2014 finalist, Miller Williams Arkansas Poetry Prize

Ghost Gear: Poems

Literature & Fiction

McFadyen-Ketchum, Andrew

Poetry

University of Arkansas Press

Visiting Hours chronicles the cold, clear February morning, Mary Interlandi drove to the top of the Nashville Sheraton parking garage and leapt to her death, seven stories below. She was 19 years old. The author had known her and her family his entire life. Visiting Hours chronicles their friendship, her sudden death, and the psychological, social, and political aftermath of suicide.

Visiting Hours

Self-Help

Death & Grief

Stephen F. Austin University Press

Fight or Flight&nbsp;artifacts the trauma of McFadyen-Ketchum's divorce and the journey he took across the wilds of America (living in a tent on the California coast, getting intentionally lost in the Utah desert, tracking wild animals in the bitter cold of Indiana winters)&nbsp;in search of healing that led to the greatest&nbsp;discovery of all: his indigenous wife and her three children he now calls his own.&nbsp;

Fight or Flight

Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 4 collects three chapbooks in a single volume: Regina DiPerna's A Map of Veins, Ryan Teitman's Jesuits, and Paisley Rekdal's Philomela. Regina DiPerna's first collection of poems, A Map of Veins, tells the story of the death of a lover and her healing process. In these elegies, DiPerna faces the guilt of finding new love, death taunts her years after the fact with postcards and gifts, and memory haunts her dreams. Jesuits, Ryan Teitman's second collection, explores childhood, fatherhood, and the holy spirit in rich lyrical verse and prose. In often surreal poetry and prose, Teitman's mother appears as a curtain in the window, he wears a shadow for a suit, and plays on the train tracks with a child version of his father. Paisley Rekdal's fourth collection of poetry, Philomela, unabashedly parallels the myth of Philomela with her own experience with violent sexual assault in a combination of verse and lyric essay. In these brave, somewhat experimental verses, Rekdal challenges the definitions of sexual harassment, sexual assault, and rape as she parses out her own experiences with them. This is the fourth volume in the Floodgate Poetry Series, edited by Andrew McFadyen-Ketchum. Chapbooks—short books under 40 pages—arose when printed books became affordable in the 16th century. The series is in the tradition of 18th and 19th century British and American literary annuals, and the Penguin Modern Poets Series of the 1960s and ’70s. Praise for this book: "Holy moly are these poems dreamy, healing." - Marcus Wicker, author of Silencer and Maybe the Saddest Thing "I'll go back to these poems again and again." - Maggie Smith, author of Good Bones

Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 4

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Ghost Gear: Poems

Visiting Hours

Fight or Flight

Floodgate Poetry Series Vol. 4