Night Forest: Folk Poetry & Story

by Polly Alice McCann, Katharyn Howd Machan, Gary Beaumier

Night Folk Poems and Stories Illustrated by Parisian artist Elka Trittel and featuring award-winning poets Katharyn Howd Machan and Gary Baumier, this collection champions folk voices who embody wonder and the charm of old tales with new bite. Reading this collection will make you want to take up the mythic path and find the heart of your inner hero. The collection contains works by over 50 international poets as well as six short Fomka by Katie Sakanai, Briefest Use by Hayden Moore, Swan Song by Caroline Sidney, Just a Pile of Stones by Kevin Callahan, and Eleventh Night by Lauren Tunnell.

138 pages, Paperback

Published December 30, 2022

About the author

POLLY ALICE MCCANN’s lyrical poetry paints a picture of the narratives of the internal heartland. That’s not surprising since she is also an artist. Her art and poetry have been published in US newspapers and magazines most recently in Rattle magazine. A professor of English, she is also the founder and manager of FLYING KETCHUP PRESS. She credits much of her creative work due to her research on dreams which won her the 2014 Ernest Hartmann award from Berkeley, CA. Find her first three poetry collections, Kinlight, Tea with Alice, and Puss ‘N Boötes online. Polly Alice has also edited two collections of short stories and two poetry anthologies. The most recent, “The Very Edge” is a collection of 37 international artists and poets. With her MFA in Writing from Hamline University in St. Paul, with an emphasis in poetry and short fiction, her poetry has published internationally in journals such as Naugatuck River, and arc24 in Tel Aviv and elsewhere. She says her favorite thing is to tell stories-- other people's, her own-- maybe yours.

In her first book of poetry, Kinlight, she uses narrative free verse to explore the measures taken as a woman to find a place to become visible: 'I will not forget,' she writes. 'I am woman, all things began in me.' Ghosts and vapors, flour and light, her first collection remain subtle in color, but dives into bone and marrow of women in today's America.