Loblolly Press Habitats + A Field Guide to North American Trees book cover with illustrations of various trees.
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Loblolly Press Habitat book, a field guide to North American trees, featuring detailed illustrations and natural habitat photos.
A book titled "A Field Guide to North American Trees" by Loblolly Press, showing tree illustrations and habitat descriptions.

HABITATS + A Field Guide to North American Trees

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HABITATS and A Field Guide to North American Trees are companion books designed to speak to one another. The chapbook gathers a tree-centered sequence from the heart of HABITATS as a concentrated meditation on place, while the full collection opens those same poems outward, revealing how one way of seeing becomes a path toward understanding home. These two are meant to be together.

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HABITATS is a poetry collection that moves through shared ecosystems, coastal waterways and tidal rivers, fields and flood plains, pine forests, Southern towns shaped by heat and deterioration, and rural homesteads, tracing how lives unfold under sustained pressure. In these poems, Garrett Ashley follows how ecology and lived experience gather over time into what we call home, across the natural and built environments we share.

Grounded in close observation and narrative focus, HABITATS presents landscapes and domestic spaces as intimate presences, asking how we learn to remain, how we move on, and how place continues to live inside us.

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A FIELD GUIDE TO NORTH AMERICAN TREES is a poetry chapbook that moves through a living taxonomy of trees, many native to the Southeastern United States, tracing how human lives take shape alongside roots, rings, and branching forms. Each poem takes its name from a tree, building a shared landscape where growth, damage, and renewal offer a way of seeing connection and change over time.

Grounded in close attention and lyric clarity, A Field Guide to North American Trees presents the natural world as an intimate counterpart, asking how we recognize ourselves in what surrounds us, how we endure alongside living systems, and how the land continues to mark us as we move through it.

Garrett Ashley's  work has appeared in Asimov’s Science Fiction, The Normal School, Sonora Review, Analog SF&F, DIAGRAM, Reed Magazine, and Sequestrum. He earned his PhD from the University of Southern Mississippi’s Center for Writers and teaches creative writing at Tuskegee University in Alabama where he is the editor-in-chief of The Tuskegee Review. He is also the author of Periphylla, and Other Deep Ocean Attractions (Press 53, 2024), A Field Guide to North American Trees (Good Printed Things, 2025), and Habitats (Loblolly Press, 2026).

Loblolly Press Habitat book, a field guide to North American trees, featuring detailed illustrations and natural habitat photos.

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