Today's Featured Poem: "Crayola Da Gamba" by Merril Gilfillan from Three Roans In the Shallows, One of Them Blue published by @floodeditions.bsky.social Read here: poems.com/poem/crayola...

Forthcoming next month: The Midnight Work by Jennifer Moxley. "In a time where many of us seem hypnotized by apocalyptic visions, Moxley celebrates everyday life, even in extraordinary circumstances. This is now unusual enough, I think, to be called brave."—Rae Armantrout

John Wilkinson discusses an elegy by Jennifer Moxley that's forthcoming in her book The Midnight Work... fortnightlyreview.substack.com/p/elegies-on...

Publication day for REVEILLE by Liza Hudock! Order from Flood Editions, Wesleyan University Press, HFS Books, or your independent bookseller. www.weslpress.org/979898578748...

"Liza Hudock’s debut collection, Reveille, reflects on ordinary life with such humility that her artfulness sneaks up on you like a coyote at twilight."—Ron Charles, The Washington Post

Graham Foust @floodeditions.bsky.social

When a flood recedes, the ground looks unfamiliar. Everything is out of place and all the witnesses can say is this is where the water was. —Liza Hudock

Read the title poem from Liza Hudock's Reveille, forthcoming from Flood Editions in August! friendsofwriters.org/2025/07/30/a...

Graham Foust feature on "Poets on the Plains"... www.hppr.org/podcast/hppr...

Just reread Ronald Johnson’s amazing The Book of the Green Man (a lovely British reprint from @uniformbooks.bsky.social ), reaffirming that he is one of my favorite poets and rekindling my interest in doing a deep dive into the connections between his poetry and his cookbooks. 1/2

Patrick James Dunagan reviews She Is the Earth by Ali Cobby Eckermann, in the new issue of Rain Taxi: "There’s a sense of an outside force working on Eckermann’s consciousness, taking her toward a higher understanding of her relationship with the physical environment." raintaxi.com/rain-taxi-re...

also my copy of this arrived today. Be more ARK www.weslpress.org/979898578747...

Elaine Equi @elaineequi.bsky.social quotes Ronald Johnson's ARK in this characteristically alert poem responding to Peter Halley's artwork. We recommend Equi's new book, OUT OF THE BLANK, just published by @coffeehousepress.bsky.social www.flagartfoundation.org/spotlight-pe...

With the warbler migration approaching full bore here in North America, I think of Merrill Gilfillan’s 2006 “Warbler Haibun,” out of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue (Flood Editions, 2024). A little string excerpted out of its bounty and fervor:

wonderful cover (Flood Editions, design: Quemadura, drawing by Charles Burchfield, 1915)

Forthcoming October: Jennifer Moxley’s The Midnight Work is a meditation on the fragility of memory and love in the increasingly mediated post-Covid world of polarized politics and climate change. It addresses old friends, living and dead, in a series of epistles among more condensed lyric poems.

At The Common, Nathaniel Perry has a perceptive recommendation of Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan: "like a weird novel, or like an atlas, or like a guidebook, or like an aviary, or like a bestiary . . ." www.thecommononline.org/what-were-re...

Picked this up today @floodeditions.bsky.social

Our latest books, postcards, and catalog will be available next week at the AWP in Los Angeles, booth #605. Please say hello!

Graham Foust @floodeditions.bsky.social

FORTHCOMING IN AUGUST: Liza Hudock's Reveille, an unvarnished look at the tenacious ties that bind us to family, home, and to ways of talking. "The world, in poem after poem, somehow transfigures into the personal with startling effect. A magnificent, memorable debut" (August Kleinzahler).

NOW AVAILABLE! Ronald Johnson's ARK: "Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems (and we have had more than a few), ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun."—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Flood Editions t-shirt, a collaboration with the artist Brian Calvin, using an image from his book DAYS. Beautifully silkscreened by Love Shack Press. Available domestically, while supplies last, for $27 with free shipping: www.paypal.com/ncp/payment/...

"Rigel leaves a ripple— / otter / through black water." Merrill Gilfillan, "Night Sky, Pawnee Creek" from Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems

Be sure to catch Sophocles' Ajax, in John Tipton's translation, brought to the stage of the Scena Theatre in Washington, DC!

Christopher Spaide Recommends Ali Cobby Eckermann at LitHub: "Stand back, and the book’s narrative contours might suggest a visionary quest, a chronicle of mothers and daughters, or a do-over at a creation myth..." lithub.com/listen-to-th...

This is the best book of poems I've read in a while. @floodeditions.bsky.social never disappoints, I know, but this is special

📚 7. THE LONG FORM by Kate Briggs. About: intimate forms of nurturance (holding, feeding, sleeping-beside). Also about: our raw experience of objects and phenomena, and our use of narrative to structure and convey this experience. Flawlessly balanced—easily my favorite novel of the 2020s to date.

Readers in Asheville, NC can find Merrill Gilfillan's new Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems, at Malaprop's Bookstore! www.malaprops.com/book/9798985...

John Tipton's translation of Ajax, Sophocles' tragedy, is brought to the stage by Scena Theatre in Washington, DC: dctheaterarts.org/2025/01/26/s...

Forthcoming in March: a beautiful new printing of Ronald Johnson's ARK! “Of all the ambitious, syncretic, idiosyncratic, American modernist long poems . . . ARK is the most spiritual, the most celebratory, and maybe the most fun.”—Stephanie Burt, The New Yorker www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Thnk you @clmporg.bsky.social for including new titles by Ali Cobby Eckermann and Merrill Gilfillan on the list of books launching this month! www.clmp.org/news/books-l...

For those in New York: artist (and Flood author) Brian Calvin has paintings in The Glasse, a group exhibition that also includes Mary Corman, Nick Doty, Maureen Gallace, and Jason Tomme; January 16 – February 19 at Planthouse. www.antonkerngallery.com/news/279-bri...

Graham Foust

For readers with an interest in Indigenous literatures, Ali Cobby Eckermann's She Is the Earth offers a door into Aboriginal Australian poetry. With a reciprocity between inner and outer realities, it tells a story of becoming, “a ritual made of self.” www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Now available: SHE IS THE EARTH by Ali Cobby Eckermann and THREE ROANS IN THE SHALLOWS, ONE OF THEM BLUE: Selected Poems by Merrill Gilfillan! Order from Flood Editions, @weslpress.bsky.social, or your local independent bookseller www.floodeditions.com

An essay on libraries by Aboriginal Australian poet Ali Cobby Eckermann: www.sl.nsw.gov.au/stories/when...

Merrill Gilfillan's Three Roans in the Shallows, One of Them Blue: Selected Poems will be out on Tuesday! Read his essay "Alfresco," on the art of landscape writing, at the Poetry Foundation: www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazi...

The North American edition of Ali Cobby Eckermann's She Is the Earth will be out Tuesday! Order through your local bookseller, or through Flood Editions: www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

O, Isaac Jarnot, how I have always loved U for your O’s.

"Christmas Prelude" from Jarnot's NIGHT SCENES www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Thanks to all the great independent bookstores that now carry Flood Editions! These include Point Reyes Books in Point Reyes Station and Wayfinder Books in Fairfax, Bridge Street Books in Washington, Jarvis Square Books in Chicago... @pointreyesbooks.bsky.social, @jarvissquarebooks.bsky.social

"Yankunytjatjara poet Ali Cobby Eckermann has described this verse novel as 'a poetic manifesto of inner truth', narrated by 'a creation without birth' . . . Beautifully metaphysical, it charts this journey of sound, light, rock and sea; we witness the creation of Country."—Sian Cain, The Guardian

13. A PRINCESS MAGIC PRESTO SPELL by Lisa Jarnot // if constraints on your time (parenthood) made it so you could only write three words a day, could you still write your first ever book-length poem? Jarnot says "yes"

Robert Adamson, one of Australia's greatest poets, passed away two years ago today. If you are unfamiliar with his work, Reaching Light: Selected Poems is the place to begin. [photo of Adamson with Powerful Owl by Juno Gemes] www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

"Merrill Gilfillan is one of our literature’s most brilliant landscape painters . . . it is not only the spaces of the American Plains that his stories evoke, but also their sound, which is quiet. Silence is an absence of sound, but quiet is something else altogether."—Martin Riker, The Believer

If you have enjoyed the novels of Alexis Wright, if you are curious to explore Aboriginal Australian poetry, we strongly recommend Ali Cobby Eckermann's highly celebrated SHE IS THE EARTH, available in North America for the first time! www.floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...

Merrill Gilfillan, from the new selected @floodeditions.bsky.social

25 years ago this month, we sent Ronald Johnson's The Shrubberies to press at Thomson-Shore, supported by presales to his devoted readers. We had promised Ron we would get his last book published, couldn't find a home for it, and so did it ourselves. No longterm planning involved!

Recent: Brian Calvin's DAYS, a wordless book of drawings that feels (to us) like a volume of poetry. These images give us an intimate sense of the thought and process of an artist who has been described as "quietly disconcerting and mischievously witty" (Artforum). floodeditions.com/books-by-tit...