Morning Palace, by Andrew K. Peterson

Poetry, chapbook, 32 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Morning Palace continues Andrew K. Peterson’s poetic practice of attending to daily life through a fusion of meditative attention and experimental verve. These discrete-yet-connected poems drift together – moving through nature, memory, and city pop life – with a felt sense of impermanence and spontaneity, and a quiet bow toward New American and Zen-influenced poetics. Combining new poems that read as daybook snapshots with collages drawn from the poet’s notebooks of two decades ago, Morning Palace opens a welcoming space for dialogue between the perceived moment and memory’s archive: “everything remains / still , still . everything / the skull of straw blown open.” Andrew K. Peterson is the author of seven full-length poetry books and several chapbooks, most recently The Infinite Surround (Submersible Press, 2026) and Young Stars of the Bubble (Carbonation Press, 2025). A chapbook bonjour meriwether and the rabid maps (Fact-Simile Press, 2011) was featured in an exhibition on poets’ maps at the University of Arizona’s Poetry Center. In 2017, he was a co-organizer of the Boston Poetry Marathon. A co-founding editor of the literary journal summer stock, he lives just outside Boston.