06/09/2026
Congratulations to Saint Paul, MN poet Joanne Esser on the official publication day for her newest poetry collection "Nothing Is Stationary" (Holy Cow! Press).
A poetic meditation on impermanence—biological, emotional, and spiritual.
"'Nothing Is Stationary' is absolutely the right title for this book, so full of unexpected shifts, changes, and new terrain. Sometimes a poet has the gift of being able to write poems that feel as if they are about everything at once. Such poems seem, effortlessly, to be open to the whole world, to its tragedies and its loves, its moments of inspiration and defeat. The poet who writes them is often standing at a juncture of some kind, a crossroads. She is in a liminal state, reaching across boundaries, finding links where none seemed to exist before. Joanne Esser is such a poet in 'Nothing Is Stationary.' She writes in the book's first poem, ‘Was I born in awe?’ The answer is clearly, yes.” -- Jim Moore, author of "Enter: Poems"
$18, paperback. Available at your local indie bookstore, BookShop.com, and www.holycowpress.org
Please join us for a publication reading tonight at Magers & Quinn Booksellers (Minneapolis), 7 p.m. and also at Content Bookstore (Northfield), June 11th, 7 p.m.
