J. R. Thelin has a new chapbook of poems, Spin: Tales from the Diamond, forthcoming from Slipstream Press in August 2025. Sara Henning, author of Burn and View from True North, notes that “Hot dogs, Wrigley Field, pizza boxes as makeshift home plates: in Thelín’s Midwest, baseball serves as a miraculous anchor for navigating the realities of coming of age: chickenpox, tornadoes, schoolyard bullies, a boyhood left behind….” Spin is currently available at a discounted pre-order price at the following link: Purchase Spin
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