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Just Published: A Constellation of Kisses, edited by Diane Lockward

Deborah Bacharach reviews A Constellation of Kisses in Compulsive Reader.

Dan Rosenberg's Cause and Effect was featured on Verse Daily on February 12, 2020.

Kelli Russell Agodon's Love in the Age of Broken Constellations was featured on Verse Daily on February 13, 2020.

Kim Addonizio's "Thus in winter stands the lonely tree. . ." was featured on Verse Daily on February 14, 2020.

​Interview with editor Diane Lockward featured in Best American Poetry.

Congratulations to Jane Ebihara whose poem Last Kiss was featured on Tracy K. Smith's podcast, The Slowdown, on October 17, 2019.

A Constellation of Kisses was honored with a feature of Ellen Bass' "Gate C22" on The Writer's Almanac on October 4, 2019.

Mindy Kronenberg reviews A Constellation of Kisses in the Mom Egg Review.

Allan Marks reviews A Constellation of Kisses in At the Inkwell.

Dion O’Reilly hosts "The Hive Poetry Collective" podcast in which she interviews Terrapin publisher Diane Lockward about Terrapin Books and A Constellation of Kisses. They read and discuss a handful of poems from the book. Listen HERE

This 13 minute episode from "The Hive Poetry Collective" features Dion O’Reilly and Danusha Lameris each reading her poem from A Constellation of Kisses. They read and discuss their poems and the craft of poetry. Listen HERE

Watch this short video of A Constellation of Kisses.

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We have proudly published this exciting new anthology of poems about kisses. It includes poems about first kisses and last kisses, hello and goodbye kisses, wanted and unwanted kisses, hot and cold kisses, French kisses and chocolate kisses, and many more kinds of kisses.

Released on July 15, this collection is in time for summer reading and holiday and Valentine's Day gift-giving.


A kiss is never just a kiss—heat-seeking, information bearing, coded. In this inspired collection, poet and editor Diane Lockward has assembled over 100 poems about kisses written by many of our best contemporary poets. You’ll find kisses longed for, kisses auditioned, kisses rehearsed. Ritualistic kissing. Delicious kissing. Kissing that comforts the grieving. Kissing that blesses a union. Here’s “that first kiss, / long as a river” in Tim Seibles’ poem “Unmarked.” And here comes the kiss of yearning in Susan Aizenberg’s poem: “It’s that kiss you want for so long // that when you take it you take it / greedy as a thief,” an “epic” kiss, “a kiss worth whatever it costs.”

As soon as I heard this anthology’s title I thought of the words Jimi Hendrix made famous: “Excuse me while I kiss the sky.” These pages are constellated with all manner of kisses in all manner of patterns. 

​           —from the Foreword by Lee Upton.

Available:
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This collection includes 107 poems by the following poets:
​Kim Addonizio
Kelli Russell Agodon                          
Susan Aizenberg
Nin Andrews
Wendy Barker
Tony Barnstone
Tina Barry
Ellen Bass
Michele Battiste
Jane Beal
Jan Beatty
Jeanne Marie Beaumont
Margo Berdeshevsky
Jacqueline Berger
Michelle Bitting
Julie Bloemeke
Laure-Anne Bosselaar
Elya Braden
Jason Lee Brown
Kurt Brown
Debra Bruce
Jennifer Burd
Elena Karina Byrne
Lauren Camp
Neil Carpathios
Robin Rosen Chang
Amanda Chiado
Christopher Citro
Patricia Clark
Cathryn Cofell
Geraldine Connolly
Jackie Craven
Jim Daniels
Jessica de Koninck
Maureen Doallas
​Lynn Domina
Caitlin Doyle
Denise Duhamel
Jane Ebihara
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Ann Fisher-Wirth
Alice Friman
Deborah Gerrish
Ona Gritz
Bruce Guernsey
Tami Haaland
Jared Harel
Jeffrey Harrison
Hunt Hawkins
Shayla Hawkins
Karen Paul Holmes
John Hoppenthaler
Karla Huston
Gray Jacobik
Richard Jones
Allison Joseph
Tina Kelley
Adele Kenny
Claire Keyes
David Kirby
Lynne Knight
Danusha Laméris
Lance Larsen
Dorianne Laux
Jenifer Browne Lawrence
Lynn Levin
Jeffrey Levine
Katharyn Howd Machan
Marjorie Maddox
Jennifer Maier
Charlotte Mandel

Kelly McQuain
​Natasha Moni
Ruth Mota
Peter E. Murphy
Dion O’Reilly
Amy Pence 
Paulann Petersen
John Poch
Andrea Potos
Wanda Praisner
Christine Rhein
Susan Rich
Susanna Rich
Katherine Riegel
Kenneth Ronkowitz
Dan Rosenberg
Susan Rothbard
Leigh Camacho Rourks 
Rajwant Saghera
Nicholas Samaras
Tim Seibles
Ron Smith
Christine Stewart-Nunez
Marilyn L. Taylor
J. C. Todd
Sharon Tracey
William Trowbridge
David Vincenti
Charles Harper Webb
Scott Wiggerman
Terence Winch
Cecilia Woloch
Baron Wormser
Robert Wrigley
Michael T. Young
Yvonne Zipter

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      • NEW--This Strange Garment, by Nicole Callihan
      • NEW—Paradise Is Jagged, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • NEW--The Mayapple Forest, by Kim Ports Parsons
      • NEW--Leave Me a Little Want, by Beverly Burch
      • NEW--Notes from the Column of Memory, by Wendy Drexler
      • NEW--The Night Divers, by Melanie McCabe
      • NEW--light waves, by Kirsten Shu-ying Chen
      • NEW--Horse Not Zebra, by Eric Nelson
      • NEW--Design, by Theresa Burns
      • NEW--House Bird, by Robb Fillman
      • Years Beyond the River, by David Axelrod
      • The Poet & The Architect, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • Wind Apples, by Jeff Ewing
      • The Feast Delayed, by Diane LeBlanc
      • These Few Seeds, by Meghan Sterling
      • The Curator's Notes, by Robin Rosen Chang
      • A Cartography of Home, by Hayden Saunier
      • Tell Me How You Got Here, by Emily Franklin
      • Self-Portrait with a Million Dollars, by Patricia Clark
      • Ghost Dogs, by Dion O'Reilly
      • A Kinship with Ash, by Heather Swan
      • Kissing the Long Face of the Greyhound, by Yvonne Zipter
      • Somatic, by Ann Keniston
      • The Honey of Earth, by David Graham
      • Sugar Fix, by Kory Wells
      • The Davids Inside David, by Sarah Wetzel
      • The Bones of Winter Birds, by Ann Fisher-Wirth
      • Strange What Rises, by Gary Whitehead
      • Suspension, by Paige Riehl
      • The Northway, by Lisa Bellamy
      • The Infinite Doctrine of Water, by Michael T. Young
      • Aileron, by Geraldine Connolly
      • No Such Thing As Distance, by Karen Paul Holmes
      • Leaves Surface Like Skin, by Michelle Menting
      • How to Wear This Body, by Hayden Saunier
      • Travel Notes from the River Styx, by Susanna Lang
      • Route 66 and Its Sorrows, by Carolyn Miller
      • Bluewords Greening, by Christine Stewart-Nunez
      • The Canopy, by Patricia Clark
      • Cutting Room, by Jessica de Koninck
      • The Persistence of Longing, by Lynne Knight
      • Confessions of a Captured Angel, by Neil Carpathios
    • Craft Books >
      • NEW--The Strategic Poet
      • The Practicing Poet: Writing Beyond the Basics
      • The Crafty Poet II: A Portable Workshop
      • The Crafty Poet: A Portable Workshop
    • Anthologies >
      • A Constellation of Kisses
      • The Book of Donuts, edited by Jason Lee Brown and Shanie Latham
      • The Doll Collection
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