Published November 2026
Junebug situates Paul Maziar’s latest acts of listening and attending, transmission and transcription. He’s built a modular space suggestive of both the theatre and the gallery, performance and (inter)play. The aphoristic title sequence hones sharp accessibilities — we find words available to us, for our limbs and limbics to hold, hurrumph, to slap our knees and share.
Praise from Simone Kearney: Reading Paul Maziar’s Junebug, I feel the tightrope walker’s high-wire balance between the forces of levity and gravity, the contexts of interior and exterior, the concocted and the perceived, thought and overheard speech. These poems make me wonder how it is that we move through the world, which is also a moving-through language.
Published April 2026
A new collection of lyric verse by Elaine Bleakney
Poems of elliptical sorrow and delight: sharply dressed, sharply undressed.
If this is a poetics of aftermath, the lyrics within reveal that our emotions reckon with fragments, not finalities.
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