Korrektiv Press

04/07/2025

New from Korrektiv Press: The Sweet Spot in the Chaos by Jonathan Potter (https://a.co/d/fwpGaih)

04/07/2025

New from Korrektiv Press: Prismatic Shadows by Mike Speriosu (https://www.speriosu.com)

08/06/2025

The Sweet Spot in the Chaos coming soon!

The Sweet Spot in the Chaos is one of the finest collections of poetry that I've read for many years. At 700 pages, it is truly breathtaking in its ability to make so many sublimely well-crafted poems seem natural, effortless, and totally relatable. This is the real thing—that rare poetic gem that comes along only once in decades.

—Martin Mc Carthy, author of The Perfect Voice

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These poems, equally grounded in the I Ching and the Jungian chthonic, are meditations that “cast strange shadows” imbued with "the cusp of morning."

—X. P. Callahan, author of Black Shirt Emblazoned and Mortal Sugar: Poems in the Key of Lotería

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In his latest collection of poems, The Sweet Spot in the Chaos, Jonathan Potter shows the patience and perseverance of an archeologist. Using the schemes of poetry and dreams both anxious and arcadian, he uncovers more treasure than you’re likely to find in any other book this year.

—Brian Jobe, author of Bird’s Nest in Your Hair and Words of the Day

31/05/2025

In The Sweet Spot in the Chaos, poet Jonathan Potter offers a deeply meditative collection of poems rooted in the rhythms of the I Ching, the ancient Chinese Book of Changes. Spanning nearly 700 pages and organized into 64 sections corresponding to the I Ching's hexagrams, this expansive work moves through dream, memory, sunrise, and transformation with lyrical insight and spiritual clarity.

Drawing on daily reflections, vivid dreams, and moments of quiet revelation, Potter weaves personal experience with universal archetype. From airports and riverbanks to gardens, back streets, and bedsides, his poems are grounded in the textures of lived life—yet always listening for what lies beneath the surface.

At the heart of the book is a paradox: how to find stillness amid motion, light within darkness, wholeness in a fractured world. Whether invoking the comic absurdities of modern life or the ancient cadence of ritual dawns, The Sweet Spot in the Chaos is a sustained meditation on renewal, presence, and poetic becoming.

A companion for readers of Wallace Stevens, Mary Oliver, and the Tao Te Ching, this is a book to live with—not just read once, but return to again and again, hexagram by hexagram, season by season.

Coming in June from Korrektiv Press

09/09/2024

New and superb poem from Mark Anderson

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16/08/2024

New streamlined Korrektiv Press website:

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13/02/2024

Channeling Mary Oliver

I felt I was channeling Mary Oliver a little this morning.

09/10/2023

Columbia Park, Kennewick

06/10/2023

Korrektiv Press poet Chris Cook does another supercool yo yo video -- this time with special (spelling) effects!

21/09/2023

Poetry in process by Jonathan Potter. Click to read Potter Poems, by Jonathan Potter, a Substack publication. Launched 7 months ago.