Moonlight, Shaken Paperback – March 27, 2026

Sandi Stromberg’s beauty-filled, truth-seeking collection opens with the call to “dive into / the fathomless.” And so we do — led by her sparkling mind and sharp eye to notice the magic saturating this world. Poem after poem, Moonlight, Shaken transforms landscapes into liminality, opening portals that move us into deeper knowledge of belonging. From a childhood racked with faith and spoken in tongues to the edges of the Langkawi Archipelago, from a marriage that falls apart to the love and grief that take its place, Stromberg’s maps never stop unfolding both in on themselves and out, leading the reader on an extraordinary journey home.—Cait Weiss Orcutt, author, VALLEYSPEAKSandi Stromberg is a brilliant poet of memory, able to capture and preserve those most fleeting moments of love, self-consciousness, uncertainty, despair, and loss — to examine them with delicacy and skill from all sides, offering them to us as both transient instances and as memories considered in the mind for years. Here, arguments tumble “like mismatched clothes / in a dryer” and the moon is a “pale-yellow yolk unbroken,” waiting “on the horizon’s / navy-blue edge.” Stromberg’s eye for detail is perfect and the richness of her language and intelligence are on clear display. I have admired her work for years, and here she is at her very best.—Kevin Prufer, author, The Fears, How He Loved Them and 2026 Texas Poet Laureate“I want to close / the blinds,” Sandi Stromberg writes, “lose myself / in a book where I can turn / the page.” Moonlight, Shaken, Stromberg’s second poetry collection, is just such a book. This poet has traveled the world; she has explored the contours of the heart. “It May Be There Are Times,” she asserts, “when I wade into the blue river / of remembering.” From the fathomless dive of this collection’s opening poem to the closing page’s meticulous meditation on a woman reading, we’re in good hands with the memories recounted here.—David Meischen, author, Caliche Road Poems and Nopalito, Texas: Stories Read more