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April celebrates National Poetry Month. This is a haiku. (go ahead and count.) Throw us your own weird & fantastic haiku in the comments! 😆 . . . #indiebookstore #independentbookstore #petalumabookstore #nationalpoetrymonth #petaluma

MORE NEW ARRIVALS this week, including recent releases from three of our favorite indie presses (@shortwavebooks , @ghoulishbookstore , and @tenebrouspress ), a fresh addition to our Weird Poetry section from local author @jordan_ranft , and the new special Wings of Fire Legends graphic novel. Plus a bunch of new releases from @insighteditions , perfect for gifting, including Jurassic Park 3D Viewers for the dino nuts on your list, the macabre cocktail guide Gorey fans didn’t know they needed (but absolutely do), more fantastically nerdy and spooky crochet books, the amazing Guillermo del Toro’s Cabinet of Curiosities for the ultimate fan, and so much more! If all that’s not enough, we’ve even got Pokémon Phantasmal Flames, Emporium hoodies, and Star Wars Stay on Target (that’s no moon. it’s a card game!) to warm you up and keep you entertained on these chilly nights! 🔥 Don’t forget our Fall Food Drive benefiting @una_vida_community is still going on. The shutdown may have ended, but food insecurity in our community hasn’t. 😞 So if you haven’t had a chance to BRING US FOOD, now’s the time. When you bring it in, we’ll knock 10% off your purchase, and we’ll feed your mind with a free book from the box o’ mystery. The Emporium is open until 5:30 today at 2200 Petaluma Blvd North # 805, across from Express in the Petaluma Village Premium Outlets. . . . #indiebookstore #independentbookstore #petaluma #petalumabookstore #shoplocal #shopindie #newarrivals

We are delighted to announce that our very own Anjeli Chapman Wolfs first anthology ‘Spite’ is OUT NOW! And even out as a staff pick! Dave says: A debut collection of short stories, punchy in their delivery yet thought provoking and captivating; warped, bizarre yet completely relatable. Brief glimpses into worlds that somehow stick to you and remain with you leaving you on the cliff edge of your own imagination. Those worlds conjured with tight prose, not a word, not sentence is wasted. You’ll read them in no time but will be glad that you did. An absorbing introduction to an emerging talent, hold on to your copy and you’ll be able to say you were there when it all began! A very very big congrats from everyone here. Anjeli, we’re so very proud of you! Now available in shop and on our website. #Spite #Anjelichapmanwolf #Wrongpublishing @wrongpublishing @anjelichapman

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happy birthday once again, Saheed! AND, guysss, I have a new book coming up in @wrongpublishing ! Pre-orders can be made through the link below. I mean, what is the best way to celebrate a birthday without some good news?🥹❤️ /store/p142/someday-bullets.html

Having a Martini and about to read my buddy @crsutton first book Only Animals, that was just published by @wrongpublishing

✨april '24 wrap-up✨️ here's a wrap-up of all the books i read in april, aka the most books i've read in one month so far this year! ❤️✨️ follow me on goodreads and storygraph for my full reviews 🥰💕 How to Become the God of Small Things by Fiona Lu - 4 ⭐s To Grow Roots: A Poetry Chapbook by Salem Paige - 4 ⭐s Tombs by Junji Ito - 5 ⭐s Pilu of the Woods by Mai K. Nguyen - 4 ⭐s Skate for Your Life by Leo Baker - 4.25 ⭐s Heaven by Mieko Kawakami trans. Sam Bett and David Boyd - 3.25 ⭐s Sandcastle by Pierre Oscar Lévy - 3 ⭐s Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan - 3.5 ⭐️s You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World by Ada Limón - 4.25 ⭐️s Traveler's Tales by Briar Ripley Page - 3.75 ⭐️s ------------------------------------------------ #bookworm #books #bookstagram #aprilwrapup #wrapup #rainbowbooks #greenbooks #bipocreads #diversereads #lgbtqreads #ownvoices #reader #reads #goodreadschallenge2024 #goodreads #youngreader #literaryfiction #poetrycollection #alltheflowerskneeling #poetrybooks #adalimon #newreleases #youareherecollection #smallthingslikethese #clairekeegan #junjiito #storygraph #graphicnovels

When the first batch sold out,and the second arrives... #@wrongpublishing ,

"Powerful essays and poems about loving and losing a son." Powell's Books

Thank you, Jennifer Porter. "I was slated for an excellent three day weekend (our company takes a holiday for President's Day) but a severe migraine took most of it, forcing me to slow way down and toward the end I was well enough and able to take in a chapbook I'd been waiting for. I'd read some pieces from Mary Mandeville in the past and am always so impressed at her prose. Ursula Le Guin has said of this art of excellent usage of language: "Language used as an end in itself, to sing a poem or tell a story, goes right, goes towards the truth. A writer is a person who cares what words mean, what they say, how they say it. Writers know words are their way towards truth and freedom, and so they use them with care, with thought, with fear, with delight. By using words well they strengthen their souls. Story-tellers and poets spend their lives learning that skill and art of using words well. And their words make the souls of their readers stronger, brighter, deeper." I think of writers like Mandeville when I read that excerpt of LeGuin's. It is a read that immediately sends the tendrils of electricity of the vulnerable and painful places of our lives. The ones we try to spin, dance and buzz around to lessen their most powerful effects on us. But what you get when you read that impactful ache of constant truth in your bones is companionship. Lately I've felt as though I was walking on a seashore (Grace's favorite place) slightly cold and conflicted with all the ways life has dealt a most solid blow, not just directly in the home, but everywhere, career, politics, community, and the most intimate in questioning of my own soul. I'd felt mostly alone in this as we often do when wrestling with these issues. But Mary's words assured me I was not alone. Her poetry and impressive experimentation of language that so clearly defined what loss is, what the confusing , painful and ultimately freeing processes are of working the clay through that loss, was a reminder that I was anything but alone. There is a type of redemption that comes and being reminded as you are in the storms, a service so eloquently provided by an artist who shares her journey so boldly. Not only can ...

Jennifer Porter continued: Not only can art illustrate our most harrowing journeys, but be one of catalyst of service to a fellow human, and ultimately the very thing that helps redeem. A most beautiful read indeed."

. Order delivered!! Can’t wait to dig into @marymandeville33 new chap book, WHAT LAST!! We heard an excerpt at this week’s @valid_a_lit_therapy_session reading and holy wow!! Mary’s book launch is next Monday, 2/5, at @rose_city_book_pub ! She’ll be reading from the book, as well as be in conversation with @annegudger and @megweber8 ! Don’t miss it!