Highlighting recently released and forthcoming works by marginalized creators
Now Flourish Northern Cardinal: Selected Poems 2005-2025 by Darren C. Demaree
A sweeping collection that spans two decades of poetry—storm and salvation, devastation and beauty, carried in lines that linger like thunder.
The Light Becomes Us by Colleen S. Harris
The Light Becomes Us is a collection of narrative poems exploring how the American family holds both the grace to save us and the tragedies that doom us. Poems from the perspectives of mother and daughter delve into the details of love won, lost, fought for, discarded, and salvaged.
Outliving Michael by Steven Reigns
Outliving Michael is a memorial memoir in poetry, chronicling Steven Reigns’s profound friendship with Michael Church, who died of AIDS in 2000. Through vignettes and tender reflections, Reigns traces their intergenerational bond, a connection of mentorship, shared artistic pursuits, and the quiet acts of devotion that shaped their lives as gay men in the 1990s.
This deeply personal collection becomes both an elegy and an archive, honoring the countless roles played by a generation lost to AIDS: lover, sibling, parent, friend. Reigns preserves the texture of their companionship with unflinching honesty and lyricism, illuminating how certain people leave an indelible mark long after they are gone.
Outliving Michael is a testament to friendship’s power to sustain, transform, and survive even death itself.
VAGABOND CITY 