The late W. S. Merwin said Akers's nature poems are a "joy to discover" because they embody a "lost sense of the living world." In Swerve, Akers celebrates the

Winner of the 2024 Blue Light Press Book Award, A Door into the Wild is both a celebration of California landscapes and a meditation about love, loss, and the h

Winner of the 2014 Autumn House Press Poetry Contest, selected by Alicia Ostriker. Akers' collection of lyric poems celebrates our everyday world while not glos

'So compellingly personal you feel you're looking over her shoulder as she sits down to write' New York Times 'Electrically entertaining ... Funny, generous, sp

While attending a counseling group for sexually abused children, Sarah is asked to record her feelings in a journal.