The Warmest Low Reader: The Deep Blue Sea By Jordannah Elizabeth Graham Co-edited by Lauren H. Smith | Foreword by Tracy Dimond
Published on January 1, 2026
The Warmest Low Reader: The Deep Blue Sea is a meditative, genre-defying chapbook that deepens and expands the visionary landscape of Jordannah Elizabeth Graham’s The Warmest Low series. Blending memoir, lyrical prose, social reflection, and environmental poetics, this limited edition publication serves both as a personal reckoning and a literary excavation of memory, place, and identity. Through an intimate examination of her upbringing in Baltimore — a city steeped in mystery, contradiction, and historical trauma — Graham confronts the layered realities of being Black, different, and gifted in a place that rarely embraces those who diverge from its norm. The Chesapeake Bay, its moody skies and troubled waters, becomes a spiritual and ecological metaphor, mirroring her complex emotional terrain.
In 2026, Jordannah Elizabeth Graham releases The Warmest Low: The Deep Blue Sea, the second installment in her atmospheric Warmest Low series. The novella follows the cult-favorite debut, The Warmest Low: Chapbook One, Limited Edition Two, which was officially released on April 1, 2017 and has lingered with readers ever since.
For longtime fans, The Deep Blue Sea feels like a long-overdue return to familiar emotional depths—moody, lyrical, and unafraid to sit with the quiet weight of longing, memory, and transformation. For new readers, it’s an invitation to dive headfirst into a world that has been patiently waiting beneath the surface.
“The Warmest Low” has always been less about rushing forward and more about sinking in. With this second release, Graham continues to explore the slow burn of feeling, the tension between stillness and movement, and the beauty found in what lingers. The 2026 release marks not just a continuation, but a celebration—of endurance, of creative return, and of a story that refused to be finished too quickly.
With The Deep Blue Sea now surfacing, excitement is already building for what comes next. The tide has turned, and The Warmest Low is moving forward once more.
Readers are invited to revisit where it all began—or discover it for the first time—and join in the renewed anticipation for the next chapter still to come.
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The Warmest Low: (Chapbook One) Limited Edition Two written by Jordannah Elizabeth Graham | Foreword by Shaun Scott and Neg Raggett
Published on April 1, 2017
The Warmest Low: (Chapbook One) Limited Edition Two by Jordannah Elizabeth Graham is a quiet excavation of intimacy, memory, and desire at their most tender thresholds. An existential love story grounded in Baltimore, Maryland, the novella moves through fragments, lyric meditations, and intimate reckonings, tracing how warmth persists in emotional lows—not as a narrative of survival, but as an exploration of presence, longing, and relational meaning. Graham’s language is precise yet porous, attentive to the body as both archive and instrument, and to the private moments that shape public selves.
This limited edition chapbook leans into restraint and resonance, allowing silences to speak as clearly as lines. The work unfolds like a series of confidences, inviting the reader into a space where softness becomes inquiry rather than defense, and where love is examined as an existential condition. The Warmest Low is a work of closeness—meant to be held, reread, and felt—offering a quietly insistent meditation on tenderness, place, and being-with another.
This first novella of The Warmest Low Series opens this collection of books with thought, dreams, exploration and self-reflection.
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