Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Middle-America's most engaging authors since 1998.
Kristofer Collins is the books editor at Pittsburgh Magazine. He is the co-host of the long-running Hemingway’s Summer Poetry Series. He lives in Pittsburgh, PA with his wife and their two children.
Published: 2025
The Vesper Room's preponderance of great poems is dizzying, lyrics simultaneously hard-boiled and lush, hard-earned and beautiful. These are goddamn great poems. I loved this collection.
~Ed Simon, editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books and Rust Belt Magazine
Like jukebox music spilling from a doorway, this collection widens to fill the street. These poems appear offhand, but they go deep.
~Richard St. John