top of page

Independent Press Award 

2025 Distinguished Favorite

Hoyt Rogers

Thresholds

In Thresholds, Hoyt Rogers shares a series of poems about impermanence. This collection offers musings on nature, relationships, and endings… Rogers considers how words can salvage hope, but also betray, and how silence can be a language all its own. He explores the fragile, ephemeral nature of love and the tension between connection and distance. He highlights the repetition of life, suggesting that happiness is infinitely renewable in nature and in love… Rogers’s style blends lyricism with philosophical meditation, making this an emotionally intriguing and intellectually stimulating collection. His connection to the natural world is visceral and immersive; he deftly evokes the exhilaration of love… This is an introspective collection that invites contemplation.

—KIRKUS REVIEWS

bottom of page