Headwaters by Isaiah R. Hicks

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A key of sea glass floats, / Slowly spinning, / In the little puddle of my palms.

Robust rivers arise from humble headwaters. When runoff gathers and starts its flow, tributaries form rich with sediment and potential for greater things. These sources merge and move downstream, dispersing nutrients while shaping their surroundings through erosion and deposition. Tides trickle and teem, forever gliding onward.

Currents of memory, grief, and love drift through Headwaters. Emerging from stream-of-conscious exercises before being refined into their final contours and configurations, these poems retain a dreamlike quality even when depicting real-world experiences. In this collection, Isaiah R. Hicks finds "It was me that ached to write about all the / Water in the world, it was my mouth that / Refused to stop welling up with rain."

For every copy sold, Another New Calligraphy will donate $1 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Read an excerpt published in Impossible Task.

84 pages, handmade and numbered • 2025


A key of sea glass floats, / Slowly spinning, / In the little puddle of my palms.

Robust rivers arise from humble headwaters. When runoff gathers and starts its flow, tributaries form rich with sediment and potential for greater things. These sources merge and move downstream, dispersing nutrients while shaping their surroundings through erosion and deposition. Tides trickle and teem, forever gliding onward.

Currents of memory, grief, and love drift through Headwaters. Emerging from stream-of-conscious exercises before being refined into their final contours and configurations, these poems retain a dreamlike quality even when depicting real-world experiences. In this collection, Isaiah R. Hicks finds "It was me that ached to write about all the / Water in the world, it was my mouth that / Refused to stop welling up with rain."

For every copy sold, Another New Calligraphy will donate $1 to the Prostate Cancer Foundation.

Read an excerpt published in Impossible Task.

84 pages, handmade and numbered • 2025

Isaiah R. Hicks earned his Doctor of Pharmacy degree from Virginia Commonwealth University. His poetry has been published in literary magazines and journals such as The Metaworker (“On Being Home”), The Orchards Poetry Journal Winter 2021 Issue (“Husk”), and Grand Little Things (“Warm Torrent”). He is also the author of a poetry chapbook titled The Things You Cannot Change (BookLeaf Publishing, 2022). Isaiah’s writing is inspired by the works of Larry Levis, Louise Glück, Langston Hughes, W. S. Merwin, Mary Oliver, and more. He currently lives in Knoxville, Tennessee and is a pharmacy resident at the University of Tennessee Medical Center.