It’s here! My most recent chapbook is Sky Leaning Toward Winter, published by Moon Tide Press. I want to thank Moon Tide editor/publisher Eric Morago, who also published another chapbook of mine, Dead Letter Box, as well as my full-length collection, The Knife Throwers’ Daughter. Thank you, Eric, for your poetic insights, for putting these books into the world, and for all that you do for the poetry community.

Sky Leaning Toward Winter is both a bitter pill and the first lick of ice cream on a summer’s day. In this slender volume, Niccum interweaves poems that chronicle life in its blunt-edged harshness with those that capture moments when we unexpectedly bump into beauty and grace. This is verse from an author seeking to embrace the allness of life, along with its inevitable ending, on her own terms and without the atlas of an afterlife.

Here’s what Gustavo Hernandez, Orange County Poet Laureate and author of Flower Grand First , says about my latest book.

I have loved Terri Niccum’s poems since I first heard her read them. Her poetic voice is one that immediately made me take notice. One that I now find unmistakable. The brilliantly constructed poems in Sky Leaning Toward Winter often deal with imposing, difficult subjects, but what shines through them—what we all want to shine through subjects like these—is what I have come to adore about Niccum’s work: that voice, that warm voice that intelligently speaks of truth and hope.

Here’s a link to check it out and to explore other Moon Tide Press offerings.
https://www.moontidepress.com/books

Of course, all three of my books mentioned above may be purchased from Amazon.com However, I would prefer the proceeds benefit a very distinctive small press whose publisher strives to promote and nurture Southern California poets.