Newfound

10/27/2024

THANK YOU to everyone who joined the conversation and made our 2024 zoom launch reading a joy! 💚✨☺️

10/08/2024

💌 Join us for RE: READING / Sunday, 20 October at 1 pm CST / Yunkyo Moon-Kim, Sarah Kersey, and Elissa Favero in dialogue & celebration of their 2024 chapbooks out this month / Zoom link in bio! 💞✨

08/26/2024

✨ PREORDER ✨ Selected for the 2023 Newfound Prose Prize: Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, writer Elissa Favero reckons with her family’s immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home.

PRAISE
“Children of River and Trees is a celebratory meditation on nature and history. Each essay is a wisdom seed that fosters a gorgeous entanglement, a breathtaking vision of rootedness and flight. Favero is a conjurer. This collection is magic!”
—Debra Magpie Earling

“Elissa Favero’s Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian is, at heart, about the amplitude and absences of what we can know—about place, history, and ancestry. ‘There’s the order we impose and the wild mystery that pulses beneath,’ Favero points out. And true, with thematic depth and formal intricacy, Favero negotiates between those senses of order and mystery, uncovering the palimpsestic, sometimes problematic layers encompassed by a single self. The result is a work that fuses the past and the present, intimacy and breadth, lyricism and ethics.”
—Rick Barot

08/19/2024

✨ PREORDER in bio ✨ Selected for the 2022 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize: Apricots grow in Suncheon, korea, where the author was born. The mountain unfurls bodies. Underneath them, the bedrock leaks saltwater. In Transuding, Yunkyo Moon-Kim seeps across dream states and borders in ecological forms. Constantly transforming, permuting, and mutating, the poems leap toward imagined oneness, toward un-demarcating both nations and gender.

“I return to Yunkyo Moon-Kim’s Transuding again and again, drawn by the promise of ruin and resuscitation, the blade of the self against the whetstone of remembering. The poems here resist the mitotic impulse of borders, the stultifying boundaries of gender, following instead ‘queer orbits’: they refract, mirror, splinter, then give way.”
—Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations

08/19/2024

✨ PREORDER in bio ✨ Selected for the 2022 Anzaldúa Poetry Prize: Apricots grow in Suncheon, korea, where the author was born. The mountain unfurls bodies. Underneath them, the bedrock leaks saltwater. In Transuding, Yunkyo Moon-Kim seeps across dream states and borders in ecological forms. Constantly transforming, permuting, and mutating, the poems leap toward imagined oneness, toward un-demarcating both nations and gender.

“I return to Yunkyo Moon-Kim’s Transuding again and again, drawn by the promise of ruin and resuscitation, the blade of the self against the whetstone of remembering. The poems here resist the mitotic impulse of borders, the stultifying boundaries of gender, following instead ‘queer orbits’: they refract, mirror, splinter, then give way.”
—Donika Kelly, author of The Renunciations

07/08/2024

✨ PREORDER ✨ Selected for the 2023 Emerging Poets Chapbook Series, “Residence Time” speaks of not only who crossed the Atlantic during the Middle Passage, but who is still suspended in the water. In her debut poetry collection, Sarah Kersey () investigates her linguistic, spiritual, and familial origins through storytelling.

05/12/2024