{"product_id":"besejw","title":"Beseech, by Jan Wiezorek","description":"\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003ePoetry, chapbook, 40 pages, from \u003ca style=\"color: #2b00ff;\" href=\"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/collections\/bottlecap-features\" target=\"_blank\"\u003eBottlecap Features\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eHow often do we ask? What do we receive? Those are the powerful questions poet Jan Wiezorek addresses in \u003cem\u003eBeseech\u003c\/em\u003e. His walk through small-town Michigan, with its gardens, nearby dunes and lake, forests, and residents, is a tribute to thoughts we only sometimes share: “Striding on this sand, I think \/ of the dying and rising waves: \/ beseeching new souls to crush \/ and reconstitute in the crease \/ of an instep.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eThe place encountered holds us in rapture: “There is hushing \/ here before the certain cranes \/ come, performing their calls \/ in precise echoes, mobius light.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eAnd the terrain speaks to our needs: “This whole land sets a heart over walking \/ hills. Daylight in mourning grass. Giving it out \/ as holy wet that’s wholly dew, and wholly due.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003eBeseech\u003c\/em\u003e acknowledges the family of us all: “as socks folded, coffee pot \/ cleaned, raw truth muscling \/ the bricks, hot to touch.”\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eWith its everyday discoveries, \u003cem\u003eBeseech\u003c\/em\u003e is a collection that speaks with loving lament and revelation.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003eJan Wiezorek (he\/him) writes from Harbor Country of rural Michigan and walks regularly along McCoy Creek Trail. He wrote the poetry chapbooks \u003cem\u003eForests of Woundedness\u003c\/em\u003e (Seven Kitchens Press, 2026) and \u003cem\u003ePrayer’s Prairie \u003c\/em\u003e(Michigan Writers Poetry Prize, 2025). Wiezorek’s poetry has appeared in\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eDunes Review\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe MacGuffin\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe London Magazine, The \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eWestchester Review, Lucky Jefferson, The Broadkill Review, \u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eBlazeVOX, LEON Literary Review\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e \u003c\/em\u003eand elsewhere. He taught writing at St. Augustine College, Chicago, and wrote the ebook \u003cem\u003eAwesome Art Projects That Spark Super Writing \u003c\/em\u003e (Scholastic, 2011). Wiezorek is contributing writer for \u003cem\u003ePAN-O-PLY Story \u0026amp; Art Michiana\u003c\/em\u003e, and his stories of unsung heroes have appeared in the \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune. \u003c\/em\u003eHe holds a master’s degree in English Composition\/Writing from Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago. Wiezorek’s poems have been awarded by the Poetry Society of Michigan, and he is a two-time Pushcart Prize nominee. Visit janwiezorek.substack.com.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Jan Wiezorek","offers":[{"title":"Chapbook","offer_id":51707860943163,"sku":"BESEJW","price":10.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Digital Download (PDF)","offer_id":51707860975931,"sku":"BESEJWe","price":7.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0062\/4420\/4614\/files\/beseech3_cover.png?v=1789676380","url":"https:\/\/bottlecap.press\/products\/besejw","provider":"Bottlecap Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}