Wayfarer Books / Since 2011. Poetry that speak the language of the earth. We celebrate storytellers—cryptic, floral, crepuscular, queer-at-heart—who inspire agency. Makers of Wayfarer Magazine. #Substack #Transowned wayfarerbooks.org / wayfarermagazine.comhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mjllszwy3k23Available now: WAKING UP AT REMBRANDT’S by Thomas Qualls. Maggie is a discouraged lawyer, Dillon, a heartbroken vagabond, and Phillip, a frustrated writer. Their stories are told by the mysterious Jillian, part purveyor of spirits and part spiritual guru. 📖 Order it now at wayfarerbookstore.com16 Apr 2026 04:41 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjllszwy3k23https://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mj5trwxy222rNew on Substack: ‘lamentations’, a poem about grief and faith by Wayfarer author Matthew E. Henry. You can read it for free (no paywalls!) at www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/lamentations!10 Apr 2026 17:26 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj5trwxy222rhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mitqfgmghk2rIt’s release day for PROMISES TO KEEP by Matthew Henry! This powerful book of poetry explores themes of faith, power, family, and belief. Order your copy now at wayfarerbookstore.com, or wherever books are sold! @mehpoeting.bsky.social06 Apr 2026 16:59 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mitqfgmghk2rhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3miicudwwac2zComposed during incarceration and grounded in the lived experience of a Black, queer author, Kashawn Taylor's book, SUBHUMAN, is a record of survival, reflection, and the quiet insistence on humanity. 📖 Available now: wayfarerbookstore.com02 Apr 2026 03:57 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3miicudwwac2zhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mi2i4lgby22d“I am cut short My bloodline snipped My life too brief For any memories The bomb blast wiped them clean My legs are stumps As stubby as this verse.” Read the rest Steve Babb’s powerful poem at www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/wcnsf. https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/wcnsf27 Mar 2026 15:54 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mi2i4lgby22dhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mhjlrtwxbs2pAn excerpt from Bett Butler’s "A Jazz Musician (she/her) at the Feminist Art Opening": “In this small space of concrete and brick, gallerygoers’ speech becomes noise. Reflections ricochet from stone, clatter and clamor, crunch and spit." Read the rest at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/a-jazz-musician-sheher-at-the-feminist!20 Mar 2026 22:45 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhjlrtwxbs2phttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mhevl2atu22zForthcoming this April from Wayfarer Books: WAKING UP AT REMBRANDT’S by Thomas Lloyd Qualls. 📖 Pre-order now: wayfarerbookstore.com19 Mar 2026 01:56 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhevl2atu22zhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mhcerzcczc25“I am still. His amber eyes – so full, soulful – trace each move I make. Am I the hunter with eyes in the front of my face?” Read Adelaide Gifford’s poem, “Like a Deer Caught in Headlights,” for free at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/like-a-deer-caught-in-headlights!18 Mar 2026 01:51 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mhcerzcczc25https://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mh5c4vmg4s2sAvailable now: GIFT OF LIFE by Thomas Keating offers a profound vision of hope, challenging cultural norms that see death as a tragedy and instead presenting death as a transformative process leading to deeper truth and renewal. 📖 Order at wayfarerbookstore.com16 Mar 2026 01:20 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mh5c4vmg4s2shttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mgw6ha4pfs2a“I would need to pay for all the beauty of the people, the music, the life, by also living with the ugliness: the military police, the poverty, and the helplessness. What I would do is what everyone else did. I would survive.” https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/a-gringa-in-rio13 Mar 2026 05:25 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgw6ha4pfs2ahttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mgtfkekbps22Available now: WHERE THE DEAD POETS SING by Michael Curran-Dorsano! “His poetic lens captures snapshots of us at our most essential, reaching for heaven while standing barefoot in clay.” - Thomas Lloyd Qualls, award-winning author of PAINTED OXEN 📖 Order it now: wayfarerbookstore.com12 Mar 2026 02:54 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgtfkekbps22https://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mgqf4vefls2d“The animals sense it more than we do. They have adapted & continue to adapt because of us & our hell-bent drive to bury the earth.” Read the rest of Mark Strohschein’s poem, “The Bandits are Coming,” at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/the-bandits-are-coming!10 Mar 2026 22:09 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgqf4vefls2dhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mgo7qbmjvs2mWith an honest and hopeful tone, Emilie Lygren grapples with the complexities of selfhood, power, and loss, offering insight on our intricate relationship with Earth’s ecosystems. 📖 Available now: wayfarerbookstore.com10 Mar 2026 01:27 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgo7qbmjvs2mhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mggpbeknuc2h“They stone stumble tender feet over earth. They are aimless tracks. They backtrack for more. More machines. More meals. More more. They forget what they’ve left, how to paw-pad the land, how to savor its billowed scent. Read the rest at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/when-coyote-sees-man!07 Mar 2026 01:44 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mggpbeknuc2hhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mgdsiq3qys2uForthcoming April 6th: PROMISES TO KEEP by Matthew E. Henry. This must-read poetry collection explores the fear and trembling and doubt required to have faith in ourselves, each other, and whatever forces may be guiding our steps. @mehpoeting.bsky.social 📖 Pre-order now: wayfarerbookstore.com05 Mar 2026 22:04 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgdsiq3qys2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mgbbubuj6s2yAnother great poem by Mark Kaplon is up at www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/waianapanapa! “Upon these ocean-cliffs which stagger in and out into the distance bursts of white mist leap against black rock lighting up the cliff-line..." https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/waianapanapa04 Mar 2026 22:00 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mgbbubuj6s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mg73xebt7223Forthcoming this April from Wayfarer Books: WAKING UP AT REMBRANDT’S by Thomas Lloyd Qualls. 📖 Pre-order now: wayfarerbookstore.com04 Mar 2026 01:10 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg73xebt7223https://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mg4p74loac2k“Velvet ballerina reposes in the sand. Flippers extend stiffly-strong toward east. Ribs gawk at the sky where lungs once pumped. Maroon puddles glisten, revealed skull points west.” Read the rest of “Beach Treasure” at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/beach-treasure!03 Mar 2026 02:16 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mg4p74loac2khttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mfupdjtqr22e“Dear E. A simple moment of real magic. A shooting star. A glimpse of a mountain lion in daylight.” Read the rest of Will Falk’s poem at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/letter-to-e-from-a-cloudless-uinta!27 Feb 2026 21:57 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfupdjtqr22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mfup7y6vu22eTheodore Richards’ newest book, WHAT HAPPENED TO ICARUS, is forthcoming this April from Wayfarer Books! 📖 Pre-order it today at wayfarerbookstore.com! @theocosmosophia.bsky.social27 Feb 2026 21:55 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfup7y6vu22ehttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mfpn5j72q22u“i wonder where i end up maybe i’m walking the coast i always claimed to hate holding the hands of people i love tossing wildflowers into the waves to see if they come back again” You can read the rest of Mae Fraser’s poem, “wildflowered”, at www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/wildflowered! https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/wildflowered25 Feb 2026 21:35 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpn5j72q22uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mfpn4i37os2uAvailable now from Wayfarer Books: WHERE THE DEAD POETS SING by Michael Curran-Dorsano! Order it from wayfarerbookstore.com.25 Feb 2026 21:34 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfpn4i37os2uhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mfkqtmxttc2y“You have always stood your ground, mouth like an automatic weapon, ripping through the preposterous bodies of arguments, counterfeit claims, more holes than substance.” Read the rest of Marya Summers’ powerful new poem, “Shooting from the Lip”, at https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/shooting-from-the-lip23 Feb 2026 22:57 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfkqtmxttc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mfd3rjp3222d“from a sunlit sea see mountaintop to mountaintop arising hear the crackle of rocks in the bright light that falls” Mark Kaplon's new poem, “Maui Nō Ka ‘Oi”, is up at www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/maui-no-ka-oi! https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/maui-no-ka-oi20 Feb 2026 21:52 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mfd3rjp3222dhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mf5wyecw6s2yForthcoming April 28th from Wayfarer Books: WHAT HAPPENED TO ICARUS by Theodore Richards (@theocosmosophia.bsky.social). 📖 Pre-order now: wayfarerbookstore.com18 Feb 2026 20:43 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf5wyecw6s2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/wayfarerbooks.bsky.social/post/3mf3xv4ykfc2l“I have broken off pieces of my life and dunked them in grape juice. I am soggy. I am an acquired taste, with a Master of Divinity degree that led not to the pulpit but to the animal shelter.” Angela Townsend’s essay is hot off the presses! https://www.wayfarermagazine.com/p/peace-be-with-you-by-angela-townsend18 Feb 2026 01:53 +0000at://did:plc:mogg553azvbikftwuz4zbaea/app.bsky.feed.post/3mf3xv4ykfc2l