My Out-Migrations

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My Out-Migrations

Poems by Elaine Fowler Palencia

ISBN: 978-1-963695-82-3 paperback $19.95
ISBN: 978-1-963695-83-0 ebook $9.99
April 20, 2027

Praise for Elaine Fowler Palencia’s My Out-Migrations

Heart-split, reckoning with “an unforgiving religion,” still seeking “connection when / everything is and always has been / on the move,” Elaine Fowler Palencia’s poems are high lonesome longings… but there’s a grit to them, too…—Jeff Hardin, author of A Clearing Space in the Middle of Being and Watermark and judge of the 2025 Arthur Smith Poetry Prize

Palencia has tightly honed the skill of listening, which has become her superpower. Believe me when I say, she has the ability to make all she hears stand at attention and sing across the page.—Kari Gunter-Seymour, Ohio Poet Laureate 2020-2026, author of All That Teethes Within

This collection of Palencia’s represents a segment of an extensive opus, including essay and narrative, which should be better known. Its breadth of judgment and its profundity of insight need it; its human and artistic richness merits it.—María Auxiliadora Álvarez, author of Un sol caída avanza, National Poetry Series’ 2024 Paz Prize

Elaine Fowler Palencia’s enviable dexterities as storyteller and lyricist merge in this new collection of poems that deftly leads us through her family’s migration history… My Out-Migrations is a feat and a feast for the senses. These poems quaver with startling imagery, sensitive music, and stories and lore not soon forgotten.—Marianne Worthington, author of Water. Witness. Word.

Elaine Fowler Palencia grew up in Morehead, Kentucky, and Cookeville, Tennessee. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Vanderbilt University, she is the author of six books of fiction, including two collections of Appalachian short fiction (Small Caucasian Woman and Brier Country), and four poetry chapbooks. Her nonfiction includes The Literary Heritage of Hindman Settlement School and On Rising Ground: The Life and Civil War Letters of John M. Douthit, 52^nd Georgia Volunteer Infantry Regiment. She is the book review editor of Pegasus, journal of the Kentucky State Poetry Society, and moderator of the Red Herring Prose Workshop, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois.