A chapbook of poems about coming of age, making meaning of family history, and searching for the divine in the hidden splendors of rural South Georgia.   

With their unflinching lyricism, the poems in Signs and Wonders detail an Evangelical adolescence in rural Georgia with both honesty and compassion, not to mention just the right amount of humor. Whether it’s a baptism in a stock tank, a mock talk show at the dinner table, or a demon hunched over a cat food bowl, the moments Caroline Weeks crafts invite the reader into this world. But unlike much other writing about religious upbringings, the speaker of these poems seems to neither glorify nor condemn it but simply asks the reader to sit and be present in the moments with her. And, oh, what wonderful moments they are.

- Jennifer Schomburg Kanke, author of The Swellest Wife Anyone Ever Had 

In Signs and Wonders, it is the ordinary rituals of life and land in South Georgia that catch our breath: we taste hot fruit conjured in the fields as Caroline Weeks introduces us to her close-knit kin in her debut chapbook. Her poems favor intimate, painterly images over abstraction, and her language carries a natural, unassuming quality much like the landscape. Weeks illuminates threads of joy, hope, and redemption in her upbringing despite the presence of illness, lost innocence, and religious strictures. Let Weeks’ poems refresh your spirit.
- Emily Robyn Clark, author of Morning Comes Roaring Down the Mountain