Submissions
Please send a sample of poems (up to 10) from your manuscript, along with a bio, to editors at bluedgebooks@gmail.com.
Please join us May 16 , 2024, 5:30 MT/7:30 ET to celebrate Blue Edge Books’ publication of Thanks for Stopping By by Miriam Sagan. Miriam will read with Kay Cosgrove, author of Anybody Home? (Blue Edge Books, 2023).
“Every day I write is like living an extra day.” Miriam Sagan, author of Thanks for Stopping By, discusses how poetry and life experience each other with Blue Edge Books’ publisher, Kathleen Lee.
The poems in Kay Cosgrove’s first collection, Anybody Home? are shaped by curiosity—about herself, the world, and her place in it. Witty and elegantly restrained, they ask the question: How do we live the lives we’ve made for ourselves?
Blue Edge Books is excited to announce the book launch for Kay Cosgrove’s first book of poetry, Anybody Home? on Wednesday, August 23 at 7 PM at booked. in Chestnut Hill, PA.
Poetry, says Kay Cosgrove, “values the mundane. It is democratic. It is full of contradictions.” In an interview with Blue Edge Books, Cosgrove talks about poetry in America. “American poetry today shows its fingerprints. It is not presented as flawless…”
Blue Edge Books is very pleased to announce that On the Mercy Me Planet, by Maya Janson, is a Must Read Poetry book for the 2023 Massachusetts Book Awards.