Roadside Press is proud to announce Collected Poems: 2005–2025 by Michele McDannold, releasing December 6, 2025—on the poet’s 51st birthday. This 300-page collection gathers two decades of McDannold’s poetry, including complete sections from Stealing the Midnight from a Handful of Days and By Plane, Train or Coincidence, along with nearly seventy-five pages of previously uncollected work.
McDannold, founder and editor of Roadside Press, has built her career documenting the grit, humor, and heartbreak of working-class and outsider life. Her poems are unflinching dispatches from the margins—raw, reflective, and full of fight. Collected Poems isn’t just a book; it’s a testament to survival, the poetry that comes out of busted knuckles, road miles, and the long haul toward meaning.
“No one tells you exactly how it is like McDannold. The poems are relatable, soul-crushing, painfully honest… There is love in here—sometimes sweet, but mostly jaded. It is a collection to keep by the bedside.”
—Aleathia Drehmer, author of Little Graveyards
“McDannold sees clearly into a broken world, crafting words that cut to the bone, exposing raw beauty and pain while offering needed truth for lost and aching souls.”
—Steven Meloan, author of St. James Infirmary
With poems that move between motel rooms, small towns, internet wastelands, and the backroads of America, Collected Poems: 2005–2025 reads like a survival map scratched out in truth and gasoline.
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