Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 92 pages 2022, ISBN: 978-1-952781-11-7 ///
Animals, horses, dogs, cats, and visiting wildlife are the gifts that bring me great joy, and so they appear in my poetry. Even rats and skunks are worthy of my poetry. As for humans, I focus on the downtrodden, and those living in slums and hollows---not to forget those living in our iron cities, our prisons. I mourn the deteriorating condition of the planet. I mock those who have elitism and greed at the center of their lives. I also poke fun at myself especially my struggles with aging. In terms of style, I try to balance the trend toward narrative with my love for the early imagists.…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 72 pages 2020, ISBN: 978-1-936419-95-1 $17.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. What Is in the Blood is a poetry memoir about growing up in rural Pennsylvania in the 1960s and ‘70s with a bipolar…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 48 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-92-0 $14.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. How the narrator of Amateur Husbandry manages to maintain a sense of calmness and well-being as he deals with the rather unruly and…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 64 pages 2019, ISBN: 978-1-936419-89-0 $16.95 + S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. In One Less River, Terry Blackhawk follows Hafiz’s injunction to ‘Greet yourself/In your thousand other forms/As you mount the hidden tide and travel/Home.’…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 74 pages 2017, ISBN: 978-1-936419-74-6 $15.95 & S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Distant Music by John Palen is available for Kindle here. The poems in John Palen’s Distant Music inhabit a harsh Midwestern America of…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 76 pages 2015, ISBN: 978-1-936419-54-8 $15.95 & S+H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. Found mothers, grief, lost loves, addictions and 12-step programs inhabit these poems of narrative excavation rife with lyricism and imagery. Unflinching, at times…
Short stories. Paper, Perfect Bound. 82 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-38-8 $15.95 plus S&H Note: You don’t have to have a PayPal account in order to use the PayPal button, just a credit card. The impulse to salvage, to resurrect, is always with us. The stories in A Different Harbor portray lives that have all the…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages 2014, ISBN: 978-1-936419-32-6 $15.95 + S&H Combine a life-long love of literature, an amateur (loving) interest in and study of Natural History and a professional career in soil conservation, and you will arrive at Under Foot, a book-length series of poems and essays by Stephen Lewandowski. Under Foot has…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 90 pages 2013, ISBN: 978-1-936419-30-2 $19.95 About “Written on Water” Note: this book includes a bonus CD! The Allegheny River is the easternmost west flowing river in the United States and was a major thoroughfare for early settlers. This anthology looks at the Allegheny historically, and as both a recreation area…
Poetry. Paper, Perfect Bound. 80 pages $15.95 plus S&H 2013, ISBN 978-1-936419-27-2 Feeding Wild Birds is a collection of poems rooted in the Michigan landscape, as seasons and lives undergo their seamless and subtle transformations. These are meditative poems in spare and simple language that examine the energies in animals, woods, lakes, land, weather and…
