What Remains 

I am delighted to announce the publication of my first chapbook of original poems. The collection is available on Amazon. (Click on the image to go directly to the Amazon webpage.)

October 2, 2025

by Janice Fuhrman Booth (Author)

The subtle beauty of Janice Fuhrman Booth’s What Remains brings to mind The Delicacy and Strength of Lace – title of Leslie Marmon Silko’s and James Wright’s volume of correspondence. With literary touchstones ranging from lucille clifton to Marcel Proust, a variety of intriguing poetic forms, and her calm mien, Booth crafts a revelatory poetry grounded in learnings that have “taken…a lifetime…to know.” I love her clear eye toward the natural world, her deft wit, and the way she goes about her work, “patiently … dispersing grief/cleansing.”
Dr. Terry Bohnhorst Blackhawk
Kresge Arts in Detroit Literary Fellow

Like drifting into reverie, these poems immerse the reader in the flux of time and memory. Poet Janice Booth trains her powerful vision on, “… the edge of the past, not the whole / A plane of singular clarity. //” In poems of quietude and strength, grief and mourning for the lost beloved coexist indelibly on the page with a joyous celebration of the crisp mornings of rural childhood. These poems have a music all their own. It is,“ the sound of a wild heart in repose.”
Ellen Wise, Poet

Sometimes all the flowers and rivers and birds in the world come together to make song—to make memory and meaning. Janice Booth’s What Remains tells us that the earth’s bounty—as well as the heart’s bounty— is pure poetry.
Grace Cavalieri.
Maryland’s tenth Poet Laureate

Janice Booth reminds us, in this outstanding debut collection, to “Look out, look up, look in,” and then leads us to do exactly that. Using the imagery of nature and everyday experience, past and present, she illuminates the beauty, mystery and fragility inherent in our own lives.
Natalie Canavor, author & poet