The Poetry Shelf

Whether you're new to poetry or looking to go deeper, this bundle offers an inviting way to build your first poetry shelf. With eight small press titles, this gift set is a generous and inspiring gift for any poetry lover, curious reader, or aspiring writer. It includes:

· If Memory Serves: Stories from the Table brings together 42 voices exploring food, memory, and identity through poetry, essays, and short stories.

· The Shortest Stories distills the wonder of birth and new life into spare, stunning haiku written by midwife Janelle Alier.

· A Field Guide to North American Trees uses the natural world — roots, rings, and branches — as a lens for understanding human connection and transformation.

· Over Yonder and The Song of Everything, both by Greenville's inaugural Poet Laureate Glenis Redmond, chronicle healing journeys through South Carolina's state parks with warmth, resilience, and wonder.

· Holding Patterns brings together 29 writers exploring the rituals that quietly shape us.

· Not the Way You Expect gathers poems, prose, and stories on the full spectrum of motherhood. 

· Take Note: A Journal for Poets and Wanderers, also by Glenis Redmond, invites readers to step into the practice themselves — with poetic prompts that awaken attention and spark their own words.