HALBERD BOOKS
Halberd Books is a series of poetry volumes from David M. Briggs. If you like banging your head against the wall, shifting your definitions of love and art, setting your yearning to music, or going a little bonkers, then Halberd Books is for you.
Books by David M. Briggs
Full-Length Collections
As Editor
David M. Briggs is a writer, editor, designer, and bookseller from the American Midwest. Over the last two decades, his poetry and prose have regularly appeared online and in print in newspapers, journals, and zines nationwide, including Polychrome Ink, Activator Magazine, Springfield Cultural Arts Magazine, The Wisconsin Poets' Calendar, and Steam Ticket: A Third Coast Review. Nominated for Best Poet of La Crosse, WI, Flash Fiction Magazine Shortlist, and the Mayor's Award for Literary Arts 2024, David lives in Springfield, Illinois with his fiancée and an assortment of cats. Direct all inquiries to halberdbooks@gmail.com
Short Chapbooks (Short Collections)
A Few Too Many Words About Me and You
Speak Easier: Poems Written and Spoken
Chain Reactions: Poems from the Catalyst
Searching for the Words: Magnet Poems
Songs of Captivity and Songs of Escape
New and Selected Poems (That May Or May Not Have Actually Happened)
Archive: The D. Michael Warren Stories
Echolalia: Poems and Melancholia