Stitching

Stitching, a new collection of poems by Polly Brown, was released in January 2026, through Every Other Thursday Press, with design and production by Sarah Bennett.

From Steven Ratiner, author of Grief’s Apostrophe: “Reading Polly Brown’s poems, I find an unusually permeable membrane between human nature and the natural world…all elemental parts of the landscape, entwined with its green urgency, subject to its mortal weather. But the effect of Polly’s approach is often a remarkable sense of at-homeness in the world, and the poems comfort even as they challenge.”

From Jeri Theriault, author of Self Portrait as Homestead: “Polly Brown shows us how to carry on ‘stitch by stich,’ drawing themes of heritage and nature together like ‘two sides of a wound,’ incorporating the past into the present, and making of these wounds, not just a healing, but warmth and heirloom, a patchwork to cherish and hand down.”

Stitching gathers poems of quiet action: observing, standing witness, moving forward, mending, singing.

Ways to buy, read, and hear Stitching:

If you live near Farmington, Maine, you can find copies of Stitching at either Devaney Doak and Garret Booksellers, or Twice Sold Tales. (Both great places, easy to find.)

From further away, you can mail a check for $20 (to cover postage), made out to me, addressed to Every Other Thursday Press, at PO Box 116, New Sharon, ME. I’ll send you back a book, lickety-split. If you order two books it’s just $35. Or you can inquire using the contact form at the bottom of the website’s home page.

I’ll have books when I read on March 14th, at 1 pm, in the wonderful Bookey series organized by Jay Franzel and Claire Hersom, at the Bailey Library in Winthrop, Maine.

I’m still working on Venmo and more reading dates.

Meanwhile, you can see sample poems, and listen to some audio tracks of me reading poems, below. I’ll be adding to the sets over the next few weeks.