So grateful to Hollay Ghadery for the wonderfully inspiring, energizing and generous conversation about Mega-Galaxies, my poetry chapbook out 6/30 from @DriftwoodPress

“Elizabeth J. Coleman’s Mega-Galaxies works out a juxtaposition between the cycle of everyday life and the broader forces of our universe, and when we decide to embrace them, their life force becomes a part of our emotional spirit.”

It was so gratifying to respond to Alexis Olafsson’s wonderfully thoughtful questions in this interview on AsterismBooks about my chapbook Mega-Galaxies.

Out today from Driftwood Press: Mega-Galaxies, with so much gratitude to everyone at Driftwood Press for their kindness and hard work, and to Matthew Olzmann for choosing Mega-Galaxies for the 2025 Adrift Poetry Chapbook Prize.

I’m grateful to Kristi Schoonover and 34 Orchard, which has published “The Bath” in the Spring 2026 Issue 13 (page 54). The issue is featured in CLMP’s April 2026 roundup of member magazines.

I am very grateful to Berkeley Poetry Review for including “A Vacancy in the Cosmos” in their splendid journal, Issue 55. The poem can be read online on page 24. Berkeley Poetry Review Issue 55 is now available. It features work that complicates prevailing conceptions of the world and poetic form itself. You can purchase physical from their website.

My chapbook Mega-Galaxies, chosen by poet Matthew Olzmann as winner of the 2025 Adrift Poetry Chapbook Award, is forthcoming on June 30th, 2026, and preorders have begun. I am profoundly honored such a wonderful poet chose my book. I am so grateful to Driftwood Press for their brilliant, generous work.