I’m thrilled to announce that my new chapbook, Earthen, by Finishing Line Press is now available for pre-order and will be published this winter!

In his debut chapbook, Earthen, Thomas Festa’s linguistically rich, taut poems show how the communities we create arise through acts of attention—between student and teacher, parent and child, lover and beloved. Evocative, contemplative, and often moving, Festa’s poems inhabit these moments of attention that make us both more alive and more compassionate.

–Carrie Etter