Original Flume Chapbook Series (not available for sale)
At Dusk On Naskeag Point by Tina Barr
Running Patterns by Randall Freisinger
Common Waters by David Graham
The Centralia Mine Fire by Leonard Kress
Lost Stone by Carol Gordon
Concentric Circles by Gayle Kaune
Without Birds, Without Flowers, Without Trees by Pamela Uschuk
Follower of Dusk by Luis Omar Salinas
Shovel Point by Judy Lindberg
Staving Off Rapture by Ava Leavell Haymon
Cinnabar by Martha M. Vertreace
Whetstone by Joanne Allred
As Close as Possible by Mary Matthews
The Corner of Absence by Lynne Kuderko
Eating Nasturtiums by Mary Makofske
Stutter Monk by David Graham
The Way Water Moves by John Brehm
The One Blue Thread by Naomi F. Chase
I Call This Flirting, Sherrie Flick (fiction)
Bad Girl at the Altar Rail, Sharon L. Charde
The Sheep Breeders Dance, Aine Greeney (fiction)
And Still the Music, Alison Townsend
Mad to Live, Randall Brown (fiction)
Our Kingdom of Need, R. Elliot
From Dusk to Need, 25 Years of Flume Press Chapbooks
Praise for Flume Books
“In twentieth-century poetry, discerning readers have always paid close attention to chapbooks, for it is often in the pages of those concentrated volumes that one finds the true work, the harbinger of great things to come. So it is with Lynne Kuderko’s The Corner of Absence.”
–Robert McDowell
In The One Blue Thread, Naomi Chase gives us Gittel, a character so lively, so rambunctious, so splendid in her reasoning, the poems in this chapbook also read as a novel-in-verse. Chase’s on-target wit and verbal agility do more than challenge religious iconography. These poems transform a tender and vulnerable human emotion and lift them into the political. A completely engaging series of poems!
–Denise Duhamel
“I have long regarded David Graham as on of the most moving and able poets of his generation. In Stutter Monk, his best work to date, he proves his mastery and soul again.”
–Sydney Lea
“The natural world was not named and ordered by Adam, rather it names us daily, as Uschuk proves in these fine-crafted poems.”
–Joy Harjo
“In Joann Allred’s poems, the air hums with lives which serve as the poet’s ‘whetstone to sharpen vision.’…I admire the range and complexity of the poems, their textured language, the feel and sound of them in my mouth and my inner ear.”
–Carole Simmons Oles
“Ava Leavell Haymon’s work, redolent of tropical gold leaf and flesh, is the Baptist projection of St. Theresa’s passions into contemporary America. Her fruits of spirit and flesh are exquisitely halved on the communication/collection plate. Go ahead, eat them. I mean it.”
–Andrei Codrescu
“Vertreace’s work is rich with subtleties, careful imagery, agreeable varieties of music. It is obvious that she is committed to her positives, and will say nothing that she does not feel. She is a steadily growing artist, with an impressive future.”
–Gwendolyn Brooks