Our 2026 Poets Collection will include 9 chocolate poet pairings, 3 new poets inducted this year and 6 returning favorites from previous Poets Collections.
This year we are showcasing two spectacular contemporary poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Diane Seuss. To celebrate, we had letterpresses postcards of tiny excerpts from their work printed by Diane St. Jean. They would look great on your fridge or given to a poet friend, and can be added on to your order.
The complete collection (starting with the new new chocolates):
1) The Aimee Nezhukumatathil Pecan & Honey Caramel w/ Chili Dark Milk Chocolate: “Are you flower seeking? Do you require nectar? Are you nectar seeking?”
2) The Diane Seuss Black Raspberry Jam, Cognac Dark Chocolate, and Cracked Black Peppercorn: “I sang I sung I am singing/ I barely began to begun/ and I’m not done.”
3) The William Carlos Williams Plum Pâte de Fruit & Hops White Chocolate: “Now the grass, tomorrow/ the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf” “I have eaten/ the plums'/ that were in/ the icebox.”
And our the returning poets:
4. The Emily Dickinson Pineapple, sherry caramel: A consummate gardener, she supposedly grew pineapples for Christmas. In a letter to Higginson, she referenced her “eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves.”
5. The Wisława Szymborska Sour Cherry Dark Chocolate & Almond Gianduja w/ Poppy Seeds: How to be human (clear and prismatic as water) in a poem: “just this cherry orchard/ from this cherry pit” “While trying to plumb what the void’s inner sense is,/ I’m bound to pass by all these poppies and pansies.”
6. The Robert Hayden Lapsang Souchong Wintergreen Milk Chocolate, “Sundays too my father got up early/ and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,/ then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday weather made/ banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him”
7. The Frederico Garcia Lorca Orange saffron milk chocolate: A cool, metallic, earthy surrealism, staring down terror. “To be alone near the bonfires of saffron.”
8. The Dante Alighieri Smoky Calabrian chilis, hazelnut gianduja, lemon white chocolate with gold leaf foil: “To tell/ about those woods is hard—so tangled and rough// and savage…”
9. The Lorine Niedecker Herb Dark Chocolate: A knotty poet of the overgrown natural world, a dark, tangled verse. “A source/ to sustain her—/ a weedy speech,/ a marshy retainer.”
Our 2026 Poets Collection will include 9 chocolate poet pairings, 3 new poets inducted this year and 6 returning favorites from previous Poets Collections.
This year we are showcasing two spectacular contemporary poets Aimee Nezhukumatathil and Diane Seuss. To celebrate, we had letterpresses postcards of tiny excerpts from their work printed by Diane St. Jean. They would look great on your fridge or given to a poet friend, and can be added on to your order.
The complete collection (starting with the new new chocolates):
1) The Aimee Nezhukumatathil Pecan & Honey Caramel w/ Chili Dark Milk Chocolate: “Are you flower seeking? Do you require nectar? Are you nectar seeking?”
2) The Diane Seuss Black Raspberry Jam, Cognac Dark Chocolate, and Cracked Black Peppercorn: “I sang I sung I am singing/ I barely began to begun/ and I’m not done.”
3) The William Carlos Williams Plum Pâte de Fruit & Hops White Chocolate: “Now the grass, tomorrow/ the stiff curl of wildcarrot leaf” “I have eaten/ the plums'/ that were in/ the icebox.”
And our the returning poets:
4. The Emily Dickinson Pineapple, sherry caramel: A consummate gardener, she supposedly grew pineapples for Christmas. In a letter to Higginson, she referenced her “eyes, like the Sherry in the Glass, that the Guest leaves.”
5. The Wisława Szymborska Sour Cherry Dark Chocolate & Almond Gianduja w/ Poppy Seeds: How to be human (clear and prismatic as water) in a poem: “just this cherry orchard/ from this cherry pit” “While trying to plumb what the void’s inner sense is,/ I’m bound to pass by all these poppies and pansies.”
6. The Robert Hayden Lapsang Souchong Wintergreen Milk Chocolate, “Sundays too my father got up early/ and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold,/ then with cracked hands that ached/ from labor in the weekday weather made/ banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him”
7. The Frederico Garcia Lorca Orange saffron milk chocolate: A cool, metallic, earthy surrealism, staring down terror. “To be alone near the bonfires of saffron.”
8. The Dante Alighieri Smoky Calabrian chilis, hazelnut gianduja, lemon white chocolate with gold leaf foil: “To tell/ about those woods is hard—so tangled and rough// and savage…”
9. The Lorine Niedecker Herb Dark Chocolate: A knotty poet of the overgrown natural world, a dark, tangled verse. “A source/ to sustain her—/ a weedy speech,/ a marshy retainer.”
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