Published by Grand River Poetry Collective in Grand Rapids, Michigan, There is Room in a Horse for the Whole Boy has been awarded the 2026 Micro Publisher prize by Eric Hoffer Book Awards.

They say: There is Room in a Horse for the Whole Boy is a lyrical and deeply affecting collection by Barbara Saunier that explores the sacred interstices between human and animal, memory and body, grief and grace. With a voice at once tender and unflinching, these poems move through barns and bedrooms, fields and family kitchens, tracing the invisible threads that tether us to the earth and to each other.

Available through www.grandriverpoetrycollective.com.

88pp. $15, plus s/h.

Digital picture of Paul Gauguin’s Etude de Nu (Suzanne Sewing)