Mihaela Moscaliuc returns to Alice James Books with Heartmoor
Photo by Valentin Moscaliuc
Alice James Books welcomes back poet Mihaela Moscaliuc for her collection, Heartmoor.
Mihaela Moscaliuc's second AJB poetry collection, Heartmoor is forthcoming from Alice James Books in August 2026. Welcome home, Mihaela!
On Heartmoor, Alice James Executive Director and Publisher Carey Salerno says: “"These poems are so alive and bright with living even as they are comfortable with the darker sight-lines of life. They're abundant and communicate gratitude in their abundance of elements (objects, music, sound), everything that comes into them is purposeful. The sound work is carefully calibrated, pleasurable, and sumptuous.
They ask us, What do we want from memory? When we interact with it, when we seek it, what are we hoping we will feel? Are we hoping it will change us? Transport us? Make us see our past or present or future anew?
They meditate on resilience, nostalgia, displacement, hope, and cruelty (as a pervasive aspect of human existence, which prompts reflection on its consequences and our potential for empathy and compassion to counteract it.)
Over and again, they remind us of the power of touch, of connection, between ourselves and others, and how this is what we can call home– where we can actually moor our hearts. And, too, the tenderness of our rituals, our acts of kindness and intimacy with each other, are the acts of mooring the heart regardless of whatever country it is we call home.”
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Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Heartmoor (forthcoming, Alice James Books), Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), editor of Insane Devotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Michael Waters) of Fruits of the Earth (Knopf, forthcoming) and Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). In 2023, the Ecuadorian press El Ángel published a collection of her poems in Spanish (Algunos poemas fugitivos) in the translation of Frances Simán. She has published scholarship in the field of Romani Studies, on issues of representation, appropriation, exophony and code-switching, and on the works of Kimiko Hahn, Agha Shahid Ali, and Colum McCann.
Moscaliuc has received two Glenna Luschei Awards from Prairie Schooner, a 2024 Pushcart prize, residency fellowships from The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, MacDowell, Rockvale Writers' Colony, and Le Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland), Dairy Hollow, two Individual Artist Fellowships from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts, and a Fulbright fellowship to Romania. She is graduate program director and professor of English at Monmouth University (New Jersey) and translation editor for Plume.
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