Recent Poetry Books from Moonstone Press: Regina Dilgen, Wendell Hawken, Beth Konkoski, & Sophia Pinto Thomas

Sunday August 16, 2pm ET – VIRTUAL

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Regina’s new book is Back from the River, $11.00

Regina Dilgen was born in Brooklyn and grew up in Poughkeepsie, New York. She served as Professor of English and Department Chair at Palm Beach State College in Lake Worth, Florida, and she holds a Ph.D. from Florida Atlantic University.  Her poetry has been published  in Chameleon Chimera: An Anthology of Florida Poets, Poetry South, Blueline, redrosethorns,  Earth’s Daughters, Quartler(ly), The Dewdrop, Persimmon Tree, Passager,  and Apollo’s Lute. Regina attended the Breadloaf Writers Conference in Sicily, and she was a featured poet at a Performance Poets of the Palm Beaches reading.

Wendell’s new book is Slinky on the Bottom, $11.00

Wendell Hawken (she/her) earned her MFA from Warren Wilson College’s Program for Writers. Publications include four chapbooks and six full collections. Hawkens was named the inaugural Post Laureate of Millwood VA, an unincorporated quirky village in the northern Shenandoah Valley where she lives.

Beth’s new book is Hold Near the Middle, $11.00

Beth Konkoski is a writer and high school English teacher living in Virginia where she spends as much time as possible listening to the sounds of a pen across the page and water across rocks. Her poetry has been published in journals such as: The American Journal of Poetry, Mid-Atlantic Review, and The Potomac Review. She is the author of A Drawn & Papered Heart, a collection of short and flash fiction that won the 2023 Acacia Prize for Short Fiction and was published by Kallisto Gaia Press in 2024.

Sophia’s new book is Floodings, $11.00

Sophia Pinto Thomas is a poet from Boston, Massachusetts. She enjoys experimenting with the possibilities of rhyme, learning from thetrials of young adulthood, and observing the wonders of the natural world. Sophia is an eco-poet, world-maker, and eternal student. Her first poetry book, “Alchemies, Arrivals”, was published with QuillKeepers press in 2025.