ORLANDO, FL — April 13, 2026

Krystal Reeser announces the release of her debut poetry collection, A Palm on a Lake, now available for Kindle readers with a paperback edition forthcoming. The collection's eighty poems draw from the folklore of legendary women and the lived realities of womanhood - weaving folklore, metaphor, and hard-won clarity into a call for women to trust their own power. At once a love letter and a warning, A Palm on a Lake reminds its readers that justice can bloom from poetry alone.

From the poem "A Lady in Her Tower," Krystal Reeser writes: "Words ignite and verses refine / So that justice begins to shine / A poem that blooms / Petal by petal and page by page"

“I wrote this collection in less than a month as a record and a reconciliation of the accounts of my story,” says Krystal Reeser. “I want every woman to find her footing and not to have to feel as awkward as a palm mistakenly supplanted on a lake and I hope something can bloom from this to a new beginning for any reader who needs the courage to keep dreaming.”

Krystal Reeser is a poet and member of the Florida State Poets Association. Drawing on the lyrical precision of Tennyson and the searching wit of Voltaire, her work pursues the insights that language and human experience, in its most deliberate form, can illuminate. The eighty poems collected here were composed during a single month, a sustained act of attention that gave rise not only to this debut volume, but to a second collection already taking shape from poems that outgrew its pages. A song called “The Pirate Queen” was inspired by the historical figure Jeanne de Clisson and the words of one of the poems in A Palm on a Lake.

A Palm on a Lake was released on April 12, 2026 and is available now on the author’s website and on Kindle and Amazon.com. Paperback edition will immediately follow at the same distributors.

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