A collection of poetry picture books; handmade codices, stab bound and accordion books, with original photographs, drawings and poetry.

Poetry collection

The 2nd issue of our 3rd volume, enjoy the poetry, fiction, and creative non-fiction by Benjamin Bartu, Michael Chang, Capella Parrish, Mara Adamitz Scrupe, and more. Cover image by Connor Doyle.

In the Bare Bones House of Was is infused with a sense of place and geography gleaned from experience, from the once determinedly conservative political and social landscapes of Virginia where the poet has lived for many years, to the post-liberal civic milieu of center city Philadelphia where she's taught for the past decade.

"A daughter's aubade (sailing out from Sognefjord) is a sequence of poems that broadly addresses ideas of place and the passage of time, while reflecting on the intimate process of aging, specifically in the poet's mother and in herself. The eponymous poem emerged from Adamitz Scrupe's travels with her mother in Norway, the country from which her family emigrated in the nineteenth century. Nordic stoicism radiates throughout this collection as the poet investigates and addresses the universal challenges and joys of the mother-daughter relationship by way of history and ethnography, as well as through a lens of personal experiences. These poems explore the many ways we broadly define love in the human narrative, and our emotional responses to one another in the context of social expectations"--Back cover