Paper, perfect bound, 44 pp $8.50 plus s&h 2000, ISBN 0-932412-18-1 Taking on everything from Persian prophets to Bigfoot, Jim Nabors to UFO’s, Berlitz tapes to the George Forman grill, these prose-poems elevate the notion of unpredictability and delight. Early Experiments in Ingesting Fire by Gerry LaFemina I was born in the month of multiple…
Paper, saddlestitched, 24 pp $5.50 plus s&h 1992, ISBN 0-932412-05-X These visionary erotic poems imagine the world of the geisha house with a female client and both male and female geishas. Home by Evelyn Wexler I have been lost too much in temporary places: hotels, weather, children, time. Geisha house, long unvisited, waits. The laughter…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
