A Gorgeous Debut Collection!

celebrate with a poem of your own

We’re delighted to announce Every Day Poems permissions editor Rick Maxson’s debut collection Under the Pearl Moon!

Maxson is a master of imagery and words—both in the memoir sections and the poetry that follows each memoir glimpse. Some of our favorite lines from the poems…

each memory a wound,
each leaf that fell, a touch

—from Fortress

Nevertheless, I am here
in a white glow, an ordinary night,
with these fragments, fragile as glass,
and I think, why do I write your poem
over and over

—from Kiln

I circled in a wind from somewhere
and I was all the noises no one silenced,
open like the hope in suffering,
open like a bell in gray light.

—from Where I Went

Sometimes there is a small door
in the distance of a memory,
a slice through the riddle of time.

—from You Know This Story

We are like two shells found
along the sand, pearl colored
open twists, winsomely turned
inside, where we have listened
to each others’ ocean calling.

—from On Treasure Island

We hope you check out the collection. And we also invite you to pen a pearls & moons poem in celebration!