Padding Loamy on a Brew of Earth, by Tori Grant Welhouse

Poetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from Bottlecap Features. Padding Loamy on a Brew of Earth is a lyrical reckoning with identity, displacement, and the quiet negotiations of love. In this intimate chapbook, the poet reflects on her time as a young MFA student in London, where an unlikely romance led to an elopement and a new life in a remote Scottish village on the edge of the North Sea. These poems confront the alienation of being foreign and the complexities of forging connection across difference. With language as rich and textured as the soil beneath her feet, the poet invites readers into a world where love and identity are tilled, turned, and tenderly unearthed. Tori Grant Welhouse is a poet and novelist from the Midwest. She has received a Best of the Net nomination for poetry and is an active volunteer for Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets. Her previously published poetry chapbooks are Vaginas Need Air (Etchings Press) and Canned (Finishing Line Press), and she is also the author of a YA fantasy novel The Fergus (Skyrocket Press). Learn more at www.torigrantwelhouse.com.