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A Thousand Flames by Corey S. Pressman

Published by Verdant Publishing

Book Overview

Title: A Thousand Flames
Author: Corey S. Pressman
Genre: Poetry
Format: Paperback, 86 pages
ISBN: 979-8-9993864-5-8
Publisher: Verdant Publishing
Publication Date: November 3, 2026
Library of Congress Control Number: 2026947146
Price: $16.99

In A Thousand Flames, Corey S. Pressman spends a lifetime looking closely at hillsides, at rivers, at the small unremarkable moments that turn out to hold everything. The collection's twelve sections move through longing, water, love, and the ordinary made luminous, each poem built from the kind of specific, sensory detail that only comes from years of paying attention.

The poems range widely in setting, from a Mill Valley hilltop to the Neolithic Çatalhöyük, but they share a single instinct: to stop, notice, and stay a little longer than most of us do. Pressman is a visual artist as well as a poet, and that eye is everywhere in this book, precise and patient and unwilling to look away from anything, even the things that are hard to hold onto.

Short Description

Corey S. Pressman's debut collection, A Thousand Flames, offers poems of secular devotion, where a bird feeder can stand as the axis mundi and the bees have a god of their own. Across twelve sections, they travel from a Rockland County childhood to a hilltop in the fog, and as far back as the rooftops of Neolithic Çatalhöyük. Each poem asks you to slow down and stay a little longer than expected.

About the Author

Corey S. Pressman is an artist, writer, and teacher living in the Pacific Northwest. His poems, essays, academic works, and stories have appeared in journals, magazines, and bound collections including Orion Magazine, Gastronomica, Santa Clara Review, Critical Public Health, and the Anthropology and Humanism journal. His visual art practice centers on abstract works made with natural powdered pigments, paper, and handmade wax medium. Pressman's teaching often explores the relationship between art, attention, imagination, and wellbeing. He is faculty at the University of Portland and has led creative workshops at the Sitka Center for Art and Ecology and Esalen Institute.

Learn more at coreypressman.com

A Thousand Flames is his debut poetry collection.

Praise

"Corey Pressman is a magical human - magical art, magical writing. His finely made poems are bells of vision and clarity to help us 'stay the same changing.'" - Naomi Shihab Nye

In this fraught world, Corey S. Pressman’s ecstatic work stands ready to delight us, move us, bless us. His luminous poems beseech each of us to “shine beside the other.” They take us to where “the music comes at last / from all around.” Paulann Petersen Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita

Key Themes & Topics

  • Longing and memory

  • Rivers, water, and the natural world

  • Love and connection

  • The beauty of ordinary, overlooked moments

  • Attention and presence

  • The sacred in everyday life

Media Assets

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Ordering info for bookstores

Available to the trade through Ingram; consignment available directly through Verdant Publishing

Events & Appearances

  • Book Launch Event: Saturday, Nov. 7, 2026, 6:00 pm, Up Up Books, 1452 NE 28th Ave, Portland, Oregon 97232-1717

  • Readings & Signing: Feb 3, 2027, 6pm - Broadway Books, Portland , OR

Links

Press Contact

Verdant Publishing
Attn: Shannon Amidon
info@verdancyproject.com www.verdancyproject.com/verdant-publishing