Thera Books

06/19/2024

At Thera Books our aim as an independent publishing house is to continue to uplift the voices of writers across all intersections. And we love this collaboration with of … Onward …

06/06/2024

Along with the goal of uplifting the voices of writers across all intersections, Thera Books is thankful for the opportunity to work with an array of painters/artists in the creation of the cover art that graces the covers of our books. We are grateful to .rose for her painting featured on the cover of *Believe Me* … And grateful to for the magnificent art work featured on the cover of *The Burning Key* … And too to … for her painting that is featured as the cover of *Kinesiophobia* … With heart/thanks for these artists.

01/24/2024

Tonight!

Tune in on Wednesday, January 24th at 7:30pm ET for a reading/discussion with author Bea Gates,
moderated by Synnika Alek-Chizoba Lofton, and hosted by Thera Books.

Zoom link for this virtual event: https://wvm-edu.zoom.us/j/92640098691

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Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books selected by the author, The Burning Key is a meditation on hope as resistance.

Publisher’s Weekly has hailed Gates as an artist that, “[T]akes seriously both the daily news with its constant abuses of power, and art’s power to create news that stays news.” The Burning Key is a testament to the communities and legacies that sustain intimate relationships and bridge intergenerational social movements. A student and teacher of history, Gates’s literary legacy lies in her unflinching awareness that brings wounds to surface and violence to account, commemorating necessary truths with clear-eyed accuracy as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. The voices needed for these stories connect through the poet’s eyes, mind, and heart. Gates says, “I have a need to connect and stay curious. Connecting is about survival in dealing with the world.” Poet F***y Howe praises Gates’ work, “The poise of these poems can’t subdue the deep feeling in them. Gates—daughter and activist, teacher and friend—recount[s] visions and events from the late 70s on, lifts it all up and lets it fly again.”

01/16/2024

Get Set!

Tune in on Wednesday, January 24th at 7:30pm ET for a reading/discussion with author , moderated by and hosted by .

Zoom link for this virtual event: https://wvm-edu.zoom.us/j/92640098691

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Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books selected by the author, The Burning Key is a meditation on hope as resistance.

Publisher’s Weekly has hailed Gates as an artist that, “[T]akes seriously both the daily news with its constant abuses of power, and art’s power to create news that stays news.” The Burning Key is a testament to the communities and legacies that sustain intimate relationships and bridge intergenerational social movements. A student and teacher of history, Gates’s literary legacy lies in her unflinching awareness that brings wounds to surface and violence to account, commemorating necessary truths with clear-eyed accuracy as a member of the LGBTQ+ community. The voices needed for these stories connect through the poet’s eyes, mind, and heart. Gates says, “I have a need to connect and stay curious. Connecting is about survival in dealing with the world.” Poet F***y Howe praises Gates’ work, “The poise of these poems can’t subdue the deep feeling in them. Gates—daughter and activist, teacher and friend—recount[s] visions and events from the late 70s on, lifts it all up and lets it fly again.”

11/11/2023

Please join us at The Cannery on Sunday, 11/12/23 at 5PM for a Poetry Reading/Talk with Bea Gates: *The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023)* about her poems, Book Arts life, activism & mentors.

http://www.cannerysouthpenobscot.org/calendar.html

10/25/2023

Please join us for an evening with local poet Beatrix Gates for her new poetry collection The Burning Key. Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books selected by the author, The Burning Key is a meditation on hope as resistance. Please click here to register: https://www.jesuplibrary.org/events/gates

09/11/2023

Helena Lipstadt, author of *Our Dark and Radiant Land* & Beatrix Gates, author of *The Burning Key* were the featured poets last week at Stonington Public Library’s Poetry Open Mic. Thanks to Catherine Weiss, inventor of the Poetry Open Mic series and stalwart librarian Chris Ross.

09/03/2023

Big thank you to Thera Books summer intern Isabel Espinoza! Isabel spent this summer contributing her voice/skills/innovation to the continuing success of Thera Books. In addition, Isabel wrote a spectacular book review of SWISH by Synnika Lofton. Isabel’s review will be published this fall. Isabel will begin her junior year in college this fall at Santa Clara University where she will major in English with a concentration in Creative Writing. … We thank you!

08/21/2023

Beatrix Gates takes THE BURNING KEY on a New England tour!

08/21/2023

Beatrix Gates takes THE BURNING KEY on a New England tour!

08/17/2023

Out today, THE BURNING KEY: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023) … Happy publication day to Beatrix Gates. “Like witnessing a holy physics … You will exit this collection transformed.” - Tongo Eisen-Martin

08/06/2023

Thera Books … Onward we go …

07/18/2023

The Burning Key: New and Selected Poems (1973–2023) by Beatrix Gates Love haunts. It follows us, a remembered flame that flickers in even in the simplest things. It returns when we hear the wind at night; it rises when we touch that old purse that should—but can’t—be thrown away. This haunti...

07/18/2023

Grateful for Dana Delibovi's riveting/sincere/beautifully written book review of Beatrix Gates's *The Burning Key* that appears in the new issue of CABLE STREET.

The Burning Key: New and Selected Poems (1973–2023) by Beatrix Gates Love haunts. It follows us, a remembered flame that flickers in even in the simplest things. It returns when we hear the wind at night; it rises when we touch that old purse that should—but can’t—be thrown away. This haunti...

07/10/2023

Excited to have Thera Books author Bea Gates' forthcoming poetry collection *THE BURNING KEY* listed on the Academy of American Poets (POETS.ORG) 2023 Summer Books List.

https://poets.org/2023-summer-books-list

This summer, we encourage you to check out these new poetry titles from some of our partners, spo

07/05/2023

PRAISE for THE BURNING KEY by Beatrix Gates ...

“The poise of these poems can’t subdue the deep feeling in them. Gates, daughter and activist, teacher and friend, has adopted the casual, readable style of the New York School of poetry to recount visions and events from the late seventies on. The collection of poems is very helpful to a reader who wants to remember the actions, marches, people, jailings, and conversations at street level. This fine poetry lifts it all up and lets it fly again.”
–F***y Howe

"This is a precise, unsentimental, fully engaged poetics: women’s friendships, a deep knowing, praise. The Burning Key feels like a life or several lives or a museum of language. Expansive, captivating, stellar.”
–Lee Herrick

“Here, ‘alder thickets clear,’ an eclipse turns everything red, and ‘the evidence of flowers’ proliferates. In The Burning Key, Beatrix Gates stays close to the moments when planetary, relational logics dissipate, re-constellating in ways we could not have imagined and did not: ‘the big darkening green head’ of a dying horse, or -- what it is ‘to see more and to see less’ as an on-going mode of survivance. As Gates writes: ‘The veins carried the information.’ Sometimes the information is a question, sometimes it's a face. This is a collection written close to life, mouth to the poem, ‘listening/ to the end of dreaming and fighting to be heard.’ ”
–Bhanu Kapil

“Like witnessing a holy physics, this collection grabs our greatest potentials of mind, soul, and revolutionary praxis. A deft hand takes us on a brilliant journey of humanization through the rare power to synthesize a multiplicity of threaded subjects. Gates’ talent for motion through convergence makes all phenomena music. You will exit this collection transformed.” –Tongo Eisen-Martin

THE BURNING KEY is available for pre-order directly form Thera Books, Barnes & Noble, and Amazon. Publication day set for August 17th.

https://thetherabooks.com/collections/all

06/19/2023

Thera Books Celebrates JUNETEENTH 2023: FREEDOM THROUGH POETRY …

06/17/2023

Thera Books honors the fierce / tender poetry of of Beatrix Gates & Louise A. Hammonds …

06/07/2023

Thera Books author -Russ Rankin-
discusses first poetry book, ‘Pure Few Hearts,’ released in March by Thera Books. Check it out below.

Words: Miljan Milekić Russ Rankin is a well-known name in the punk rock scene. Not only did he build a name for himself as a frontman of the legendary Good Riddance, and the very respected Only Crime, but he also proved himself as a singer-songwriter, especially after the last year’s solo album ....

06/06/2023

⚡️New interview online⚡️

is singer, songwriter, and frontman of legendary punk rock band . In March, he publisher his first-ever poetry book, ‘Pure Few Hearts’ via , and we were lucky enough to catch up with him and talk about it. Check the link in our bio!

05/31/2023

Pre-Order your copy of THE BURNING KEY by Beatrix Gates today! Publication day is set for August 17th. Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books selected by the author, THE BURNING KEY is a meditation on hope as resistance.

“Like witnessing a holy physics, this collection grabs our greatest potentials of mind, soul, and revolutionary praxis. A deft hand takes us on a brilliant journey of humanization through the rare power to synthesize a multiplicity of threaded subjects.”
–Tongo Eisen-Martin

“The poise of these poems can’t subdue the deep feeling in them. Gates, daughter, activist, teacher, and friend, has adopted the casual, readable style of the New York School of poetry to recount visions and events from the late seventies on.”
–F***y Howe

05/31/2023

Pre-Order your copy of THE BURNING KEY by Beatrix Gates today! Publication day is set for August 17th. Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books selected by the author, THE BURNING KEY is a meditation on hope as resistance.

“Like witnessing a holy physics, this collection grabs our greatest potentials of mind, soul, and revolutionary praxis. A deft hand takes us on a brilliant journey of humanization through the rare power to synthesize a multiplicity of threaded subjects.”
–Tongo Eisen-Martin

“The poise of these poems can’t subdue the deep feeling in them. Gates, daughter, activist, teacher, and friend, has adopted the casual, readable style of the New York School of poetry to recount visions and events from the late seventies on.”
–F***y Howe

05/19/2023

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!

*THE BURNING KEY: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (1973-2023)* by Beatrix Gates.

Thera Books is thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of poet Beatrix Gates’ *The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023)* on August 17, 2023. Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books, selected by the author, *The Burning Key* is a meditation on hope as resistance.

Publisher’s Weekly has hailed Gates as an artist that, "[T]akes seriously both the daily news with its constant abuses of power, and art's power to create news that stays news." The Burning Key is a testament to the communities and legacies that sustain intimate relationships and bridge intergenerational social movements. A student and teacher of history, Gates’s literary legacy lies in her unflinching awareness that brings wounds to surface and violence to account, commemorating necessary truths with clear-eyed accuracy as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

PRE-ORDER TODAY at: https://thetherabooks.com/products/the-burning-key-new-selected-poems-1973-2023

05/19/2023

AVAILABLE FOR PRE-ORDER!

*THE BURNING KEY: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (1973-2023)* by Beatrix Gates.

Thera Books is thrilled to announce the forthcoming publication of poet Beatrix Gates’ *The Burning Key: New & Selected Poems (1973-2023)* on August 17, 2023. Featuring new work, poetry from limited editions, and selections from previously published books, selected by the author, *The Burning Key* is a meditation on hope as resistance.

Publisher’s Weekly has hailed Gates as an artist that, "[T]akes seriously both the daily news with its constant abuses of power, and art's power to create news that stays news." The Burning Key is a testament to the communities and legacies that sustain intimate relationships and bridge intergenerational social movements. A student and teacher of history, Gates’s literary legacy lies in her unflinching awareness that brings wounds to surface and violence to account, commemorating necessary truths with clear-eyed accuracy as a member of the LGBTQ+ community.

PRE-ORDER TODAY at: https://thetherabooks.com/products/the-burning-key-new-selected-poems-1973-2023

05/15/2023

Happy Mother’s Day! Lovely gifts … Pick up one of these titles!

05/01/2023

Beautiful day of poetry/prose in Santa Cruz with Thera Books authors Chad Dean, Theodore Shank Author, Meghan Guidry, and Russ Rankin. Big thank you to The Crepe Place and Carla Baja.

04/28/2023

Beautiful day of poetry at Mission College. All respect/love to the poets … Lee Herrick … Theodore Shank Author … Lisa Sisneroz … Javier Huerta … and more …

04/22/2023

In honor of National Poetry Month … check out our poetry collection and authors @ thetherabooks.com

04/15/2023

03/17/2023

Happy Publication Day to Russ Rankin! Thera Books is proud to publish Rankin's debut poetry collection, PURE FEW HEARTS.

PURE FEW HEARTS slices into the fabric of emotion and psyche. Poem by poem, Rankin’s reflections, confessions, and admissions propel the reader through forms of consciousness oscillating between vulnerability and resilience, sensitivity and intensity, introspection and spontaneity, and gathering energy as they navigate landscapes both external and internal.

PURE FEW HEARTS is officially available @ https://thetherabooks.com/products/pure-few-hearts via Amazon/Barnes & Noble or wherever books are sold. And stay tuned for information pertaining to upcoming readings and events. Good Riddance Fat Wreck Chords Russ Rankin

Russ Rankin’s volume of poetry, Pure Few Hearts, slices into the fabric of emotion and psyche. Poem by poem, Rankin’s reflections, confessions, and admissions, propel the reader through forms of consciousness oscillating between vulnerability and resilience, sensitivity and intensity, introspect...