Porchlight Writer News

WILLIAM RIEPPE MOORE

Ain't the Land

Main Street Rag Publishing Company will release Porchlight contributor WILLIAM RIEPPE MOORE'S new book, Ain't the Land, later this year. The poetry collection is available for an advance order discount at mainstreetragbookstore.com/product/aint-the-land=william-rieppe-moore. Congratulations, Rieppe.

SARA SHEA

Rare Frequencies

Porchlight contributor SARA SHEA has a book on the way: Rare Frequencies will be published by Finishing Line Press in October 2026. The poems focus on her experience of motherhood, parenting a child with autism and a rare genetic difference. Congratulations, Sara.

EMILY COSPER

Witness Before the Fall

Porchlight contributor EMILY COSPER’s first collection of poetry, Witness Before the Fall, will be published this summer and is available for pre-order from Finishing Line Press. The book unfolds in the liminal space between geography and memory, between the lush, sinking streets of New Orleans and the wide landscapes of the American West, between the ache of loss and the fleeting grace of beauty. In this debut collection, Emily traces the quickening of time that comes with age and the contradictions that rise in its wake. These poems bear witness to a father’s slow decline, to a fabled American city both magical and heartbreaking, and to the ghosts and ancestors that hover in the periphery. Here, anxiety and wonder walk hand in hand, loss abounds even as gardens bloom, and creativity becomes a succor for sorrow. Witness Before the Fall is a meditation on aging, acceptance, and what we choose to hold close as everything else slips away.

ELLEN MORRIS PREWITT

When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women

Lemuria Books, 4465 I-55 Suite 202, Jackson MS, Thursday, April 16, 2026, 5:00 p.m.

novel, 387 Perkins Ext., Memphis TN, Saturday, May 2, 2026, 2:00 pm

100 Men Hall, 303 Union Street, Bay St. Louis MS, Saturday, May 16, 2026, 2:00 pm

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