Wednesday Excerpt and Project Announcement!

Happy Wednesday, readers! Wishing you quality reading time this summer. 

Meadowlark Press is proud to announce that there will be a whole new series of poetry books as we embark on an imprint project—Meadowlark Poetry Press! 

We all need more poetry in our lives and are so proud to be working with authors and books we believe in. We have books scheduled to be released about every other month, so stay tuned as we keep comin' to ya with announcements! We still have some behind-the-scenes legwork to do, but in the meantime, we want to share with you an excerpt from our first Poetry Press book: Everlasting by Arlice Davenport!

Recognize that name? Great! That's because Arlice released his first poetry collection, Setting the Waves on Fire, with Meadowlark last October. This collection has more existential musings, reflections on history, and beautiful craftsmanship. Have a peek for yourself...

After reading through Everlasting the first time, I turned back to

the poem “Parting,” which contains these words: “At first, the

poetry would not hold…the words did not hold.” My thoughts

went of course, immediately to Yeats’ “the centre cannot hold,”

thence to the thought that poetry and words are, indeed, at the

center of it all, and then, finally, to this response: “Yes, Arlice,” I

murmured, “poetry and words are the center, but, my friend, as

you demonstrate here in these pages, your poetry does hold; your words do hold.”

—Roy J. Beckemeyer, author of Stage Whispers  

(Meadowlark Press 2018)