Author Archives: grandmamosespress
NEW RELEASE & BOOK REVIEW : ACROSS A FIELD OF STARS by ELISE STUART
Grandma Moses Press is excited to announce our newest perfect-bound publication: ACROSS A FIELD OF STARS by ELISE STUART. Here’s a Book Review of Across A Field of Stars by Elise Stuart “It was always this way, when you walked the paths slowly, gathered by the muddy rivers to wash, looked into each others’ eyes, […]
Grandma Moses Press makes the NEWS!
Thanks to Susan Morée at The Las Cruces Bulletin for taking the time to write an article highlighting the work Grandma Moses Press has done since 1992. One of the oldest micro presses in the USA, we continue to make waves. Read full article here.
POET TO NOTICE : Ivan Ndoma-Egba
We are pleased to present our next Poet to Notice: Ivan Ndoma-EgbaWe hope you enjoy these 5 poems as much as we did. When the tap runs brown you learn to boil silenceyou learn to stretch fireyou learn that brown waterstill holds reflectionand even your shadowneeds to drinkyour mother names each bucketlike saintsthis one for washingthis one […]
BOOK REVIEW : SO MUCH MORE BY DARREN C. DEMAREE
SO MUCH MORE: Abstracts, Unfinished Sequences, and Political Poems(Small Harbor, 2024)by Darren C. Demaree Flailing Load Stones Catching LightA Book Review by Tim Staley In the title poem of W.H. Auden’s 1969 collection City Without Walls, Auden lays out the “dire poetics” which would topically drive American poetry for the next 55 years: environmental concerns, […]
POET TO NOTICE : Connie Johnson
We are pleased to present our next Poet To Notice: Connie Johnson Connie Johnson is based in Los Angeles, California. We are so thrilled to share her jazz poetry. As a poetry fan it’s fun to read Johnson’s poems; as a jazz fan it’s transcendent, reaffirming and informative to read her poems. For example, in […]
BUY NOW ~ JOSEPH SOMOZA
THE MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE ~ By Joseph Somoza ~ $15.00 This perfect bound, full-length collection contains 71 poems. Dimensions: 6 inches by 9 inches
The climax of the 2024 national poetry month
this event in Las Cruces, New Mexico is free and open to the public. Joe‘s new book will be on sale at the event and he will sign it if you wish. Two other crucial poets will open for Joe before he reads from his new collection that we just published. contact GrandmaMosesPress@gmail.com with questions.
JOSEPH SOMOZA : HEAR HIM
The Moment of Your Life, the 11th collection by Joseph Somoza, is available now. Buy it here. Also, we are hosting a poetry reading and book release celebration for Joe, here are the details: Grandma Moses Press is thrilled to host a book release celebration for poet Joseph Somoza’s highly anticipated eleventh collection, The Moment […]
POET TO NOTICE: PATRICK MEEDS
We are pleased to present our next Poet To Notice: Patrick Meeds Patrick Meeds lives in Syracuse, NY and studies writing at the Syracuse YMCA’s DowntownWriter’s Center. What excites us about his work is the juxtaposition of incongruent concrete nouns. There’s a palpable freedom and excitement and uncanniness in his verse. After the poems below, […]










