My chapbook of poems, Casting Seeds, is officially out! You can snag a copy of it here. I’m excited to share this little book with the world because it celebrates the way my grandma empowered me when I was a little LGBTQ+ kid, not knowing his way in the world (at least, not yet). Thank you all for supporting me along this journey, and I hope you enjoy these poems! Below are some promotional images and some live performances featuring work from this collection.
My upcoming chapbook of poems, Casting Seeds, will be released on November 15, 2022. I’m excited to share this small collection with the world because it’s some of my most personal work yet. Here is the back cover synopsis:
In his first chapbook collection of poems, Donny Winter takes readers back to his childhood growing up in rural Northern Michigan. Written entirely in the Japanese tanka form, these poems invite readers to join him at the kitchen table with his Grandma Winter to enjoy a cup of tea and watch the natural world. Casting Seeds acts as a love letter to his grandmother, her house, and his family’s property – all of which still bearing the warmth of childhood memory. Through these poems, Winter seeks to cast for others the same seeds his grandmother planted in him – a knowledge that we linger in the spaces we inhabit, leave imprints of ourselves for others to harvest, and possess the power to rebuild ourselves into beings free from our childhood bullies.
I’ll be sharing more news as the week advances. In the meantime, check out the cover art, video introduction, and performance of my new poem, “The Apples are Ripening.”
Donny Winter 