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Karen Admussen
Moon of Many Names, explores each full moon of the year which illuminates a different season in nature and in our lives. Native Americans and other ancient cultures named the moons to describe their unique environment. This book explores some of those personalities used by various tribes and countries. Once you meet them, you will see each month’s full moon with new eyes
Carol Allman, Jean Luce, Donna Meidt, Stina Nelson, Eva Marie Willis, Denise DeVries
Measured Moments: the way we see it, is a captivating chapbook of poetry and art that depicts treasured family stories with universal relevance. The authors are members of the Legacy Writing Club of Tempe, AZ in the East Valley.
Dianne Brown
Sweet Candy Rhythm scatters nuggets of gold on every page. This kaleidoscopic array of heart-rich poetry spans daydream musings to foodie fantasies, socks and undies to a centered love of our galaxy. Dianne’s whimsical drawings frolic throughout.
Stephen Chaffee
The Arizona Trail: Passages in Poetry celebrates the American wilderness, wildland travel, and the glorious outdoors in recreation and re-creation through the eyes of a poet. Each poem in this book was inspired by sections of the eight-hundred-mile trail that winds its way through some of the most picturesque wilds of Arizona.
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Charity Everitt
Translation from the Ordinary, is anything but ordinary. Her book is built on “ambiguities to be found in even our most cherished truths.” While she references the book’s origin as inspired by two parallel lines from Biblical Psalms, her poems reach far beyond religion or spirituality. Everitt’s poetry is often grounded in every-day images-tuna hot dish and salads, spiders, yellow sandals, and more. But she is keenly aware of the complexities and struggles of human existence and spurs the reader to grapple with them all in her work. With sharp natural and human-made imagery and powerful emotion, she delves into the most poignant aspects of life-grief, aging, loss, love, and rebirth. In rich language and depth of meaning, she challenges readers to recognize the human condition, and to sustain each other with hope and resilience for the future.-Alan Perry, author of Clerk of the Dead
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Annette Gagliardi and Laura Kozy Lanik
This book is sponsored by the League of Minnesota Poets (LOMP)
Annette Gagliardi
Proper Poems for Ladies . . . And a few naughty ones, too is a limited edition chapbook that could be called a tribute to women, but it is more of a hug, more of a glimpse into the realities of life as a female, more of a recalling of the many facets of femininity. This book salutes the abilities of women, extols the variety of who women are and pays homage to female capacities.
Annette Gagliardi
Caffeinated pays homage to the beverages we so love to wake up to, so love to enjoy throughout the day, in many ways, and that we so love to imbibe before bed. Sunny and funny poems are interspersed with more serious ones that provide a punch, because coffee helps us think deep thoughts. Yet we don’t want to take ourselves too seriously. The book ends the collection with a couple poems full of gratitude for the day and the availability of caffeine, in its many forms.
Mary Heyborne
Ephemerons, Mary Heyborne’s second book of poetry, echoes love of family, great literature, art and travel. In it she also chronicles the blackness of her tragic widowhood in 2003, sweet and bittersweet rememberings, and evidence of moving on.
Mary Heyborne
Words and Other Lovers is Mary Heyborne’s third full-length book of poetry, and again her words sing with her love of great literature, art, and travel as well as her familial roles and work as a writer and potter. Mary, also, is a professional potter and playwright as well as being a poet.
Kristina Hakanson
Kristina Hakanson gives us—in both free verse and lyric prose forms—poems of considerable range and power, most poignantly those about her beloved father’s terminal illness.
Both elegiac and celebratory, these poems derive their strength from the real world around us: wooden spoons, egg-beaters, a coffee cup, the teeth of a harrow – touched here and there by an element of the surreal (a wolf in a cello).
Frank Iosue
The Au Revoir Of An Enormous Us is a collection containing the inventory of my poetic journey. The joys, sorrows, memories, and reveries; the people and places, the histories, and the voyages of imagination that populate these pages, form my testament to a world, whose presences, and absences, have accompanied me, and formed the fragile scaffolding for the little empire of my existence — an intensely-felt world of a self, of an I, intimately environed and occupied by a brilliant otherness of those, and them, and it and you . . . An Enormous Us!
Linda LaVere
Bridge of Bones evokes memories of the rural south and spans, like bridges, to the California coast. These poems are wounded healers; they lure you from elements of darkness toward the light.
Linda LaVere
Shadowlands is poetry of the personal and sensual explorations made while we walk the knife-edge of our own dualities and illusions.
Sherrie Lyons
The Tragedy at Cambria is a three-act play written in rhyming iambic pentameter. It tells a story of love, deception, and power in the medieval kingdom of Cambria.
C.I. Marshall
The Locksmith Journeys To The Afterlife is C.I. Marshall’s first collection, The Locksmith Journeys Into The Afterlife, won the Frosted Fire First Pamphlet Award in 2022
“By turns invitingly conversational and transportingly inventive, C. I. Marshall has the keenest powers of inner and outer observation I’ve encountered in some time. The beloved dead speak, a dog tells of its genealogy, a busker transports us to another continent or metaphysical realm; incandescently imaginative, witty and poised; and yet the poems are profoundly real, breathing with the energy of life fully lived, mistakes fully enjoyed. An intensely musical, narrative joy from poem to poem.”
Luke Kennard, 2022
Betty Jo Middleton
Senior Moments poems are, both humorous and serious, relate to aspects of aging, especially during times of climate change and Coronavirus.
Betty Jo Middleton
Second Fifties poems addresses aspects of interest to people who have reached their second fifties: love, marriage, children, parenting, loss, self-sufficiency, work, ands the passage of time.
David Navarro
In the Praise of His Glory, is a book of poems that challenges critics and naysayers to reconsider what they think about the Bible while also being a great testimony of what God has blessed us with in this life. This poetry deals with some intense issues regarding the devil, devil spirits, the dead, and the kingdom of darkness—yet it always points to God’s solutions and victory in Jesus Christ. It also has “behind the scenes” notes to further elucidate the poetry and bring it to life for the serious Biblical student.
David Navarro
A Tree Frog’s Eyes, contains over 190 haiku and several essays that reflect the diverse natural, cultural, and geographical influences of Navarro’s life as a wandering poet-philosopher and minister. He draws on 40 years of practicing haiku from its origins in ancient Chinese poetry through the four great Japanese hokku/haiku masters, Basho, Buson, Issa, and Shiki—especially the pure-land nature haiku of Issa. These haiku embrace the classic core functional elements of kire (the cut) and kigo (season), and essential elements of zoka, ma, tathata, and toriawase, explained in the Foreword. Though influenced by Eastern origins, Navarro’s haiku are thoroughly steeped in modern American nature, culture, geography, and tradition.
David Navarro
Dropping Ants into Poems, is a collection of 27 contemporary poems, 18 Zen poems, and 1 piece of flash fiction that work together to develop the main theme of past, present, and future knowledge. Navarro has been called a word-master who writes with an intelligent poetic flair that demonstrates his symbiotic relationship with the English language and extraordinary ability to deliver powerful themes through words and imagery (S. Stumpf, Wildfire Publications, CO). The book was noted as a delightfully quirky collection that goes from sports teams to Ancient Rome, from the Western world to the Far East, from war to peace, and from the genesis of life to how we contribute to our unfolding future (V. Ignatowitsch, Chief Editor, Better than Starbucks).
Alan Perry
Clerk of the Dead is a compilation of poems that are elegies for people living and passed, and poems that cherish family, relationships and hope.
Elaine Powers
Squirrels of the Sonoran Desert, despite their different appearances, all the squirrels native to the Sonoran Desert are ground squirrels! Burrow into this book to learn about their shared and unique features. If you or your little ones are curious about those borrowing, furry squirrels in your backyard or at your favorite park, this book is a great introduction.
Elaine Powers
Guam: Return of the Songs, Introducing the brown treesnake to Guam destroyed many native animals in the island ecosystem. This book tells the story of that invasion, the species lost, and the hopeful return of some of Guam’s native birds. Written in both English and CHamoru
Linda Rittenhouse
Nana Posy and the Baby Bobcat: Nana Posy Series #5 is a children’s picture book, fifth in the Nana Posy series. It is about a vivacious grandmother who wants the wild creatures in her Arizona backyard to follow her rules instead of Mother Nature’s. This time it’s bobcats who are causing the “issue.”
Linda Rittenhouse
Hee Hee Haw is a rhyming picture book with full-color illustrations that capture the dry desert landscape where wild donkeys manage to survive. It will delight children while giving them a glimpse of the wild donkeys who have roamed the Sonoran Desert for generations.
Linda Rittenhouse
My River is an artistic tribute to rivers. Children will be entranced by the illustrations and the thoughtful rhyme by award-winning poet, Linda Rittenhouse. The musicality of the lines will help them explore the magical language of one of Mother Nature’s most powerful features.
Linda Rittenhouse
SantaBella, A Christmas Tale tells a fanciful story of Christmas Eve that turns children’s imaginations free to gently consider an alternative to Santa Claus. The delightful book tells a magical story that allows children to imagine far beyond the page. Readers are invited to step into the world of snowy Christmas Eve possibilities touched by sparkling moonlight.
Janet Rives
Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie is where Janet treats you to her keen observations of a singular place that clearly holds her heart.
Janet McMillan Rives
Washed by a Summer Rain: Poems From the Desert are meticulously researched poems by Janet Rives when she first moved back to Arizona twenty years ago. She offers understanding through flashes of history, bursts of the natural world’s hues, and introductions to those she has shared this vivid area with.
Patty Robertson
Jane Austen’s Imagination, enjoy passionate poetic insights for Lady Elliot, Mrs. Tilney, and Phoebe Harville plus your favorite heroines, heroes, bad boys and others. See the English verdure and counties Austen describes in 19th century fullness. You’ll be swept up in each lyrical piece, with context and references Jane wanted you to understand about her novels.
Patty Robertson
With Bronte Intensity, windswept Yorkshire moors and gothic themes have surrounded the 19th century Bronte family. Sisters and authors Charlotte (Jane Eyre), Emily (Wuthering Heights), and Anne Bronte (The Tenant of Wildfell Hall) penned great English classics still admired today. Steeped in local flavor, relish this collection of moving poetry appreciating the Bronte family lives and works.
Linda Rittenhouse
Nana Posy and the Baby Bobcat: Nana Posy Series #5 is a children’s picture book, fifth in the Nana Posy series. It is about a vivacious grandmother who wants the wild creatures in her Arizona backyard to follow her rules instead of Mother Nature’s. This time it’s bobcats who are causing the “issue.”
Janet Rives
Into This Sea of Green: Poems from the Prairie is where Janet treats you to her keen observations of a singular place that clearly holds her heart.
Laura Rodley
Counter Point, Laura Rodley brings us the poems of the Whydah, a pirate ship that serves as the backdrop for an epic story of love, loss, fortune and frailty. One desperate leap changes the life of a young woman coming of age in a man’s world, aboard a ship where her very presence means bad luck — fate has other plans.
Laura Rodley
Turn Left at Normal, “From farmstead to oceanside, from desert to forest, from tragic loss of a mother, the bedside of a cherished friend, to delight in a grandchild’s learning to swim, these poems of Laura Rodley’s take us on sensual journeys of the heart.
Nan Rubin
Encounters is a collection of poems inspired from the natural world. We see with the naked eye, but there is potential for greater meaning. Nature offers metaphors, …
Nan Rubin
A Closer Look: The Textures of Relationship, is Nan Rubin’s second collection of poetry. Her poems explore the complexities of relationships, bringing them into an intimate focus. Family, marriage, friendship, strangers whose lives intersect our own—all are shown through Nan’s poetic lens with its careful rendering of yearning, vulnerability, and resilience.
Jon Sebba
In Yossi, Yasser, & Other Stories, Jon Sebba has found a beautiful way of expressing the deepest feelings of horror, sadness, longing and compassion. It is an amazing account of the author’s life during wartime.
Robert Sedillo
In Am I So Different, Robert Sedillo writes of a child living with cancer. The cancer treatments have caused her to look different. He chronicles what it is like when friends and classmates make snide remarks and tease her because they don’t understand what living with cancer is like.
Jody Serey
Sweeping Glass is an eclectic collection pulled from more than a half-century of work. Jody Serey’s topics are real life, occasionally raw, and expressed in language devoid of flowery phrasing. Each poem is a sketch instead of a Sistine Chapel ceiling.
Gene Twaronite
Gene Twaronite
Trash Picker on Mars is Gene’s first poetry collection and the winner of the 2017 New Mexico-Arizona Book Award for Arizona poetry.
Gene Twaronite
What The Gargoyle Sees is a collection of new and selected poems ranging from science fiction and fantasy to myth, horror, and fairy tale retellings.
Gene Twaronite
How to Eat Breakfast is a rhyming picture book about a girl’s imaginary adventures in how animals eat.
Gene Twaronite
Shopping Cart Dreams is a full-length collection offering an eclectic range of poems ranging from serious to quirky and absurd. Though mostly free verse, it includes a number of prose, ekphrastic, and found poems as well as several sonnets and a sestina.
Tucson Poetry Society
Desert Tracks: Poems from the Sonoran Desert is a modest anthology that offers its readers poems written by 23 poets of the Tucson Poetry Society.
Joy Valerius
Dogs on the Verge of Poetry is an excursion into the emotional connection between humans and their canine friends. The author uses poetry to express such feelings as humor, playfulness, companionship and loss. Love fills this book of poems.
Stuart Watkins
Birds and Beyond, birds, birds, birds, and a variety of beautiful, even amazing, pictures by a professional photographer who thinks he is an amateur. Birds, lizards, deer, mountains, Catalina State Park in Arizona, a visit to Bisbee, Arizona, and a beautiful collection of original photographs that will amaze.
Stuart Watkins
Death is Dead, Jesus declared that “Death is Dead” and through pictures, illustrations, and writings the author shows that Death is in fact Dead. Women played a vital role in the Bible and in the spread of Christianity. This book pays tribute to some of them and they are respected for the vital roles they played throughout the history of religion. Through the many photos, drawings, and illustrations, and a little humorous story about God, Jesus, and the Holy Spirit visiting Tucson, Arizona during a monsoon, the author attempts to paint a picture that helps explain the words; Oh Death, where is thy Sting?”
Stuart Watkins
Oracle, Arizona and Beyond in Black and White contains the same places to visit such as Oracle, Oracle State Park, Florence, the Florence Museum, Saint Anthony’s Greek Orthodox Monastery near Florence, San Manuel, Mammoth, and Bisbee, as well as some interesting details about modern day marksmen representing the United States.
Stuart Watkins
Southwest Trails and Tales is a collection of stories, poems, and writes that originate from the southwest, mostly from Tucson, Arizona, but some events take place in Hawaii and other states, especially the story about $5,000,000 in Stolen Quarters.
Stuart Watkins
Tombstone, Boothill has a Western theme with poems, prose, and other writes that often have surprise endings. Cowboys and cowgirls, and ranching, form the basis for this book. The last 18 pages are devoted to Tombstone, Arizona along with pictures from the Boothill Cemetery and Memorial.
Bonnie Wehle
Interiority is a book of 54 poems divided into three sections in which we travel through darkness, come into the light, and look at love through the probing eyes of the poet’s soul, to see what is in our own.
Bonnie Wehle
A Certain Ache is a collection of poems in the voices of women. Over half are historical women, including such legends as Frida Kahlo, Hedy Lamarr, and Amelia Earhart, as well as lesser-known women with important things to say. All have been well researched and include relevant biographies in the back of the book.
Trudy Wells-Meyer
Some Things Are Simply Meant to Be is Trudy’s memoir of immigration to America for Switzerland at the age of 23.
Sarah Zale
Strange Fruit: Poems on the Death Penalty, is an anthology that was inspired by efforts to abolish Washington State’s death penalty by using the power of poetry. The poems were chosen for their intention to evoke empathy, to open minds and hearts to the fate of individuals on death row and the individuals directly affected by their crimes.
Sarah Zale
The Art of Folding is a masterful work of sustained and interwoven lyrics, at once political and intimate, in which the gestures of daily life are seen as if for the first time in the light of history.
Sarah Zale
Explain the Moon to Me ponders the known and unknown. These poems employ nature, sound, and human consequence(s) to highlight human failure and beauty.
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