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New Release

Gathering the Pieces of Days
(2025)

Gathering the Pieces of Days is a collection of 52 poems—one for each week of the year—born from a daily ritual begun by LeeAnn Pickrell in 2018. Committing to a page each morning about the previous day, she captured life's details in real-time, later condensing each week into a page of reflections. The following year, Pickrell transformed these 52 weeks of thoughts into poetry, blending free verse, prose poetry, contrapuntals, and list poems. This book emerged as a year of life expressed through poetry—messy, frustrating, joyful, and bittersweet.

 

In these poems, no subject is too small or too grand. Pickrell reminds us to savor everything: the morning coffee, a baseball game, the warmth of a loved one beside us, a cat curled at the foot of the bed, dreaded work, and cherished moments with friends. Her poems span mundane moments and profound emotions, inviting us to notice each fleeting day. Gathering the Pieces of Days celebrates the extraordinary hidden within the ordinary, from laughter and love to loss and longing, and the dreams that carry us forward.

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Punctuated

LeeAnn Pickrell’s love affair with punctuation began in a tenth-grade English class.

 

Punctuated is a playful book of punctuation poems inspired by her years as an editor. Frustrated by the misuse of the semicolon, she wrote a poem to illustrate its correct use. From there she realized the other marks of punctuation had troubled her as well.

 

In art and photography, images reflect emotions and ideas. These poems explore the idea of a poem as an image.
Each poem in this collection is not only about the mark of punctuation; it also looks like the mark of punctuation, so a period looks like a period, a question mark like a question mark. 

 

The poems explore the function of the particular mark of punctuation and its metaphorical and visual representation out in the world. Punctuation, or the lack of in poetry, is as essential as the words on the page. This chapbook is her peon to punctuation.

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Reviews for
Punctuated

Review by Cathryn Shea, author of Ghost Matinee from Unsolicited Press

 

“LeeAnn Pickrell proves she’s more than a punctuation maven in her chapbook, Punctuated, with her inimitable interpretations of the ubiquitous marks. In shape poems brimming with startling connections, she enchants us with epiphanies packed into such little space.”

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Reviews from
Readers

“Wicked smart!”

 

“What a whimsical, delightful book … I will never think of those once invisible, inaudible commas, semicolons, and especially dashes in the same way again!”

 

“What a treat!  I’ve read it through several times, each time discovering something new and extraordinary. So instructive, interesting, clever, perceptive, humorous and profound!  Wow!  A gift to us all! Clever, enlightening, fun—what else could one want?”

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© 2025 LeeAnn Pickrell

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