Happy Everything

By Caitlin Cowan

SILVER MEDAL, Poetry, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPYs) (2025)

FINALIST, Medal Provocateur & Category (Poetry), Eric Hoffer Awards (2025)​

The urge to create beauty and be beautiful haunts Happy Everything, Caitlin Cowan's powerful celebration of feminine resilience. The materiality of marriage and divorce abound in the postnuptial ghost stories Cowan tells with no-nonsense, Midwestern frankness and the intimacy of an afterparty conversation in a corner booth. Happy Everything is a deranged wedding registry of various poetic forms which highlight the perverse tenacity of ancestral traumas and the paradoxes inherent to women's relationships with men. These poems are a collage of traditions from a past that women are continually attempting to escape.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1960329227
• ISBN13: 9781960329226
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cornerstone Press
• Length: 114 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"