Author Archives: grandmamosespress
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, […]
BREAKING NEWS: NEW JOE SOMOZA FULL LENGTH COMING IN EARLY 2024!
We can’t believe it. We can’t believe we have the honor and privilege to publish one of New Mexico’s most beloved and revered poets: Joe Somoza! In early 2024 Grandma Moses Press will be releasing Joe Somoza’s newest poetry collection THE MOMENT OF YOUR LIFE. Here is a Joe Somoza poem from the new collection […]
A REVIEW OF I HAVE BEEN WARNED NOT TO WRITE ABOUT THIS BY RON RIEKKI
Thanks to the great Lane Chasek and our friends over at Jokes Review for writing on one of our chapbook titles: I HAVE BEEN WARNED NOT TO WRITE ABOUT THIS by RON RIEKKI. Find the review here. Hit that Buy Now button below to get your own copy! I HAVE BEEN WARNED NOT TO WRITE […]
4 new titles by Pamela Hirst — Available Now
At long last the Pamela Hirst books have arrived from our manufacturer! We are thrilled to be releasing Forgotten Graves, our first bilingual collection. Also, what a wonderful tribute to the legendary Beatlick Joe Speer with this three volume Travels with the Joe series. Visit Amazon and get your copies today.
CLAP YOUR HANDS, STOMP YOUR FEET by CARLA CHERRY ~ Chapbook Review
Rhythmical Approval for All Things Poetical A review by Bob McNeil Hand clapping normally signifies approval for some feat performed. Certain African American fraternities and sororities express themselves with synchronized dance moves called stepping, and those students’ hands keep the beat like a drum. Kaff, an Arabic artform, takes the slapping of appendages to a […]
IN HONOR OF JUNETEENTH A NEW DRAWING BY BOB MCNEAL
Hear a new poem “Praise for My Forebears” by Bob McNeal
THE BEATLICK PAMELA HIRST – 4 POEMS FROM 4 NEW BOOKS
GRANDMA MOSES PRESS is proud to announce they will be publishing 4 books by esteemed performance poet and original BEATLICK, Pamela Hirst. The books are Forgotten Graves, Personal Agendas, Ghost Town of My Soul, and One Dozen Lifetimes. This highly anticipated, powerful 4 book series is a work of recovery and discovery: recovery from grief […]
COMING SOON ~ TRAVELS WITH JOE ~ by PAMELA ADAMS HIRST
PERSONAL AGENDAS Written in the spirit of Anaís Nin and Marcel Proust, Personal Agendas kicks off the three-part series Travels With Joe, comprised of diaries and journals from Pamela Adams Hirst. This volume includes her first book of poetry, Personal Agendas, written as she and Joe Speer burst on the poetry scene in Nashville, Tennessee, as the Beatlicks.Autobiographical poems of 1016 […]
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