Pre-Order Strays Pack Six: Powell, Jarboe, Falck

We’re thrilled to announce the lineup for Strays Pack Six: D.A. Powell, Canese Jarboe, and Noah Falck.

Launched in January 2020, the Strays series comprises packs of original “stray” poetry, with three poets in each pack. Strays have included sequences, experiments, crowns, scraps, fragments, miscellanea, and more. Check out previous packs in out store.

Pre-order Pack Six and check out the original cover art by each of the poets below.

Orders will ship in September 2022.

D.A. POWELL

D. A. Powell's books include Repast, Useless Landscape or A Guide for Boys, and Chronic. Powell received the 2019 John Updike Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He teaches at the University of San Francisco.

CANESE JARBOE

Canese Jarboe is the author of the chapbook dark acre (Willow Springs Books, 2018) and a 2022 Nō Studios Artist Grant recipient. Their recent work has appeared in Southeast Review, Colorado Review, DIAGRAM, and elsewhere. From rural southeastern Kansas, Canese splits their time between the farm and Wisconsin where they are a PhD student in creative writing and AOP Fellow at UW-Milwaukee. More at https://www.canesejarboe.com/.

NOAH FALCK

Noah Falck is the author of Exclusions (finalist for the 2020 Believer Book Award) and Snowmen Losing Weight. His poems have appeared in the Kenyon Review, Literary Hub, Poetry Daily, Poets.org, and have been anthologized in Poem-A-Day 365 Poems for Every Occasion. He lives and works in Buffalo, New York. More at https://www.noahfalck.org/.

Teaser: Pack Six Covers

Watch Strays on Stage: Full Video

Julianne Neely and Rachelle Toarmino Live in Conversation; Recorded Reading by Mary Ruefle

On Saturday June 26, 2021, Foundlings Press launched Strays Pack 4 at the North Park Theatre in Buffalo, New York.

The event featured live readings and conversation from poets Julianne Neely and Rachelle Toarmino, plus a surprise recorded performance by Strays 4 packmate Mary Ruefle.

All three poets read from their Strays chapbooks (available for purchase here). Seated on the North Park’s historic stage and beneath the theatre’s golden dome, Neely and Toarmino also discussed each other’s work, the sonnet form and “broken sonnets,” repetition and punctuation, influences, “confessional” poetry, readings and misreadings of contemporary women poets, MFA and PhD programs and workshops, and their experiences reading and studying with Mary Ruefle.

Watch here:

Note: Reading starts at 8:59. Aidan’s introduction and Rachelle’s reading are difficult to hear due to mic placement and acoustics issues. Audio quality picks up during Julie’s reading; the discussion and Mary’s reading are entirely audible.

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