STILLS
An anthology of poetry on films

Description

Available for pre-order, early-bird shipping beginning in November. Official launch date December 12, 2025.

“STILLS conjures the profoundly communal experience of the dark theater–bodies in proximity, voices hushed . . . in the glow of this book, we are multiplied” (Stefania Heim, from her Preface.)

Ravenna Press and CASCADIA International Women’s Film Festival, in a unique collaboration, asked poets to create new works – poems, prose poems, short poetic essays, or other art – in response to the films shown at the 2025 Festival. STILLS is dazzling testimony to the power of film to inspire and transform, and indeed to the very wonder – on screen or on page – of art-making. (Sati Mookherjee, from the back cover)

Preface by Stefania Heim

Contributors: Jeff Alessandrelli, Luther Allen, Michelle Ballou, Greg Bem, Deepa Bhandaru, Kipling Bose, Jennifer Bullis, Gregory K. Cole, Julie Gard, Soramini Hanarejima, Nikhil Kiran Harle, Tobey Hiller, Rachel Karyo, J. I. Kleinberg, Jeanne Morel, Jed Myers, Arlene Naganawa, Arlene Plevin, Kathryn Rantala, Bethany Reid, Ann Reinhart, Ann Spiers, Joannie Stangeland, Mark Stroschein, Ann Taylor, Ashley Varela