28 Ergebnisse - Zeige 1 von 20.

What happens when four poets, friends for years, gather in a beautiful place to sit on a porch to talk, live, breathe, create poetry for days at a time? These friends all have led workshops and presented poetry and stories to audiences for many years. All are well-known and well respected practitioners and teachers of their craft. But these poetry days were different. These days offered the poets a chance to take a deep, reflective dive into t...

An anthology of short stories: Editor's Prize Jennifer Schomburg Kanke A String of Beads Sarah Kontopolous Happiness on the Beach Ed Davis Ceremony Yvette Flaten Blackberry Harvest William Bain Firesole Mary Lannon They Teased Me About Him James Callan Phantoms Alexa Dinu Earl Grey Clint Margrave Trash Robert Pope The Freezer

In The Way Land Breaks, award-winning poet Rebecca Brock uses time-human and geological-as both anchor and engine. These poems are revelation and love song to a faltering world. The Way Land Breaks travels the Idaho foothills of Brock's childhood, the sky she takes to as a flight attendant, her relationship with her mother and her sons and the distances between. From diabetes to earthquakes, mushrooms to Mars Rovers, Robin Hood to Vera Bradley...

The poems in If You Keep Making that Shameface... explore how shame shapes women. These poems, by a WV poet, travel the backroads of female identity to unearth the social, cultural, geographic, and personal landscapes where women lose themselves. With brash, heartache, and hunger, this debut collection unearths a time capsule that lays bare the tangled roots and deep rot shame breeds, while discovering some of the vulnerability, savvy, and res...

NEEDS UPDATE Barbara Marie Minney is a transgender woman, award winning poet, writer, speaker, teaching artist, and quiet activist. Her poetry and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including Politico, The Buckeye Flame, The Gasconade Review, Gargoyle Magazine, The Pine Cone Review, Women Speak: Women of Appalachia Project, Woman Scream: The International Poetry Anthology of Female Voices, The New Wasteland, new words (issue one): ...

The Arcane Mechanics of Constant Lift explores the invisible dynamic by which we and the rest of life tend to persist through the perennial threats, hardships, oppressions, and traumas that would, and eventually do, take us down. The poet's own family's immigrant refugee history is both resource and backdrop for such illuminations. These poems draw as well on childhood memories, observations of nature in its cycles of emergence and breakdown, ...

George Franklin is the author of Noise of the World (Sheila-Na-Gig Editions), Traveling for No Good Reason (winner of the Sheila-Na-Gig Editions competition in 2018), a dual-language collection, Among the Ruins / Entre las ruinas (Katakana Editores), and a chapbook, Travels of the Angel of Sorrow (Blue Cedar Press). He practices law in Miami and is the co-translator, along with the author, of Ximena Gómez's Último día/Last Day (Katakana Editor...

Grounded in a deep love of Earth and all its creatures, Arrival gathers Cynthia Anderson's lyrical poetry of place into a deeply satisfying volume. Her closely observed experiences of oceans, forests, and deserts reach the transcendent level of myth. Imaginary landscapes are here also, evoking a mysticism that travels backwards and forwards in time. The poet's words sing off the page, inviting readers to take refuge in a realm where grief and ...

Dick Westheimer's debut, A Sword in Both Hands: Poems Responding to Russia's war on Ukraine, is an achievement of profound empathy, reaching across the water to those suffering while reminding us of our distance from them as participatory spectators. The collection spans histories, languages, and forms, at once ambitious in scope and willing to pause with the particular, from the grocery sack of a refugee to the sunflower seed passing from the...

In Any of These Towns explores the quirky underbelly of small-town America. The poems in this collection navigate the hardships that many river, coal and factory towns face as industry has packed up and moved on. Characters based on real people appear throughout to inject color and humanity into the darkness that inevitably seeps into the poems. Children pop in and out to remind us of their usefulness, and personal accounts of lived experience...

Kirk Judd combines 3-D images and powerful rhythm and rhyme to perfectly express his subjects-birth and death, songs and silence, and everything in between. With compassion and wisdom, he provides for readers and listeners a man-sized, blood-warming antidote to the frequently encountered negative stereotype of his beloved Appalachia. In short, Kirk Judd is not only a poet's poet, he's a people's poet." --Barbara Smith "This is true poetry wi...

The Women of Appalachia Project¿ encourages participation from women of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, inviting submissions of spoken word and fine art, shared in public forums and annual anthologies. Artists share culture and experiences at arranged venues, embrace issues of marginalization and stereotype, creating a force, unified and non-violently confrontational, to show the whole women, beyond superficial fact...

Household Gods, Bonnie Proudfoot's riveting first collection of poems, uses the lens of the speaker's life to explore both personal and universal questions: How are we shaped by place, by family, by our particular time on this earth? What is our responsibility to witness and to act? It will be no surprise to readers of Proudfoot's novel, Goshen Road, to find that setting plays a central role in these poems. This time, though, the primary setti...

It has been my honor and delight to gather poems from the first five years of Sheila-Na-Gig online into this anthology. The selected poems from the years 2016-2021 are by seasoned writers whose work most often graced the journal. These are poems that illustrate the journal's aesthetic: "excellent imagery and a strong sense of voice." True of the individual poems and even more strikingly so gathered into a collection. Through these pages, the ...

The poet's experience of growing up near Assisi, in the shadow of St.Francis's spiritual heritage, illuminates the poems in this collection. Moving to Northern California, she discovers the ocean, coastal fog, the redwoods. Illness imbues love and time with an intense flavor and causes memories to stand in starker relief against a backdrop of darkness alternating with vivid light. A tiny blue fish that looks cut from the night sky becomes a ta...

The title poem of Riding With the Diaspora doesn't come until the end, but facets of the diaspora experience - scattering, displacement, migration, homesickness, alienation, otherness -build toward it throughout. Here are poems about displaced indigenous Americans and their migrant European displacers, descendants of enslaved Africans and refugees from Nazism, the poor, the elderly and the ill, alienated from society and their own bodies, conf...

Inside Outrage captures wild wisdom and abject love, the amity and misguided memories keeping us whole in this precarious viral existence. These points of refuge and resilience both unmask and protect us, using frustrations to confront rooted fears. In the end we must own identities, forgive mistakes, and grow older through the salvation of words. In daring to learn the steps and missteps of this odd dance called life, we maneuver through to f...

I Thought I Heard A Cardinal Sing" - Ohio's Appalachian Voices is an anthology focused on the unique culture of Ohio's Appalachian population. A one-of-a-kind collection, sponsored by the Academy of American Poets and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. Editor Kari Gunter-Seymour writes: "Within these pages you will find a lavish mix of voices-Affrilachian, Indigenous, non-binary and LGBTQ, from teens to those creatively aging, poets in recovery, som...

The Women of Appalachia Project¿ was created to address discrimination directed at women from the Appalachian region by encouraging participation from women artists of diverse backgrounds, ages and experiences to come together, to embrace the stereotype, to show the whole woman, beyond the superficial factors that people use to judge her. ¿Despite the educational and economic inequalities in Appalachia, despite the lack of adequate healthcar...

In eloquent and lucid poetry, Clifton Snider's new book, Stubborn Heart: New Poems, captures the tragic end of a 19-year relationship, the travails and transcendent joys of travel, the wonders of science and nature, current affairs, popular culture, the highs and lows of his own personal history, and the challenges of everyday life. Snider writes lyrical narratives that thrive through vivid, surprising images and dynamic language. This is poet...