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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. - 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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Purchase book: - 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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The Field
Publisher: , 2011
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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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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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The Smell of Rust
Publisher: Katsura Press, 2003
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Grinding My Ink
Publisher: Katsura Press, 1993
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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: www.margaretjchula@gmail.com
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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/
Purchase book: - 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. - 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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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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"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. - 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: oswegojimmy@gmail.com
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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
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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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Lifelines by the Poetic Muselings
Publisher: InkSpotter Publishing, 2011
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Entering
Publisher: Airlie Press, 2011
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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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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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The Eddy Fence
Publisher: Airlie Press, 2009
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The Way of Stones
Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2009
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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
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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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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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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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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
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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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Youth, Struggle, Wisdom: The Journey to Epsilon
Publisher: , 2014
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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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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. - 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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Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/ - 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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Purchase book: http://www.utteredchaos.org/ - Catherine McGuire
Poetry and Chickens
Publisher: , 2011
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Purchase book: - Catherine McGuire
Joy Holding Stillness the Seasons of Lake Quinault
Publisher: Catherine McGuire, 2003
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Purchase book: - Carter McKenzie
Out of Refusal
Publisher: Airlie Press, 2010
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Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/titles - Karen McPherson
Sketching Elise
Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2012
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Purchase book: https://www.finishinglinepress.com/ - 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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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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Purchase book: - Marjorie Power
Cave Poems
Publisher: Lone Willow Press, 1998
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Purchase book: - Marjorie Power
The Complete Tishku
Publisher: Lone Willow Press, 2005
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Purchase book: - Marjorie Power
Birds on Discovery Island
Publisher: Main Street Rag Publishing Company, 2005
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Flying on One Wing: Poems for Breast Cancer Survivors, And Those Who Love Them
Publisher: Samaritan Health Services, 2006
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Purchase book: - m. ann reed
making oxygen, remaining inside this pure hollow note
Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2020
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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
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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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Purchase book: - 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
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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
Purchase book: - Penelope Scambly Schott
Crow Mercies
Publisher: CALYX Press, 2010
Author website: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penelope_Schott
Purchase book: - 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
Purchase book: - 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
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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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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
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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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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/
Purchase book: - Leah Stenson
The Turquoise Bee and Other Love Poems
Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2014
Author website: http://www.leahstenson.com/
Purchase book: - Leah Stenson
Heavenly Body
Publisher: Finishing Line Press, 2011
Author website: http://www.leahstenson.com/
Purchase book: - 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/
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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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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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Purchase book: - 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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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
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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
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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
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Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Between-Desert-Seasons-Ellen-Waterston/dp/1877655600 - Ellen Waterston
Then There Was No Mountain
Publisher: Rowman Littlefield, 2003
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Purchase book: http://www.amazon.com/Then-There-Was-Mountain-Addiction/dp/1589790464 - Ellen Waterston
I Am Madagascar
Publisher: Ice River Press, 2003
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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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Purchase book: - 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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Purchase book: - Dawn Diez Willis
Still Life with Judas & Lightning
Publisher: Airlie Press, unknown
Author website: http://www.dawndiezwillis.com
Purchase book: http://airliepress.org/