In March 2020, Redheaded Stepchild began hosting virtual book launches for poets with new books out during the pandemic. Nearly four years and over 150 videos later, we are still hosting weekly book launches. Please consider subscribing to our YouTube channel. Here are two recent videos:
Lindsey Royce’s poems have been published in many journals, including Aeolian Harp #8, #7 and #5; Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts; The Hampden-Sydney Review; The New York Quarterly; Poet Lore; and Washington Square Review. Her poems have been nominated for Pushcart Prizes in 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022. Royce’s first poetry collection, Bare Hands, was published in September of 2016, and her second collection, Play Me a Revolution, published in September of 2019, won second place for poetry in the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Awards. The Book of John is her third collection and is dedicated to her husband, John Kevin Bouldin, who died young from stomach cancer. It is Royce’s tribute to him and to those we all love.
Jeannine Hall Gailey is a writer with multiple sclerosis who served as the 2nd Poet Laureate of Redmond, Washington. She’s the author of six books of poetry including Field Guide to the End of the World, winner of the Moon City Book Prize, and Flare, Corona from BOA Editions. She has a B.S. in Biology and M.A. in English from the University of Cincinnati and an MFA from Pacific University. Her work appeared in The American Poetry Review, Salon, Ploughshares, and Poetry. Her web site is www.webbish6.com. Twitter and Instagram: @webbish6.
Below is a sampling of poets and their book launches.
We are proud to celebrate with so many poets, and here’s a list of poets Connie Post, Marty Silverthorne, Joey Nicoletti, Cheryl Dumesnil, Ruth Bardon, Tara Betts, Marjorie Maddox, Doug Ramspeck, Catherine Esposito-Prescott, Regina Garcia, Allison Joseph, Jenny Mohlberg, John Compton, Scott Owens, Elizabeth Wilson, Jake Sheff, Marilyn McVicker, Kim Ports Parsons, Sheila Turnage, Joan Barasovska, Kristie WIlliams, Zoe Fay-Stindt, Alexis Rhone Fancher, Cynthia Atkins, Amy Barone, Janis Harrington, Hilda Downer, Bob MacKenzie, Caroline Cottom, Nicole Greaves, Myra Malkin, J.S. Absher, M. Scott Douglass, Dawn Leas, Pam Uschuk, Pamela L. Sumners, Maureen Sherbondy, Amy Small-McKinney, Christopher Locke, Diana Pinckney, Joe Mills, Jeff Hardin, Susana Case, Margo Taft Stever, Chris Abbate, Judy Kronenfeld, John Compton, Kai Coggin, Paul Jones, Micael Jennings, Melinda Thomsen, Pat Riviere-Seel, Cathryn Shea, Deborah Jang, Hay Rogoff, Grace Bauer, Martin Willitts, Joan Leotta, Marcella Remund, Sam Barbee, Keith Flynn, Brian Dempster, Terri Kirby Erickson, Mimi Herman, Don Krieger, Caridad Moro-Gronlier, Kimberly (Becker) Fox, Gregory Djanikian, Dr, Christopher Bursk, Claudine Nash, Aruna Gurumurthy, Ellen Stone, Angela Dribben, Caroline Earleywine, Lauren Camp, Julie Danho O’Connell, Maw Shein Win, Terri McCord, Catherine Carter, Curtis Crisler, Kevin McKelvey, Sarah White, Carolyne Wright, Lynn Levin, Grace Ocasio, Karen Luke Jackson, Noah Falck, Jennifer Given, Jennifer Sweeney, Jen Karetnick, Sandra Feen, Sonia Greenfield, Julie Bloemeke, Kelly Grace Thomas, David Alpaugh, Kate Fetherston, Megan Merchant, Anne Champion, Jenny Sadre-Orafai, and many others with anthologies.