June 17 will be the release date for Blue Hunger, the new collection from Subhaga Crystal Bacon. The title is taken from the poem of the same name, which Subhaga workshopped with Confluence Poets.

Methow Press is particularly pleased to be publishing its first title, and that it belongs to Subhaga. Thanks to Covid-19, the launch will probably take place online… but we shall see!

Visit the Confluence Poets Facebook page to livestream a series of readings from the volume, Fridays at 11 AM.

Stay tuned for more details about the book release. It can be pre-ordered now via the Confluence Poets store.

“Initially, the poems in Subhaga Crystal Bacon’s in this collection show her keen eye for delivering the natural world. It’s tempting to think of her as a naturalist, but as her book progresses it becomes clear that, more broadly, she’s a human nature poet; poems of love and loss and community occur with the same acute precision. For example, in ‘Awake at Night’ (one of her complicated love poems) she begins this way, ‘I feel beautiful, young and dying / as the cricket song lifts and calls / and you are far away. No happiness / like this. The maples launch /their spinning seeds, such joy / in the deep air…’ All in all, a wonderful collection.” ~Stephen Dunn, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pagan Virtues