poetry_titles – BkMk Press https://www.bkmkpress.org fine books since 1971 Thu, 10 Aug 2023 04:48:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 Altar for Broken Things https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/altar-for-broken-things/ Mon, 17 Aug 2020 13:50:58 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=1197 Learn more]]>
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Deborah Miranda

An enrolled member of the Ohlone-Costanoan Esselen Nation of California, poet Deborah A. Miranda was born in Los Angeles to an Esselen/Chumash father and a mother of French and Jewish ancestry. She grew up in Washington State, earning a BS in teaching moderate special-needs children from Wheelock College in 1983 and an MA and PhD in English from the University of Washington. Miranda’s collections of poetry include Raised by Humans (2015); Indian Cartography: Poems (1999), and The Zen of La Llorona (2005), . Miranda also received the 2000 Writer of the Year Award for Poetry from the Wordcraft Circle of Native Writers and Storytellers. Her mixed-genre collection Bad Indians: A Tribal Memoir (2013) won a Gold Medal from the Independent Publisher’s Association and the PEN Oakland Josephine Miles Literary Award, and was shortlisted for the William Saroyan Award. She is Thomas H. Broadus professor of English at Washington and Lee University.

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Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry , selected by Doug Ramspeck.

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Dara Yen Elerath

Dara Yen Elerath’s work has appeared in AGNI, American Poetry Review, Poet Lore, and elsewhere. She holds an MFA in poetry from the Institute of American Indian Arts. She is also a graduate of the Southwest University of Visual Arts and the University of New Mexico. A graphic artist as well as a poet, she lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Dark Braid is her debut book..

]]> Mozart’s Pigtail https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/mozarts-pigtail/ Tue, 30 Jun 2020 17:56:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=1107 Learn more]]>
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Roderick Townley

Mozart’s Pigtail is Roderick Townley’s third full collection of poetry. He has published books in several other genres and received a number of honors, among them the Governor’s Arts Award, the Peregrine Prize for Short Fiction, a Master Artist Fellowship in Fiction, the Thorpe Menn Award, three Kansas Notable Book awards, and two prizes from the Academy of American Poets. His children’s novels have appeared in several foreign editions, as well as in large print, audio, and book-club versions. One of them, The Blue Shoe (Knopf), was illustrated by Harry Potter artist Mary GrandPré. Another, The Great Good Thing (Atheneum), has been optioned for film and made into an opera. After earning his PhD at Rutgers, Roderick taught in Chile on a Fulbright Fellowship and worked in New York as a journalist and editor before moving to Kansas with his wife, Poet Laureate of Kansas Emerita Wyatt Townley.

]]> Can You Smell the Rain? https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/can-you-smell-the-rain/ Mon, 15 Jun 2020 14:40:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=948 Learn more]]>
Can You Smell the Rain? poses the old theatrical question, Who wants what, and why can’t they have it? Her confused and characters take themselves seriously as they yearn for love. With wit and gently biting satire, the poet presents their struggles. Beware: a snicker at these characters is a snicker at yourself. Whether the scene is a French-speaking convent school in Kansas City or an Irish-American woman’s further coming of age as a Radcliffe student, wife, mother, poet, or world traveler, Miller’s true journey is an interior one marked by a radiant wit and a sensuous appreciation for life itself.
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Patricia Cleary Miller

Patricia Cleary Miller is professor emerita of English at Rockhurst University, where she founded and edited the Rockhurst Review. She is the author of Starting a Swan Dive (Daniel S. Brenner Award) from BkMk Press, as well as the poetry titles Dresden and Crimson Lights, and the nonfiction title Westport: Missouri’s Port of Many Returns. Her work has appeared in Stand, Connecticut Review, New Letters, I-70 Review, and elsewhere. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College (where she also held a Bunting fellowship), the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and the University of Kansas. For eight years she was poet laureate of the Harvard Alumni Association. She is a past president of the Writers Place and won its annual Muse Award.

]]> Latter Days of Eve https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/latter-days-of-eve/ Mon, 01 Jun 2020 14:39:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=557 Learn more]]>

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Patricia Spears Jones

Burch imagines Eve’s life after Eden, in a world both ancient and contemporary, dystopian and redeemed.

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Beverly Burch

Beverly Burch is also the author of the poetry collections How a Mirage Works (Sixteen Rivers Press), which was a finalist for the Audre Lorde Award, and Sweet to Burn (winner of the Gival Press Poetry Prize and a Lambda Literary Award). She is also the author of two nonfiction books on psychoanalytic theory and sexual orientation: On Intimate Terms (University of Illinois Press) and Other Women (Columbia University Press). An Atlanta native, she has lived most of her adult life in the Bay Area and has a psychotherapy practice in Berkeley, California.​​

]]> Sweet Herbaceous Miracle https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/sweet-herbaceous-miracle/ Wed, 20 May 2020 18:26:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=1038 Learn more]]>

Winner of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry , selected by Enid Shomer

Featured on Poetry Daily and Verse Daily

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Berwyn Moore

Berwyn Moore is the author of two previous poetry collections, O Body Swayed and Dissolution of Ghosts. As the inaugural Poet Laureate of Erie County, Pennsylvania, she edited the anthology, Dwelling in Possibility: Voices of Erie County.
Her poetry has appeared in such journals as The Southern Review, Shenandoah, and JAMA, and she has won awards from Bellevue Literary Review, The Pinch, Margie, Nimrod, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, New Millennium, Briar Cliff Review, Negative Capability Press, and Five Points.
She has worked as a reporter, a freelance writer, and a respiratory therapist. Currently professor of English at Gannon University, she lives in Erie, Pennsylvania, with her husband, Robert.

]]> Crude Angel https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/crude-angel/ Sun, 10 May 2020 12:33:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=1116 Learn more]]>
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Suzanne Cleary

Suzanne Cleary was born and raised in Binghamton, New York, but has lived in the metropolitan New York City area for over 30 years. Her full-length poetry collections are Crude Angel and Beauty Mark (BkMk Press), Trick Pear and Keeping Time (Carnegie Mellon). Her awards include a Pushcart Prize, the Cecil Hemley Memorial Award of the Poetry Society of America, and the John Ciardi Prize (for Beauty Mark). She teaches as core faculty in the low-residency MFA in Creative Writing Program of Converse College.

]]> Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/fable-of-the-pack-saddle-child/ Thu, 30 Apr 2020 14:39:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=1148 Learn more]]>

Color illustrations by Nereida García Ferraz
International Latino Book Awards, poetry in English award, second place

Fable of the Pack-Saddle Child, an illustrated book-length poem for adults, lays bare the world of Micaela, ten, who lives in an unnamed Spanish-speaking city by the sea. Seeking emotional refuge after a traumatic assault, Micaela withdraws from the world of adults. Almost losing her burgeoning sense of self, she instead becomes enchanted by language, beginning with the tilde that sits atop the Spanish letter Ñ. Her new love of the written word helps her find redemption in surprising places.

Book description copy here.

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Winner of the American Book Award

Featured on Verse Daily

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Bojan Louis

Bojan Louis is a member of the Navajo Nation—Naakai Dine’é; Ashiihí; Ta’neezahnii; Bilgáana. He is a poet, fiction writer, essayist, and poetry and production editor for RED INK: An International Journal of Indigenous Literature, Arts, & Humanities, and the author of the nonfiction chapbook, Troubleshooting Silence in Arizona. He has been a resident at the MacDowell Colony.

]]> Feet of the Messenger https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/feet-of-the-messenger/ Mon, 13 Apr 2020 13:59:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=961 Learn more]]>

This book explores Palmer’s experiences as a medical doctor, especially as an army surgeon in the Vietnam War, and his feelings for and memories of his native Kansas, especially the Flint Hills. Although he has only been writing poetry for twelve years, Palmer’s work reflects decades of discovering how the war kept coming back to him, even on the prairie.

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Prior to a career in internal medicine, H. C. Palmer was a battalion surgeon in the American War in Vietnam. He has also been a cattle rancher. He founded and leads a writing program for veterans at the Writers Place in Kansas City, and his work has appeared in such journals as New Letters, Ekphrasis, Narrative Magazine, and War, Literature, and the Arts. Feet of the Messenger is his first book.

]]> All That Held Us https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/all-that-held-us/ Sat, 11 Apr 2020 12:57:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=853 Learn more]]> Winner of the of the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, selected by Kate Daniels

In this collection of linked sonnets, a young woman wrestles with the expectations of her repressive upbringing and Southern culture. Raised by a jaded and critical mother and haunted by an absent father, she constructs the myths and truths of home, family, and marital love that confine and release her to navigate her own sexuality and capacity for intimacy.

A biting exploration of family and coming of age. The dad is gone but not exactly. The mom and “crazy aunt” form a fascinating (and at times humorous) duo. The cast is small and tight. As Goodman circles round and round her subjects it all becomes more complicated. Each sonnet here finds the author leaning carefully in over the microscope, one eye closed, remembering and re-remembering (and probably re-re-remembering) and recording it all with brilliant Petrarchan snap. What starts out as sifting through ashes ends up a tale of Phoenix rising
Michael Earl CraigTalkativeness, Thin Kimono
Each of her untitled Italian sonnets is linked to the one that comes before it with a single line, image or idea, creating something reminiscent of a garland or a necklace or a prayer flag. The result is a book of poems that can each stand alone gracefully as single beads, but reach their full potential when they flow together one after another.
Sarah AswellMissoula Independent
These sonnets are each wonderfully linked with the previous ones by echoing a metaphor or literally repeating a key phrase but in a radically different tone and context. It is an elegant and impressive collection.
(Read the full review here.)
Daniel CaseySeattle Book Review
A sweeping and impressive project that delves into a personal mythos rich with memory, emotion, and trauma.
Erin CarlyleMid-America Review
The collection as a whole is Southern Gothic. It is uncomfortable and transgressive. Transgressive because it is honest. Unflinchingly so.
Naomi KimballAtticus Review
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Henrietta Goodman

Henrietta Goodman is the author of two previous books: Hungry Moon
(Mountain West Poetry Series) and Take What You Want (Beatrice Hawley
Award, Alice James Books). Her poems have appeared in Gulf Coast, Field,
New England Review, and other journals. She has attended the Marjorie Davis
Boyden Wilderness Writing Residency, as well as residencies at the Atlantic
Center for the Arts and the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center. Originally
from North Carolina, she lives in Missoula, Montana.

]]> The World Is One Place:Native American PoetsVisit the Middle East https://www.bkmkpress.org/poetry_titles/the-world-is-one-placenative-american-poetsvisit-the-middle-east/ Fri, 10 Apr 2020 13:01:00 +0000 https://www.bkmkpress.org/?post_type=poetry_titles&p=1130 Learn more]]>

Eric Hoffer Award category finalist and da Vinci's Eye finalist for cover art by Kim Shuck

The anthology explores how the Middle East has captured the imaginations of a significant group of Native American poets, most of whom have traveled to the Middle East (broadly defined to include the Arab world, Israel, Turkey, Afghanistan). What qualities of the region drew them there? What did they see? How did their cultural perspectives as Native Americans inform their reactions and insights? Three thematic sections—Place, People, Spirit—feature poems and notes inspired by the poets experiences of Middle Eastern cultures.

Contributors

Jim Barnes
Kimberly Blaeser
Trevino L. Brings Plenty
Natalie Diaz
Diane Glancy 

Joy Harjo
Allison Hedge Coke
Travis Hedge Coke
Linda Hogan
LeAnne Howe

Bojan Louis
Craig Santos Perez
Linda Rodriguez
Kim Shuck
James Thomas Stevens
Diane Glancy

Diane Glancy is professor emerita at Macalester College. She is mixed-blood, undocumented Cherokee. Her books include Fort Marion Prisoners and the Trauma of Native Education, Report to the Department of the Interior, and Ironic Witness. Among her awards are a 2014 Native Writers Circle of the Americas Lifetime Achievement Award, an American Book Award, and two National Endowment for the Arts Fellowships.

Linda Rodriguez

Linda Rodriguez’s three novels featuring Cherokee campus police chief Skeet Bannion have received critical recognition and awards, such as Latina Book Club Best Book of 2014, and the St. Martin’s Press/ Malice Domestic Best First Traditional Mystery Award. She has written two books of poetry, Skin Hunger and Heart’s Migration. Rodriguez is a founding board member of 118 Latino Writers Collective and The Writers Place, and a member of Wordcraft Circle of Native American Writers and Storytellers, and Kansas City Cherokee Community.

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