Singer/songwriter and poet Amy Speace is set to release her debut poetry collection THE CARDINALS on September 1 through Red Hen Press, alongside a companion single titled ‘Days of Letting Go’ due September 4, with a supporting tour, THE CARDINALS: SONGS, STORIES AND POETRY, to begin August 27 in Columbus, Ohio and run into 2027. The collection draws on themes of marriage, divorce, motherhood, and loss framed through imagery from the natural world, while the single originated from a persona poem Speace wrote during her MFA studies in Louisville, Kentucky and was later recorded at Skinny Elephant Studio in East Nashville, produced by Neilson Hubbard.