pandora poetica is a literary imprint of pandora press, focusing on thoughtful, contemplative, and provocative works of poetry and reflection.

●Volume 1 is Hello, Stranger: Thresholds of the Unfamiliar by Pedro A. Sandín-Fremaint:

"Before the stranger and the unfamiliar, where an epiphany might be in the offing, we rush to erect a barrier —sometimes a literal wall. Or we are regretfully prone to turn what might be a splendid possibility into a transaction, a quid pro quo. Many are the thresholds that draw a line between us and the Other..."  

●Volume 2 is Mercy Said, Justice Gone: A Parable in Five Acts by David Shannon: 

"The five-act parable Mercy Said, is both a critique and contemplation of what happens when justice and mercy are declared in order to negate compassion. In poetic form, David Shannon explores the paradoxes of the violent use of so-called justice and mercy in current political discourses and amidst social fissures of disability."

●Volume 3 is Matins, by Otto H. Selles, (with poems by Otto H. Selles; photographs by Jennifer Steensma Hoag  and oils by Geraldine Selles-Ysselstein). 

John Terpstra writes: "Otto Selles’s fine new collection of poems evoke Emily Dickinson in their brevity and succinctness. His writing turns the everyday around in its hands, jewel-like, allowing light to catch and reflect its surfaces, with an open-ended clarity of feeling and a gentle touch, which is often profound."