Catalog

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of The Alex Chronicles, Growing up in the 50’s and 60’s, a collection of  short stories by John P. (Jack) Kristofco of  Highland Heights, Ohio.

These stories, written over the past twenty years, provide a vivid and captivating view of coming of age in a time of change in America. As award-winning novelist Paul Gaus writes about these stories: “There is magic here. If you lived those years, you’ll love the memories. If you didn’t, then here is the best way to learn….The memories suffuse every page. The memories are as true as they can be.”

The Orchard Street Press presents Dialogues With Light an exceptional new collection of poems by Lew Forester of Arvada, Colorado

"Here's a poet at home with lyricism who knows what he's about, and not afraid to tackle the big questions: the nature of man and man's place in nature"
-Frank Coons, author of Finding Cassiopeia and Counting in Dog Years

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of  Step Close In: Poems From the Path an exciting new chapbook by Gary Boelhower of  Duluth, Minnesota.

From the poem “All My Relations” in the collection:

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of  Gwen and the Big Nothing, an engaging and wonderfully  imaginative new chapbook from Mary Ann Honaker of Beaver, West Virginia.

As Chad Parenteau, author of Patron Emeritus and emcee for the long-standing Stone Soup Poetry open mic in Boston, notes:

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Twenty Small Worlds, an exceptional new collection of sonnets by Mark Louis Lehman of Cincinnati.

Noted American poet Annie Finch has written: "Rosetti expresses one of the most useful powers of the sonnet: the ability to keep a moment, to hold a feeling or experience and turn it around in the light of our awareness until many facets are evident. This multifaceted quality gives the sonnet a paradoxical feeling of freedom and expanse within confines.....It also helps explain the lasting appeal of the sonnet, the form that Rita Dove has called a 'little world." Mr. Lehman's poems here offer us twenty such 'expansive confines.'

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Joy in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing by Craig McVay of Columbus, Ohio

Reviewers thoughts on Joy in the Tomb of Hunting and Fishing

“From the women of classical mythology to the ironic eyes of a prison teacher to the contemplative ruminations of farm families, McVay’s poems apply a magnifying glass to the losses—of family, culture, connection—that come with the passage of time…In a collection that gives equal tine to melancholy and acceptance, McVay’s matter-of-fact tone suggests that, no matter what, we must carry on.
-Steve Abbott: author of A Green Line Between Green Fields and A Language the Image Speaks

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of Sea Changes an exciting new chapbook la poet Duane Niattun of Seattle, Washington.

The Orchard Street Press is pleased to announce the release of

Quiet Diamonds 2020

In the Spring of 2020, in the midst of a global pandemic that essentially closed down the world of poetry readings and presentations, The Orchard Street Press conducted its third annual Poetry Contest. We were heartened by the amazing response we received, with submissions coming in from all across America. From the hundreds of poems sent in, we selected forty-two pieces for recognition: three for cash awards (including this year’s winner of the Malovrh-Fenlon Poetry Prize), seven other Finalists, twelve Semi-Finalists, and twenty Honorable Mentions.