I’m excited to announce that my new chapbook is published and available for kindle on Amazon. Paperback to be released shortly.

Book overview 

Things That Shouldn’t Be Beautiful (But Are)
Poems by Ryan Stone

A jellyfish that never dies.
A swan that stays after love is gone.
A beetle with mirrors for eyes.
This quietly astonishing collection brings together strange truths from science, nature, and myth—each transformed into a lyrical poem that finds beauty in the unlikely.

Spare, mythic, and emotionally resonant, these thirty poems explore what it means to survive, to remember, to reach for connection—even when no one is listening.

For readers of Mary Oliver, Ross Gay, or Ada Limón, Things That Shouldn’t Be Beautiful (But Are) is a poetic celebration of wonder, smallness, and the strange.