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A Sun Inside My Chest

Release Date: October 8th, 2020

A Lake of Light & Clouds

Release Date: April 3, 2014


A Sun Inside My Chest

Release Date: October 8th, 2020

Cover art by Stephen White

Cover design by Kevin Morgan Watson

Artist rendering of Terri Kirby Erickson by Lynne Srba

Introduction by Dr. Felicia Mitchell, author of Waltzing with Horses, and praise from Diana Pinckney (author of The Beast and The Innocent), Ann Campanella (author of Motherhood: Lost and Found), and CNN executive editor Arthur Brice

Becoming the Blue Heron

Release Date: March 27, 2017

Cover art by Stephen White

Cover design by Kevin Morgan Watson

Artist rendering of Terri Kirby Erickson by Lynne Srba

Introduction by Dr. Felicia Mitchell, author of Waltzing with Horses, and praise from Diana Pinckney (author of The Beast and The Innocent), Ann Campanella (author of Motherhood: Lost and Found), and CNN executive editor Arthur Brice

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Winner of the
2021 International Book Award for Poetry
A Sun Inside My Chest

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International Book Award Finalist
Becoming the Blue Heron

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USA Best Book Award Finalist
A Lake of Light and Clouds

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Winner of the Next Generation Indie Book Award,
Nautilus Silver Book Award,
International Book Award Finalist
In the Palms of Angels

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#23, Contemporary Best Sellers in Poetry List
Telling Tales of Dusk

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Thread Count
Thread Count

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All book cover paintings by artist Stephen White, whose work has appeared in MoMA and in galleries in North Carolina, including City Art Gallery in Greenville, NC. Stephen uses the Byzantine technique of applying pure gold leaf in sheets to his painted figures. Cover designs of A Sun Inside My Chest, Becoming the Blue Heron, A Lake of Light and Clouds, In the Palms of Angels and A Sun Inside My Chest are by Kevin Morgan Watson of Press 53, Publisher and Editor in Chief.

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Previous Collections of Poetry:

Becoming the Blue Heron (Press 53, March, 2017), cover art by Stephen White, cover design by Kevin Morgan Watson, artist rendering of Terri Kirby Erickson by Lynne Srba, with an Introduction by Dr. Felicia Mitchell, author of Waltzing with Horses, and praise from Diana Pinckney (author of The Beast and The Innocent), Ann Campanella (author of Motherhood: Lost and Found), and CNN executive editor Arthur Brice.
A Lake of Light and Clouds (Press 53, 2014, cover art by Stephen White, cover design by Kevin Morgan Watson, cover photograph by J. Sinclair), Award-Winning Finalist in the “Poetry” category of the 2015 USA Best Book Awards, with praise from Peter Tork of blues band Shoe Suede Blues, formerly of the MONKEES; Jill Conner Browne, THE Sweet Potato Queen and #1 NY Times Best Selling author; Dr. Felicia Mitchell, poet and teacher; and Theodore Wiprud, composer and Vice President of Education for the New York Philharmonic.
In the Palms of Angels (Press 53, 2011, cover art by Stephen White, cover design by Kevin Morgan Watson, cover photograph by Dan Rossi), winner of a Nautilus Silver Award for Poetry, the Gold Medal for Poetry in the 2012 Next Generation Indie Book Awards, and a Finalist for Poetry in the 2013 International Book Awards.
Telling Tales of Dusk (Press 53, 2009, cover art by Stephen White, cover design by Kevin Morgan Watson, cover photograph by Dan Rossi), #23 on the Poetry Foundation Contemporary Best Sellers List in 2010.
Thread Count (2006, cover art by Stephen White, cover photograph by Dan Rossi)

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