FALL COVERS REVEAL & Preorders for Jameela F. Dallis's Encounters for the Living and the Dead and E.G. Cunningham's Field Notes - now open!

Our fall 2025 titles by Jameela F. Dallis and E.G. Cunningham are available in our bookshop for preorder! Shipping in September.

Jameela F. Dallis’s Encounters for the Living and the Dead is a sensual journey that sweeps the tangible world and the poet’s beloveds into its arms—fiercely, tenderly, joyfully. Invoking ancestors and constructing altars to lost loved ones, this collection offers an oceanic engagement with visual art, filtering experience through desire and texture, the artist's canvas, and marine life (especially the bivalve and culinary delight, the oyster). In Dallis’s hands, the ekphrastic poem awakes and becomes a living, breathing experience, the attentive act of art gazing on other art splitting open language with a glistening, iridescent shine. In the siren-like, crooning words of the poet:

Jameela F. Dallis lives in Durham, NC. Her publications include poems, interviews, arts journalism, and literary scholarship in Feminist Studies, Honey Literary, The Fight and the Fiddle, Our State, Walter, The Bloomsbury Handbook to Toni Morrison, and elsewhere. She's inspired by memory and desire, the thrill of wandering new cities, and the wonder of everyday encounters. Her work explores texture, taste, sound, sensation, and the richness of visual art. She curated Material Encounters (Peel Gallery, Carrboro, March 2024), juried Scaffold (Artspace, Raleigh, April 2023), and has served on regional curatorial and fellowship committees. Jameela holds a Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill and has taught dozens of university courses and facilitated creative workshops for more than a decade. Originally from Chattanooga, TN, Jameela received her B.A. in English from the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, and holds both an M.A. and Ph.D. in English from UNC-Chapel Hill. Read more about her work at jameeladallis.com.

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Lush with painterly attention to color and form—including Vincent van Gogh’s wheat field paintings—and a poet’s attention to the rabbit trails and echoes of language, E.G. Cunningham’s Field Notes explores the relationship of the field to questions of history, identity, and memory. Verdant with observations of place, the writer’s personal and U.S. history (for example, the name “Strawberry Fields” linguistically links a secret compound near Guantanamo for “ghost detainees,” as well as the title of a film about visiting a former Japanese internment camp, and the Beatles’ hit song), the interplay of text and photographs moves like a shifting light across an open expanse of ground. How lucky to be invited to the field by E.G. Cunningham, to not look away from either our loves or harm.

E. G. Cunningham was born in South Carolina and grew up in Italy and Florida. Her poems, essays, stories, and hybrid pieces have appeared in or are forthcoming from a wide range of national and international publications, including The Abandoned Playground, Colorado Review, The Gettysburg Review, The Nation, Poetry London, The Poetry Review, Puerto del Sol, Southern Humanities Review, and ZYZZYVA. Her most recent chapbook, Oranges for Venus, was selected as the 2023 1br/3bath Editor’s Choice from Tilted House Press. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing, Poetry from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and a PhD in English Literature and Creative Writing from the University of Georgia. Read more about her writing and music at egcunningham.com.

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