Welcome Center

By Justin Den Herder

In Welcome Center, Justin Den Herder crafts a luminous, compassionate poetic landscape where the spiritual intersects with the everyday, and wonder is not a rarity but a practice. These poems gather readers at the brink of mystery and memory, teasing out the transformative potential of presence.

Structured in five parts, the book is arranged like a hike through strata of human experience from the natural to the divine. It posits that welcome is a fundamental and defining characteristic of being human.

These poems believe in the power of attention and mercy. In a world obsessed with motion and achievement, Welcome Center makes a radical gesture; it asks us to center ourselves by pausing and witnessing. 'Maybe appreciation is our purest action'.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9819444128
• ISBN13: 9789819444120
• Release Date: December 2025
• Publisher: Delere Press
• Length: 82 Pages
• Weight: 0.29 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.2" x 5.5" x 8.3"