Harbour Publishing has released the cover for my forthcoming collection of poems, Out of the Ordinary. This is the collection accepted in November of 2022. Publication date will be March 4, 2025.

The cover features a Christmas cactus, the focus of the collection’s title poem. Summing up the book, Harbour’s description on the back cover says in part: “To probe [the] traffic between the ordinary and the extraordinary, Wayman draws on poetry’s almost magical ability to discover links between elements that otherwise seem far apart. Provocative and playful, Wayman’s poems investigate responses to this century’s quandaries, draw on the mysteriousness of nature and delve into history and culture. In Out of the Ordinary, Wayman demonstrates how poetry can make the mundane shine brightly even in these turbulent decades.”