So, Stranger Books > Button Books Their work does not apologize

Their work does not apologize for existing at the intersections

– Edgar Kunz

Winner of the 2022 Button Poetry Chapbook Contest

The poems range from close examination of the deeply personal to the vastness of the world

Francisco's I'll Fly Away is staged by a series of invented words which he then strives to define and put into context

So, Stranger Books > Button Books Their work does not apologizeTopaz Winters, 2022 Topaz Winters' third poetry collection spans three countries & three generations. In a far reaching & deftly woven series of ars poeticas, Winters questions the boundary between the things we inherit & those we owe, stands at the grave of the American dream, & unspools the enormous grace & guilt of being loved. So, Stranger stands as a fixed mark between the shifting histories & futures of being a daughter, being an artist, & being