THE FOREST REVEALED

Twelve large watercolor paintings by Maine artist Jada Fitch take viewers month by month, tree by tree through life in the Northern forest, depicting in exquisite detail the flora, fauna, fungi, and everything in between that calls these habitats home. Writer Kateri Kosek sets the scene for each month, and in the pages that follow, poetically illuminates the feats and fragilities of some of these fascinating organisms, alongside detailed insets of Fitch’s art. Species lists for each month correspond to a numbered key in the paintings.

$30 (plus $7 shipping in US).

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Storey Publishing,‎ September 2025. 96 pages. 15.25 X 11.25 X 0.5 inches.

AMERICAN ECLIPSE

Winner of the 2023 Three Mile Harbor Press Poetry Award.

Available from Three Mile Harbor Press. 99 pages.

What is an eclipse?  A strange darkening, an exceptional shadow.  But also a strange light, a moment that startles us into new awareness of larger forces we don’t usually notice in our daily lives, new questionings of what we thought we saw and knew.  “And when I looked up, the mountains—jagged, / too imposing, I’d thought, to lose—had vanished again,” writes Kateri Kosek.  The poems of American Eclipse consider the world thrown into strange light: by politics, pandemic, intimate sorrow, and climate grief. These poems examine the world, “how it looks so harmless, / so under control,” slowing to consider trees, bees, and more with a naturalist’s accuracy, detailed and backed by history, ecology, and years of wonderment.  Kosek’s unflinching eye includes the speaker’s own culpability, not asking for forgiveness or approval but, rather, seeking truth’s messier, stranger entanglements.

 --Elizabeth Bradfield, author of SOFAR, Toward Antarctica, and editor of Cascadia Field Guide: Art, Ecology, Poetry

VERNAL

Available from Split Rock Press, 2023. 31 pages.