"Too Pretty For Plain Coffee" Poetry by Tyler Hurula

Tyler Hurula makes an entrance with the juiciest collection of love poems, lust poems, break-up poems, and yes, even revenge poems. Hurula’s work is whip-smart, playful, and fucking funny. Who else could write from the perspective of an Anniversary card, My Period, and Final Girl:

Polyamory has been blood-stained villain by the people eagerly awaiting / each sequel…/ Voyeurs gaze, call her entertainment, call her confused, saying I’d never choose / to be in your shoes, and she stays vigilant, thrust into this violent loop / Hurula’s full-length collection offers glimmers of deep healing and self-love, celebrations of being Too Much, and a reminder that we have the power to rewrite our own narratives in any way we desire.

—Sage Herrin, author of Anti/Muse, and EIC of Beyond the Veil Press

"Tyler Hurula might be 'the world’s most tender magician,' weaving a poetic spell that compels you to fall in love, in heartbreak, or the in-between of almost. Too Pretty for Plain Coffee is a romantic stream of beautiful punches that bruise and balm. Its passion winds and unravels, simmers and swells, recoils and strikes gorgeous. What I am most enchanted by in this collection is its simultaneous devotion to the familiar and to 'sudden and infinite newness.' A fresh and energizing debut!"

—Junious Ward, author of Composition

"Too Pretty for Plain Coffee grabs you by the hand and insists that it’s time to feel. This collection is a long walk on a first date with the heart of identity. Tyler challenges traditional romance with playfulness, with fury, with soft affection after drinking a bottle of wine and flirting with the truth all evening."

—Cecily Stone, author of These Chasms in the Earth