Wheeling Tern is proud to present our newest book, Peaks Season: A Summer of Haiku (2024), by Sarah Cuetara, Stacey Kors, and Annie O’Brien.

Available now, alongside our inaugural publication, Guest People (2022), by Lisa Usani Phillips, at:
https://www.etsy.com/shop/WheelingTernBooks

Peaks Season is also at Print books and Casco Bay Artisans, Portland, ME.

Want a preview?  Three haiku each from our three authors appear in February 2024’s special ‘storm issue’ of Peaks Island News.

Who We Are
Frankie Wright, publisher. Newton, Massachusetts
Sarah Goodman Cuetara, publisher. Peaks Island, Maine
Lisa Usani Phillips, Poet Laureate, Amesbury, Massachusetts
Julia Goodman, graphic designer. Arlington, Massachusetts 
Julie Phillips Brown, graphic designer; editor. Lexington, Virgina 
Holly Hartman, copyeditor. Brookline, Massachusetts
wheelingtern@gmail.com | 244 Austin St., Newton, MA 02465
cover of Peaks Season with landscape painting

About Guest People
Poems of refuge. The power of names and secrets. In Guest People, Lisa Usani Phillips unpacks a weathered family trunk to examine intersections of privilege and oppression, and to find solace in the face of alienation and loss.

Lisa Usani Phillips’s work has appeared in or is forthcoming from The Beacon Street Review, Current Biography, House Mountain Review, riksha: Asian American Notes and Images, and Salt Magazine, among others. She has received several honors for her writing, including the Emerson College Emerging Writer Award for MFA students. Guest People (Wheeling Tern, 2022) is her first book.

Praise for Guest People

“Guest People is a dazzling book of love, scattering and gathering across generations and continents. Phillips takes us from Market Basket to Bangkok to the air.” —Peter Jay Shippy, author of Kaputniks (Saturnalia Books) and Thieves’ Latin (#IowaPoetryPrize)

“In an age of heightening national borders, the poems, stories, and photographs in this slim but generous book open doors— to memory, to survival, and above all, to love.” —Catherine Gander, coauthor of Sea Between Us and author of Matches

“Guest People is both an ache and a balm. Physical losses— shelter, possessions, even hair—are accompanied by racism’s intangible costs, which Phillips illuminates with care and precision." —Carolyn Oliver, author of Inside the Storm I Want to Touch the Tremble (#AghaShahidAliPrize in Poetry)