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Meanwhile, Nancy Scott has two new bylines you can read online. One celebrates an effort on the Karl Stirner Arts Trail to bring poetry to the trail. Their September poetry includes “September Spice.”

Chai tastes like another continent

when lips and fingers curve

to catch worth of warmth.

The autumn open door

turns truck exhaust

and final buzzing cicadas

into seasoned change.

Ask the new mown plot

not to cool too much.

Later, there will be charcoal dusk.

Later, there will be moonlit roses.

Later, there will be poetry.

See the poem and the others in the project here. Nancy also has a poem in the recent issue of Wordgathering. The poem honors the talent of Nancy’s favorite pianist, Jason Castonguay, who, like Nancy, is blind.

Let me tell you straight from the horse’s mouth: “Wordgathering: A Journal of Disability Poetry and Literature is a digital, Open Access, biannual journal of disability poetry, literature, and the arts, with two interconnected purposes. First, we are dedicated to providing an accessible venue for featuring the work of emerging and well-known writers and other creatives with disabilities (disabled writers and creatives). Second, we seek to make available and expand a searchable core of this work for interested readers (with and without disabilities) who are committed to disability poetry, literature, and the arts.”

To read (and listen to— the publication’s editor Diane R. Wiener does a fantastic job with the audio recording) Nan’s poem, “Sympathetic Resonance,” click here.

Parisian Phoenix is currently working on two poetry manuscripts for release this fall:

• I might imagine wild things, by Sheena Stimpfl, probably in October

and

• Archaeomythology, poetry chapbook by Kathryn Dohrmann, in November. Her second chapbook with us, Mszkoze, Red She Is, will release in spring 2026.

We have full-length poetry manuscripts by Brian Mahoney and R. Diskin Black also coming in spring 2026.