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Tag: Women Poets

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Zombies at the Disco

November 23, 2020 Jacar Press

Alison Stone

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Alison Stone brings us contemporary ghazals that maintain the integrity of the original form while expanding the subject matter to include everything from pets to politics. Often funny, sometimes achingly sad, these …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Alison Stone, Full-Length Collection, Ghazals, Women Poets
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What I Forgot to Say

May 22, 2020 Jacar Press

Julie Suk

OUT OF STOCK. Available on Kindle.

Julie Suk is a prize-winning American poet from Charlotte, North Carolina. She was born Julie Madison Gaillard in 1924 in Mobile, Alabama, and attended Stephens College and the University of Alabama. Her …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2020 Publications, Chapbook, Julie Suk, Women Poets
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Nursewifery

December 2, 2019 Jacar Press

 

Ruth Williams

Wife, mother, nurse-these words invoke the vision of a woman giving of herself to sustain another with love, tenderness, care. Written in the voice of a military nurse, Nursewifery speaks from the perspective of a woman whose …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Ruth Williams, Women Poets
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Arc

September 22, 2019 Jacar Press

Eavan Boland

Arc is a curated chapbook of poems representing the career of Eavan Boland, Ireland’s most important and internationally acclaimed contemporary poet. A work of collectible book art, Arc is printed in a limited edition of 200 copies featuring …

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Posted in: Books, Greatest Hits Series Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Eavan Boland, Greatest Hits, Women Poets
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God Shattered

September 1, 2019 Jacar Press

Debra Kaufman

Crows and mirrors, shadows and mothers. Moving seamlessly between lyric and persona and always telling a piece of a larger story, God Shattered offers poems that are home to many familiars-family and community, landscape and weather, fairy tales, …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Debra Kaufman, Full-Length Collection, Women Poets
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Trawling the Silences

May 8, 2019 Jacar Press

Kathryn Stripling Byer

Out of Stock. Available on Kindle and Audible.

When she died suddenly from lymphoma in June 2017, Kathryn Stripling Byer had just completed her 7th, and what would be her last, collection of poetry, Trawling the Silences. …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Kathryn Stripling Byer, Women Poets
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Ache

Jacar Press

Elise Hempel

“Elise Hempel’s Ache tells of the devastating disconnect between the desire to communicate and the inability to do so due to intervening time, distance, reticence, and technology. These are well-crafted, plainspoken remembrances, clearly the result of what William …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2019 Publications, Chapbook, Elise Hempel, Women Poets
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Wishbone Moon

July 30, 2018 Jacar Press

Ed. Beary, Compton, Ramesh

Only available on Kindle.

“Wishbone Moon is a groundbreaking anthology of haiku by women in the international haiku community. As editors we consulted women journal editors and haiku leaders around the globe. We asked them for …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2018 Publications, Anthology, Ellen Compton, Haiku, Kala Ramesh, Roberta Beary, Women Poets
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Life Without Furniture

June 1, 2018 Jacar Press

Sharon Fagan McDermott

“In Life Without Furniture ‘the whole visible world flows through one white birch.’ Sharon Fagan McDermott inhabits the spaces between the common and the uncommon: the rich landscapes between ‘A State of Un-Union’ and ‘Driving Home After …

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Posted in: Books Filed under: 2018 Publications, Full-Length Collection, Sharon Fagan McDermott, Women Poets
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Anonymous

January 12, 2018 Jacar Press

Monique-Adelle Callahan D.

Available on Kindle.

“Anonymous follows vulnerable bodies impelled to service-for work, lust, purgation, and song. Even that last knells from halls where ‘the applause is from the whips.’ This, the caustic art of Monique-Adelle’s often brutal debut: …

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Posted in: Books, New Voices Filed under: 2018 Publications, Black Poets, Full-Length Collection, Monique-Adelle Callahan D., New Voices, Women Poets

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