Terri Kirby Erickson is the award-winning author of seven collections of poetry. Her work has appeared in “American Life in Poetry,” JAMA, The SUN, The Writer’s Almanac, and numerous other literary journals, magazines, newspapers, and anthologies. Winner of the Joy Harjo Poetry Prize, International Book Award for Poetry, and many others, her most recent awards are the Board of Regents Annals of Internal Medicine 2023 Poetry Prize for her poem, “Magician, with Parkinson’s,” and the Key West Art and Historical Society’s 2024 Tennessee Williams Poetry Prize for her poem, “Rainy Day, New Orleans.” She lives in North Carolina.

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NIGHT TALKS: NEW & SELECTED POEMS (Press 53)

Release Date: October 15th, 2023

The poems in Night Talks are comfortably below the strange abstract. They settle into real good places. And thank goodness, no tired metaphors park in Terri Kirby Erickson’s yard. Only fresh ones pull in for our pleasure and surprise. These poems go to new places and show us that we all have a precious lot in common—something we need to know, right now.

—Clyde Edgerton, author of Raney and Redeye

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Cover Art, “Garden Mist,” Copyright 2022 by Stephen White.

All book cover paintings by artist Stephen White, whose work has appeared in MoMA and in galleries in North Carolina, including City Art Gallery in Greenville, NC. Stephen uses the Byzantine technique of applying pure gold leaf in sheets to his painted figures.

Cover Design of Night Talks: New & Selected Poems is by Claire V. Foxx and Kevin Morgan Watson of Press 53, Publisher and Editor in Chief.

Author Photograph by Kim Shouse Photography | Copyright 2023.