Hit or Miss Yields
“This chapbook reads like a gratitude journal made extraordinary by the speaker’s exacting gaze. The rich wonder of the prairie readers fever pitch in each poem’s music. Written in the proud tradition of Great Plains poets like Ted Kooser and Lee Ann Roripaugh, these poems lift from the page into miracle.”
- Sara Henning, author of View From True North and Terra Incognita
Limes and Compromise
“Part botanist, part meteorologist, part zoologist, Erika Saunders offers visions of domestic life through an ever-shifting kaleidoscope of turtles, poppies, mangoes, cypress, and hippopotamus. We follow the arc of desire from “fields swathed / in burnt sunshine” to a more mature love where “dreams drift / around us like new-/born dogwood /blossoms, shaken / loose.” Saunders hooks her pinky finger in the surreal and spins her imagination, landing with “arms at a crossroad of bones.” You’ll savor the sensuous play in Limes and Compromise Read it now.
- Christine Stewart-Nunez, Author of Untrussed and Bluewords Greening
Erika Saunders
Erika Saunders grew up between her home in California and her grandparent’s farm in Indiana. She holds a degree in education from the University of Kentucky, and currently works as a quality assurance specialist in the aerospace industry. She resides in South Dakota with her husband, three children, two dogs, and a cat. Much of her work is inspired by nature and exploring human relationships as they map across the landscape. She is the author of Limes and Compromise (Finishing Line Press, 2019) and her poetry has been included in Cholla Needles, Watershed, The Red Wheelbarrow, Noble Gas Quarterly, Pasque Petals, Prairie Winds, South Dakota Magazine and Oakwood Literary Magazine which awarded her the 2017 Anita Bahr Award for Outstanding Contributor.