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Held Ground

A memoir of restraint, love, frailty, and the ordinary sacred.

Held Ground is a memoir in essays about restraint, love, frailty, and the sacredness of ordinary life. Drawing on an Appalachian childhood, military service, fatherhood, marriage, loss, and grief, Rob Wyatt examines the forces that shape a man and the choices that determine what he passes on. Through reflections on war, domestic life, heartbreak, faith, and personal failure, he asks what deserves fidelity, what must be carried, and what should be prevented from reaching the people we love.

Published · 08/27/2026

I Only Wanted to Be Your Flower

Poems on Hunger, Devotion, Rupture, and Becoming

by Natalie Merrit

I Only Wanted to Be Your Flower is a collection of poems and prose about desire, attachment, identity, and what love leaves behind. Moving through Hunger, Devotion, Rupture, and Becoming, Natalie Merrit writes from inside the contradictions of intimacy: tenderness and violence, longing and self-preservation, sexuality and grief. Through intimate, sensual, and unsparing language, the collection follows the difficult work of carrying loss and reconstructing a self from what remains.