Lynn Aprill

Available APRIL 15, 2025

Aging in Place Poetry Chapbook to be Published by Water's Edge Press

Cleaning, I find us fresh-faced
in Polaroids, posing tough
with cigarettes and cups of PBR,
arms looped casually over necks,
middle fingers aloft. We dared
the lens to capture us any other way.
From "Fearless" Aging in Place

Water's Edge Press has announced the forthcoming publication of Lynn Aprill's Aging in Place, one of the inaugural titles within in its new Calliope Chapbook Series for poetry.

Named for the Greek muse of epic poetry, the Calliope Chapbook Series is being produced in partnership between Lakeland University and Water's Edge Press. Led by Professor Madeleine Wattenberg of Lakeland University and Dawn Hogue, Editor at Water's Edge Press, the collaboration is involving Lakeland University students in the publication and marketing process for the three Calliope titles that will be released this spring. Other titles in the collection include Freesia McKee's City of Honesty, and Megan Muthupandiyan's Human Geographies.

In Aging in Place, Lynn channels the Baby Boomers--the sixty-year-olds from the Sixties facing retirement and missing friends, while providing support to their aging parents. Sometimes humorous and irreverent, sometimes poignant, Aging in Place showcases a variety of poetic forms and styles as the poems grapple with "all the things we didn't know" about older adulting--menopause, memory loss, and unwinnable arguments with insurance companies. But there is joy to be found as well and the opportunity to treasure every good day.

The launch for the series is scheduled for April 26, 2025. More information on the event and the books in the series will be forthcoming from Water's Edge in the coming weeks.

Lynn Aprill is an award-winning poet and retired educator whose work has appeared in Creative Wisconsin, Sky Island Journal, Copperfield Review Quarterly, Quartet Journal, Willows Wept Review, Ekphrastic Review and others. She is currently an MFA candidate with an emphasis in poetry at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, MO. Channeling Matriarchs, her first chapbook with Finishing Line Press, was published in August 2021, and her second chapbook, Aging in Place, will be published by Water’s Edge Press in April 2025. She resides with her husband and various dogs on 40 acres in Northeast Wisconsin.