsky.social
@elizabethjcoleman.bsky.social
Geri Gale
Lynn B. Glicklich Cohen
Justin Hunt

(cont...)

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 19

Announcing the results of the Wandering Aengus Press (WAP) & Trail to Table (TTT) Book Awards!

Winners:
Chrys Buckley - WAP Book Award in Nonfiction
John Fadely - TTT Book Award in Poetry
@vkornberg.bsky.social - WAP Book Award in Poetry
A. Molotkov - TTT Book Award in Nonfiction

Announcing the results of the Wandering Aengus & Trail to Table Book Awards.
Please join us in congratulating...
Winners
- Chrys Buckley
- John Fadely
- Veronica Kornberg
- A. Molotkov

Finalists
- Sasha Bailyn
- Jessica Barksdale
- Lisa Birman
- Cindy Bradley
- Elizabeth J. Coleman
- Geri Gale
- Lynn B. Glicklich Cohen
- Justin Hunt
- Jacqueline A. Kolosov
- Jan LaPerle
- Yetvert S. Majian
- Linda Martin
- Rachel Neve-Midbar
- Hilary Plattner
- Sheri Rysdam
- Phyllis L. Thompson
- Daniel Webre

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Wandering Aengus Press @wapress.bsky.social · Mar 2

Fabulous review by Michael Tideman of L. Annette Binder's forthcoming memoir, Child of Earth and Starry Heaven.

“A powerful read for anyone who has dealt with Alzheimers."

www.telegraphherald.com/news/feature...

The cover of Child of Earth and Starry Heaven by L. Annette Binder shows blue mountains with triangle-shaped, darker blue trees below a midnight blue sky and a scattering of stars. The text at the bottom of the cover reads: an illuminating and moving meditation on dementia." --Kirkus

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