The threat of gay violence hovers menacingly over the poems in Ken Pobo’s Lavender Stones, like “young men with baseball caps // and t-shirts who watch / and wait.” Just when we think homophobia is a thing of the past, Pobo reminds us, not so fast. And yet, defiant, his “gay songs go out, the page a deepening lavender.”
—Charles Rammelkamp, author of The Trapeze of Your Flesh
Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press) and Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers). His work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.
The threat of gay violence hovers menacingly over the poems in Ken Pobo’s Lavender Stones, like “young men with baseball caps // and t-shirts who watch / and wait.” Just when we think homophobia is a thing of the past, Pobo reminds us, not so fast. And yet, defiant, his “gay songs go out, the page a deepening lavender.”
—Charles Rammelkamp, author of The Trapeze of Your Flesh
Kenneth Pobo (he/him) is the author of twenty-one chapbooks and nine full-length collections. Recent books include Bend of Quiet (Blue Light Press) and Loplop in a Red City (Circling Rivers). His work has appeared in Asheville Poetry Review, North Dakota Quarterly, Amsterdam Quarterly, Nimrod, Mudfish, Hawaii Review, and elsewhere.
Title: Lavender Stones
Author: Kenneth Pobo
Publisher: Rockwood Press
Released: 2026 - January
Format: chapbook, acid-free paper, silk cover
Pages: 38
Price: $10
ISBN: 978-1-59498-206-4
