Winner of the 2026 Choeofpleirn Press Chapbook Contest
The Sky Is Always Finishing
Bradley Samore beholds the world with a tender clarity that bears witness to all things in their singular aliveness. Elegiac and deeply moving, The Sky is Always Finishing pays tribute to family, boyhood, moonlight, music, and the losses that make us who we are. Like the great haiku poets, Samore grasps the intertwining of the ephemeral and the eternal; he utilizes, intuitively, the poem as a portal to a time when each beloved was alive and guiding him into who he was—and is—becoming. And so, life continues. And we discover, within Samore’s lyrical memory-scapes, something “more durable than dying." This collection is a marvel to behold—a gift and a balm for all who know grief’s shaking.
— Brynn Saito, author of Under a Future Sky (Red Hen Press, 2023) and winner of the Benjamin Saltman Award
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