Poetry Month Book Bundle
$25.00
In celebration of National Poetry Month – April 2026, Red Letter Editions and Beltway Press are offering a book bundle of Fellow Creatures by Ted Kooser, former U.S. Poet Laureate and Grief’s Apostrophe by Steven Ratiner.
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Red Letter Editions is proud to announce the publication of a new chapbook of 26 poems by Ted Kooser, Pulitzer Prize winner and former US Poet Laureate.
Printed in an edition of 400 copies:
25 numbered and signed by Ted Kooser: $30. (sold out)
350 regular issue: $15.
and 25 copies reserved for distribution by the poet
Proceeds to benefit The Red Letters Poetry Project
“In this heartbreakingly beautiful book, Steven Ratiner constructs a seamless fabric of grief, weaving threads of memory, keen observation of the natural world, variations on religious tradition, and an active awareness of language. Among the book’s smaller pleasures are complex metaphors, varied syntax, and constant attention to the word: the poet is “marred by, married to this compulsive / language and cannot shut it (shout it) out / even in this house of silence.” Which is fortunate for us who follow him as he moves from the personal before of witnessing illness and dementia, through a spiritually deepened and globally-expanded exploration of death itself, to an after that finds solace in “love’s continuance, grief’s/temporary reprieve,” as well as the more permanent gift of art. Steven Ratiner has been championing other poets for many years. This gorgeous collection of his own fine work is long overdue.”
—Martha Collins author of Casualty Reports (University of Pittsburgh Press)
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