Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat
Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat (formerly Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Retreat) Tired of the “star system” at writers’ workshops? Looking for a place offering time to write as well as fellowship and critique from other professionals? The Woodstock Mayapple Writers’ Retreat, formerly The Rustbelt Roethke Writers’ Retreat, may be for you! Designed for the “mid-career” literary writer,…

Uncommonplaces: Poems of the Fantastic – Judith Kerman and Don Riggs, eds.
Paper, perfect bound, 148 pp $15.00 plus s&h 2000, ISBN 0-932412-17-3 Uncommonplaces: Poems of the Fantastic edited by Judith Kerman and Don Riggs with cover art by Judith Clute, features poems by Brian Aldiss Gene Doty Sydney Duncan Joe Haldeman Patricia Harkins-Pierre Donna Hooley Marilyn Jurich Judith Kerman Jeanne Larsen Robert Lima David Lunde Patrick…

Glimmer Girls – Helen Ruggieri
Paper, saddlestitched, 40 pp $8.00 plus s&h 1999, ISBN 0-932412-16-5 Poems that evoke the author’s blue-collar, rock ‘n’ roll young womanhood. Sharp, gritty, honest and well-crafted. Information about Helen Ruggieri is available at http://helenruggieri.com Shoo Doobie Doobie Do by Helen Ruggieri Chuck Berry duckwalks across stage. We clap and scream. We’re yelling “Maybelline” rocking up…

Strata – Hugh Fox
Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp. $5.50 plus s&h 1998, ISBN-0-932412-12-2 “The poetry of Hugh Fox suggests a sort of mythical exploration of experience, how a particular moment can serve as a coming together of the eternal — cross cultural and cross experiential…” — Mahlon Coop The Angel of Death Flies By — This Time (part…

Sifting the Visible – Skip Renker
Paper, saddlestitched, 36 pp $6.50 plus s&h 1998, ISBN 0-932412-13-0 Skip Renker’s poems are grounded, quiet and elegant, reflecting the thoughtful, humorous and meditative style of the man himself. Fierce Talisman by Skip Renker Sooner or later you will need me. You’ll be lost. Unfamiliar trees, thick waxy leaves, a sound like crying when the…

Staying Intact – John Palen
Poetry. Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp $6 plus s&h 1997, ISBN-0-932412-11-4 These poems, as with any real poetry, make us see in new and deeper ways. Most of the works involve common feelings or occurances that we do not normally deem significant or beautiful. John’s elegant use of words brings out that beauty (not always a…

The American Floor – Kip Zegers
Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp $6 plus s&h 1996, ISBN-0-932412-09-2 Forty-Five by Kip Zegers As I walk home from the school yard where others attacking baskets were twelve years old, it is a robin-anointed evening, lingering light on dinnertime streets, flittings in still naked trees. Days ago I’d heard only starlings, jays with rediscovered voices, just…

Territories, Here & Elsewhere – Judith McCombs
Paper, saddlestitched, 28 pp $6 plus s&h 1996, ISBN-0-932412-10-6 “This poetry full of living detail, and within the detail is an ongoing motif of adventure, risk and survival. McCombs is a pleasure for me to read.” –Alicia Ostriker Pictures Not in Our Albums by Judith McCombs Somewhere it is still a dream of safety, our…

Blues for Port City – David Lunde
Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp $5 plus s&h 1995, ISBN 0-932412-07-8 Science fiction poems which are truly science fiction and truly fine contemporary poetry, “written” by an inhabitant of the demimonde of a space station. Includes Rhysling-award winner “Pilot, Pilot.” Pilot, Pilot by David Lunde Your eyes were mirrors then, silver as pressure domes, your head…