Alenier, Karren L.
Looking for Divine Transportation
Book
The search for those angels who are wheels transports the reader through a
landscape of eccentric family members, the world of Gertrude Stein and Paul
Bowles, and Alenier's own brand of Eden. Linda Pastan says of this book,
"...a rich, simmering stew made up of family, far places, and literary
legends." Winner of the 2002 Towson University Prize for Literature.
karren@alenier.com
Alsop, Maureen
Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag Press)
Book
“The poems in Apparition Wren are sometimes sensual, sexual, almost rawly empathic to the loneliness and suffering of the characters she writes about (look at "Mud Pie Underworld," "Butcher's Wife"); sometimes Alsop's poems are less narrative, and still beautifully candid and strange.” —Jean Valentine
maureen_alsop@yahoo.com
Apparition Wren (Main Street Rag Press)
Book
“The poems in Apparition Wren are sometimes sensual, sexual, almost rawly empathic to the loneliness and suffering of the characters she writes about (look at "Mud Pie Underworld," "Butcher's Wife"); sometimes Alsop's poems are less narrative, and still beautifully candid and strange.” —Jean Valentine
maureen_alsop@yahoo.com
Alvarez, Celia Lisset
The Stones
Chapbook
A collection of coming-of-age, Cuban immigrant angst poems, with a little Lois Lane for fun.
Hobomok@aol.com
The Stones
Chapbook
A collection of coming-of-age, Cuban immigrant angst poems, with a little Lois Lane for fun.
Hobomok@aol.com
Appel, Dori
Another Rude Awakening (Cherry Grove Collections, 2008)
Book
In the . . . poems of Dori Appel's Another Rude Awakening, the everyday world is reflected back to us, slightly off-kilter, in a way that awakens the reader to a new, startling, and engrossing vision. -Kevin Walzer, editor and publisher, Cherry Grove Collections, WordTech Communications
"Dori Appel writes poems as if she were 'a shipwreck's last survivor', commemorating and rejuvenating the past, illuminating overlooked details, and inspiring us to take heart, bear fearless witness and . . . share the experiences that shape and define our diverse and spirited journeys. - Robert McDowell, Poetry as Spiritual Practice, On Foot, In Flames
http://www.doriappel.com/
applcart@mind.net
Another Rude Awakening (Cherry Grove Collections, 2008)
Book
In the . . . poems of Dori Appel's Another Rude Awakening, the everyday world is reflected back to us, slightly off-kilter, in a way that awakens the reader to a new, startling, and engrossing vision. -Kevin Walzer, editor and publisher, Cherry Grove Collections, WordTech Communications
"Dori Appel writes poems as if she were 'a shipwreck's last survivor', commemorating and rejuvenating the past, illuminating overlooked details, and inspiring us to take heart, bear fearless witness and . . . share the experiences that shape and define our diverse and spirited journeys. - Robert McDowell, Poetry as Spiritual Practice, On Foot, In Flames
http://www.doriappel.com/
applcart@mind.net
Ayers, Lana Hechtman
Love is a Weed
Chapbook
Humorous poems about the nature of love.
lana.ayers@gmail.com
Love is a Weed
Chapbook
Humorous poems about the nature of love.
lana.ayers@gmail.com
Bateson, Catherine (Australian)
His Name in Fire
Book
A verse novel set in country Australia featuring a young circus worker, a couple of kids falling in love and a couple of unemployed youth discovering their talents. Primarily aimed at a young adult readership. To see some poems from the book, check out www.catherine-bateson.com.
cbateson@ssc.net.au
His Name in Fire
Book
A verse novel set in country Australia featuring a young circus worker, a couple of kids falling in love and a couple of unemployed youth discovering their talents. Primarily aimed at a young adult readership. To see some poems from the book, check out www.catherine-bateson.com.
cbateson@ssc.net.au
Benedict, Kate Bernadette
Here from Away
Book
Written in both free verse and form, and ranging in tone from the elegiac to the wry, these poems explore dislocation in its many dimensions—geographic, emotional, imaginal, spiritual.
katebenedict@att.net
Here from Away
Book
Written in both free verse and form, and ranging in tone from the elegiac to the wry, these poems explore dislocation in its many dimensions—geographic, emotional, imaginal, spiritual.
katebenedict@att.net
Betten, Mary Rose
Hanging Out With Loose Words
Chapbook
Cronedom, Hollywood, fun. Blurbs: Chryss Yost, Cecilia Woloch
MRBetten@verizon.net
Hanging Out With Loose Words
Chapbook
Cronedom, Hollywood, fun. Blurbs: Chryss Yost, Cecilia Woloch
MRBetten@verizon.net
Bogle, Ann
XAM: Paragraph Series (1998)2005 by Xexoxial Editions
Book, Chapbook
B/W only (color is $20)
AMBogle@aol.com
XAM: Paragraph Series (1998)2005 by Xexoxial Editions
Book, Chapbook
B/W only (color is $20)
AMBogle@aol.com
Carlisle, Wendy Taylor
Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press. June 2008)
Book, 80 pps.
wendyc@vidnet.net
Discount Fireworks (Jacaranda Press. June 2008)
Book, 80 pps.
wendyc@vidnet.net
Chandler, Sherry
Dance the Black-Eyed Girl (Finishing Line 2003)
Chapbook
17 poems that have been described as a series of photographs from the family album. http://www.sherrychandler.com/
sherrychandler@kyk.net
Dance the Black-Eyed Girl (Finishing Line 2003)
Chapbook
17 poems that have been described as a series of photographs from the family album. http://www.sherrychandler.com/
sherrychandler@kyk.net
Cherry, Laura
What We Planted
Chapbook
Poems about finding a home, youthful escapades, and having a crush on Keats.
cherrylaura@hotmail.com
What We Planted
Chapbook
Poems about finding a home, youthful escapades, and having a crush on Keats.
cherrylaura@hotmail.com
Cohen, Sage
Like the Heart, the World (2007)
Book
Explores the concentricities of inner and outer landscapes, accompanying the reader through the blighted streets of New York losses, the oceanic melancholies of San Francisco and Portland's orchestral embrace of the ripening, welcomed self.
sage@sagesaidso.com
Like the Heart, the World (2007)
Book
Explores the concentricities of inner and outer landscapes, accompanying the reader through the blighted streets of New York losses, the oceanic melancholies of San Francisco and Portland's orchestral embrace of the ripening, welcomed self.
sage@sagesaidso.com
Dacus, Rachel
Another Circle of Delight (Small Poetry Press, 2007)
Chapbook
A collection of poems on topics that range from Jefferson's separation between church and state, to Dante's Paradiso, to dental surgery and green-hearted dinosaur bones. By the author of Femme au chapeau and Earth Lessons.
rachel@dacushome.com
Another Circle of Delight (Small Poetry Press, 2007)
Chapbook
A collection of poems on topics that range from Jefferson's separation between church and state, to Dante's Paradiso, to dental surgery and green-hearted dinosaur bones. By the author of Femme au chapeau and Earth Lessons.
rachel@dacushome.com
Daly, Catherine
Chanteuse / Cantatrice
Book
Two books in one, can be read from the front / top - down, or from the back / bottom - up, the "sides" are complicit in the meaning.
c.a.b.daly@gmail.com
Chanteuse / Cantatrice
Book
Two books in one, can be read from the front / top - down, or from the back / bottom - up, the "sides" are complicit in the meaning.
c.a.b.daly@gmail.com
Daniels, Barbara
Rose Fever
Book
“Barbara Daniels’ poems in Rose Fever are ones of spiritual yearning, confronting the darkness of the world, seeking—and sometimes finding—the light. Daniels’ dense lines, rich with music and startling images, nourish the soul as well as the mind.”—Kevin Walzer
barbarajdaniels@comcast.net
Rose Fever
Book
“Barbara Daniels’ poems in Rose Fever are ones of spiritual yearning, confronting the darkness of the world, seeking—and sometimes finding—the light. Daniels’ dense lines, rich with music and startling images, nourish the soul as well as the mind.”—Kevin Walzer
barbarajdaniels@comcast.net
Davis, Heather
The Lost Tribe of Us
Book
In The Lost Tribe of Us, Heather Davis offers her readers vivid, occasionally comic, more often gut-wrenching poems that, in the first part of the book, engage with the lives of members of a large family-all the vulnerabilities and pathos of poverty: repossessed cars, joblessness, leaky roofs, too small houses, second-hand clothing and teen-age pregnancy. Later, the scope of the poems widens to include aspects of the world at large: war, terrorism, rape, imprisonment, incest, mental illness, much of what troubled flesh is heir to. But to say simply that the poems are about big subjects that really matter is not to do them justice. They are invariably characterized by exquisite formal control, the always lovely deployment of language that is a delight to the eye and ear. The Lost Tribe of Us is a wonderful first book by an exceptionally gifted poet. —Eric Trethewey
hdavis@jsi.com
The Lost Tribe of Us
Book
In The Lost Tribe of Us, Heather Davis offers her readers vivid, occasionally comic, more often gut-wrenching poems that, in the first part of the book, engage with the lives of members of a large family-all the vulnerabilities and pathos of poverty: repossessed cars, joblessness, leaky roofs, too small houses, second-hand clothing and teen-age pregnancy. Later, the scope of the poems widens to include aspects of the world at large: war, terrorism, rape, imprisonment, incest, mental illness, much of what troubled flesh is heir to. But to say simply that the poems are about big subjects that really matter is not to do them justice. They are invariably characterized by exquisite formal control, the always lovely deployment of language that is a delight to the eye and ear. The Lost Tribe of Us is a wonderful first book by an exceptionally gifted poet. —Eric Trethewey
hdavis@jsi.com
Deed, Martha
65 x 65
Chapbook
A series of 65-word texts interconnected by a pattern of repeated words to form an oulipo puzzle autobiography
mldeed@verizon.net
65 x 65
Chapbook
A series of 65-word texts interconnected by a pattern of repeated words to form an oulipo puzzle autobiography
mldeed@verizon.net
Derr-Smith, Heather
Each End of the World
Book
"Although Heather Smith's astonishing first book is located, mostly, in the conflagration of human meaning that was Bosnia in the 1990's, It's a collection that, in an unforgettable way, examines the terrifying bitterness and danger of contemporary life..." --Mark Doty
Heatherderrsmith@yahoo.com
www.heatherderr-smith.com
Each End of the World
Book
"Although Heather Smith's astonishing first book is located, mostly, in the conflagration of human meaning that was Bosnia in the 1990's, It's a collection that, in an unforgettable way, examines the terrifying bitterness and danger of contemporary life..." --Mark Doty
Heatherderrsmith@yahoo.com
www.heatherderr-smith.com
Derr-Smith, Heather
The Bride Minaret
Book
"Her (Derr-Smith's) poems are intercultural, expansive while still grounded in the evocative complexities of motherhood, childhood, and faith. The Bride Minaret is a wonderfully intense collection." --Denise Duhamel
Heatherderrsmith@yahoo.com
www.heatherderr-smith.com
The Bride Minaret
Book
"Her (Derr-Smith's) poems are intercultural, expansive while still grounded in the evocative complexities of motherhood, childhood, and faith. The Bride Minaret is a wonderfully intense collection." --Denise Duhamel
Heatherderrsmith@yahoo.com
www.heatherderr-smith.com
DiMartino, Joanie
Licking the Spoon (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Chapbook
"[These] poems savor the experience of being a woman. Many of them are inspired by food and cooking, whether it's preparing her grandmother's legendary spaghetti sauce or making cornbread in an historic Dutch oven, exploring the mysteries of anorexia or her own reluctance to devour a female crab. But along with a woman's sensibility she brings a voracious appetite for language to the table." —Sue Ellen Thompson
ladyvishuss@yahoo.com
Licking the Spoon (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Chapbook
"[These] poems savor the experience of being a woman. Many of them are inspired by food and cooking, whether it's preparing her grandmother's legendary spaghetti sauce or making cornbread in an historic Dutch oven, exploring the mysteries of anorexia or her own reluctance to devour a female crab. But along with a woman's sensibility she brings a voracious appetite for language to the table." —Sue Ellen Thompson
ladyvishuss@yahoo.com
Eylon, Dina Ripsman
Songs of Love and Misgivings
Chapbook
"Poems about the more deceptive, addictive side of love.
dina.eylon@utoronto.ca
Songs of Love and Misgivings
Chapbook
"Poems about the more deceptive, addictive side of love.
dina.eylon@utoronto.ca
Fisher-Wirth, Ann
The Trinket Poems
Chapbook
Runner-up for the Quentin R. Howard contest, Wind, 2003. Published in a volume along with Dana Sonnenschein's Corbus: illustrated. These poems came into being when I acted the part of Trinket Dugan in a wild, little-known one-act play by Tennessee Williams, The Mutilated.
afwirth@olemiss.edu
The Trinket Poems
Chapbook
Runner-up for the Quentin R. Howard contest, Wind, 2003. Published in a volume along with Dana Sonnenschein's Corbus: illustrated. These poems came into being when I acted the part of Trinket Dugan in a wild, little-known one-act play by Tennessee Williams, The Mutilated.
afwirth@olemiss.edu
García, Lisha Adela
Blood Rivers (Blue Light Press)
Book
These poems are about the borders around us and within us.
ladelagarcia@yahoo.com
Blood Rivers (Blue Light Press)
Book
These poems are about the borders around us and within us.
ladelagarcia@yahoo.com
García, Lisha Adela
This Stone Will Speak
Chapbook
Lisha Adela García is a bilingual bicultural poet who has México, The United States and that land in between (Spanglish) in her work. She currently resides in Arizona and is influenced by the American Southwest, ghosts that haunt her labyrinth, and border culture.
ladelagarcia@yahoo.com
This Stone Will Speak
Chapbook
Lisha Adela García is a bilingual bicultural poet who has México, The United States and that land in between (Spanglish) in her work. She currently resides in Arizona and is influenced by the American Southwest, ghosts that haunt her labyrinth, and border culture.
ladelagarcia@yahoo.com
Halscheid, Therese
Greatest Hits
Chapbook
A chapbook award by Pudding House Publications, which comprises a dozen poems spanning the writing life of the author, along with a narrative which summarizes the poet's life and her work.
thalscheid@cs.com
Greatest Hits
Chapbook
A chapbook award by Pudding House Publications, which comprises a dozen poems spanning the writing life of the author, along with a narrative which summarizes the poet's life and her work.
thalscheid@cs.com
Halscheid, Therese
Uncommon Geography
Book
In this new book of poems, Therese Halscheid chronicles recent travels across varied terrain beginning with a stay in a log cabin in the secluded pine forests of New Jersey, then moving to sacred environments as far as New Mexico, as well as other unusual settings where she has been house-sitting, such as a primeval swamp in the Pan Handle, Florida, and an elk farm in central Pennsylvania.
thalscheid@cs.com
Uncommon Geography
Book
In this new book of poems, Therese Halscheid chronicles recent travels across varied terrain beginning with a stay in a log cabin in the secluded pine forests of New Jersey, then moving to sacred environments as far as New Mexico, as well as other unusual settings where she has been house-sitting, such as a primeval swamp in the Pan Handle, Florida, and an elk farm in central Pennsylvania.
thalscheid@cs.com
Hamm, Christine
The Transparent Dinner
Book
A collection of poetry. Dark and intimate. A lot about mothers and daughters.
holdingmytongue@yahoo.com
The Transparent Dinner
Book
A collection of poetry. Dark and intimate. A lot about mothers and daughters.
holdingmytongue@yahoo.com
Harrod, Lois Marie
Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Chapbook
Lyrical and elegaic poems for the earth.
lmharrod1@verizon.net
Firmament (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Chapbook
Lyrical and elegaic poems for the earth.
lmharrod1@verizon.net
Harrod, Lois Marie
Furniture (Grayson Books 2008 Poetry Chapbook Winner)
Chapbook
Poems, often amusing or wacky, which use furniture as their vehicles.
lmharrod1@verizon.net
Furniture (Grayson Books 2008 Poetry Chapbook Winner)
Chapbook
Poems, often amusing or wacky, which use furniture as their vehicles.
lmharrod1@verizon.net
Harrod, Lois Marie
Spelling The World Backwards
Book
A series of poems that reads like novel about a fictional family facing a father's Alzheimer's.
lmharrod1@verizon.net
Spelling The World Backwards
Book
A series of poems that reads like novel about a fictional family facing a father's Alzheimer's.
lmharrod1@verizon.net
Harter, Penny
Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1998).
Book
Nature poems / Earth in the cosmos. From the intro: "It is time to write poems that go beyond the personal, poems that speak for the Earth and its inhabitants in a time of great vulnerability for all species, and for the planet itself. We need poems that speak of universal concerns and point out that all beings exist as integral and inter-connected parts of the larger community of the universe, poems that affirm. I hope that the poems in Lizard Light confirm our mutual responsibility to the Earth."
penhart@2hweb.net
Lizard Light: Poems From the Earth (Sherman Asher Publishing, 1998).
Book
Nature poems / Earth in the cosmos. From the intro: "It is time to write poems that go beyond the personal, poems that speak for the Earth and its inhabitants in a time of great vulnerability for all species, and for the planet itself. We need poems that speak of universal concerns and point out that all beings exist as integral and inter-connected parts of the larger community of the universe, poems that affirm. I hope that the poems in Lizard Light confirm our mutual responsibility to the Earth."
penhart@2hweb.net
Hayden, Dolores
American Yard (David Robert Books, 2004)
Book
Honorable mention, New England Poetry Club Motton Prize, best book 2004-5. 100 pages. "beautifully made poems that are both erudite and wise" —Elizabeth Alexander.
dolores.hayden@yale.edu
American Yard (David Robert Books, 2004)
Book
Honorable mention, New England Poetry Club Motton Prize, best book 2004-5. 100 pages. "beautifully made poems that are both erudite and wise" —Elizabeth Alexander.
dolores.hayden@yale.edu
Haymon, Ava Leavell
Kitchen Heat (LSU Press, 2006)
Book
Free verse, fixed forms, a poet's language that does not slip into sentimental whitewash or whine. Collection of poems concerning the difficulties and rewards of partnership and childrearing, householding, cooking, struggles with memory and the complicated task of finding helpful models.
avahaymon@cox.net
Kitchen Heat (LSU Press, 2006)
Book
Free verse, fixed forms, a poet's language that does not slip into sentimental whitewash or whine. Collection of poems concerning the difficulties and rewards of partnership and childrearing, householding, cooking, struggles with memory and the complicated task of finding helpful models.
avahaymon@cox.net
Healy, Eloise Klein
Artemis In Echo Park
Book
A collection about animals in the city; dogs, bears, and the moon; prototypical Artemis figures in life and art; and Los Angeles in all its dopey glory.
eloisekleinhealy@mac.com
Artemis In Echo Park
Book
A collection about animals in the city; dogs, bears, and the moon; prototypical Artemis figures in life and art; and Los Angeles in all its dopey glory.
eloisekleinhealy@mac.com
Healy, Eloise Klein
The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho
Book
An exploration of tradition and literary lineage and loss of a mother.
eloisekleinhealy@mac.com
The Islands Project: Poems For Sappho
Book
An exploration of tradition and literary lineage and loss of a mother.
eloisekleinhealy@mac.com
Holmes, Janet
F2F
Book
How does the act of seeing (not-seeing) impact a woman's relationships? Perhaps as much during electronic communication as when Euridyce caught Orpheus' gaze or Psyche espied Eros by lamplight...
holmes.janet@gmail.com
F2F
Book
How does the act of seeing (not-seeing) impact a woman's relationships? Perhaps as much during electronic communication as when Euridyce caught Orpheus' gaze or Psyche espied Eros by lamplight...
holmes.janet@gmail.com
Holahan, Susan
Sister Betty Reads the Whole You
Book
With reportage at once cranky and lush, Holahan takes on single motherhood and family, class and the classics, rendering our impulsive approaches to each other. . . Her . . . remembrances of postwar childhood, late Vietnam-era child rearing and lefty political protest often come through in a difficult . . . syntax, but one that seems apt given some of the surroundings and situations she describes: a down-and-out New Haven; widowhood; friends who have died. . . But the lighter moments—“Your mint” sniffs someone who sounds like the poet’s mother, surveying the poet’s garden “has eaten the little tulips”—more than counterbalance the shadows. The brilliant “History of Food” links the Rosenbergs, co-op day care and quips like “Take-out firms mushroomed before anyone could spell/Chernobyl.” Fierce, funny and unforgiving, this mature first outing is also intimate and, finally, loving: “My sun/has returned with crushed, soaked weeds and/flowerheads more brown than fulvous yellow./I don’t know/ what else I can ask from this life.” -- Publishers Weekly
susan.holahan@sbcglobal.net
Sister Betty Reads the Whole You
Book
With reportage at once cranky and lush, Holahan takes on single motherhood and family, class and the classics, rendering our impulsive approaches to each other. . . Her . . . remembrances of postwar childhood, late Vietnam-era child rearing and lefty political protest often come through in a difficult . . . syntax, but one that seems apt given some of the surroundings and situations she describes: a down-and-out New Haven; widowhood; friends who have died. . . But the lighter moments—“Your mint” sniffs someone who sounds like the poet’s mother, surveying the poet’s garden “has eaten the little tulips”—more than counterbalance the shadows. The brilliant “History of Food” links the Rosenbergs, co-op day care and quips like “Take-out firms mushroomed before anyone could spell/Chernobyl.” Fierce, funny and unforgiving, this mature first outing is also intimate and, finally, loving: “My sun/has returned with crushed, soaked weeds and/flowerheads more brown than fulvous yellow./I don’t know/ what else I can ask from this life.” -- Publishers Weekly
susan.holahan@sbcglobal.net
Hostetler, Ann
Empty Room with Light
Book
A collection of personal lyric poems, dealing with everyday family life, organized in sections that reflect the visual & artistic framing of experience: Impressions, Family Gallery, Life Studies, Exhibitions, En Plein Air. Cover photograph by Ursula Schultz Dornberg is of a medieval monk's retreat cell full of light. The poems more subtly allude to the sacramental qualities hidden in ordinary mysteries.
anneh@goshen.edu
Empty Room with Light
Book
A collection of personal lyric poems, dealing with everyday family life, organized in sections that reflect the visual & artistic framing of experience: Impressions, Family Gallery, Life Studies, Exhibitions, En Plein Air. Cover photograph by Ursula Schultz Dornberg is of a medieval monk's retreat cell full of light. The poems more subtly allude to the sacramental qualities hidden in ordinary mysteries.
anneh@goshen.edu
Huston, Karla
Catch and Release
Chapbook: limited edition: Marsh River Editions
"Catch and Release is a meeting ground where observation of the natural world meets the psychological nuance of humanity. These poems are deep, reflective, moving—without sacrifice to keen wit." —Robert Nazarene, editor Margie Review
karlahuston@gmail.com
Catch and Release
Chapbook: limited edition: Marsh River Editions
"Catch and Release is a meeting ground where observation of the natural world meets the psychological nuance of humanity. These poems are deep, reflective, moving—without sacrifice to keen wit." —Robert Nazarene, editor Margie Review
karlahuston@gmail.com
Huston, Karla
Flight Patterns
Chapbook: limited edition winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest
"... a knack for the perfect-pitched narrative, the delicious revelation of a storyline in verse. ... the heartbreak of mature and adolescent love, domestic dramas, and issues of the body stun the reader with both their universality and their particular passions." —Denise Duhamel
karlahuston@gmail.com
Flight Patterns
Chapbook: limited edition winner of the 2003 Main Street Rag Chapbook Contest
"... a knack for the perfect-pitched narrative, the delicious revelation of a storyline in verse. ... the heartbreak of mature and adolescent love, domestic dramas, and issues of the body stun the reader with both their universality and their particular passions." —Denise Duhamel
karlahuston@gmail.com
Huston, Karla
Virgins on the Rocks
Chapbook: limited edition: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin Libraries
"... references to the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, Hollywood, pop culture and the Renaissance to broaden the scope of her work. While her poems take on different voices and vocabularies, they stay true to Huston's central subject matter: love." —Harriet Brown, in a review published in the Madison Capital Times
karlahuston@gmail.com
Virgins on the Rocks
Chapbook: limited edition: Parallel Press, University of Wisconsin Libraries
"... references to the Bible, Greek and Roman mythology, Hollywood, pop culture and the Renaissance to broaden the scope of her work. While her poems take on different voices and vocabularies, they stay true to Huston's central subject matter: love." —Harriet Brown, in a review published in the Madison Capital Times
karlahuston@gmail.com
Jesme, Kathleen
The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta Press, 2009)
Poetry book
In her third book of poems, Kathleen Jesme asks what happens if the ordinary ways of knowing are taken away—if one is suddenly unable to see or hear or has been stripped of the familiar past. What begins to show through when absence (or darkness) creates a different inner landscape? In five distinct but interconnected poem cycles, Jesme excavates these inner landscapes and discovers word artifacts to reveal new directions to dig, always bringing the reader somewhere unexpected.
kajesme@comcast.net
The Plum-Stone Game (Ahsahta Press, 2009)
Poetry book
In her third book of poems, Kathleen Jesme asks what happens if the ordinary ways of knowing are taken away—if one is suddenly unable to see or hear or has been stripped of the familiar past. What begins to show through when absence (or darkness) creates a different inner landscape? In five distinct but interconnected poem cycles, Jesme excavates these inner landscapes and discovers word artifacts to reveal new directions to dig, always bringing the reader somewhere unexpected.
kajesme@comcast.net
Kaiser, Mary
Falling into Velazquez
Chapbook
Slapering Hol Press, electic ekphrasis
migkaiser@aol.com
Falling into Velazquez
Chapbook
Slapering Hol Press, electic ekphrasis
migkaiser@aol.com
Kendig, Diane
Greatest Hits 1978-2000
Chapbook
A selection of ten poems, with a preceding essay on how and why they were chosen.
diane@dianekendigcom
Greatest Hits 1978-2000
Chapbook
A selection of ten poems, with a preceding essay on how and why they were chosen.
diane@dianekendigcom
Keyes, Claire
The Question of Rapture
Book
"If the mind insists on imagining its origins, then it come/ to this wintry beach . . . ," Claire Keyes writes, and then richly imagines other worlds, this poet of woods and street, ravens and childhood, Boston and Key West and Greece, graveyards and myth, love and pain, cricket and eagle and thrush. The insight and range of these poems inspire and darken and almost soothe. That almost means a beauty that burns. —Marianne Boruch
cjkeyes@verizon.net
The Question of Rapture
Book
"If the mind insists on imagining its origins, then it come/ to this wintry beach . . . ," Claire Keyes writes, and then richly imagines other worlds, this poet of woods and street, ravens and childhood, Boston and Key West and Greece, graveyards and myth, love and pain, cricket and eagle and thrush. The insight and range of these poems inspire and darken and almost soothe. That almost means a beauty that burns. —Marianne Boruch
cjkeyes@verizon.net
King, Amy
I'm the Man Who Loves You
Book
"Amy King's mercurial poems capture the instability of cultural, sexual, and poetic identity. In the circuitry of her illuminated, incongruous, but somehow perfectly apt details, 'the alien befits us.' With a nod to Gertrude Stein and Fernando Pessoa, as well as cameos by Frida Kahlo, Maya Deren, and Claude Cahun, Amy celebrates 'the roles' of women even as she redefines them, telling us: 'I put on my long black dream/to live among my female brothers.' Playful, provocative, and frenetically lyrical, this is metamorphic poetry for our times. —Elaine Equi
Amy King's poetry is carried by a vital and ineluctable complexity, yoking near-Elizabethan conceit to the roughest necessities with disarming sweetness. John Ashbery and Chidiock Tichborne could not have teamed up to do it better. —Annie Finch
amyhappens@gmail.com
I'm the Man Who Loves You
Book
"Amy King's mercurial poems capture the instability of cultural, sexual, and poetic identity. In the circuitry of her illuminated, incongruous, but somehow perfectly apt details, 'the alien befits us.' With a nod to Gertrude Stein and Fernando Pessoa, as well as cameos by Frida Kahlo, Maya Deren, and Claude Cahun, Amy celebrates 'the roles' of women even as she redefines them, telling us: 'I put on my long black dream/to live among my female brothers.' Playful, provocative, and frenetically lyrical, this is metamorphic poetry for our times. —Elaine Equi
Amy King's poetry is carried by a vital and ineluctable complexity, yoking near-Elizabethan conceit to the roughest necessities with disarming sweetness. John Ashbery and Chidiock Tichborne could not have teamed up to do it better. —Annie Finch
amyhappens@gmail.com
Kirchheimer, Janet R.
How to Spot One of Us (CLAL 2007)
Book
A collection of poems about the Holocaust.
jkirchheimer@clal.org
How to Spot One of Us (CLAL 2007)
Book
A collection of poems about the Holocaust.
jkirchheimer@clal.org
Kuppers, Petra and Marcus, Neil,
with photographer Steichmann, Lisa
Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (Homofactus Press, 2008)
Book
By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence that builds and heats by accretion one keystroke at a time. Cripple Poetics is e-mails, IMs and letters between lovers; poetic rumination/invigoration; and disability arts manifesto. The dance of courtship is reflected in language that alternately snakes and darts, declares and obfuscates, reminisces and forges finding freedom within its limitations. "The dance and the eighth notes got loose: segued, went Rhumba, found poetry and got dolled up with Neil Marcus and Petra Kuppers. A crippled poetics is a perfect harmony with flesh and music and tongues." —Stephen Kuusisto, The University of Iowa
Press Release and Excerpts
petra@umich.edu
Cripple Poetics: A Love Story (Homofactus Press, 2008)
Book
By turns playful, unsettling, raw and moving, Cripple Poetics: A Love Story is an immersive and sensual correspondence that builds and heats by accretion one keystroke at a time. Cripple Poetics is e-mails, IMs and letters between lovers; poetic rumination/invigoration; and disability arts manifesto. The dance of courtship is reflected in language that alternately snakes and darts, declares and obfuscates, reminisces and forges finding freedom within its limitations. "The dance and the eighth notes got loose: segued, went Rhumba, found poetry and got dolled up with Neil Marcus and Petra Kuppers. A crippled poetics is a perfect harmony with flesh and music and tongues." —Stephen Kuusisto, The University of Iowa
Press Release and Excerpts
petra@umich.edu
Lawrence, Jenifer Browne
One Hundred Steps from Shore (Blue Begonia Press, 2006)
Book
Lyric and narrative poetry, elegiac in nature. The collection is centered around an Alaskan childhood. "Through the vehicle of explored memory, Lawrence provides a lucid picture of what keeps/distorts in the presence of grief." —Natasha Kochicheril Moni
jeniferbrownelawrence@comcast.net
One Hundred Steps from Shore (Blue Begonia Press, 2006)
Book
Lyric and narrative poetry, elegiac in nature. The collection is centered around an Alaskan childhood. "Through the vehicle of explored memory, Lawrence provides a lucid picture of what keeps/distorts in the presence of grief." —Natasha Kochicheril Moni
jeniferbrownelawrence@comcast.net
Lederer, Ann Neuser
The Undifferentiated (Pudding House, 2003)
Chapbook
28 poems about healing and health, by a practicing RN
annlederer@juno.com
The Undifferentiated (Pudding House, 2003)
Chapbook
28 poems about healing and health, by a practicing RN
annlederer@juno.com
Levin, Carol
Sea Lions Sing Scat (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Chapbook
From a bluff in Seattle overlooking a large marina, Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island, the Olympic Mountains and a sea lion float. Everything is in movement. Things happen. Each poem has some relationship to water, to movement—all aspects of moving inform the writing.
levincarol3@gmail.com
Sea Lions Sing Scat (Finishing Line Press, 2007)
Chapbook
From a bluff in Seattle overlooking a large marina, Puget Sound, Bainbridge Island, the Olympic Mountains and a sea lion float. Everything is in movement. Things happen. Each poem has some relationship to water, to movement—all aspects of moving inform the writing.
levincarol3@gmail.com
Lurie, Bobbi
The Book I Never Read
Book
Confronting increasing isolation as she watches her mother descent into the abyss of Alzheimer's Disease, the author questions the reality of the world in terms of our perception of it. This book maps her search for what remains after ties with consensual reality are broken. These poems explore the process of our subjective experience through an examination of fantasy, desire, loss and love.
Bobbilurie@aol.com
The Book I Never Read
Book
Confronting increasing isolation as she watches her mother descent into the abyss of Alzheimer's Disease, the author questions the reality of the world in terms of our perception of it. This book maps her search for what remains after ties with consensual reality are broken. These poems explore the process of our subjective experience through an examination of fantasy, desire, loss and love.
Bobbilurie@aol.com
MacPherson, Jennifer
Rosary of Bones (Cherry Grove, 2007)
Book
"The world of Jennifer MacPherson's poems is a world of bone, breakable and imperfect; a world of loss and mystery, of desire and hope. Meticulously made, not a word too many, not a word out of place, the poems dare to ask "the heart's mad questions." Finally, they are a tending toward prayer--a rosary, perhaps, or a "singing at the execution," a marveling at the resiliency of the human spirit. I love these poems; so will you." —Patricia Fargnoli
jennymac@dreamscape.com
Rosary of Bones (Cherry Grove, 2007)
Book
"The world of Jennifer MacPherson's poems is a world of bone, breakable and imperfect; a world of loss and mystery, of desire and hope. Meticulously made, not a word too many, not a word out of place, the poems dare to ask "the heart's mad questions." Finally, they are a tending toward prayer--a rosary, perhaps, or a "singing at the execution," a marveling at the resiliency of the human spirit. I love these poems; so will you." —Patricia Fargnoli
jennymac@dreamscape.com
McCann, Janet
Emily's Dress (Pecan Grove, 2004)
Chapbook
Poems mostly about Dickinson
j-mccann1@tamu.edu
Emily's Dress (Pecan Grove, 2004)
Chapbook
Poems mostly about Dickinson
j-mccann1@tamu.edu
Mandel, Charlotte
The Life of Mary: a Poem-Novella
Book, with Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert
A revisionist narrative of the biblical figure, told in lyric non- chronological sequences. There are three Mary's: a modern American Jewish woman, her imagined biblical Mary, and Michelangelo's Pieta. Includes an audiocassette of my reading of the entire work, with music by composer-guitarist David Hauer.
chamandel@optonline.net
The Life of Mary: a Poem-Novella
Book, with Foreword by Sandra M. Gilbert
A revisionist narrative of the biblical figure, told in lyric non- chronological sequences. There are three Mary's: a modern American Jewish woman, her imagined biblical Mary, and Michelangelo's Pieta. Includes an audiocassette of my reading of the entire work, with music by composer-guitarist David Hauer.
chamandel@optonline.net
May, Lori A.
stains: early poems
Book
"May reminds us that stains are not mere surface marks but signs of what have gone into the making of a person." - Elizabeth Switaj, Gender Across Borders
lori@loriamay.com
stains: early poems
Book
"May reminds us that stains are not mere surface marks but signs of what have gone into the making of a person." - Elizabeth Switaj, Gender Across Borders
lori@loriamay.com
Mayo, Tim
The Kingdom of Possibilities
Full length collection (trade paper back)
Meditative, fierce and direct, these poems explore what constitutes identity in our contemporary society. Mayo takes us on journeys across the globe--falling off a motor bike and finding refuge with Italians, honeymooning in Athens, and discovering an ammo belt in St. Jean de Luz. Each of these poems reflects the complications of understanding oneself with charm and wit.
tim-mayo@tim-mayo.net
The Kingdom of Possibilities
Full length collection (trade paper back)
Meditative, fierce and direct, these poems explore what constitutes identity in our contemporary society. Mayo takes us on journeys across the globe--falling off a motor bike and finding refuge with Italians, honeymooning in Athens, and discovering an ammo belt in St. Jean de Luz. Each of these poems reflects the complications of understanding oneself with charm and wit.
tim-mayo@tim-mayo.net
Mayo, Tim
The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications)
Chapbook
Tim Mayo's poems have a meditative quality that's right for their subject, which is the great subject of poetry: making sense of one's life. But there's flash and wit, too; a poem in which a woman friend asks for advice about her car ends with the speaker "hoping for the red convertible of your smile/ to pass by and give him a lift." Most of all, there's surprise. Time and again the poems take you around curves to reveal new vistas, like driving around the mountains and hills of Mayo's Vermont. —Ed Ochester, Editor, Pitt Poetry Series Author of UNRECONSTRUCTED: Poems Selected and New
tim-mayo@tim-mayo.net
The Loneliness of Dogs (Pudding House Publications)
Chapbook
Tim Mayo's poems have a meditative quality that's right for their subject, which is the great subject of poetry: making sense of one's life. But there's flash and wit, too; a poem in which a woman friend asks for advice about her car ends with the speaker "hoping for the red convertible of your smile/ to pass by and give him a lift." Most of all, there's surprise. Time and again the poems take you around curves to reveal new vistas, like driving around the mountains and hills of Mayo's Vermont. —Ed Ochester, Editor, Pitt Poetry Series Author of UNRECONSTRUCTED: Poems Selected and New
tim-mayo@tim-mayo.net
Miller, Peggy
What the Blood Knows (Custom Words 2007)
Book
Many of these poems are inspired by science. Myra Sklarew says of What the Blood Knows: "It is exceedingly rare that a collection of poetry has the intellectual heft of these poems at the same time losing none of the delicacy, the sound of the human voice, the mystery of life and living things in this world, the known and the unknowable played out so beautifully."
poetpmiller@comcast.net
What the Blood Knows (Custom Words 2007)
Book
Many of these poems are inspired by science. Myra Sklarew says of What the Blood Knows: "It is exceedingly rare that a collection of poetry has the intellectual heft of these poems at the same time losing none of the delicacy, the sound of the human voice, the mystery of life and living things in this world, the known and the unknowable played out so beautifully."
poetpmiller@comcast.net
Mish, Jeanetta Calhoun
*Work Is Love Made Visible*
Book, with photographs
Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a formidable critical vocabulary. She writes in a language of solidarity, affirmation, and love. The story of the daughter who left home, traveled the country, and returned to do her family proud is still worth telling: add to that the heartbreak, lustiness, traditional wisdom, Okie determination, and Indian legacy of these poems and you have quite a bundle. The historic family photographs are breathtaking in their own right: beyond any job of archaeology, they speak the world they portray.
tonguetiedwoman@gmail.com
*Work Is Love Made Visible*
Book, with photographs
Both homespun and sophisticated, this book of poems and family memories carries a bite: the author is an Oklahoma woman with a history of hard traveling and a feminist intellectual with a formidable critical vocabulary. She writes in a language of solidarity, affirmation, and love. The story of the daughter who left home, traveled the country, and returned to do her family proud is still worth telling: add to that the heartbreak, lustiness, traditional wisdom, Okie determination, and Indian legacy of these poems and you have quite a bundle. The historic family photographs are breathtaking in their own right: beyond any job of archaeology, they speak the world they portray.
tonguetiedwoman@gmail.com
Moore, Julie L.
Election Day
Chapbook
In Election Day, Julie L. Moore unearths the beauty and frailty in both the natural world and the landscape of pain. Negotiating the often blurred boundaries between visible and invisible realities, her poems traverse the expanse between awe and uncertainty, perseverance and surrender, tough questions and even tougher answers.
moorej@cedarville.edu
Election Day
Chapbook
In Election Day, Julie L. Moore unearths the beauty and frailty in both the natural world and the landscape of pain. Negotiating the often blurred boundaries between visible and invisible realities, her poems traverse the expanse between awe and uncertainty, perseverance and surrender, tough questions and even tougher answers.
moorej@cedarville.edu
Muchhala, CJ
Traveling Without a Map
Chapbook
22 lyric poems in 2 sections explore the natural world, a metaphor for self, and travel through the entanglements of family, love, and place. Dedicated "To the unknown traveler."
muchcar@ameritech.net
Traveling Without a Map
Chapbook
22 lyric poems in 2 sections explore the natural world, a metaphor for self, and travel through the entanglements of family, love, and place. Dedicated "To the unknown traveler."
muchcar@ameritech.net
Oakes, Elizabeth
The Farmgirl Poems
Book
Farmgirl won the 2004 Pearl Poetry Prize. Excerpts from blurbs: Sallie Bingham -- "How rare, in this wracked world, to find a wholeness of vision that reflects as it creates a world"; George Ella Lyon - "a clear, vital voice"; Joe Survant - "A memoir in poetry, it does not make one false step."
elizabeth.oakes@wku.edu
The Farmgirl Poems
Book
Farmgirl won the 2004 Pearl Poetry Prize. Excerpts from blurbs: Sallie Bingham -- "How rare, in this wracked world, to find a wholeness of vision that reflects as it creates a world"; George Ella Lyon - "a clear, vital voice"; Joe Survant - "A memoir in poetry, it does not make one false step."
elizabeth.oakes@wku.edu
Pacosz, Christina
Some Winded, Wild Beast (Black and Red, Detroit, 1985)
Book, 97 pages.
Prose poems and poetry about Detroit and PNW, anti-war; often listed with anarchist booksellers.
pacosz@earthlink.net
Some Winded, Wild Beast (Black and Red, Detroit, 1985)
Book, 97 pages.
Prose poems and poetry about Detroit and PNW, anti-war; often listed with anarchist booksellers.
pacosz@earthlink.net
Pacosz, Christina
This Is Not a Place to Sing (West End, 1987)
Book, 48 pages
Sharon Doubiago wrote: This Is Not a Place to Sing is a moving account of an American poet in the homeland of her father and grandparents. In spite of the admonishment and the nightmare of Polish history, Pacosz makes a triumphant song. In reviewing This Is Not a Place to Sing, Choice, The Journal of the American Library Association noted, "...the poet employs daring technique and style; she does not hesitate to take risks." This collection relates Ms. Pacosz' 1986 journey to Poland where she studied Polish‑Jewish relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and visited relatives.
pacosz@earthlink.net
This Is Not a Place to Sing (West End, 1987)
Book, 48 pages
Sharon Doubiago wrote: This Is Not a Place to Sing is a moving account of an American poet in the homeland of her father and grandparents. In spite of the admonishment and the nightmare of Polish history, Pacosz makes a triumphant song. In reviewing This Is Not a Place to Sing, Choice, The Journal of the American Library Association noted, "...the poet employs daring technique and style; she does not hesitate to take risks." This collection relates Ms. Pacosz' 1986 journey to Poland where she studied Polish‑Jewish relations at the Jagiellonian University in Krakow and visited relatives.
pacosz@earthlink.net
Pirie, Pearl
Meg narrates to herself
Broadside
Pooka Press Photo booth broadsides, 2007
pearlksp@hotmail.com
Meg narrates to herself
Broadside
Pooka Press Photo booth broadsides, 2007
pearlksp@hotmail.com
Pupek, Jayne
Forms of Intercession (Mayapple Press, 2008)
Book
Ghostly and energetic, Jayne Pupek’s poems range in content through an ambivalent abortion, a lover’s abandonment, childhood abuse, a bad case of the flu, and her own longings. Each poem’s graceful and intense meditations connect to the reader’s own world.
JaynePupek@aol.com
Forms of Intercession (Mayapple Press, 2008)
Book
Ghostly and energetic, Jayne Pupek’s poems range in content through an ambivalent abortion, a lover’s abandonment, childhood abuse, a bad case of the flu, and her own longings. Each poem’s graceful and intense meditations connect to the reader’s own world.
JaynePupek@aol.com
Quinlan, Alexis
Landloper (Finishing Line Press)
Chapbook
A collection of poems on travel.
alexis@abchaoslex.com
Landloper (Finishing Line Press)
Chapbook
A collection of poems on travel.
alexis@abchaoslex.com
Reyes, Barbara Jane
Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005)
Book
(From Tinfish Press website) Barbara Jane Reyes's Poeta en San Francisco is linguistic tour de force, incorporating English, Spanish, and Tagalog in a book-length poem at once lush and experimentally rigorous. From the vantage of San Francisco, Reyes looks outward to the Philippines, Vietnam, and other colonized places with violent histories. As she said in a recent interview, "It's almost a cliché, the phrase, 'the personal is political,' but certainly, this is a strong consideration in my work."And yet, it is not only violence that concerns Reyes: "I am interested in how we come to love in this world, despite the historical circumstances, the conquests, the wars, which have created us as a diasporic people, as exiles, and refugees." This is an ambitious, sweeping and necessary work. Reyes has won the James Laughlin Award for a second book from the Academy of American Poets for this volume.
http://barbarajanereyes.com/
bjanepr@yahoo.com
Poeta en San Francisco (Tinfish Press, 2005)
Book
(From Tinfish Press website) Barbara Jane Reyes's Poeta en San Francisco is linguistic tour de force, incorporating English, Spanish, and Tagalog in a book-length poem at once lush and experimentally rigorous. From the vantage of San Francisco, Reyes looks outward to the Philippines, Vietnam, and other colonized places with violent histories. As she said in a recent interview, "It's almost a cliché, the phrase, 'the personal is political,' but certainly, this is a strong consideration in my work."And yet, it is not only violence that concerns Reyes: "I am interested in how we come to love in this world, despite the historical circumstances, the conquests, the wars, which have created us as a diasporic people, as exiles, and refugees." This is an ambitious, sweeping and necessary work. Reyes has won the James Laughlin Award for a second book from the Academy of American Poets for this volume.
http://barbarajanereyes.com/
bjanepr@yahoo.com
Roma-Deeley, Lois
/northSight/
Book, cloth
In /northSight/, our traveling companions on this road make a "vital chorus" of those who suffer—or those who make others suffer. Those who survive with dignity and those who—with great astonishment—disappear into their own despair. On this journey we meet both Beast and Angel: rapists, waitresses, prostitutes, war heroes, tattoo girls, Italian immigrants, dope dealers, day laborers, monks, bikers, and firemen as well as the uncommitted, the confused and the slightly insane. This is a book that dares us to hope.
lois.roma-deeley@pvmail.maricopa.edu
/northSight/
Book, cloth
In /northSight/, our traveling companions on this road make a "vital chorus" of those who suffer—or those who make others suffer. Those who survive with dignity and those who—with great astonishment—disappear into their own despair. On this journey we meet both Beast and Angel: rapists, waitresses, prostitutes, war heroes, tattoo girls, Italian immigrants, dope dealers, day laborers, monks, bikers, and firemen as well as the uncommitted, the confused and the slightly insane. This is a book that dares us to hope.
lois.roma-deeley@pvmail.maricopa.edu
Satterfield, Jane
Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond
book-mothering/memoir/travel
jsatterfield@loyola.edu
Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond
book-mothering/memoir/travel
jsatterfield@loyola.edu
Schimel, Lawrence
Fairy Tales For Writers
Chapbook (Perfect-bound, 32 pages)
Fairy Tales For Writers holds up a magic mirror to the joys and struggles of the creative process and the writing life, reflecting them through the lens of the powerful archetypes of these formative stories. From "The Little Mermaid": "She gave up her voice for him,/learning to mimic the minimalist style/he advocated in his workshops."
lawrenceschimel@gmail.com
Fairy Tales For Writers
Chapbook (Perfect-bound, 32 pages)
Fairy Tales For Writers holds up a magic mirror to the joys and struggles of the creative process and the writing life, reflecting them through the lens of the powerful archetypes of these formative stories. From "The Little Mermaid": "She gave up her voice for him,/learning to mimic the minimalist style/he advocated in his workshops."
lawrenceschimel@gmail.com
Schneider, Ada Jill
Behind the Pictures I Hang (Spinner Publications, Inc. 2007)
Book 112 pages
In Behind the Pictures I Hang, many poems encompass the theme of love. When Ada Jill Schneider “counts the ways,” she speaks of more than young love. Rather, it is the joy that comes with the birth of a child, loving through sorrow, devotion to family—an abiding love that has endured into the poet’s 70s. As for Ron, her husband of over fifty years, she shamelessly discloses that romance and passion are not only for the young.
adajschneider@gmail.com
www.adajillschneider.com
Behind the Pictures I Hang (Spinner Publications, Inc. 2007)
Book 112 pages
In Behind the Pictures I Hang, many poems encompass the theme of love. When Ada Jill Schneider “counts the ways,” she speaks of more than young love. Rather, it is the joy that comes with the birth of a child, loving through sorrow, devotion to family—an abiding love that has endured into the poet’s 70s. As for Ron, her husband of over fifty years, she shamelessly discloses that romance and passion are not only for the young.
adajschneider@gmail.com
www.adajillschneider.com
Schott, Penelope Scambly
May the Generations Die in the Right Order
Book
(2007) includes poems about dying, living, loving, and the world.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
May the Generations Die in the Right Order
Book
(2007) includes poems about dying, living, loving, and the world.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
Schott, Penelope Scambly
A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth
Book
(2007) explores the life of Anne Hutchinson who was expelled from Boston in 1639 for out-arguing the Puritan fathers.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
A is for Anne: Mistress Hutchinson Disturbs the Commonwealth
Book
(2007) explores the life of Anne Hutchinson who was expelled from Boston in 1639 for out-arguing the Puritan fathers.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
Schott, Penelope Scambly
The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy
Book
(2004) Documentary narrative poem.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy
Book
(2004) Documentary narrative poem.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
Schott, Penelope Scambly
Baiting the Void
Book
(2005) Won the Orphic Prize.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
Baiting the Void
Book
(2005) Won the Orphic Prize.
PenelopeSchott@comcast.net
Shmailo, Larissa
The No-Net World
Poetry CD
Poems and translations, some with original music.
slidingsca@aol.com
The No-Net World
Poetry CD
Poems and translations, some with original music.
slidingsca@aol.com
Shumaker, Peggy
Blaze
Poetry/painting collaboration with painter Kesler Woodward
Sensual Alaskan paintings and poems.
www.peggyshumaker.com
peggyzoe@sprynet.com
Blaze
Poetry/painting collaboration with painter Kesler Woodward
Sensual Alaskan paintings and poems.
www.peggyshumaker.com
peggyzoe@sprynet.com
Shumaker, Peggy
Underground Rivers
Book
Poems from two deserts, the Sonoran and the subarctic, Arizona and Alaska.
peggyzoe@sprynet.com
Underground Rivers
Book
Poems from two deserts, the Sonoran and the subarctic, Arizona and Alaska.
peggyzoe@sprynet.com
Silano, Martha
Blue Positive
Book
Poems about motherhood and the birthing of two children.
www.marthasilano.com
marthasilano@yahoo.com
Blue Positive
Book
Poems about motherhood and the birthing of two children.
www.marthasilano.com
marthasilano@yahoo.com
Simone, Linda
Cow Tippers
Chapbook
Winner of 2006 Shadow Poetry Chapbook Competition
lindsim1@aol.com
Cow Tippers
Chapbook
Winner of 2006 Shadow Poetry Chapbook Competition
lindsim1@aol.com
Todd, J. C.
What Space This Body
Book
Volume of poems that address H. D.'s question: "What about the body?" How the body enters the world; how the world enters the body; how language mediates; how language cannot mediate.
jct4tdb@yahoo.com
What Space This Body
Book
Volume of poems that address H. D.'s question: "What about the body?" How the body enters the world; how the world enters the body; how language mediates; how language cannot mediate.
jct4tdb@yahoo.com
Varnes, Kathrine
The Paragon (Word Tech Editions 2005)
Book
Contains a long sonnet crown in which two women who've never met discuss their mutual ex-husband by telephone; also betrayal, gardening, cooking, and formal experimentation.
kv@kathrinevarnes.com
The Paragon (Word Tech Editions 2005)
Book
Contains a long sonnet crown in which two women who've never met discuss their mutual ex-husband by telephone; also betrayal, gardening, cooking, and formal experimentation.
kv@kathrinevarnes.com
Velie, Dianalee
First Edition (2005)
Book
"Velie's First Edition is a brave book, doing what it must do, making art out of enormous tragedy, painting over grief with '(t)he lemon yellow paint, called joyous..." -Maxine Kumin
DianaleeVelie@aol.com
First Edition (2005)
Book
"Velie's First Edition is a brave book, doing what it must do, making art out of enormous tragedy, painting over grief with '(t)he lemon yellow paint, called joyous..." -Maxine Kumin
DianaleeVelie@aol.com
Velie, Dianalee
Glass House (2004)
Book
"Dinanlee Velie writes with grace and in poem after poem, her voice possesses a tender agility in order to travel those difficult paths that make us all uniquely human. These poems are brave in their lucidity, generous, sensual and intelligent celebrations of what it means to be in the world. Read this collection, it will enhance your life." -Kevin Pilkington, Poet / Professor
DianaleeVelie@aol.com
Glass House (2004)
Book
"Dinanlee Velie writes with grace and in poem after poem, her voice possesses a tender agility in order to travel those difficult paths that make us all uniquely human. These poems are brave in their lucidity, generous, sensual and intelligent celebrations of what it means to be in the world. Read this collection, it will enhance your life." -Kevin Pilkington, Poet / Professor
DianaleeVelie@aol.com
Velie, Dianalee
The Many Roads to Paradise (2006)
Book
" In Dianalee Velie's poem, "Primary Colors," an old man, at home in his life, says "Here I am and I know." The Many Roads to Paradise is the record of a poet's tenacious desire, here and now - by way of a dog or a fireplace log or Louis Armstrong's recorded voice or a blue-collar cafeteria worker or a hermit thrush or a dying friend or a woman who is stoned to death - to 'know where God is hiding,' to 'sense heaven.' She invites our company during this search for the source, and we're grateful to discover her poems' answers." -William Heyen, 2004 National Book Award Finalist
DianaleeVelie@aol.com
The Many Roads to Paradise (2006)
Book
" In Dianalee Velie's poem, "Primary Colors," an old man, at home in his life, says "Here I am and I know." The Many Roads to Paradise is the record of a poet's tenacious desire, here and now - by way of a dog or a fireplace log or Louis Armstrong's recorded voice or a blue-collar cafeteria worker or a hermit thrush or a dying friend or a woman who is stoned to death - to 'know where God is hiding,' to 'sense heaven.' She invites our company during this search for the source, and we're grateful to discover her poems' answers." -William Heyen, 2004 National Book Award Finalist
DianaleeVelie@aol.com
Warren, Crystal
Bodies of Glass
Chapbook, 34pp
Poems exploring a personal territory of love, loss, depression and hope, as well as issues of corporeality, spirituality and the importance of words.
c.warren@ru.ac.za
Bodies of Glass
Chapbook, 34pp
Poems exploring a personal territory of love, loss, depression and hope, as well as issues of corporeality, spirituality and the importance of words.
c.warren@ru.ac.za
Weaver, Julene
Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues (Finishing Line Press)
Chapbook
Description: This book comes out of my work as an AIDS Case Manager, which I did for over fifteen years during the heart of the AIDS epidemic in urban Seattle. I work for one of the largest AIDS Service Organizations in the Pacific Northwest, Lifelong AIDS Alliance (formerly the Northwest AIDS Foundation and Chicken Soup Brigade). The book is in dedication to the many clients as well as friends who have died; the book contains elegies, written during the years when the death rate from AIDS was soaring, as well as poems about the secondary trauma impact on the service provider. Visual artist Eric Alugas said of Case Walking, "This book is necessary art that hits like a hammer over the head again and again." Blurbs on the back cover are from Tom Spanbauer, Elizabeth Austen, and Roy Jacobstein. trippweaver@gmail.com
Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues (Finishing Line Press)
Chapbook
Description: This book comes out of my work as an AIDS Case Manager, which I did for over fifteen years during the heart of the AIDS epidemic in urban Seattle. I work for one of the largest AIDS Service Organizations in the Pacific Northwest, Lifelong AIDS Alliance (formerly the Northwest AIDS Foundation and Chicken Soup Brigade). The book is in dedication to the many clients as well as friends who have died; the book contains elegies, written during the years when the death rate from AIDS was soaring, as well as poems about the secondary trauma impact on the service provider. Visual artist Eric Alugas said of Case Walking, "This book is necessary art that hits like a hammer over the head again and again." Blurbs on the back cover are from Tom Spanbauer, Elizabeth Austen, and Roy Jacobstein. trippweaver@gmail.com
Williams, Susan Settlemyre
Ashes in Midair
Book
Yusef Komunyakaa says, "Though the poems in Ashes in Midair often excavate the otherworldly, this poignant collection also keeps us faithful to the business of this world."
susian@earthlink.net
Ashes in Midair
Book
Yusef Komunyakaa says, "Though the poems in Ashes in Midair often excavate the otherworldly, this poignant collection also keeps us faithful to the business of this world."
susian@earthlink.net
Williams, Susan Settlemyre
Possession
Chapbook
This collection looks at various forms of religious obsession and madness, with characters ranging from an outsider artist to stigmatics to a woman with Alzheimer's. The book was second runner-up in the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Contest and is published by Finishing Line Press.
susian@earthlink.net
Possession
Chapbook
This collection looks at various forms of religious obsession and madness, with characters ranging from an outsider artist to stigmatics to a woman with Alzheimer's. The book was second runner-up in the 2006 Tupelo Press Snowbound Contest and is published by Finishing Line Press.
susian@earthlink.net
Winslow, Rosemary
Green Bodies
Book
Poems that inquire into the "terrible complexity of love without disavowing the sheer hell people can visit upon one another" (Baron Wormser). Winslow casts a "web of perpetual light," which is the light of requiem .... wholly original in conception and execution" (Eric Ormsby). "Winslow is convinced, as her poems convince us, of "An amazing thing, to live, forgiving it all" (Eamon Grennan).
Winslow@cua.edu
Green Bodies
Book
Poems that inquire into the "terrible complexity of love without disavowing the sheer hell people can visit upon one another" (Baron Wormser). Winslow casts a "web of perpetual light," which is the light of requiem .... wholly original in conception and execution" (Eric Ormsby). "Winslow is convinced, as her poems convince us, of "An amazing thing, to live, forgiving it all" (Eamon Grennan).
Winslow@cua.edu