ELISSA FAVERO has a book forthcoming from Newfound, to be published on October 15, 2024. Children of Rivers and Trees: An Abecedarian weaves natural and family histories of Scotland and south central Montana with Indigenous histories, languages of science and of women, memories of Catholic childhoods, fragments of poetry, and songs of lament and of praise. Proceeding through the alphabet and experimenting with forms that call to mind displacement and settlement, plant growth, taxonomies, and genealogies, Favero reckons with her family’s immigrations West and the burdens and gifts of inheritance as she seeks a place she can call home. Favero has published multiple reviews and essays in Cable Street, like this insightful, three-book analysis. She posts on Instagram @elissacfavero and on Facebook @Elissa Favero.
NAOKO FUJIMOTO’s new chapbook of translations—09/09 : Nine Japanese Female Poets/Nine Heian Waka—forthcoming from Toad Press. FUJIMOTO published a sample of her translations with visual expressions in Cable Street’s Haiku Anthology. Learn more at the author’s website, Fuji Hub.
IMOGENE PRUITT-SPENCE, artist, photographer, writer, and granddaughter of contributing editor CHRISTOPHER SAWYER-LAUÇANNO devotes her Substack column of July 7 to commenting on his book of poems Ten Meditations on Some Words by Antonin Artaud: https://dirtnapprincess.substack.com/p/artaud-my-grandfather-and-me.
DANA DELIBOVI, Cable Street’s consulting poetry editor, has a book forthcoming and available for pre-order. Sweet Hunter: The Complete Poems of St. Teresa of Ávila will be published by Monkfish on October 15, 2024. The book contains Delibovi’s translation of 31 extant poems by the 16th-century philosopher and mystic, along with five original essays on Delibovi’s personal journey with Teresa’s poetry. Teresa of Ávila, a well-known author and reformer during her own time, is very much a poet for the present day, with a surprisingly modern style of writing. Learn more at the book’s website: sweethunter.org.
BETHANY BESTEMAN published at Solum Press this June. Her long-form free verse poem, “Elijah”, confronts death with the clear-eyed beauty that marks all of Besteman’s work—like the lyric poems she published here in Cable Street.
KELLY EGAN has published a book-length poem, Millennial, which can be ordered from White Stag Publishing. The poem carries memories both learned and experienced through the kaleidoscopic lens of the speaker, until each layer of time reveals itself to us in the present. Egan travels the terrestrial realm through a multi-dimensional state, which allows the poem to evoke a grounding in reality, through the unknown of ancestors and spirit. Egan published an amazing group of poems here in Cable Street. Learn more at kellyegan.com.
BRIAN CULLMAN, a frequent contributor to these pages, has a book due out from Coffee House Press in 2026: Things Behind the Sun: Travels in Music and Time, a series of connected essays. Updates to come. Meantime, his ¡VIVA! for Richard Horowitz appears in this issue.
NELL-LYNN PERERA, whose portfolio of watercolors appeared in Cable Street, is the author of a forthcoming book of photographs and poetry (find her at nell-lynn.com). The book is tentatively titled “Of Things That Live Within,” the book is a flagship publication of a new imprint in development by frequent contributor TOBIAS MEINECKE, whose collaboration with editor Eric Darton on Klemm appears in this issue.
MICHAEL DORGAN recently published an opinion piece in The Mercury News “I respect you, cancer, but you’re killing both of us.” Excerpts from his book No Fight, No Blame: A Journalist’s Life in Martial Arts were published in Cable Street Issue 2.