poems & essay by LISA BAIRD
Sept 2024
32 pp., thread bound, 5.25"x 8.25"
ISBN # 978-1-928066-99-6
in an edition of 90 numbered copies
cover of St. Armand Canal paper
flyleaf of Thai Mango Kozo paper

edited by: Jeanann Verlee

Persephone’s Crickets is a series of poems (with a concluding essay) in conversation with the Persephone myth, upending the traditional narrative to imagine increased agency for Persephone in the face of this much-told tale of abduction and captivity.

Lisa Baird is a writer and community acupuncturist. Her first poetry collection, Winter’s Cold Girls, was shortlisted for the 2020 Relit Award for poetry. Her second full-length poetry collection, When Whales Went Back to the Water, is forthcoming from University of Alberta Press in 2025. Find her at www.lisabaird.ca.