CHRISTYMERRY
BOOK RELEASE - Sat, 3-5pm, 10/18/2025!
at Cosmic Coffee, 3301 Central Ave NE - *event link*​​​​
Will be available at Eat My Words Bookstore & Cosmic Coffee in NE Mpls & at christymerry.bandcamp.com
All Your Faces is Merry's seventh book and a companion to her first book, the best-seller of her body of work, Land of My Love.
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Both books are compilations of poems drawing their inspiration from biblical characters and themes and wrestling with faith and doubt, her approach ranging from reverent to irreverent (much like the Bible). If you like your discussion of spiritual texts to avoid giving pat answers and instead to sweep you up in beauty and perhaps mire you a bit in difficulties (even sometimes in the same poem), this may be the book for you.
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“Christy Merry sees the world with eyes opened wide as they can go, red with weeping and lensed with joy. The miracle of her poetry is that it allows us to see as she does, if we can bear it.”​
--Michael Bonikowsky,
author of Red Stuff and The Shepherd of Princes
“In All Your Faces, Christy Merry examines what it means to be in a relationship with the Divine and with Jesus with curiosity and insight as well as devotion. Some of these poems are prayers and some are revelations.”​
--Wendy Brown-Baez,
author of Threading the Gold and Ceremonies of the Spirit
“As I read Land of My Love by Christy Merry, it feels to me as if it’s written in blood (to crib Nietzsche), i.e. written from the depths, out of the furnace of experience. Merry’s vulnerability in these poems is striking. Maurice Blanchot (a French writer) talked somewhere about poetry as an ‘open wound in language’. That is what this book calls to mind. But unlike Blanchot, I also feel it’s hope.”
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- Jay Marsh, Phd, Adjunct Instructor of Theology,
Regent University Divinity School
RE-RELEASE OF FIRST PUBLISHED POETRY
COLLECTION!
Land of My Love is a collection of poems inspired by biblical characters and themes compiled and published in NYC in 2006 to fundraise to send the author on a group trip to Israel. The trip was funded and book sold out its original printing. This 2025 reprint is in honor of the release of All Your Faces, a compilation of poems along similar lines, with hope that it might find its home with a new generation of readers, and that the two books might complement each other.
THE LATEST​​
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September 20, 2025 - Featuring at the League of MN Poets reading in Rochester, MN at Garden Party Books, 7:00 pm along with Jana Bouma, Steven R. Vogel, Pam Whitfield and Bob Vogt. Would love to see you there! (For Toilet Rats fans, Tommy will have a show in Rochester the same night at Punktoberfest!)
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October 18, 2025 - All Your Faces release party event 3-5 pm at Cosmic Coffee, 3301 Central Ave NE, NE Mpls - cost: $5 pay-if-you-can, more details to come!
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November 21, 2025 - Chosen as a featured artist for Novelty Collective Arts & Music Fest in Pittsburgh, PA
