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The birthplace of American industry, the state also pioneered visionary reforms: ''open-air'' schools to curb TB, the first hot school lunch program and formal outdoor recess, child labor laws and factory sanitation. This inventive collection reenacts a little-known history, one at risk of being forgotten.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eMayer also probes New England's connection to southern slavery, and the bond between ''the lords of the loom and the lords of the lash.'' She makes history feel alive and personal, through diverse voices, sensory details, and lyrical rhythms. Even silence. ''Under menace of storm clouds \/ ships slip northward on amnesia, full \/ of cotton, tobacco, denial \/ bound for enlightened Providence.''\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eGlimpse mill towns teeming with new arrivals, toxins coloring the Blackstone River, tenement porches strung with clotheslines. One extended poetic sequence allows readers to experience daily life inside an open-air school and TB sanatorium through the eyes of a spirited young girl--inspired by the author's ancestors. This insightful collection does not just answer to history but shows its human face. It will inform, engage, and surprise readers of poetry and history alike, and be appreciated by students middle-grade and up.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"box-sizing: border-box; font-weight: bold; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eMary Ann Mayer\u003c\/span\u003e's poems, essays, and translations have been anthologized and widely published. This is her third poetry collection. She is also the author of \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eTelephone Man\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eSalt \u0026amp; Altitudes (\u003c\/em\u003eFinishing Line Press). Her honors include a Massachusetts Cultural Council Award and Boston's GrubStreet Poetry Prize. She has been a finalist for the May Sarton New Hampshire Book Prize, and nominated for the Massachusetts Book Award and a Pushcart Prize. Mary Ann is a native of Rhode Island's Blackstone Valley and holds degrees from Boston University and Tufts. She practiced occupational therapy for many years. She volunteers with the Ocean State Poets promoting the reading and writing of poetry in under-served communities and serves as an editor for \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eCrosswinds\u003c\/em\u003e poetry journal.\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mayer skillfully weaves history with verse to create a tapestry of the Rhode Island textile industry that is a blend of both triumph and tragedy.\" From the Foreword by Dr. Patrick T. Conley Historian Laureate of Rhode Island\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"This is a unique, beautifully resonant, and lyrical collection that takes the subject of early mill workers and expands it into a meditation on so many topics. The author makes the historical personal and the personal historical throughout her connection to the mill workers of the distant and more recent past. She uses the topic as a springboard to look at the many injustices underpinning the mill economy. Beautiful and thought-provoking.\" - Jean Medeiros\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"These poems give voice to people just trying to have lives as others are trying to own and monetize them. I am moved by the ways Mayer lets these histories enter her at a depth where they emerge as poetry. She follows her curiosity about others' lives, holding her own language in abeyance,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003elistening to their language and their silence.\" -Nancy Jasper, Poet and Licensed Clinical Social Worker\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"I admire Mayer's ability to transform historical facts into poems marked with emotion and rhythm and relay a history of the common people in a young America that many of us are not aware of. She vividly brings life to these mills and young workers as well as the healing environment of Rhode Island's open-air schools which began a national movement. Here are the dire facts of an epidemic but also the \"esprit de corps\" of the public health campaign to stamp out TB.\" -Caroline Deuerling Occupational Therapist\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The volume's unusual title \"Kissing the Shuttle\" was not an expression of love for the loom,\u003cstrong\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003ebut rather a method of refilling shuttles with bobbins of thread by placing one's lips against the shuttle's eye to pull its thread. Such a contagious practice, called \"the kiss of death,\u003cstrong\u003e\"\u003c\/strong\u003e infected the weavers, mainly women and young girls, thereby establishing a nexus between labor and debility. That nexus is poignantly described in a litany of free verse, vivid and factually based, but embellished with poetic license. Mayer skillfully weaves history with verse to create a tapestry of the Rhode Island textile industry that is a blend of both triumph and tragedy.\" -Dr. Patrick T. Conley Historian Laureate of Rhode Island\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Mayer unfolds a poetic tapestry in \u003cem style=\"box-sizing: border-box; line-height: inherit;\"\u003eKissing the Shuttle\u003c\/em\u003e by infusing history with local color and depicting heartfelt accounts of lives from a not-so-distant past. \u003cem\u003eKissing the Shuttle\u003c\/em\u003e reveals the complexity of what it means to belong to Rhode Island. On one hand, the author's voice scholarly confronts a multitude of dehumanizing systems that served as an engine for the Industrial Revolution and beyond. And on the other, she illuminates both the hope and deep sentimentality she holds for this place that resonates with so many locals of the area. The thoughtfulness with which Mayer encapsulates all of these intricacies is an accomplishment that can be praised by artists and historians alike.\" - Ryan Dean Teacher and small business owner\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone River Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41321615360150,"sku":"9780692069219","price":21.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/img_proxy_adfc19a7-ea5a-4c0f-8cd7-f6e20dbaf6d9.jpg?v=1642159427"},{"product_id":"what-trees-know-poems-1","title":"What Trees Know: poems","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe poems gathered in Emilio DeGrazia’s latest collection, \u003cem\u003eWhat Trees Know\u003c\/em\u003e, take for their subject not only what trees “know” but what they are, how we think about them, and how their quiet presence affects our lives. Such a focus may seem unpromising, but DeGrazia spins a diverse and remarkable array of verses from this common root, trunk, and leaf. Part of the appeal lies in the arboreal “stuff” involved, but no less important are the whimsy, penetration, and verbal dexterity with which DeGrazia plies his craft. In “Aspen Roots,” for example, he brings together a common phrase, “connecting the dots,” and the well-known fact (not explicitly mentioned in the poem) that aspen groves form vast underground webs of interconnected roots. This thought leads on to a long series of fanciful connections.      \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn another piece, the poet, on a quiet morning, offers his appreciation for the hackberry tree outside the house that deflected the worst of a thunderstorm the previous evening. 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Along with the swashbuckling sailors and crusty old prospectors are precious moments of love. These romantic interludes act as a perfect counterbalance to the raucous events on sea and land. With imaginative characters and vivid descriptions, \u003cem\u003eIMAGES\u003c\/em\u003e provides the reader with an odyssey that he or she won’t soon forget.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eKenneth R. Champion\u003c\/strong\u003e is a poet, musician, world traveler, Vietnam military veteran, retired State of California transportation planner and family man. While born in Pennsylvania, he moved to California in 1956. His multitude of interests in the California Gold Rush, the Old West, maritime history and other influences inspired many of the poems and stories in \u003cem\u003eIMAGES, A Collection of Poetry, Prose and More\u003c\/em\u003e. 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In some poems she reacts with fury to the American political system, while in others she reflects on the richness of her heritage and depicts episodes in a life punctuated by personal loss and sustained by the renewal of love. Whether the mood is pensive, exuberant, or outraged, Easter's poems offer us glimpses of black culture burnished with a fresh eye, replacing time-worn stereotypes with lived experience, wit, and craft.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn one poem she describes the pleasure her father took pronouncing the syllables of Chaucer's Middle English; in another, with an entirely different tone, she imagines herself driving through the state of Virginia with recent victims of racist crimes at her side and in the back seat. There are love poems and poems of rage directed toward patronizing colleagues. 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Set in the stark desert landscape of the México–U.S. border all too familiar to so many refugees and migrants, these poems scrutinize human bodies and the body of the earth as the sites of great injustices and violences—political, social, and spiritual—and as the vehicles that carry our collective legacy generation to generation.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRodney Gómez\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of the poetry collections \u003cem\u003eGeographic Tongue\u003c\/em\u003e (Pleiades Press, 2020), winner of the Pleiades Press Visual Poetry Series, \u003cem\u003eCeremony of Sand\u003c\/em\u003e (YesYes Books, 2019), and \u003cem\u003eCitizens of the Mausoleum\u003c\/em\u003e (Sundress Publications, 2018). He is the winner of the Drinking Gourd Chapbook Poetry Prize, the Gloria E. Anzaldúa Poetry Prize, and the Rane Arroyo Chapbook Prize. Gómez is a member of the Macondo Writers' Workshop and edits an annual anthology for youth poets from the lower Rio Grande Valley. He works in mobility demand management as Executive Director of Parking and Transportation at the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley and lives in McAllen, Texas, where he serves as poet laureate.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"The nights were hive and I grew used to them\" writes Gómez as we follow the swarm through radiating deserts and dreamscapes. Something ancient troubles these poems into being. They are lit with the gleam of a knife's edge, as though the law declared: \u003cem\u003eyou will sing even though your throat be slit\u003c\/em\u003e. These praise songs drift over kin and graves, river-water and history, so tender in their tendering. 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The effort to imagine the specific, to show truth and prove it no matter how violent, dominates these poems: a man can be a bear, a death can happen again and again, a dead friend can be every villain while also being remembered as the source of everything good in the world. Kleinman’s poems cleave unapologetically to metaphor not in an effort to obfuscate the world, but in order to transform it.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteven Kleinman\u003c\/strong\u003e is the winner of the 2019 Philip Levine Poetry Prize. Homeschooled, he grew up in suburban Philadelphia, where his parents ran a wood shop – first in a rented garage, and eventually in a large warehouse. His poems navigate the edge of the American Dream, the violence of work, where the lies and hopes are the thickest. 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Led by Editor-in-Chief Nyuol Lueth Tong (2021 Forbes 30 Under 30 honoree; editor of \u003cem\u003eThere Is a Country: New Fiction from the New Nation of South Sudan\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eMcSweeney’s 52: In Their Faces, a Landmark\u003c\/em\u003e), its staff of immigrant editors includes the authors Maria Kuznetsova (\u003cem\u003eSomething Unbelievable\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eOksana, Behave!\u003c\/em\u003e), and Novuyo Rosa Tshuma (\u003cem\u003eHouse of Stone\u003c\/em\u003e). 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The absence of reckoning a century after the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre is soldered together by a series of poems based on Heard's time living on the fringes of the city's art district and what was once Greenwood, Tulsa's thriving Black neighborhood. Heard blends survivor testimonies, myths, and present intelligence with his own lived experience and a farrago of forms to feel his way to a more intuitive truth of what's isn't documented.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eClemonce Heard\u003c\/strong\u003e was born and raised in Uptown and Algiers New Orleans. At the beginning of his senior year of high school, Hurricane Katrina struck New Orleans and his family evacuated to Natchitoches, Louisiana, where he stayed to attend Northwestern State University. A graphic communications major and culinary arts minor, Heard spent most of his undergrad working as a cook at several local restaurants. In 2010, Heard, along with Brandi (White) Gonzales, cofounded the presently active, campus organization, Brainy Acts Poetry Society. After graduating, Heard spent nearly three years working for Apple Inc. before attending Oklahoma State University, where he received his MFA in creative writing. In 2018, Heard was awarded a Tulsa Artist Fellowship. He left the fellowship program early to accept a fellowship from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Creative Writing. Currently, Heard is an artist-in-residence at Sala Diaz in San Antonio.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"I have never in my life read a poet, a writer, an American artist so beautifully manipulate futurist proclamations and the minutiae of memory. This book is elite art born of Clemonce Heard’s stank genius. \u003cem\u003eTragic City\u003c\/em\u003e is here to break the unbroken and possibly shift how place and language can work. 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Her attention ranges widely, from the distant past, seen through a filter of nostalgia (as in \"Summer of Love, 1967\" and \"Marijuana\") to the humor and acceptance of aging that enliven the present, as in \"Medicare Birthday\" and \"After a Fall.\" Alongside such descriptive pieces we also come upon moments of reverie, as when, in \"Summoning My Dead Mother,\" Hasse inexplicably sees her mother at the kitchen table eating toast with honey—not her typical breakfast. The poem ends as mysteriously as it began: \"she's insubstantial as wind \/ that stirs a willow tree \/ washing its long hair in lake water \/ and blooming for the bees.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe natural world, from butterflies to moose, makes repeated appearances; more challenging is the sequence of poems scattered here and there throughout the volume that Hasse labels \"Another Day of Being White.\" Being the adoptive mother of two African American children gives her an unusually deep and personal perspective on the crosscurrents of inequity and strife that continue to weaken our social fabric.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cem\u003eSummoned\u003c\/em\u003e is Hasse's sixth full-length volume. As poet Connie Wanek wrote: \"Where else will we find—not necessarily answers, but the right questions? Are people good? Is there a God? How far does empathy extend? In Hasse's work, humor and grief often share the same neighborhood, street, house, room, soul.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eMargaret Hasse\u003c\/strong\u003e grew up in South Dakota and moved to the Twin Cities after college at Stanford University. She has been active in the literary community here since 1973, teaching in an arts and corrections program in prisons, with COMPAS' poets-in-the-schools project, at the Loft, and in other settings. Her work has appeared in publications and platforms local and national, including Calyx, Poetry Northeast, Saint Paul Almanac, The Sun, Water-Stone Review, and Poetry Northeast. Hasse also edited the poetry anthology Rocked by the Waters: Poems of Motherhood, with Athena Kildegaard. Her poems have been stamped in sidewalks in St. Paul, appeared as posters on Twin Cities Metro transportation, and been used on The Writer's Almanac. 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I am extremely happy they're in a book I can hold in my hands and give to people I love —\u003cstrong\u003eConnie Wanek, poet and author of Rival Gardens\"\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"How lucky that Margaret Hasse was 'summoned' to write this new collection of poems, which reckons with everything from race and family (especially in her 'Another Day of Being White' series) to aging and the betrayals of the body. Throughout decades of writing companionable and necessary poems, Hasse has never lost her ability to draw readers into the joy of a moment like the one she describes in 'Night on the Town': 'We orbit like planets, following strangers\/in bright coats who also follow us\/blowing blue clouds of breath into the night.' At their heart, each of these poems is about relationship and intimacy, and the ways we 'orbit' each other in this troubled, beautiful world.\"\u003cstrong\u003e - James Crews\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\"Margaret Hasse writes poems that 'speak against forgetting' with the deft care of a confident poet fully inhabiting her voice, while reasoning that 'all writing is invisible ink.' Hasse celebrates anyway––dances in December, mornings with her beloved, poetry, her vibrant younger self, a baby shower, delights in nature, challenges and blessings of the pandemic. But there is a sad wisdom behind her good fortune as Hasse considers days of being white and laments that her privileges are not available to everyone, her adopted sons most of all. These poems are completely present, fully intimate. 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The chain of stories in verse is all about human connection, the profound pain felt when it's lost, and the added distress of ambiguity from the inevitable unanswered questions. 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This is an unbelievable, moving book that knows, in the end, the only true sanctuary is the one we make of our lives, and our language, for each other.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKatie Ford, judge of The 2020 Orison Poetry Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eSanctuary, Vermont\u003c\/em\u003e creates a history of Vermont through a rich range of voices that evoke the state's nuanced and complicated past, a past that takes readers far beyond the mythic pastoral landscape many may conjure up when they think of Vermont. Here, the word sanctuary takes on the ironies of a complex history, and Wisniewski creates a tapestry of Vermont and its people.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMary Jane Dickerson\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In\u003cem\u003e Sanctuary, Vermont\u003c\/em\u003e we see our neighbors—imagined, yes—but imagined so well we join each voice as it comes to us across a span of time, from the 19th century to our own present. 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Throughout, Beaven's poems engage. \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTeaching the Baby to Say I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e examines our present, often chaotic world, with a powerful weapon — gripping, contemplative, and complex language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCraig Beaven's\u003c\/strong\u003e collections of poetry are \u003cem\u003eTeaching the Baby to Say I Love You\u003c\/em\u003e (Anhinga Prize for Poetry, 2021), \u003cem\u003eNatural History\u003c\/em\u003e (Gerald Cable Book Award, 2019) and \u003cem\u003eTeaching English Lit on the Day After a Shooting\u003c\/em\u003e (CutBank Chapbook Prize, 2022). He is the recipient of fellowships and scholarships to the Sewanee Writers Conference, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Martha's Vineyard Institute for Creative Writing. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schooner, Western Humanities Review, Carolina Quarterly, Hollins Critic, Atlanta Review, Spoon River Poetry Review, the Best New Poets anthology\u003c\/em\u003e, and many others. A Kentucky native, Beaven earned an MFA at Virginia Commonwealth University and a PhD from the University of Houston. He lives in Tallahassee, Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"From the first pages of Craig Beaven's memorable book, I care — deeply — about this speaker and his characters. Here is a white father trying to protect his Black children in a treacherous world. Here is a teacher whose students are twisted up in the maelstrom of racism and staggering gun violence.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eEllen Bass\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Craig Beaven's language isn't neutral or safe or defensive — it wrestles with the never-ending violence of racism and school shootings. 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His poems are reminders that gentle revelations can inoculate even as they help us to embrace the momentary joys around us.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Adrian Matejka\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"With insight into the constant, complicated work of the teacher and the parent, Craig Beaven leads his reader with narrative verve and emotional keenness through waves of accruing implication and out far into the deep, troubled waters of race, violence, and our country's ever-unfolding, always troubled present moment.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eCarrie Fountain\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Anhinga Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42034855477398,"sku":"9781934695753","price":20.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781934695753ita.jpg?v=1660852119"},{"product_id":"whats-left-to-us-by-evening","title":"What's Left to Us by Evening","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eHow does one live in a world that is both beautiful and broken—a world of cherry blossoms and gun violence, fellowship and political enmity, plague and rebirth? \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWhat's Left to Us by Evening\u003c\/em\u003e, David Ebenbach's unsparing and timely new poetry collection, examines the obligation—and privilege—of carrying all these things. The wide-ranging influences on the poems in Ebenbach's third collection include Judaism, the Asian poetic tradition, the natural and built environments, and current events.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDavid Ebenbach\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of numerous books of fiction (\u003cem\u003eHow to Mars, Miss Portland, The Guy We Didn't Invite to the Orgy, Into the Wilderness, Between Camelots\u003c\/em\u003e), poetry (\u003cem\u003eSome Unimaginable Animal, We Were the People Who Moved\u003c\/em\u003e), and essays (\u003cem\u003eThe Artist's Torah\u003c\/em\u003e). He lives very happily with his family in Washington, DC, where he teaches creative writing at Georgetown University.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\"There’s something reassuring about the way David Ebenbach writes about even the most troubling issues of our time. His poems, often deceptively gentle, offer a kind of tender good humor born of long-suffering patience.\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e—\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cb data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eRon Charles, \u003ci data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"'The world is on its way to you' writes David Ebenbach, and the world in these pages is one made of equal parts grit and tenderness. It's a world of work, violence, politics, and little apocalypses, but also singing, birdwatching, prayer, and flowers bursting into bloom. At one point, a 'worker lowers \/ his bag of tools \/ through the cherry blossoms'—and this might be an apt metaphor for the perspective of this evocative book: behind the world's tough machinery is an undeniable beauty, and these poems are made by a poet skilled enough to help us see it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eMatthew Olzmann\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"David Ebenbach's poems in \u003cem\u003eWhat's Left to Us by Evening\u003c\/em\u003e are funny, engaging, kind, generous-spirited, moving, clever, even childlike. It's almost easy to forget he's writing again and again about a world-wide pandemic, a bitterly-contested election, earth-threatening climate change—in short, the apocalypse. In this book, 'our children \/ ask for pie' while the poet carries with him the consciousness of great and irretrievable loss, 'the passport \/ of someone who died.' Ebenbach talks to us in such a way that we can't help but look. He hits all of our world's pressure points in a simple, straightforward, yet wholly imaginative and unforgettable fashion.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDana Roeser\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"David Ebenbach asks us to look on as 'from the scaffolding \/ the worker lowers \/ his bag of tools \/ through the cherry blossoms.' The blossoms may put one in mind of Imagist poets, but Ebenbach won't settle for mere imagism. He suggests, as Walter Benjamin did, that every monument to civilization is a monument to barbarism. And yet however starkly aware he is of the human world's exploitations and injustices, he won't settle either for facile, fashionable despair. Considering an abandoned subway tunnel, Ebenbach claims that 'we light this expanse of \/ soda bottles and human waste and see the verdant \/ potential,' just as elsewhere he notes 'that joy is not passive, \/ but something \/ you move toward, \/ however awkward.' Precious few current poets move in that direction more deftly or affectingly than Ebenbach.\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Sydney Lea\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42034883133590,"sku":"9781949039368","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039368ita.jpg?v=1660853032"},{"product_id":"anchor","title":"Anchor","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eWinner of The 2024 Philosophical Society of Texas Poetry Award\u003cbr\u003eWinner of The 2024 Eric Hoffer Award for Poetry\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThreaded with epistolary poems to Gravity—envisioned as a capricious god as the author's father began to fall frequently at the outset of a progressive illness—Aronson's latest poems contemplate and address what anchors us, literally and figuratively. The poems in Aronson's third collection excavate grief during the process of losing parents, one to physical illness and the other to dementia. But even in the midst of grief, Aronson never loses sight of the larger world, ever present in all its danger and beauty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eRebecca Aronson\u003c\/strong\u003e is the author of \u003cem\u003eGhost Child of the Atalanta Bloom\u003c\/em\u003e, winner of The 2016 Orison Poetry Prize and The 2019 Margaret Randall Book Award from The Albuquerque Museum Foundation, as well as a finalist for The 2017 Arizona\/New Mexico Book Award. Her first collection, \u003cem\u003eCreature, Creature\u003c\/em\u003e, won The Main-Traveled Roads Poetry Prize (2007). She has received The \u003cem\u003ePrairie Schoone\u003c\/em\u003er Strousse Award, The Loft's Speakeasy Poetry Prize, and The Tennessee Williams Scholarship to The Sewanee Writers' Conference. Aronson is co-founder and host of Bad Mouth, a series of words and music.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Rebecca Aronson's incredible new collection is full of verve and a syntax of ecstatic vocabulary. Whether it's through abecedarians or epistles to gravity, Aronson's poems carry the weight of a life, its pressures, its miraculous brevity. \u003cem\u003eAnchor\u003c\/em\u003e is a balm against grief. These poems face off against loss with 'Technicolor blooming and bird riot,' and every line hums with urgency.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eTraci Brimhall\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"We know from Newton, who named it, that gravity is the force of attraction drawing bodies together. Etymologically, it shares itself with gravid and grave—beginning and end. In \u003cem\u003eAnchor\u003c\/em\u003e, Aronson has given us both the metaphor and the ballast: the harbor from which we venture into our lives on Earth, and the commonality of death that returns us to the earth. With a languid, meditative syntax reminiscent of Virginia Woolf—and an eye for detail equally sensuous and lethal—Aronson has achieved an intimate and artful collection about loss and the inevitable cycles of ebb and flow experienced by every life.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKathy Fagan\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"In her splendid third collection of poems, Rebecca Aronson writes of the degeneration and death of her parents. The darknesses of the subjects, however, are magicked into beautiful balance in a stunning juggling act which holds opposite forces spinning and gleaming in the empty air—gravity and flight, body and spirit, absence and presence, love and grief. Aronson devises exquisite metaphors on every page to illustrate the tensions it is our human lot to suffer. Gravity itself is a wonderfully personified character in these pages—it loves the dying father, is jealous of other forces that vie for his body, is a class bully here, an ally of the moon there. The poems here are graceful, wildly gorgeous, enriched by Aronson's vivid animation of earthly and heavenly forces—wind, sand, fire, air, sky, stars. The relative slimness of this volume belies the genuine gravity of the enormous beauties, wonders, and surprises within it.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eSidney Wade\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Orison Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42035018268822,"sku":"9781949039351","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781949039351ita.jpg?v=1660855168"},{"product_id":"lines-poems","title":"Lines: poems","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eTim Nolan's new collection charms us with its subtle blend of boyish nostalgia and cosmic reverie. He imbues such everyday activities as raking leaves (but in spring, when they resemble regrets), seeing a fox in the yard, with sweetness and significance, while also giving weighty themes such as warfare, Christianity, and \"the meaning of life\" a thoughtful personal twist. The very first poem sets the tone, as Nolan follows a fractured early-morning logic from a simple phrase, \"The beginning of the beginning,\" which he likes, to the Cole Porter tune \"Beguine the Beguine.\" By the end of the poem he's longing to rumba around the room, but is too embarrassed to do so, while also fearing that he's about to lose his mind—which might be the beginning of the end. Time and again in subsequent poems Nolan maintains an easy rapport between metaphysical musing and the common experiences that we all come to hold dear. One poem is devoted to the smell of watermelon, another to watching the freckles grow darker on his mother's skin as summer advances, at an age when he has not yet learned the word \"freckles.\" With \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLines\u003c\/em\u003e Nolan has entered the company of Anselm Hollo, Louis Jenkins, and other poets who trust in their own native impressions and patterns of thought in making sense of the modern world, and reminding us of its latent beauty and mystery.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eTim Nolan\u003c\/strong\u003e was born in Minneapolis, graduated from the University of Minnesota with a B.A. in English, and from Columbia University in New York City with an M.F.A. in writing. Tim is an attorney in private practice in Minneapolis. His poems have appeared in \u003cem\u003eThe Gettysburg Review, The Nation, The New Republic, Ploughshares\u003c\/em\u003e, and on \u003cem\u003eThe Writer's Almanac\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eAmerican Life in Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e. His three collections—\u003cem\u003eThe Sound of It, And Then\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Field\u003c\/em\u003e have all been published by New Rivers Press. He is the host of the series Readings by Writers at the University Club in St. Paul.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Lines is a whimsical adventure into recollections of a boyhood long gone, ghosts that linger on the streets we know, through the phone lines we no longer use, our connections to our past and each other. Nolan is unafraid of the politics of the moment and employs a playful timelessness as he examines the problems of America. These poems are studies of everyday events, relationships that form our consciousness, and the nature of that changing consciousness across time.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eKao Kalia Yang\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Tim Nolan's great humanity is evident in both his poems and his devotion to making poetry immediate and accessible. In Lines, his new collection, we are treated to observations both large—current politics, life in the time of Covid—and small, as when the poet recalls specific moments from childhood or observes his beloved cats. Firmly rooted in the northern Midwest, in mid-life, Nolan's poems work on the reader the way memory itself does, when moments from the past shimmer up to reveal the patient glimmers of wisdom that are the lucky prizes of growing older.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eAlison McGhee\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \"Tim Nolan wants his voice to 'pass through \/ Brick walls slip through the space \/ Under doors flow over the rocks under the bridge,' and so it does in these Lines. Like Whitman before him, Tim contains multitudes, but being from Minnesota, he's understated (Midwest Modest) in his claims and topics, which tend to be local and spontaneous, like Frank O'Hara's. He's recording his way of seeing the world from 'right in the middle of it,' with the poems coming so easily that 'Anywhere I look \/ There's a poem' about grandfather, the little cat, or the pandemic. Tim Nolan knows the power of words: 'They could do so much \/ And so quickly,' and he never forgets that he's talking to you, the dear reader: 'I don't \/ Know what I might say you don't \/ Either that binds us one to another \/ that's the whole deal between us.' And it's a pretty good deal!\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJoyce Sutphen\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nodin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42114406973590,"sku":"9781947237469","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781947237469ita.jpg?v=1663012477"},{"product_id":"so-surprised-to-find-you-here-poems","title":"So Surprised to Find You Here","description":"\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eBart Sutter's new poems embody a series of surprises. Why should a walk through a woodland bog call up the names and faces of first-grade girls? What's it like to be a one-year-old who's crawled beneath a grand piano while it's being played? Or an arborist, sky-high up a tree, who's suddenly attacked by killer bees? How come a Lutheran congregation worships at a boulder in the woods? Isn't this what poetry is for—situations, people, moments that take us by surprise and will not let us go?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eNow in his seventies, Sutter is haunted by lost friends and places, so this book has an elegiac undertone which only heightens the celebrations—of kelp on a California beach, a sexual awakening, a grandson's messy mastery of solid food. The book is rich with stories, and their settings range from the poet's home ground in northern Minnesota to the backroads of New Mexico, to Ireland and Spain.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eAt home, as well as in his travels, Sutter finds those transcendent moments that keep us going, despite our disappointments and discouragements.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eBart Sutter\u003c\/strong\u003e received the Minnesota Book Award for poetry with \u003cem\u003eThe Book of Names: New and Selected Poems\u003c\/em\u003e, for fiction with \u003cem\u003eMy Father's War and Other Stories\u003c\/em\u003e, and for creative non-fiction with \u003cem\u003eCold Comfort: Life at the Top of the Map\u003c\/em\u003e. Among other honors, he has won a Jerome Foundation Travel \u0026amp; Study Grant (Sweden), a Loft-McKnight Award, and the Bassine Citation from the Academy of American Poets. In 2006, he was named the first Poet Laureate of Duluth. He has written for public radio, he has had four verse plays produced, and he often performs as one half of The Sutter Brothers, a poetry-and-music duo. Bart Sutter lives on a hillside overlooking Lake Superior with his wife, Dorothea Diver.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"Not every poet is lucky enough to have the gift of naming, but I trust Bart Sutter when he speaks of 'all the colors we are given by this world,' when he names animals, birds and fish, trees, grasses and flowers, mist and rain and snow. In thumbnail portraits of friends, family members, neighbors, people encountered on the street, artists whose work deeply moved him, he looks with humor, love, acceptance, grief and sometimes exasperation at human perfection and imperfection. So Surprised to Find You Here has given me new eyes and ears.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eIlze Kļaviņa Mueller\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Sutter is a reserved Swede canoeist grandfather from Duluth, yet his canny rhythms, rhymes, slant rhymes—music really!—move like some excitable dancer from Bulgaria through stories of the Canadian borderlands, Sweden, Ireland, Spain, the woods, and home.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eJames P. Lenfestey\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"So Surprised to Find You Here is a travelogue of a life, a tour de force moving us from age to age, a tour of museums that includes the secret passageways deep into the paintings and then onward into our souls. At one point, after viewing a painting by Joaquin Sorolla, Sutter tells us that he has been 'someone somewhat different ever since,' and after spending time with these poems you might well notice the same thing about yourself. You might be surprised to find that you 'feel like champagne, like prayer'.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eEllie Schoenfeld\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Sutter's poems, simultaneously conversational and lyrical, call attention not to himself but rather to his subjects, the people and places of Minnesota's North Country and also of Sweden, Ireland, Spain, and elsewhere. The book is the perfect antidote to any number of pandemics that human beings are prone to, including self-pity, envy, anger, sorrow, and despair. His poems are chock-full of affirmation, joy, laughter, singing, and a deep love of people and the natural world.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eDavid Jauss\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Nodin Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42114542928022,"sku":"9781947237483","price":19.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0477\/8731\/1254\/products\/9781947237483ita.jpg?v=1663017654"},{"product_id":"real-work-poems","title":"Real Work: poems","description":"\u003cp style=\"text-align: center;\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cspan style=\"color: #2b00ff;\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2023 Minnesota Book Award Finalist in Poetry\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eThe poems in Janna Knittel's new collection describe family life on the farm, celebrate natural environments that inspire deeply, process childhood emotions with the help of decades of living, and quietly assuage the wounds suffered due to personal crisis and loss.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e A wooden box on a desk, a father's hands, the lives of rabbits and bees, a rare visit to church—these are a few of the subjects illuminated in these finely crafted pieces. A mother's dementia. Memories of a hardscrabble childhood: listening to the murmuring of voices from the back seat of a truck on long drives home from family camping trips; fishing with Dad; rolling cigarettes with a favorite aunt, roasting salmon whole over coals behind the church.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e\u003cbr data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eLocales in Oregon and Minnesota surface: Grand Portage, Isle Royale. Grief arrives with the unexpected death of an older and much admired sister. The details are sketchy but the pain is palpable. A lyric gravity infuses these stark yet often lovely pieces. The \"real work\" required on the farm has been transformed repeatedly into acts of literary precision and emotional honesty.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eJanna Knittel\u003c\/strong\u003e is from the Pacific Northwest and now lives in Minnesota. Janna's previous publications include the chapbook \u003cem\u003eFish \u0026amp; Wild Life\u003c\/em\u003e (Finishing Line Press, 2018) and poems in \u003cem\u003eBetween These Shores Literary and Arts Annual, Blueline, Breakwater Review, Constellations, Cottonwood, North Dakota Quarterly, Up North Lit, Whale Road Review\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eThe Wild Word,\u003c\/em\u003e among other journals, as well as the anthology \u003cem\u003eWaters Deep: A Great Lakes Anthology\u003c\/em\u003e (Split Rock Review, 2018). Janna has taught literature and writing classes at colleges and universities in Oregon, Kansas, and Minnesota, and has also published scholarly essays on literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"The poems in \u003cem\u003eReal Work\u003c\/em\u003e come from the 'thin places' where 'Heaven and Earth overlap.' It is here that Knittel excavates love and loss, and the lessons they teach, guided always by salmon, kingfisher, raven, bear—by nature itself.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eConnie Wanek\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Janna Knittel's \u003cem\u003eReal Work\u003c\/em\u003e is filled with heft, the poems carrying the weight of farmlands and rural America. There's beauty and play, but with each turn, a blade is waiting to slice. 'Am I normal?' Knittel asks. 'Someone, weigh my heart.' We're given an elegy here, but not just for people—for a time, a place, an ethic—and in these poems Knittel makes room for living and healing.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eBrian Baumgart\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Knittel's collection focuses on family, the natural world, loss, fear, grief, and survival. Many of the poems celebrate places—islands, national parks, farms, homes, Oregon, Minnesota—and indigenous flora and fauna. Portraits and memories, especially of parents and a sister, now deceased, give rise to elegiac lines, for 'nothing hefts\/this slab of bluestone\/from my chest.' Yet Knittel's resilience, toughness, and the right tools propel her as on a river or a trail, knowing she's 'strong enough to carry everything [she needs].'\" -\u003cstrong\u003e Donna Isaac\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Revealing an expert and generous feel not only for the physical world but also the language, Janna Knittel's \u003cem\u003eReal Work\u003c\/em\u003e shows how central contemporary American poetry can be to our lives. Whether portraying family life or the creatures of the wilderness, Knittel writes with high-res clarity, lyrical economy, social conscience, and imagination. 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Her work has appeared in numerous literary journals and anthologies . She leads writing workshops in community spaces such as healing centers, libraries, prisons, and shelters. Wendy is a member of Minnesota Prison Writing Workshop, Writing to Wholeness Collective through the \u003cem\u003eMinnesota Women's Press\u003c\/em\u003e, and Eastern Shore Writers Association. This is her tenth year with Saint Paul Almanac because she believes in the power of words to transform lives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\"\u003cem\u003eA Path to Each Other\u003c\/em\u003e weaves humor, love, the gut-punch of loss, the ordinary and extraordinary with mamas and daddies, buses, and ESL classes, scooters and rescue dogs, and the vagaries of Minnesota weather. It is provocative and compassionate in its portrayals of inter-generational experience of adversity and success, written as David Mura suggests in his quote in the book, 'from 'strength not weakness.' 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In these poems the seeing is one with the I that remembers, moving forward, the grandchild and mother, the beneficiary of the exile's suffering and triumphs. Mookherjee is a poet of great gifts, in love with the things and words of her world.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eRobert McNamara\u003c\/strong\u003e, author of \u003cem\u003eIncomplete Strangers\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"Set in motion by her grandfather's exile from India, Mookherjee's graceful collection vividly charts his journey through an alchemy of details in which we see 'ordinary things turned holy.' In a brilliant multiplicity of forms, evocative images of eyes emerge as if to watch over the grandfather's struggles with sorrow, dislocation, faith, and the meaning of home. A total eclipse of the moon brings the odyssey to its beautifully redemptive close, rooted in kinship. 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Like Tantalus, we reach and reach, but 'cannot possibly close our hands upon the sweetness of it.' And the problem with time is that there is never enough of it. The problem with the body is that it will inevitably 'rot like a peony, over-plump and full of starving ants.' So be it. If these poems feel timely right now—if it feels like the world is pulsing with losses beyond calculation—Wack reminds us that some problems are timeless. We are no more or less cursed than we've ever been, no more or less desperate for beauty or survival. We steady ourselves with myth, and we will become the myths that steady whoever comes next.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eClaire Wahmanholm\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \"\u003cem\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e comes 'caught on the edge \/ of a new century like a colt on its raw legs in the first darkness.' Margaret Wack has given us a work in which love and instinct offer return from the letdowns of what we've been calling enlightenment. Reading this book means realizing you've had 'your back pressed up against the world,' the same world we've learned to 'navigate by touch alone.' Like the rain the poet's speaker describes, \u003cem\u003eThe Body Problem\u003c\/em\u003e won't clean you of yourself, but offers a world swallowed in its own thick atmosphere.\" - \u003cstrong\u003eC. T. 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Her book \u003cem\u003eThe Other Mozart\u003c\/em\u003e, a biography in poetry, was made into an opera. Her collection \u003cem\u003eVisibility: Ten Miles\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the 2015 Midwest Book Awards, and \u003cem\u003eThe Widow's House\u003c\/em\u003e was a finalist for the Next Generation Indie Book Awards and was named by Kirkus Reviews one of the best 100 books of 2016.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Chmielarz's work has been a finalist in the National Poetry Series, and her poems have been nominated several times for a Pushcart Prize. They have been featured on American Life in Poetry, and individual poems have been translated into French and Polish. She's the recipient of a Jane Kenyon Award from \u003cem\u003eThe Water~Stone Review\u003c\/em\u003e. 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