Winner, 2026 Society of Midland Authors Book AwardFinalist, 2026 Kingsley Tufts Poetry AwardFinalist, 2026 Griffin Poetry PrizeBarley Child, Greg Rappleye’s fifth collection, draws from family legends, whispered stories, and sworn denials across four generations of Irish American lives—recalled, imagined, and reconstructed from census records, old letters, church registries, yellowed newspaper clippings, and ...