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  • Susan Kay Anderson
    Mezzanine
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2019
    Author website: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-kay-anderson-27726247
    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/mezzanine-by-susan-kay-anderson/
    Mezzanine by Susan Kay Anderson $19.99 Mezzanine is part animal dream, part love song / song of despair about the worlds that drift through the night janitor’s empire, and part eternal desire to make meaning of the illogical evidence before us. The glittering poems by Susan Kay Anderson speak their own realities, talk amongst each other, and shape a world informed by the refusal to look away, desire for connection, and absolute attention to the details. It’s this world of matter, how it drifts in and out of other matter, all of it stories and important, that informs this exciting work. –Jennifer Boyden, author of The Mouths of Grazing Things Mezzanine seems an especially apt title for Susan Kay Anderson‘s stunning debut collection. A “mezzanine,” after all, is a story between stories, and throughout these pieces, which interweave narratives of people and places in the West, Anderson gives us ample space from which to look out, look up, and examine our own deepest selves. “My mind is a butterfly,” she writes early in the book, and what a thrill it is to soar with her as she lights on each image and scene, offering up a meticulously observed collection of uncommon depth and heart. –James Crews, author of Telling My Father and The Book of What Stays Susan Kay Anderson‘s Mezzanine is a search for self by losing self. As a shamanic presence, she disappears into a number of landscapes, principally the area in and around Nome, Alaska. There is an amazing tension created by the quiet ecstasy of the voice that guides us through this life-dream. The long poem that provides the book’s title is narrated by a night shift janitor who works in a university building. As she moves from room to room, area to area, she recovers pieces of her life, as if praying the stations of the cross. This brilliant book is both stylistically innovative and an emotionally moving experience. –Lawrence R. Smith, author of The Plain Talk of the Dead, Editor and Publisher of Calibanonline Compact poems that continually delight and surprise, the poet’s mind-scape conjures interlocking images through word play and rhythm that yield new meaning with each reading – taking the reader along with her ‘so close to the sky’. –Jonathan Chant, author of The Great Quest Of Celtic Mystery Mezzanine by Susan Kay Anderson $19.99 Mezzanine is part animal dream, part love song / song of despair about the worlds that drift through the night janitor’s empire, and part eternal desire to make meaning of the illogical evidence before us. The glittering poems by Susan Kay Anderson speak their own realities, talk amongst each other, and shape a world informed by the refusal to look away, desire for connection, and absolute attention to the details. It’s this world of matter, how it drifts in and out of other matter, all of it stories and important, that informs this exciting work. –Jennifer Boyden, author of The Mouths of Grazing Things Mezzanine seems an especially apt title for Susan Kay Anderson‘s stunning debut collection. A “mezzanine,” after all, is a story between stories, and throughout these pieces, which interweave narratives of people and places in the West, Anderson gives us ample space from which to look out, look up, and examine our own deepest selves. “My mind is a butterfly,” she writes early in the book, and what a thrill it is to soar with her as she lights on each image and scene, offering up a meticulously observed collection of uncommon depth and heart. –James Crews, author of Telling My Father and The Book of What Stays Susan Kay Anderson‘s Mezzanine is a search for self by losing self. As a shamanic presence, she disappears into a number of landscapes, principally the area in and around Nome, Alaska. There is an amazing tension created by the quiet ecstasy of the voice that guides us through this life-dream. The long poem that provides the book’s title is narrated by a night shift janitor who works in a university building. As she moves from room to room, area to area, she recovers pieces of her life, as if praying the stations of the cross. This brilliant book is both stylistically innovative and an emotionally moving experience. –Lawrence R. Smith, author of The Plain Talk of the Dead, Editor and Publisher of Calibanonline Compact poems that continually delight and surprise, the poet’s mind-scape conjures interlocking images through word play and rhythm that yield new meaning with each reading – taking the reader along with her ‘so close to the sky’. –Jonathan Chant, author of The Great Quest Of Celtic Mystery Mezzanine is part animal dream, part love song / song of despair about the worlds that drift through the night janitor’s empire, and part eternal desire to make meaning of the illogical evidence before us. The glittering poems by Susan Kay Anderson speak their own realities, talk amongst each other, and shape a world informed by the refusal to look away, desire for connection, and absolute attention to the details. It’s this world of matter, how it drifts in and out of other matter, all of it stories and important, that informs this exciting work. –Jennifer Boyden, author of The Mouths of Grazing Things


  • Tiel Aisha Ansari
    High-Voltage Lines
    Publisher: Barefoot Muse Press, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/High-Voltage-Lines-Aisha-Ansari/dp/0615663761



  • Tiel Aisha Ansari
    Country Well-Known as an Old Nightmare's Stable
    Publisher: Barefoot Muse, 2020
    Author website: http://knockingfrominside.blogspot.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.barefootmuse.com/
    "These poems are living roads to so many places, here and there, past and present. The roads are dangerous; the words speak to and for the many of us who live as strangers in the strange lands of the flesh and of the spirit. There are tributes to named firefighters who died in the front lines and to Colin Kaepernick, to the unnamed young woman who cuts herself and the unnamed young man on his road to nowhere." Mary Cresswell, author of Field Notes and Fish Stories


  • Dori Appel
    Another Rude Awakening
    Publisher: Cherry Grove Press, 2008
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Another-Rude-Awakening-Dori-Appel/dp/1934999237



  • Judith Arcana
    The Parachute Jump Effect
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/books.html



  • Judith Arcana
    Soon To Be A Major Motion Picture
    Publisher: Minerva Rising, 2015
    Author website: http://www.juditharcana.com/
    Purchase book: http://minervarising.com/purchase-chapbooks/
    Additional comments: Based on a true story (as they say in Hollywood), this is fiction rooted in the experience of Chicago's pre-Roe underground abortion clinic, the Abortion Counseling Service of the Chicago Women's Liberation Union - now most often called JANE. SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE is about the time the abortion service was raided by Chicago police - a narrative in the voice of a Jane who, many years later, is making a movie about that extraordinary episode.



  • What She Was Wearing
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2019
    Author website: http://redshoepoet.com
    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/what-she-was-wearing
    How long can you keep a dark secret before you become completely unraveled? In What She Was Wearing, Shawn Aveningo Sanders uses poetry, prose, and letters to share her #MeToo story—one that has taken over 30 years to reveal. ————— “Starkly honest and memorably graceful, these poems are a virtuoso performance of feminism and survival.” —Amy Miller, author of The Trouble with New England Girls ————— “Forced into silence for too long, women all over this world are now speaking out, saying #MeToo. What She Was Wearing is Sanders’ brave voice joining this transforming chorus.” —Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita ————— “Shawn Aveningo Sanders has turned shame, anguish and grief into poetry” —Judith Arcana, poet & activist for reproductive rights, author of Announcements from the Planetarium ————— “Fresh and unflinching” —Leslie Anne Mcilroy, co-founder HEArt: Human Equity through Art ————— “As a fellow #MeToo survivor, all 25 poems in the book spoke to me.” —Sharon Wood Wortman, poet, storyteller, author of The Portland Bridge Book ————— “What She Was Wearing demonstrates how sexual assault impacts the entirety of the survivor’s life and shows us how one can fight their way back to feeling whole again.” —Christopher Luna, Clark County, WA’s inaugural poet laureate —————


  • Lana Hechtman Ayers
    Four Quarters: an homage to T.S. Eliot's Four Quartets
    Publisher: Night Rain Press, 2016
    Author website: http://lanaayers.com/
    Purchase book: https://www.amazon.com/Four-Quarters-Homage-Eliots-Quartets/dp/0997083468
    A dialogue and dance with Eliot's classic poem series. Preserving Eliot's distinctive stanza structures and syntax throughout, Ayers, creates an utterly unique poem sequence that simultaneously celebrates the master poet, while taking him to task over his pessimistic stance on humanity.


  • Lisa E. Baldwin Poems from 24 poets, essays from 10 writers, and short fiction from 9
    From the Heart of the Applegate
    Publisher: Applegate Valley Community Newspaper, Inc., 2016
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    Purchase book: http://applegater.org/
    Here is an anthology of poems, stories and essays by 36 writers living in the Applegate River Valley. It is available from the publisher (www.applegater.org) and from Amazon.com, as well as several local outlets in Southern Oregon.


  • Jessica Barksdale Inclán
    Grim Honey
    Publisher: Sheila-Na-Gig, 2021
    Author website: https://www.jessicabarksdaleinclan.com
    Purchase book: https://sheilanagigblog.com/sheila-na-gig-editions-quick-shopping/jessica-barksdale/
    The hardest sweet is sharp to the tongue, painful, cutting, and often divine. The poems in Jessica Barksdale’s collection Grim Honey follow thin paths of grief, up through steep switchbacks and down the rocky declines into the meadows, where for a moment, we can pause and remember before moving on. The speakers in these poems open to their sorrows and passions and then push forward into stories that—while understood—are still evolving. Barksdale moves through issues of family, love, and death, delving into what is beautiful as completely as what is not to show the fullness of life.


  • Jan Baross
    In Living Color
    Publisher: MPolo Press, 2021
    Author website: janbaross.com
    Purchase book: janbaross.com
    From award winning novelist, Jan Baross, her first book of poetry. It covers family, love, Mexico, politics and the pacific NW in nature.


  • Eleanor Berry
    Green November
    Publisher: Traprock Books, 2007
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/0976741148



  • David Biespiel
    Long Journey: Contemporary Northwest Poets
    Publisher: Oregon State University Press, 2006
    Author website: http://www.poetrynw.org/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Long-Journey-Contemporary-Northwest-Poets/dp/0870710982



  • Nancy Diamante Bonazzoli
    Absolution
    Publisher: Luminare Publishing, 2019
    Author website: www.mysticforestrefuge.org
    Purchase book: https://www.amazon.com/Absolution-Nancy-Diamante-Bonazzoli/dp/1643882333/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=absolution+nancy&qid=1581552244&rnid=2941120011&s=books&sr=1-1
    These deeply personal and transcendent poems will appeal to all who have ever questioned life deeply through the means of suffering, introspection and transformation. Absolution explores the journey from doubt and pain to acceptance, communion, and growth both in wisdom and in Love. This book includes such necessary themes as pain, illness, dying and death, fear, acceptance, love and prayer, bliss and ecstasy, and provides a refreshing perspective on the relationships between nature, self/other, and The Divine. Nancy's work appears in many journals, including most recently Bewildering Stories (where she also received a 2019 Mariner Award), January Review, Euonia Review, Blue Moon Literature and Art, The stray Branch, Down in the Dirt, and River Poets Journal's Seasonal and 2019 Special Editions. Her work has also been published in the anthology Sacred Voices: Essential Women's Wisdom through the Ages by Mary Ford-Grabowsky, and she is a past winner of the William G. Doody Memorial Prize for Poetry.


  • Carol Brockfield
    At Leaf's Edge
    Publisher: Oakleaf Press - First Edition 2009; New Ed. 2012, 2012
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  • Adam Brown
    Musings of a Madman
    Publisher: Creative Talents Unleashed, 2016
    Author website: http://www.ctupublishinggroup.com/adam-levon-brown-.html
    Purchase book: http://www.ctupublishinggroup.com/home.html
    $13.95 Plus Shipping PayPal - The safer, easier way to pay online! Now Available Some say that Madness is linked directly to creativity. I don’t know about that, but I can tell you one thing, I am definitely mad. I chose these 55 poems to entice and teach people just what a maddened mind can create. When you’re reading my poetry you are stepping into the mouth of madness itself. I hope you enjoy the ride...


  • Marie Buckley & Carol Frischmann; Judith Massee; Jean Richardson
    Quartet: four poetic voices
    Publisher: Media Weavers LLC, 2006
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  • Lorna Cahall
    The Field
    Publisher: , 2011
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  • Nancy Carol Moody
    Photograph With Girls
    Publisher: Traprock Books, 2009
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Poetic-Voices-Marie-Buckley/dp/0964721287



  • Mary Christine Delea
    Moving the Language
    Publisher: Albireo Press, 2003
    Author website: http://www.christinedelea.com/
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  • Mary Christine Delea
    The Skeleton Holding Up the Sky
    Publisher: Main Street Rag Press, 2006
    Author website: http://www.christinedelea.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Skeleton-Holding-Up-Sky/dp/1599480204



  • Nancy Christopherson
    The Leaf
    Publisher: Nancy Christopherson, 2015
    Author website: http://www.nancychristophersonpoetry.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Leaf-Nancy-Christopherson/dp/0692424334
    "Keen-eyed and compassionate, The Leaf is a collection worth reading again and again. Nancy Christopherson's observations of the natural world--whales, herons, swifts, deer--are deft and deep, sometimes breathtaking. Her poems about love, her mother's death, forgiveness and redemption reveal a profound awareness of the 'nearly invisible threads' that connect us all. This is a rich pool of poetry, wide-ranging in subject but with a coherent tender voice that is wholly satisfying." --Tina Tau, author of Hardscrabble Road, The Golden Tree, Where the Water Is, and Eating the Foam


  • Maggie Chula
    Shadow Lines
    Publisher: Katsura Press, 1999
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    Purchase book: http://katsurapress.com



  • Maggie Chula
    The Smell of Rust
    Publisher: Katsura Press, 2003
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    Purchase book: http://katsurapress.com



  • Maggie Chula
    Grinding My Ink
    Publisher: Katsura Press, 1993
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  • Margaret Chula
    What Remains: Japanese Americans in Internment Camps
    Publisher: Katsura Press, 2011
    Author website: http://margaretchula.com
    Purchase book: http://katsurapress.com



  • Margaret Chula
    Just This (a collection of tanka)
    Publisher: Mountains and Rivers Press, 2013
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    Purchase book: http://margaretchula.com



  • Margaret Chula
    Daffodils at Twilight
    Publisher: Kelsay Books, 2017
    Author website: www.margaretchula.com
    Purchase book: kelsaybooks.com
    A collection about coming of age in a small New England town in the 1950s and 1960s.


  • Margaret Chula
    Daffodils at Twilight
    Publisher: Kelsay Books, 2017
    Author website: www.margaretchula.com
    Purchase book: https://kelsaybooks.com
    "These are poems of the earth and home, of flowers and dirt, memory and landscape, nostalgia linked up with desire. I admire their quietude and tenderness, part celebration and part elegy, the way they “keep their feet on the ground,” the way they “know better than to cut the blossoms.” — Joseph Millar, Author of Blue Rust "In her beautifully structured collection, Daffodils at Twilight, she revisits her childhood in nearby Northfield, Massachusetts, with a true poet’s tenderness and lucidity. The poems talk about family dysfunction, a hard scrabble life both before and after her mother’s break up with Margaret’s alcoholic father and the warmth and safety provided by the grandparents with whom they moved in. As much as this collection is a memoir of childhood, filled with memories of fishing with her brothers, finding new friends at a new school, having scarlet fever, and the dreams all children have, it is also a paean to her mother, her mother’s courage, the long life she led and how often the lives of our loved ones, as in her mother’s case, eventually degenerate losing their vigor and lucidity. Daffodils is a gentle collection, which touches us all." - Tim Mayo, founder of the Brattleboro, Vermont, Literary Festival and author of Thesaurus of Separation


  • Margaret Chula
    One Leaf Detaches
    Publisher: Alba Press (UK), 2019
    Author website: [email protected]
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    Margaret Chula is the recipient of a Touchstone Distinguished Books Award for 2019 for her volume One Leaf Detaches (Uxbridge, UK: Alba Publishing, 2019). Commentary from the Panel: As soft, as petal-tender as the touch of a fleeting blossom, the work of Margaret Chula explores and illuminates moments which pass quickly in life and are gone. She is a master of her craft, molding her work from the stuff of existence, rather than pure imagination. chill wind the leaf and its shadow tremble and fall pale sun flickers across the Buddha’s face pulse of cicadas There is truth beyond truth in these wondrous poems: first seeing what is – now – then revealing, subtly, something shimmering, something beyond. The interplay of poignancy and humor glimmer, late afternoon light on a brilliant autumn day: after the typhoon starlings peck his shiny eyes scarecrow in a heap at the graveyard I rearrange chrysanthemums and plastic flowers Immersed in a Buddhist tonality, these poems wear their sensibility lightly, truly the source of belief and not its effect: the priest offers me an orange and apple left for the Buddha holding the water held by it lotus In addition, there is, at once, sorrow and compassion, there is life, and its final bloom: connecting the Kannon’s one thousand and one arms spider webs Jizō statues for dead children faceless, nameless And, of course, there is mystery, and there is awe: winter evening a stray dog barks to his echo One Leaf Detaches is not only one of the finest volumes of poetry of this past year, it is the accomplishment, the culmination, of a lifetime of awareness, a lifetime of active engaging, for poet and, hopefully, reader alike.


  • Margaret Chula
    One Last Scherzo
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2021
    Author website: http://www.margaretchula.com
    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com
    Margaret Chula fell in love with classical music at age ten while listening to an LP of Rachmaninoff’s Concerto No. 2 in C minor over and over again on her mother’s Victrola. She wanted to learn piano, but her family could not afford lessons, so she settled for playing clarinet in the high school band. In 2010, Pat Zagelow, Executive Director of Friends of Chamber Music in Portland, Oregon, invited her to be the organization’s Poet Laureate. For three seasons, Maggie attended concerts by renowned quartets. Sitting in the back row of Lincoln concert hall at PSU, she composed poems while listening to a wide variety of music. One Last Scherzo features a selection of these poems, ranging from “Inundation”, a poem about the Fukushima nuclear meltdown, to “Flight”, nuns escaping Tibet, to the title poem “One Last Scherzo”, a fantastical romp.


  • Margaret Chula
    Perigee Moon
    Publisher: Red Mountain Press, 2021
    Author website: www.margaretchula.com
    Purchase book: www.redmountainpress.com
    Perigee Moon is a collection of tanka, the elegant poetic form used by Japanese court poets over 1300 years ago to express desire, longing, and unrequited love. These short five-line poems create space in the reader’s mind and heart to enter the poem through their own experiences. Arranged in five sections with themes of love, family, childhood, nature, and travel, the poems in Perigee Moon weave themselves through time into a cohesive whole. From Theseus to a Zen monastery to a Goth girl to courting juncos, a panoply of emotions is revealed through images and the musicality of Chula’s language. Her tanka (“short songs”) sing out and celebrate what it is to be alive in the 21st century. from the Introduction by Michael Dylan Welch Margaret Chula migrates the ancient tanka form into English with all its virtuosity intact. Her poems are by turns tender, startling, ironical, acerbic, gritty, hilarious, self-deprecating, and achingly true. I will always treasure these poems for their loving sadness about the human predicament, and for images that can stun the reader into enlightenment: one daffodil fallen face down into a water bowl Mother’s slender neck as she drank from the stream Patrick Donnelly, author of Little-Known Operas, Nocturnes of the Brothel of Ruin, and The Charge. In Perigee Moon, Margaret Chula writes with pinpoints of poignancy, bringing us closer to nature, to the lover, to the mother, and to life itself. Above all, we are drawn closer to our innermost selves, just as the perigee moon is drawn to the earth. Almost imperceptibly, Chula merges the elegance of the Japanese tradition with the finger-snap of the modern world. Her graceful voice heralds the way for non-Japanese — Patricia Donegan, author of Haiku Mind, and co-author (with Yoshie Ishibashi) of Chiyo-ni Woman Haiku Master Imbued with a Japanese sensibility and rendered in an American idiom, these masterful five-line poems are a sheer pleasure to read. Ranging in subject and tone from the erotic to the dolorous—and never without a touch of humor—each one makes an unexpected turn or pivot, a little poof of surprise, in the manner of the traditional tanka. Margaret Chula is an unquestionable master of the form. Clemens Starck, author of Cathedrals & Parking Lots


  • Susan Clayton-Goldner
    A Question of Mortality
    Publisher: Wellstone Press, 2015
    Author website: http://susanclaytongoldner.com
    Purchase book: https://www.amazon.com/Question-Mortality-Susan-Clayton-Goldner/dp/1930835132
    "Poems that honor the dead, enlighten the living and dig deep into the dark mysteries of childhood." Available through Amazon.com


  • Don Colburn
    As if Gravity Were a Theory
    Publisher: Cider Press, 2006
    Author website: http://www.doncolburn.net/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/As-if-Gravity-Were-Theory/dp/1930781016



  • Don Colburn
    Another Way to Begin
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2006
    Author website: http://www.doncolburn.net/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Another-Way-Begin-Don-Colburn/dp/1599240548



  • Don Colburn
    Because You Might Not Remember
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2010
    Author website: http://www.doncolburn.net/
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  • Don Colburn
    Tomorrow Too: The Brenda Monologues
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2013
    Author website: http://www.doncolburn.net/tomorrow/
    Purchase book: http://www.finishinglinepress.com



  • Don Colburn
    Mortality, with Pronoun Shifts
    Publisher: Main Street Rag publishing company, Charlotte, NC, 2019
    Author website: www.doncolburn.net
    Purchase book: http://mainstreetragbookstore.com/product-tag/don-colburn/
    Don Colburn's 5th poetry collection. Winner of the 2018 Cathy Smith Bowers Chapbook Contest. "I loved this book from the get-go," says final judge Cathy Bowers, a past Poet Laureate of North Carolina. "Who wants to read an entire book of poems about death? I'll take one any day -- if it is written by this author." In other advance praise, Oregon Poet Laureate Kim Stafford writes: "Don Colburn takes a vivid glimpse -- at an ancient tree, an artifact, a comment by a stranger -- and feeds it his attention, like water to a seed, so this glimpse may grow into a poem to gift us insight."


  • Alan Contreras
    Firewand
    Publisher: Author, 2014
    Author website: https://www.alanlcontreras.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/



  • Alan Contreras Cover art by Eric Wuest, Salem, Oregon
    In the Time of the Queen
    Publisher: Author, 2018
    Author website: https://www.alanlcontreras.com
    Purchase book: https://www.amazon.com/Time-Queen-Alan-Contreras/dp/1985647249
    32 new poems by one of the Northwest's most eclectic writers. Includes the memorial poem "The Guide Bird" for Ursula K. Le Guin.


  • Alan Contreras
    The Captured Flame
    Publisher: Author, 2018
    Author website: https://www.alanlcontreras.com
    Purchase book: https://www.amazon.com/Captured-Flame-Notes-Books-Creative/dp/1984380532/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1521908055&sr=1-2&keywords=The+Captured+Flame
    Thirty essays and reviews on the work of Ursula K. Le Guin, John Ashbery, Ernest G. Moll, Ned Rorem, Samuel R. Delany, Alan Hovhaness, Quinton Hallett, Andrew Marvell, Pepper Trail, Reginald Shepherd, John Jay Chapman and others.


  • Diana Coogle
    From Friend to Wife to Widow: Six Brief Years
    Publisher: Laughing Dog Press, 2020
    Author website: dianacoogle.blogspot.com
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    These poems are about the growth of Diana Coogle's and her husband's love from the time they were just friends, to their marriage, and then to his death over a period of just six years. It was a brief time, but they were beautiful years.


  • T. L. Cooper
    Vulnerability in Silhouette: Poems
    Publisher: The TLC Press, 2015
    Author website: http://tlcooper.com/index.html
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Vulnerability-Silhouette-T-L-Cooper-ebook/dp/B015IUH1PS/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442798437&sr=8-1&keywords=vulnerability+in+silhouette+poems
    Vulnerability’s reputation often causes it to be maligned. Vulnerability creates insecurity and destroys confidence. Delve into the human experience of balancing vulnerability and strength while finding one’s place in the world. Explore the strength in vulnerability and the vulnerability in strength through soul-searching poems that travel the full spectrum of vulnerability from weakness to silhouette.


  • T. L. Cooper
    Strength in Silhouette: Poems
    Publisher: , 2013
    Author website: http://tlcooper.com/index.html
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Strength-Silhouette-Poems-T-L-Cooper/dp/0984686266/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1442798814&sr=8-1&keywords=strength+in+silhouette+poems
    We revere strength. We malign strength. We both fear and admire strength. When we reach inside during our weakest moments and find the strength to move forward, we discover the best thing about being human. Our humanity lies in both the strengths and the weaknesses that connect us and separate us. The poems within explore the many facets of strength in the hopes we never allow strength to become merely a silhouette.


  • T. L. Cooper
    Democracy in Silhouette: Poems
    Publisher: The TLC Press, 2020
    Author website: www.tlcooper.com
    Purchase book: https://amzn.to/3oKI5xn
    Oh, Democracy, What Say You? Proclamations of freedom and equality echo through hollow speeches ignoring far too many of we, the people. What happens when the people see the manipulation that keeps the powerful in power and those without power powerless? When a democracy becomes cast in silhouette, can it thrive? Can a democracy in silhouette even survive?


  • Nita Countryman
    Out of the Woods: Meadow and Roadside Songs
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2011
    Author website: http://www.nitacountryman.com/
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  • Nita Countryman
    The Origin of Bear
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2006
    Author website: http://www.nitacountryman.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Origin-Bear-NITA-COUNTRYMAN/dp/1599241080



  • Mary Christine Delea
    Ordinary Days in Ordinary Places
    Publisher: Pudding House Press, 2000
    Author website: http://www.christinedelea.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Ordinary-Days-Places-Christine-Delea/dp/094475483X



  • Robert Eastwood
    Romer
    Publisher: Etruscan Press, 2018
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    Purchase book: etruscanpress.org
    Using the schema of Dante’s Purgatorio, Romer is a poem of thirty-three Cantos in three-line stanzas, illuminating the experience of a modern man at every stage of his life. Just as the Purgatorio explores the psyche in terms of its earthly existence, Romer follows the journey of one man who needs to know who he is, where he is, and what he is trying to do. This need is universal, so in that sense, Romer is every man.


  • Robert Eastwood
    Snare
    Publisher: Broadstone Press, 2016
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    Purchase book: broadstonepress.com
    "Snare" consists of narrative and persona poems that reference historical fact and the experiences of a modern-day boy, ultimately a man, who follows his family to Southern Missouri during the early 1950's. He returns 50 years later to discover there is no trace of what to him was unforgettable. Nineteenth century history threads its way into the mid-twentieth century, in particular, Civil War personalities and relics reappear in various forms and settings in the threatening time of the mid-twentieth century Cold War. The family’s move to Southern Missouri was to escape the possibility of a Soviet nuclear attack on the west coast. Violence, revenge, and their opposites, namely refuge and escape, are the central themes of the manuscript. Cultural signposts appear throughout the poetry, and earmark points in time. Eventually the polarity of refuge and revenge is neutralized by the passage of time, with only memory remaining.


  • Katie Eberhart
    Unbound: Alaska Poems
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos Press, 2013
    Author website: http://katieeberhart.com
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    In Unbound: Alaska Poems, the poems evoke places and historic moments such as the evidence left behind by former residents of the (Matanuska) Colony house we lived in for twenty-eight years as well as nature and seasons, hot springs, berry picking, root vegetables, ravens, and the magically technological room at the Museum of the North in Fairbanks that is called The Place Where You Go To Listen.


  • Katie Eberhart
    Cabin 135, A Memoir of Alaska
    Publisher: University of Alaska Press, 2020
    Author website: http://katieeberhart.com
    Purchase book: https://www.alaska.edu/uapress/browse/detail/index.xml?id=606
    "Katie Eberhart’s well-constructed memoir reminds me of my favorite kind of house, an old house that’s been added onto over the years, a bedroom here, a family room there, each addition reflecting the style and available materials of the period as well as the eccentricities of the owners, while maintaining an overall harmony. A house still cared-for, still full of life. As with this lovely book, when you step inside, you feel immediately at home." —Charles Goodrich, writer, poet. Former director of the Oregon State University’s Spring Creek Project


  • Anna Elkins
    Hope of Stones
    Publisher: Press 53, 2020
    Author website: https://www.annaelkins.com
    Purchase book: https://www.press53.com/anna-elkins
    What might a 16th-century Spanish nun and an 18th-century French architect have in common? Saint Teresa of Ávila and Charles-Axel Guillaumot both left behind a mostly invisible legacy. Hers was a vision of the interior castle of the spirit within us. His was to save Paris from collapsing back into the quarries beneath it by building a support city belowground. Today, we can read of the realm The Nun built with her words, and we can visit a fraction of the realm The Architect built beneath Paris. Hope of Stones invites you into a cross-century conversation among The Nun, The Architect, and The Poet that explores the desire to create and connect across time and other unseen things.


  • James Fleming
    Hip Hop Aesop
    Publisher: Dancing Moon Press, Newport, OR, 2016
    Author website: [email protected]
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    This is a book of fables that are updates from Aesop with the same wit and wisdom from the animal world. Illustrations tell stories of their own.


  • Nancy Flynn
    The Hours of Us
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2007
    Author website: http://www.nancyflynn.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Hours-Us-Nancy-Flynn/dp/1599242168



  • Nancy Flynn
    Every Door Recklessly Ajar
    Publisher: Cayuga Lake Books, Ithaca, New York, 2015
    Author website: http://www.nancyflynn.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Every-Door-Recklessly-Ajar-Poems/dp/1681110350/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1433804595&sr=8-1&keywords=every+door+recklessly+ajar+nancy+flynn



  • Nancy Flynn
    Great Hunger
    Publisher: Anchor & Plume Press, 2016
    Author website: http://www.nancyflynn.com/
    Purchase book: http://anchorandplumepress.com/shop/great-hunger
    Great Hunger is a multi-part poem investigating the intersection of landscape and place as it relates to one ecological and humanitarian disaster, the mid-19th century Irish potato famine.


  • Geraldine Foote
    Mouth Toward Sky
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2018
    Author website: www.peaceleaves.com
    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/mouth-toward-sky-by-geraldine-foote/
    A few of the poems in the book are where some of the Peace Leaves originated. Some have personal views of historical events—learning of the Kennedy assassination while in middle school German class; teaching about Hiroshima; the Vietnam memorial; 911. Many explore relationships or touch on being a Mom. Most use images in our Northwest landscape. The title comes from two places. Included is a poem called “Drinking Rain” which quotes Nate as a child, who put his mouth toward the sky. The other has to do with speaking out. The cover art will include a woodcut print from artist Debby Neely of a red-winged blackbird with open beak. There’s also a poem in the book featuring red-winged blackbirds.


  • Carol Frischmann & Marie Buckley; Judith Masseek & Jean Richardson
    Quartet: four poetic voices
    Publisher: Media Weavers LLC, 2006
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Poetic-Voices-Marie-Buckley/dp/0964721287



  • Brigitte Goetze
    Rose Hips
    Publisher: Yarn Shop, 2012
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  • Michele M. Graf
    Lifelines by the Poetic Muselings
    Publisher: InkSpotter Publishing, 2011
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  • Cecelia Hagen
    Entering
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2011
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  • Quinton Hallett
    Refuge from Flux
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2010
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    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/shop/



  • Michael Hanner
    Vivaldi, an Autobiography
    Publisher: Tebot Bach, 2013
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    Purchase book: http://www.tebotbach.org



  • Michael Hanner
    Avenida Uriburu
    Publisher: Create Space, 2015
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Avenida-Uriburu-Michael-Hanner/dp/1505418631/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1422041812&sr=8-1&keywords=Avenida+Uriburu
    AVENIDA URIBURU, Michael Hanner’s collection of poems and oddments from his trip to Buenos Aires in November, 2014, was published January 1st. It is available through Amazon for $6 plus s&h.


  • Michael Hanner
    Adriatica
    Publisher: Chandelier Galaxy, 2016
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    A series of noir surreal poems laid mostly in the countries surrounding the Adriatic Sea. Here is the first piece: "In the evening we would walk to the taverna where the bartender would, for nine drachmas, fill the plastic bottle with retsina from a cask behind the bar. We would drink it on the roof top were laundry waved at the dark mass that was Albania. Another continent. When the wine was gone we walked up to the place Anglais, with the Australians. They didn’t have a clue."


  • David Hedges
    A Funny Thing Happened On My Way To a Geology Degree
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2011
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  • Donna Henderson
    The Eddy Fence
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2009
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    Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/titles



  • Kathryn Ridall
    The Way of Stones
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2009
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    Purchase book: http://www.finishinglinepress.com/



  • Tricia Knoll
    Broadfork Farm
    Publisher: The Poetry Box published in 2017!, 2016
    Author website: http://triciaknoll.com
    Purchase book: http://www.thepoetrybox.com/_DetailPagesBookstore/BroadforkFarm.html
    Broadfork Farm's poetry sings praise to a small organic farm in Trout Lake, Washington on the slopes of Mt. Adams, paying homage to the family who owns the farm, the cats, goats, pigs, dogs, lambs and chickens who grow there. Although the setting seems almost bucolic, the challenges of the world intrude in the form of wildfire, hate crimes, and predation. Mostly though, the poetry is of the commitment to bring food to table with love and sustainability.


  • Don Kunz & Peter Lovering and John Martin
    The Guys' Big Book of Poetry
    Publisher: , 2009
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://camallibookcompany.blogspot.com/



  • Don Kunz
    Handmade History: Poems of the American West
    Publisher: Two Ravens Publications, 2014
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    This chapbook of original poetry by Don Kunz includes poems about the landscape, legends, historic events, art, movies, and music of the American West. Priced at $5 a copy, it is designed to be a fund-raiser for Oregon's SMART Reader Program: The author is donating all his profits from sales to this organization for which he is a fourth-year volunteer. It is available at independent bookstores in Central Oregon, through Amazon or from the author.


  • Claudia Lapp
    Buch. A Whimsical Poem About Books And Why We Love Them
    Publisher: Fae Press, 2013
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    Purchase book: http://www.kathryn-ridall.com/store.html



  • Gary Lark
    Tasting the River in the Salmon's Flesh
    Publisher: Gary Lark Eels and Fishes Coos Writers Series, unknown
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  • Gary Lark
    Daybreak on the Water
    Publisher: Left Fork/Flowstone, 2020
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    Purchase book: http://www.leftforkbooks.com/books/daybreak-on-the-water/
    "This fisherman's river-poems carry what the Umpqua carries, 'the wonderment of living things.'" --Paulann Petersen "Lark's warmly told and deftly detailed narratives provide a natural and cultural history that will entertain and edify generations of readers." --Henry Hughes


  • Sharon Lask Munson
    That Certain Blue
    Publisher: Blue Light Press, 2011
    Author website: http://www.sharonlaskmunson.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/That-Certain-Blue-Sharon-Munson/dp/1421886294/



  • Sharon Lask Munson
    Stillness Settles Down the Lane
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2010
    Author website: http://www.sharonlaskmunson.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/



  • Laura LeHew
    Willingly Would I Burn
    Publisher: Moonpath Press, 2013
    Author website: http://www.utteredchaos.org/
    Purchase book: http://moonpathpress.com/publications.htm



  • Laura LeHew
    It's Always Night; It Always Rains; as part of the anthology Ashes Caught on the Edge of Light
    Publisher: Winterhawk Press, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/books.html



  • Laura LeHew
    Original Weather (ed.)
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2011
    Author website: http://www.utteredchaos.org/
    Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/



  • Laura LeHew
    The Quizzical Chair (ed.)
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2010
    Author website: http://www.utteredchaos.org/
    Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/



  • Laura LeHew
    Beauty
    Publisher: Tiger's Eye Press, 2009
    Author website: http://www.utteredchaos.org/
    Purchase book: http://www.tigerseyejournal.com/Chapbooks.html



  • Stephanie Lenox
    The Heart That Lies Outside the Body
    Publisher: Slapering Hol Press, 2008
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    Purchase book: http://www.writerscenter.org/chapbooks



  • Stephanie Lenox
    Congress of Strange People
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/titles



  • Sherri Levine
    In These Voices
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2018
    Author website: https://sherrilevine.com/
    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/in-these-voices
    A collection of voice poems, In These Voices, allows us to peek inside the lives of a variety of characters. Levine, through the magic of language, embodies a jilted lover, a worried husband, a young woman, a son, a granddaughter and even a squirrel.


  • Adam Levon Brown
    Embedded Memories of a Shooting Star
    Publisher: Transcendent Zero Press, 2017
    Author website: Http://www.Adamlevonbrowncom.wordpress.com
    Purchase book: https://transcendentzeropress.org/
    Embedded Memories of a Shooting Star is an imaginative exploration of creation itself. The poems in this small collection delve into the creation of the cosmos and its varying dimensions.



  • Death is not our Holy Word
    Publisher: Alien Buddha Press, 2017
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    A Deep battle with depression with the determination to win.


  • Annie Lighthart
    Iron String
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2013
    Author website: http://www.annielighthart.com
    Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/



  • Rosemary Douglas Lombard
    Turtles All the Way: Poems
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2016
    Author website: http://ChelonianConnection.blogspot.com
    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/
    In 2013 the New York Times proclaimed turtles "COLDBLOODED, BUT SURPRISINGLY SMART." These poems echo that proclamation, especially for Lombard's long-time turtle colleagues at the Chelonian Connection lab. We meet a sea turtle lazing above the anemones, a box turtle entranced by the harvest moon or demonstrating her understandings and skills, a pancake tortoise enraged by poachers and dealers who steal him from his African life, and more. Endorsed by Ingrid Wendt, Henry Hughes, Anthony Pfannenstiel, Prof. Shefali Rajamannar, and Robert Michael Pyle.


  • Jack E Lorts & Duane Ackerson; Jarold Ramsey; Erik Muller; Thomas Madden; Lawson Fusao Inada; Pamela Steele; John Daniel; Rob Whitbeck; Barbara Drake; Ellen Waterston; Kim Stafford; Shaindel Beers; Charles Goodrich; ME Hope; Paulann Petersen; Bette Lynch Husted; Ursula K.Le Guin; Maralee Gerke; and Penelope Scambly Schott
    These Mountains That Separate Us
    Publisher: Traprock Books, 2012
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  • Jack e Lorts Ephram Pratt
    The Love Songs of Ephram Pratt
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos Press, 2019
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    Purchase book: www.utteredchaos.org
    In these buoyant songs of delight and wonder, of mystery and exuberance that grow ever more laced with melancholy, the fictional Ephram Pratt—who once was a boy “with lanterns for eyes,” whose voice was “soft raisins in a box on the dresser,” a boy with hopes of exploring all the world can offer—sings his way through dream-like, surrealist, “minor miracles” that engage all our senses, and into the country of age and reflection, where songs become the memory of songs (though the urge to sing is never lost): a place where song, the “acorns of despair,” and silence intertwine and become one. It is a pleasure and an honor to recommend this luminous tapestry of poems by Jack Lorts, a book I hope to return to again and again. ~Ingrid Wendt, poet and Oregon Book Award recipient, author of Singing the Mozart Requiem and Evensong.


  • Peter Lovering
    The Guy's Big Book of Poetry
    Publisher: , 2009
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    Purchase book: http://camallibookcompany.blogspot.com/



  • M
    To That Mythic Country Called Closure
    Publisher: Concrete Wolf, 2013
    Author website: http://figuresofspeechpdx.wordpress.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/That-Mythic-Country-Called-Closure/dp/0979713773/



  • Jan David Madsen
    Everything is Shining
    Publisher: lulu, 2016
    Author website: https://zestymumbles.com
    Purchase book: https://www.lulu.com
    Poems of awakening. A metaphysical viewpoint. What we see is what we don't seen the form of what we do see.


  • Joan Maiers
    Blooming in the Shade
    Publisher: Media Weavers, 1999
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Blooming-Shade-Five-Oregon-Poets/dp/096472121X



  • Joan Maiers
    Poems in: If I Had a Hammer
    Publisher: Papier Mache Press, 1990
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  • stuart irving marshall
    Youth, Struggle, Wisdom: The Journey to Epsilon
    Publisher: , 2014
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    Purchase book: Inner Child Press
    Book of poetry


  • John Martin Don Kunz, Peter Lovering
    The Guys' Big Book of Poetry
    Publisher: , 2009
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    Purchase book: http://camallibookcompany.blogspot.com/



  • Carolyn Martin
    Finding Compass
    Publisher: Queen of Wands Press, 2011
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  • Carolyn Martin
    The Way a Woman Knows
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2015
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    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/the-way-a-woman-knows



  • Carolyn Martin
    Thin Places
    Publisher: Kelsay Books, 2017
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    Purchase book: http://kelsaybooks.com/
    According to Eric Weiner, thin places are … locales where the distance between heaven and earth collapses and we’re able to catch glimpses of … the Infinite Whatever … . In thin places, we become our more essential selves. Most places Carolyn Martin visits have the potential to be “thin.” Puerto Vallarta, Taos, Joshua Tree, Zion, Amherst, Palm Springs, and Denver have already collapsed for her, and so have conversations, relationships, her garden, and articles in National Geographic. These fifty-six poems are the result of years of traveling in many directions to catch “the Infinite Whatever” and the essential self.


  • Carolyn Martin
    Nothing More to Lose
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2020
    Author website: www.carolynmartinpoet.com
    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/nothing-more-to-lose
    Nothing More to Lose is an intense, hair-raising, and hopeful account of one family’s resilience and faith. With 25 poems based on Therese Kolbert Dieringer’s autobiography, My Life – Lived and Remembered: A journey across Hungary, Germany, and America, Carolyn Martin tracks the Kolbert family as they escape from Hungary in 1944, endure seven years of starvation and sickness in Germany, and arrive to a new life in America in1952. Refugees who know neither the language nor landscape, they finally find some semblance of peace in their new home. Nothing More to Lose will open readers’ hearts and minds to the challenges that refugees in every era face.


  • Carolyn Martin
    Nothing More to Lose
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2020
    Author website: https://carolynmartinpoet.com
    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com
    Nothing More to Lose is an intense, hair-raising, and hopeful account of one family’s resilience and faith after they escape the Nazi invasion of Hungary in 1944. They endure seven years of starvation and sickness in Germany before they arrive to a new life in America in 1952. Martin’s chapbook opens readers’ hearts and minds to the challenges that refugees in every era face.


  • Carolyn Martin
    The Catalog of Small Contentments
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2021
    Author website: https://carolynmartinpoet.com
    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com/taking-pre-orders-for-the-catalog-of-small-contentments?
    These delightfully accessible poems sparkle with beauty as they revel in truths inspired by a host of poets, artists, and philosophers from Billy Collins and Mary Oliver to Teilhard de Chardin and Claude Monet; from Virginia Wolf and Maggie Smith to Henry James and Joan Miró. They also draw beautiful truths from the natural world that surrounds the poet. Feral cats, squirrels, Steller’s jays, slugs, moles, and maple trees appear throughout the collection. Even an errant fly and spider earn lessons on how to survive in an unfriendly world. Whether she’s chatting with an antic ant or pondering Monet’s myopia, Martin is committed to the small contentments that fill her days and inhabit these poems.


  • Judith Massee & Marie Buckley; Carol Frischmann; and Jean Richardson
    Quartet: four poetic voices
    Publisher: Media Weavers L.L.C, 2006
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Poetic-Voices-Marie-Buckley/dp/0964721287



  • Jade Rosina McCutcheon
    SAMLL FEATHER
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2020
    Author website: https://www.jaderosinamccutcheon.com/
    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/small-feather-by-jade-rosina-mccutcheon/
    In Jade Rosina McCutcheon’s first published collection, we encounter an art fair that “arrives / in hottentot orange heat / and settles like a peacock / feather on an emerald field”; we observe a bag woman who gathers “galaxy dust / bag by bag”; and we contemplate a woman at a Melbourne train station who waits “for a / spirit beast / or a medicine woman / to follow the tracks / on her arm / make sense / of her life.” The imaginative poems in this debut chapbook give us a first sample of McCutcheon’s penchant for striking and often surreal imagery. Here, words call to us, evoking “a madrigal circus of apricots / dressed as sirens / in the distance.” —Paulann Petersen Oregon Poet Laureate Emerita


  • Joy McDowell
    Diesel Horse
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2011
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  • Catherine McGuire
    Glimpses of a Garden
    Publisher: Lulu, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://www.lulu.com/spotlight/catherinemcguire



  • Catherine McGuire
    Palimpsests
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2011
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  • Catherine McGuire
    Poetry and Chickens
    Publisher: , 2011
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  • Catherine McGuire
    Joy Holding Stillness the Seasons of Lake Quinault
    Publisher: Catherine McGuire, 2003
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  • Carter McKenzie
    Out of Refusal
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2010
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  • Karen McPherson
    Sketching Elise
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2012
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  • Matthew Michael Hanner
    October
    Publisher: Chandelier Galaxy, 2015
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    Purchase book: https://www.facebook.com/October-1379629432362232/?fref=ts
    OCTOBER is Michael Hanner’s second collection of poetry. It covers the bars of Reykjavik, diminished Vézère, beefy bruisers, the Canal St. Denis, a Grumman Albatross coming in low over the house, the big Stilson under the front seat, a little Valpolicella, the Interior Minister’s inspectors, Gianicolo Hill and the use of Vienna sausages in Pinellas County all this, set out for you; each intricate disaster, wrapped in newspaper, tied with string and ready for you to take home. Bon Appetit!


  • Ernest G. Moll Alan L. Contreras, Introduction
    Blue Interval
    Publisher: Oregon Review Books, 2016
    Author website: Author is deceased
    Purchase book: http://www.alanlcontreras.com
    By arrangement with the Moll family, Oregon Review Books (OPA member Alan Contreras of Eugene) has reprinted the Australian-American poet Ernest G. "Gerry" Moll's illustrated collection of poems about Crater Lake that first appeared in 1935. Available from Amazon or via order at local bookstores. Moll was on the UO faculty 1928-1966. Pub date is marked as 2016 but actually issued June, 2017.


  • Judith H. Montgomery
    Litany for Wound and Bloom
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2018
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    Purchase book: https://www.utteredchaos.org/store/p28/
    Montgomery's fourth book of poems; focus is on women's identities as mothers and beyond, their roles in speech or silence; their challenge to raise and send forth children in a violent world.


  • Dianan Morley
    Splashing
    Publisher: Luminare Press, 2020
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    Poems turning the ordinary into the extraordinary through imagery. A collection splashing from present to past, comparing and reflecting, showing how the present holds both past and future. Poems not only for poets, rather, for everyone. "Imagine Whitman caught in a time of wildfires and lockdown, and Dickenson if she really wanted to communicate with people. Splashing is a spirited homage to life on Earth at a tipping point, where all the takings and leavings have forced a reckoning. How Diana Morley embraces the “wild grasses surrendered” to drought as well as the sprouts in the sink, believing “in possibility after all,” is nothing short of stunning. —Christopher McDermott, author and editor, Florida Splashing may be ordered by local bookstores or on Amazon for paperback or Kindle at https://www.amazon.com/dp/1643884093


  • Erik Muller Richard Dankleff, Barbara Drake, Kenneth O. Hanson, Clemens Starck, Lex Runciman, Paulann Petersen
    Durable Goods, Appreciations of Oregon Poets
    Publisher: Mountains and River Press, 2017
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    Purchase book: http://www.mountainsandriverspress.org/bookinfo.aspx?TitleId=37



  • Erik Muller
    And Yet
    Publisher: Mountains and Rivers Press, 2019
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    A selection of poems, including three entire sequences, drawn from Muller's published work in separate books over the last decade.


  • Robert Nordstrom
    The Sacred Monotony of Breath
    Publisher: Prolific Press, 2015
    Author website: www.robertnordstrom.com
    Purchase book: www.prolificpress.com
    Poetry collection, 103 pages


  • Sue Parman
    The Carnivorous Gaze
    Publisher: Turnstone Press, 2014
    Author website: http://www.sueparman.com
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/The-Carnivorous-Gaze-Sue-Parman/dp/0615887619



  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    The Perfect
    Publisher: Snake Nation, 1994
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Mother-Penelope-Scambly-Schott/dp/0963836404



  • Allan Peterson
    Other Than They Seem
    Publisher: Tupelo Press, 2016
    Author website: www.allanpeterson.net
    Purchase book: tupelopress.org
    Winner of the Tupelo Snowbound Chapbook award selected by Ellen Kocher, whose said of it, " Soft spoken and intuitive, these deeply reflective poems demonstrate the miraculous common currency of thinking, expressed like confidences shared with a reader."


  • Vargus Pike
    April Song
    Publisher: Pietzsche Pit Press, 2013
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    Purchase book: http://www.anotherreadthrough.com/



  • Vargus Pike
    October Song
    Publisher: Pietzsche Pit Press, 2014
    Author website: https://www.goodreads.com/author/show/7267743.Vargus_Pike
    Purchase book: http://www.anotherreadthrough.com/
    Thirty one Poems written in the thirty one days of October. Companion to April Song. This is the second book in a planned series of four that will span the seasons.


  • Emily Pittman Newberry
    Butterfly A Rose; A Journey Through Transition
    Publisher: One Spirit Press, 2011
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    Purchase book: https://butterflyarose.com/products/



  • Shirley A. Plummer
    the task of falling rain
    Publisher: Turnstone Books of Oregon, 2016
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    Shirley Plummer's 'the task of falling rain' is now available.


  • Marjorie Power
    Tishku, After She Created Men
    Publisher: Lone Willow Press, 1996
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  • Marjorie Power
    Cave Poems
    Publisher: Lone Willow Press, 1998
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  • Marjorie Power
    The Complete Tishku
    Publisher: Lone Willow Press, 2005
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  • Marjorie Power
    Birds on Discovery Island
    Publisher: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005
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  • Marjorie Power
    Flying on One Wing: Poems for Breast Cancer Survivors, And Those Who Love Them
    Publisher: Samaritan Health Services, 2006
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  • m. ann reed
    making oxygen, remaining inside this pure hollow note
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2020
    Author website:
    Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/making-oxygen-remaining-inside-this-pure-hollow-note-by-m-ann-reed/
    Kim Stafford’s endorsement: In these poems we are at the meeting place between poetry and dream, the convergence of mind and heart, the rendezvous where language inhales the inexpressible, and exhales words. What is the path from the “crucible of silence” to the open arena of understanding? Reed charts that path with texts that conjure the way music will open doors for you into new realms of apprehension. You will not be the same after you have seen, through the lens of these poems, “butterflies … somersaulting their white frenzy” and other wonders of the spirit-filled world. —Kim Stafford, author of Wild Honey, Tough Salt Robert Romanyshyn's endorsement: M.Ann Reed’s collection of poems does indeed “breathe soul-life into words, words into musical patterns, musical patterns into images, all literary features into meaning.” From the first poem, ‘Dreams of making oxygen’, where the image of the child ‘who is not where she belongs,’ through my favorite, Rumi’s guesthouse, Mostar, Bosnia-Herzegovina, where, within rubble and destruction, imagination can find ‘a few hinges’ for ‘Wings’, to the final poem, Night Persephone’s choice, where Icarus might become the figure who teaches us to accept our creative gifts that give us life, we are able to pause and take a deep breath to experience the wonder of making oxygen as an act of soul making. —Robert D. Romanyshyn, Ph.D., author of Leaning toward the Poet: Eavesdropping on the Poetry of Everyday Life


  • Jean Richardson & Marie Buckley; Carol Frischmann; Judith Massee
    Quartet: four poetic voices
    Publisher: Media Weavers LLC, 2006
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Quartet-Poetic-Voices-Marie-Buckley/dp/0964721287



  • Kathryn Ridall
    Visitations
    Publisher: , 2011
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    Purchase book: http://kathryn-ridall.com/store.html



  • Kathryn Ridall
    When the Muse Calls: Poems for the Creative Life
    Publisher: Pomegranate Press, unknown
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  • Janice D. Rubin
    Transcending Damnation Creek Trail and Other Poems
    Publisher: Flutter Press, 2010
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    Purchase book: http://www.flutterpress.webs.com/



  • Janice D. Rubin
    Tin Coyote
    Publisher: Blue Light Press, 2018
    Author website:
    Purchase book: Blue Light Press https://www.facebook.com/BlueLightPress.
    A poignant journey traversing love, loss, memory and renewal, Tin Coyote is rooted in the inner landscape of the heart as well as the physical landscape of the poet’s beloved Oregon. The Oregon Coast, Warm Springs, Siuslaw River and Lake Paulina, among other iconic destinations at home and abroad, are vividly rendered backdrops to reflections and self-explorations. “Light reflects, refracts/creating space and possibility.” Janice Rubin is a keen observer of self and environment. Leah Stenson, co-editor of Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out (Inkwater Press, 2014), curator of the Studio Reading Series, author of Everywhere I Find Myself (WordTech Communications, 2017)


  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    May the Generations Die in the Right Order
    Publisher: Main Street Rag, 1999
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
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  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    Crow Mercies
    Publisher: CALYX Press, 2010
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
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  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    Wave Amplitude in the Mona Passage
    Publisher: Palaquin, 1998
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Amplitude-Passage-Poems-Penelope-Scambly/dp/B001JYDNOQ



  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    Penelope: The Story of Half-Scalped Woman
    Publisher: Univ. of Central Florida Press, 1999
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Penelope-Half-Scalped-Woman-Narrative-Contemporary/dp/0813016398



  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    Almost Learning to Live in This World
    Publisher: Pudding House, 2004
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
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  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    The Pest Maiden: A Story of Lobotomy
    Publisher: Turning Point, 2004
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Pest-Maiden-Story-Lobotomy/dp/1932339477



  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    November Quilt
    Publisher: The Poetry Box, 2018
    Author website:
    Purchase book: https://thepoetrybox.com/bookstore/november-quilt
    A Poetry Box Chapbook Prize Selection Reading November Quilt, by acclaimed author and poet, Penelope Scambly Schott, is akin to making a new friend. Brew a cup of tea and curl up in your favorite reading chair as you’re invited to share life experiences, aphorisms, confessions, and curious ponderings in this delightful collection of 30 poems (one for each day of the month). “Penelope Scambly Schott’s award-winning chapbook of thirty poems—organized and titled as one-a-day offerings for the month of November—reads like a series of brief, conversational letters to the reader. Longings are shared, intimacies revealed, disappointments confessed. Along the way, truths are discovered and delivered aphoristically: ‘Lives don’t have plots; they have refrains.’ Thoughtful and thought- provoking, these poems are not as much meditations as they are invitations—to ponder, to converse, to be disturbed, to love, to never forget. “Sometimes,” Schott writes, ‘I am the surface of a lake / perturbed by every passing breeze that blows.’ In November Quilt, she blows back.” ~Andrea Hollander, author of Blue Mistaken for Sky


  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    Baiting the Void
    Publisher: Dream Horse Press, 2005
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Baiting-Void-Penelope-Scambly-Schott/dp/0965930793



  • Penelope Scambly Schott
    A is for Anne
    Publisher: WordTech Communications, 2007
    Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Anne-Penelope-Scambly-Schott/dp/193345668X



  • curtis shoemake
    Tuff Row To Hoe
    Publisher: amazon books, 2017
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    uncomfortable uplifting historic and strange


  • Scot Siegel
    Some Weather
    Publisher: Plain View Press, 2008
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Some-Weather-Scot-Siegel/dp/0911051333



  • Scot Siegel
    Untitled Country
    Publisher: Pudding House Publications, 2009
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  • Scot Siegel
    Skeleton Says
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2010
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/159924635X?ie=UTF8&seller=A2LXC5ZHHP0WXP&sn=Finishing Line Press



  • Scot Siegel
    Thousands Flee California Wildflowers
    Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=245&a=211



  • Scot Siegel
    The Constellation of Extinct Stars, and Other Poems
    Publisher: Salmon Poetry, 2016
    Author website: http://www.scotsiegel.com
    Purchase book: https://www.salmonpoetry.com/details.php?ID=386&a=211
    In this book, Scot Siegel’s poems have an ambidextrous quality, ready to pivot deftly from history to imagined history, from biography to prophecy. His is a voice rinsed clear by desert winds, ready to enter any story and make it first person – for the writer, for the reader. He can claim at one point “no pretense…no history, no trajectory...,” and yet his imagination honors history, invents history, and makes history matter, gives it important work to do. You will be disoriented from accustomed ways of thinking, and gain new ways of being: “I want to go down in history and bring back a future worth remembering.” These poems will convey you to resonant places in your new life. —Kim Stafford


  • Scot Siegel
    Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2018
    Author website: http://www.scotsiegel.com
    Purchase book: https://www.utteredchaos.org/#/
    Daughters, Here | Daughters, Gone is not about loss but self-determination. It is a father’s prayer for his daughters, and daughters everywhere, as they remake the world in their vision.


  • Bill Siverly
    Nightfall
    Publisher: Windfall Press, 2018
    Author website:
    Purchase book: www.windfalljournal.com
    Bill Siverly’s Nightfall is his sixth book of poetry. Two thirds of Nightfall includes poems set in the Pacific Northwest, some from Idaho, where Bill grew up, and some from Oregon, where he presently lives. The remaining third consists of poems set in the German city of Görlitz and its environs, which extend into Poland. In the spring and summer of 2016, Bill and Jutta Donath lived three months in Görlitz, the city where Jutta spent her early childhood. Bill’s poems reflect the complex history and present reality of life in that easternmost city in Germany. The poems follow themes of personal aging reflecting decline in the American Empire and climate change. Yet, in the midst of such sober themes, the poems find hope in the poet’s garden, engaging with family, and learning to dwell on the earth.


  • Ann Staley
    Instructions For The Wishing Light
    Publisher: Booktrope, 2014
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com
    Also available fromGrass Roots Book Store in Corvallis, OR or from the author: aes15 (at) peak.org.


  • Leah Stenson and Asao Sarukawa Aroldi
    Reverberations from Fukushima: 50 Japanese Poets Speak Out
    Publisher: Inkwater Press, 2014
    Author website: http://www.leahstenson.com/
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  • Leah Stenson
    The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2014
    Author website: http://www.leahstenson.com/
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  • Leah Stenson
    Heavenly Body
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2011
    Author website: http://www.leahstenson.com/
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  • Leah Stenson
    Everywhere I Find Myself
    Publisher: WordTech Communications, Turning Point Books, 2017
    Author website: http://www.leahstenson.com
    Purchase book: https://www.turningpointbooks.com/
    Drawing from a deep well of autobiographical and cross-cultural experience, Everywhere I Find Myself is a wide-ranging narrative journey of the heart.


  • Leah Stenson
    Life Revised
    Publisher: Cirque Press, 2020
    Author website: www.leahstenson.com
    Purchase book: www.cirquejournal.com
    Life Revised, a hybrid memoir comprised of poetry, prose and images, tells the story of a family suicide, including the secrecy and lies that compounded the tragedy, and the search for meaning and healing. In a world where suicide is relentlessly on the increase, the need for open honest communication surrounding suicide has never been greater. Life Revised offers that openness and honesty as well as insight into resilience of the human spirit.


  • Bob Sterry
    Partner
    Publisher: Sterry and Sterry, 2018
    Author website: www.bobsterry.com
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    A collection of poetry, essays and vignettes written over fifteen years, including a short story about British espionage. Several pieces are connected directly to Oregon, its people, its beer and its weather. Now available online from Amazon and Powell's books.


  • Arn Strasser
    Before Dreaming
    Publisher: Budding Branch Books, 2015
    Author website: http://www.arnstrasser.com/
    Purchase book: http://www.broadwaybooks.net/dreaming-arn-strasser
    BEFORE DREAMING allows us to enter a personal world that is at once accessible and layered with interpretive meaning. The poems are characterized by a use of language that speaks to universal questions. Varied in tone, from deeply moving to light-hearted, the work shows a keen sense of structure and rhythm, a testament to a strong poetic style rooted in experience.


  • Arn Strasser
    To The Poet Listening
    Publisher: Budding Branch Books, 2016
    Author website: http://www.arnstrasser.com/
    Purchase book: https://www.buddingbranchbooks.com/
    This new collection from Arn Strasser shows a remarkable poetic range. Here we find expressions of love and fear, the experience of parenting, odes to nature, sharp and witty political pieces and more...all told in a unique voice. An added bonus is a delightful story for a cat named Musette. This is a lively, engaging work from a poet who displays a keen sense of craft.


  • Arn Strasser
    Incidental Longing
    Publisher: Budding Branch Books, 2017
    Author website: http://www.arnstrasser.com/
    Purchase book: https://www.buddingbranchbooks.com/
    An exciting new collection from Arn Strasser, an inspired treasure of poetic expression. Strasser includes a moving ecological poem, We On Earth Becoming", as well as a wide variety of writing, with the long poem "The Modern Mind" representing an evolution of his poetic approach.


  • Anita Sullivan
    Garden of Beasts
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2010
    Author website: http://www.anitasullivan.org/
    Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/titles



  • Anita Sullivan
    And If The Dead Do Dream
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2016
    Author website: http://www.anitasullivan.org/
    Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/books.html
    The poems (and the opening poetic essay) in this chapbook simply make an original assumption that "reality" is a mystery, never meant to be ordinary, and that this is a source of continuous excitement, terror, and joy.


  • Carey Taylor
    The Lure of Impermanence
    Publisher: Cirque Press, 2018
    Author website: https://careyleetaylor.com
    Purchase book: http://www.cirquejournal.com
    This collection of poems makes accessible the catalog of daily life, from growing roses, the death of a child, sexual stirrings, work, childhood, the political state of America, or the landscape of the Pacific Northwest. Ultimately, these poems merge onto the highway we all must travel—toward the fleeting nature of all things.


  • Kelly Terwilliger
    RIDDLE, FISH HOOK, THORN, KEY
    Publisher: Airlie Press, 2017
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    Purchase book: http://airliepress.org
    The poems in Riddle Fishhook Thorn Key invite readers to encounter what doesn’t stay still. The longing here is not only to see things—the bones of a whale, a forgotten handkerchief, muddy horses in a field, a forsaken boy on an empty playground—but to inhabit them, to enter the well of other lungs, to go into the throat of a land [we] didn’t know. These poems search for ways to belong in the world, and as they do, even the fleeting and uncertain become illuminated—and intimate.


  • Mary Theis
    Inspiration is Only the Spark: Keeping the Creative Flame Burning
    Publisher: Inkwater Press, 2019
    Author website: www.marytheis.com
    Purchase book: https://inkwaterbooks.com/catalog/product/inspiration-is-only-the-spark-keeping-the-creative-flame-burning/
    In a world full of distractions and limited time, you may feel overwhelmed and disheartened about not spending as much time on your creative work. Inspiration is Only the Spark is an artist's survival guide for how to develop and maintain a creative practice while life conspires to get in the way. Artist, writer, and creativity coach, Mary Theis, offers helpful tips and concepts to identifying and removing the barriers between you and your creative goals.


  • Charles F. Thielman
    Into the Owl-Dreamed Night
    Publisher: Uttered Chaos, 2011
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  • Pepper Trail
    Flight Time: Poems
    Publisher: Painted Thrush Press, 2014
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Flight-Time-Poems-Pepper-Trail/dp/1503192385/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439242851&sr=8-1&keywords=flight+time+poems
    This collection of 25 poems explores flight in all its dimensions, from the wonder of seeing the world from 30,000 feet to the indignities of the security screening; from the grace and beauty of bird flight to the joy of flying homeward. By turns witty, lyrical, and profound, these poems lead the reader to think about flight in new ways – the perfect gift for every frequent flier.


  • Pepper Trail
    Cascade-Siskiyou: Poems
    Publisher: Painted Thrush Press, 2015
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Cascade-Siskiyou-Poems-Pepper-Trail/dp/150848435X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1439243044&sr=8-1&keywords=cascade-siskiyou+poems
    This masterful cycle of nature poems was born in the wild backcountry along the Oregon-California border. On these rugged ridges and canyons, the sagebrush and junipers of the Great Basin mingle with the oaks and chaparral of the Siskiyou Mountains and the towering conifer forests of the Cascades, creating one of North America’s richest arrays of plants and animals. Biologist and poet Pepper Trail has explored every corner of this region for twenty years. In this collection, he leads the reader through a world of wildflowers and butterflies, birds and bears, into the depths of geological time, and toward a deepened understanding of the intersections of the human and natural worlds.


  • Susanne Twight-Alexander
    Being
    Publisher: Groundwaters Publishing, 2012
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    Purchase book: http://susyouzel.com/being/



  • Linda Varsell Smith
    Cinqueries: A Cluster of Cinquos and Cinquains
    Publisher: , 1999
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Cinqueries-Lanternes-Linda-Varsell-Smith/dp/0972873732



  • Linda Varsell Smith
    Fibs and Other Truths
    Publisher: , unknown
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Other-Truths-Linda-Varsell-Smith/dp/0972873740



  • Linda Varsell Smith
    Word-Playful: Guidelines and examples for over 300 New and Favorite Poetry Forms
    Publisher: Rainbow Communications, unknown
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    Purchase book: http://www.rainbowcommunications.org



  • Linda Varsell Smith
    Syllables of Velvet: Handbook of Poetry Forms You Can Count On
    Publisher: Rainbow Communications, unknown
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    Purchase book: http://www.rainbowcommunications.org



  • Linda Varsell Smith
    Poems That Count
    Publisher: Rainbow Communications, unknown
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.worldcat.org/wcpa/ow/213359921



  • Linda Varsell Smith
    Black Stars on a White Sky
    Publisher: , unknown
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    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Stars-White-Linda-Varsell/dp/0972873759



  • Barry Vitcov
    Where I Live Some of the Time
    Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2020
    Author website: vitcov.com
    Purchase book: finishinglinepress.com
    A debut book of poetry, Where I Live Some of the Time, is a collection of poems about friendship, nature, fantasy, love, travel, politics and the memories of youth and growing older written shortly after Barry Vitcov turned seventy. There are meditations from his home in Ashland, Oregon and summer vacations in Carmel, California, where he fell under the influence of poet Robinson Jeffers and the Pacific Coastline. The range of topics includes a fantasy about a talking guitar in “Takamine Guitar Love Song,” the political commentaries of “Semicolons and Politicians” and “Counting Florets After an Election,” and structured villanelles such as “Portraits of Angels in the Sky.” Not to be ignored are poems inspired by his standard poodles.


  • Ellen Waterston
    Between Desert Seasons
    Publisher: Wordcraft of Oregon LLC, 2008
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Between-Desert-Seasons-Ellen-Waterston/dp/1877655600



  • Ellen Waterston
    Then There Was No Mountain
    Publisher: Rowman Littlefield, 2003
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Then-There-Was-Mountain-Addiction/dp/1589790464



  • Ellen Waterston
    I Am Madagascar
    Publisher: Ice River Press, 2003
    Author website:
    Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-Madagascar-Ellen-Waterston/dp/1877655414



  • Ellen Waterston
    Via Lactea: A Woman of a Certain Age Walks the Camino
    Publisher: Atelier 6000, 2013
    Author website: http://www.writingranch.com
    Purchase book: http://www.atelier6000.org
    The book is Waterston’s fictionalized accounting of her pilgrimage on Spain’s Camino de Santiago in April 2012. The title of Vía Lactéa is a reference to the fact that the Milky Way is always overhead when walking the Camino. The Camino de Santiago (the Way of St. James) is a large network of ancient pilgrim routes stretching across Europe and coming together at the tomb of St. James (Santiago in Spanish) in Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain. Waterston created the peregrina (pilgrim) as the guiding character in her story. Peregrina meets many real and imagined characters during her pilgrimage, allowing a variety of voices, poetic styles and forms.


  • Ingrid Wendt
    Evensong
    Publisher: Truman State University, 2011
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  • Harriot West
    Into the Light
    Publisher: Mountains and Rivers Press, 2014
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    Purchase book: http://mountainsandriverspress.org/Home.aspx



  • Christopher M. Wicks
    365 Sonnets
    Publisher: Self-published, 2016
    Author website: www.christophermwicks.com
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    A collection of three hundred sixty-five sonnets, written by Wicks over twenty-two years. The number of poems suggests reading one per day for a year, but this is not required. The chief theme is love, sacred and secular.


  • Steve Williams
    Skin Stretched Around the Hollow
    Publisher: Rattlesnake Press, 2007
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  • Dawn Diez Willis
    Still Life with Judas & Lightning
    Publisher: Airlie Press, unknown
    Author website: http://www.dawndiezwillis.com
    Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/



  • Leigh Zaph
    The Plurality Of Entrances
    Publisher: Soualiga Press, 2021
    Author website: www.leighzaph.com
    Purchase book: www.soualiga-press.com
    Opening with the epigraph, “What can I make it mean?” from Agon by Harold Bloom, this eclectic collection of poetry asks us to join the author as he explores a wide variety of landscapes, both internal and external. Leigh Zaph, an NYC expat now living on the Oregon coast, draws upon an academic and familial background that includes interests in 20th century literary theory, semiotics, psychoanalysis, philosophical investigation, the environment, and others—with each affecting the voice, style and manner of his work. “If, as Wittgenstein states, “philosophy ought really to be written only as a poetic compression,” it follows poems can offer an effective means of exposing intricacies…Although this collection often exemplifies the familiar, it's interspersed with some denser pieces asking you to participate beyond a mere reading. Navigate your own archive of knowledge, thoughts and images, “see aspects,” “write” your own response, lose this author in the process, use the lexias of which Barthes spoke, find “the plurality of entrances.” —from cover notes. Excerpts from the book can be read at www.leighzaph.com Book can be purchased online from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Bookfinder, Books-A-Million, Alibris, Powell's Books, AbeBooks, Thriftbooks, etc., as well as from select brick and mortar bookstores nationwide.


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