Terms of Venery, the collective nouns used to denote a group of animals or birds, are reconsidered in this new collection of poems by Paula J. Lambert. Here, she confronts disasters of every kind-those ahead of us and those we might be forced to admit we've already been dealing with for decades. In Terms of Venery, Revised, the personal and the collective are ever intertwined, and ignoring any part of that "sacred singularity" can only do more damage. This, says Lambert, is the lesson we're sent here to grasp.

Paula J. Lambert has published four previous full-length poetry collections including As If This Did Not Happen Every Day (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions 2024). She has authored six chapbooks, including Sinkhole (Bottlecap Press 2025). Lambert, also a literary translator, was awarded the 2021 PEN America - L'Engle Rahman Prize for Mentorship. Her work has been supported by the Ohio Arts Council, the Greater Columbus Arts Council, and the Virginia Center for Creative Arts. She is the 2023 winner of the Slippery Elm Poetry Prize and the New England Poetry Club's Amy Lowell Prize, was awarded a 2021 Editor's Choice Award from Sheila-Na-Gig Online, and was the 2019 winner of the Heartland Broadside Series. Lambert owns Full/Crescent Press, a small publisher of poetry books and broadsides, through which she has founded and supported numerous public readings and festivals that support the intersection of poetry and science, including the Sun & Moon Festival now hosted by the Ohio Poetry Association. She lives in Columbus with her husband, Dr. Michael Perkins, a philosopher and technologist. More at www.paulajlambert.com.