Collected Short Poems

This collection spans ten years-2015 to 2025-of Solonche's short poems, those with twelve lines or fewer. "These short poems are an extraordinary amalgam of wit, close observation, humor, and clear-seeing. Each one singles out and illuminates an ordinary moment-ordinary, that is, until the poet explodes into a miniature epiphany. Easy of access and frequently profound, J. R. Solonche's poems induce in me a state of delighted surprise." (Chase Twichell, author of Horses Where the Answers Should Have Been: New and Selected Poems)

Nominated for the National Book Award, the Eric Hoffer Book Award, and nominated three times for the Pulitzer Prize, J.R. Solonche is the author of more than forty books of poetry and coauthor of another. He lives in the Hudson Valley.