GUILD CHAPBOOKS AVAILABLE:
AUTHOR: Wilda Morris
TITLE: Szechwan Shrimp and Fortune Cookies: Poems from a Chinese Restaurant
PUBLICATION DATE: 2008
80 pages (67 poems)
Price: $14.00
Shipping: $2.00
Send check or money order to
Wilda Morris
499 Falconridge Way
Bolingbrook IL 60440-2242
“The zodiac on the placemat before you predicts a delectable aesthetic experience
and Wilda Morris's book delivers just that. There are sweet and sour delights.
'Leftovers' mirrors a troubled relationship; 'Crab Rangoon,' a blossoming
romance. In 'Shrimp Kow' we reminisce with a white-haired woman who taught young children
in Chinatown. 'The Embittered Veteran Orders His Meal' confronts the ravages of war at its
most visceral level. Each poem is a subtle delight. Ten years ago Wilda observed a Chinese
grandfather feed an icy treat to a young boy by the Ming tombs. Years from now you will
remember the poetic delicacies Wilda Morris offers in this wonderful book.” --- John
Lehman, Poetry Editor, Wisconsin People and Ideas and founder and original publisher of
Rosebud
"In these delightful, overheard voices, poet Wilda Morris takes us to a back booth at a
Chinese restaurant, reports the sweet and the sour of the lives that go on there, lonely or
gregarious, the secrets shared over Szechwan shrimp, the fortunes and Zodiac signs read."
-Robin Chapman, author of The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead and Smoke and Strong Whiskey.
AUTHOR: Linda Newman Woito
TITLE: Restless Bird
PAGES: 64 pages, 53 poems
PRICE: $10 each
SHIPPING/HANDLING: $2.00 for singles, $2.50 for multiples
ISBN: 978-0-9796634-4-4
TERMS: Send check with order to:
Linda Newman Woito
28 Heritage Circle, No. 6
Madison, WI 53711
DESCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR:
RESTLESS BIRD is a collection of 53 poems designed to take the reader on a journey through peoples' storied lives, real and imagined, leading you on wild rides, joyful epiphanies, and sad endings with those who've lived theIowa farm life, driven the German Autobahn, and walked the streets of Istanbul.
Though the stories range in subject, they all spring from that same well we drew from while seated at our grandma's knee: the desire to hear stories told aloud. Linda's poems take you to new and old neighborhoods, riverbanks, woods, living rooms, hospitals, porches, even prisons--but most notably to kitchens, which is where most good stories are traded.
So "what is poetry?" Linda's grandsons ask. Poetry is words gathered together in a way that makes music . . . and speaks some truth. Linda hopes your travels through this collection will be read as music to your ears, even the more cacophonous ones which
may be difficult to hear but for the music.
AUTHOR: Dixon Hearne
TITLE: Touchstones and Threads of Change
PAGES: 106
PRICE: $15.95
SHIPPING/HANDLING: $2.00
TERMS: Order directly from: gcwriters.org using PayPal
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send check for cost + shipping to:
Dixon Hearne
8566 Larkhall Circle #812A
Huntington Beach, CA 92646
DESCRIPTION FROM AUTHOR:
Touchstones and Threads of Change is a collection of short stories and poetry, many of which originally appeared in literary magazines, journals and anthologies. Meet Loretta Whitehawk, the first young maiden invited into her tribe's inner circle. Meet a feisty elderly survivor of Katrina, a "walkin' preacher," and a host of southern voices brought to life in these pages, a cast of strong, determined characters who choose to shape their own destinies, speak their minds. "Dixon Hearne knows the South: its people, their voices, their culture, and their tribulations. And therein lies his story-telling gift -- the exceptional ability to transform local, sometimes seemingly petty squabbles into obsrvations on the universal human condition and the invariable opportunities for redemption." (Ernest Avery, Editor, Reflections Literary Journal).
Author: Kelly Epperson
Title: When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes
Published: 2008
Number of Pages: 106 pages
Price: $12.95
Shipping $2.00
Terms: Send check to Kelly Epperson PO Box 2324 Loves Park IL 61131
Contact:www.kellyepperson.com or kel_epperson@yahoo.com
October 2007, 140 pages
Terms: $12.95 + $2 S&H to Kelly Epperson PO Box 2324 Loves Park IL 61131
Move over, Erma, and make room for Kelly.” Kelly’s weekly newspaper columns are a witty (and sometimes wise) take on the events that happen to all of us in everyday life. From the jobs hazards of parenting, to today’s fashion statements, to the mysteries of online IQ testing, Kelly tackles every topic with candor and humor. When Life Stinks, It’s Time to Wash the Gym Clothes is a collection of over forty reader-favorite columns. Some columns from the year that Kelly, the Man of the Place, and their boys lived in France are included too, of course. One reader states: “You are funny, down to earth, and not afraid to show your imperfections. Thanks for writing about real life.”
Author: Jim Bellarosa
Title: Horse of a Different Color: And other tales of Conflict and Confrontation
Published: 2006
Number of Pages: 106 pp.
Price: $12.95 each
Shipping: Included
Terms: Send check with order to:
Jim Bellarosa
24 Snow Road
North Grafton, MA 01536
Description from Author:
A Horse of a Different Color is a collection of short stories--fifteen in all--with a common theme of conflict and confrontation. Most of the stories appeared previously in literary magazines around the country, some have won prizes in writing contests. They're less "literary" (in the sense that most people use that term) than down-to-earth stories, I think--stories, settings and circumstances we can all relate to. And they're told with liberal doses of humor, compassion and quirkiness.
So, who will you find in this collection? Well, there are vamps and villans, heroes and hucksters, coquettes and curmudgeons, innocents and inebreiates, seducers and sophisticates. And there are lots of couples--couples in love, in conflict, in delusion, and in confusion.
Of course, I'm inviting orders and I'm hoping you'll send one because I think you'll enjoy A HORSE OF A DIFFERENT COLOR. It has charm, I think, insight, drama, a fast pace. And it has so much dialogue that one of my friends told me he could still hear people talking after he closed the book. He thinks it may be the noisiest book ever written!
For each book purchased by a RWG member I'll donate $1 to the Guild's general fund.
Author: Esther E. Buskohl
Title: Apple Stars and Family Trees
Published: October 2005
Number of Pages: 80 pp.
Price: $18.00 each
Shipping: $2.00 additional per book (Media Rate)
Terms: Send check with order to:
E. E. Buskohl
304 West First St.
Mount Morris, IL 61054
Description from Author:
Apple Stars and Family Trees is a dramatization of East Freisen womens' stories in monologues and a three-act play. The book's characters tell of their journeys from Germany's North Sea Ostfriesland to Northern Illinois' prairie land.
My book was written for reading to show out ancestors' determination and hope of a better life “for the children.”
The monologues can be used with permission for story-telling programs, cemetery walks, etc. The play involves the same women telling their experiences interspersed with this generation's frustrations in the search to complete family trees.
The play's setting is a library's genealogy books section. The cast is for four “mature” women, five women of current generation, one young man, and one optional small boy to run on the stage in the last scene.
BOOK ORDERS and communications about permission for monologue and play performances should be addressed to:
Esther E. Buskhol
304 West First Street
Mount Morris, IL 61054
Melanie Coronetz announces publication of her chapbook:
Letters from the
Queen
And Other Gems
By Melanie Coronetz
AVAILABLE NOW! $10 Post paid.
A collection of lively letters –to-the editor published in The New York Times, The New York Post, and the Wall Street Journal among others. Melanie Coronetz, who used to write “junk mail” letters when she worked in advertising, was known among her peers as “The Queen of Letters.”
To reserve your copy:
e-mail: mermel@att.net
or send check to:
Melanie Coronetz
9 East 96th Street (12-A)
New York, NY 10128
Author: Olivia Diamond
Title: Novenas for Grandmother
Published: 2007
Price: $3.00 each, 5 or more copies, 10% discount
Shipping: Includes postage
Terms: Order from author by e-mail at: olivia@mountainofdreams.com
Or by telephoning: 406-862-3940
Description from Author:
A thematic series of 16 nine-stanza poems commemorating the immigrant experience of the poet's Polish grandmother. Dedicated to all the mothers, grandmothers and great grandmothers of the world; this 16 page poetry chapbook makes a lovely gift for the special women in your life.
Author: Eunice Fisher
Title: Christian AND Lesbian: A Life in Progress
Published: Fall, 2006
Number of Pages: 234 pp.
Terms: To request a copy please mail a check for $14.99 + $5.00 postage/handling (add an additional $5.00 for an autographed copy) to:
Eunice Fisher
P.O. Box 1559
St. Petersburg, FL 33731-1559
Description from Author:
RWG member and former President Eunice Fisher has announced the publication of her first book with RWG Press. "Christian AND Lesbian: A Life in Progress" is a 234-page anthology of reminiscences about growing up in Milwaukee; anecdotes about family, friends, and animals; poetry, especially about love (requited or not); and journal entries addressed to her partner. A lifelong Christian and in recent years a gay rights activist, the author includes insightful comments on issues relating to the church and the place of gays and lesbians in it. Illustrated by the author.
Beginnings and Endings
By
Joyce Sandeen Johnson
Published: August, 2005
35 poems
Terms: To request a copy please mail a check for $7.00 to:
Joyce Sandeen Johnson
101 West Windsor Road #6203
Urbana, IL 61802-6663
Description from Author:
The flow of life and the seasons of the year with a bit of philosophy here and there.
The Devil’s Advocate
By
Charles Portolano
A Chapbook of Poems
Who’s that knocking on your door?
Published: September, 2005
Number of Pages: 40 pages, 28 poems
Price: $5.00 - Includes shipping and postage.
Terms: To order copies, please send a check or money order for $5, which includes postage,
to:
Charles Portolano
P.O. Box 17205
Fountain Hills, AZ 85269-7205
To pay with Paypal or to contact me, please e-mail me at: angeldec24@hotmail.com
DOUGLAS HOLDER wrote:
Poet Charles Portolano wrote to me: " I believe this is a book for all Americans, who love what the country should and could be." Portolano should be commended for desiring to make a political statement with his work. And in some cases he artfully does, as in his lead poem: "The Bald Eagle." Here he describes the imperialistic swoop of this majestic bird; only to be silenced by a resounding shot: "with one swoop/ of those wondrous wings/ diving down/ descending upon its prey/ talons poised/ for the kill/ a sudden, single gunshot/ shatters the silence." This poem's allusion to our national bird, and the shattering of this mandarin myth of American invincibility is well done.
There are more poetry books needed to decry the direction in which this country is going. I am sure "The Devil's Advocate," will be just the tip-of-the-iceberg in the world of the small press.
Doug Holder/ Ibbetson Update/ Somerville, Mass./Sept. 2005
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"The Bald Eagle" took 1st. Place Prize in The Rockford Writer's Guild's Ides of March Poetry Contest.
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Ed Grosek, Editor of "Write Away" called these 28 poems "very provocative".
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Arthur C. Ford of The Poet Band Co. writes "Poet Charles Portolano waste no words.
He exposes human endeavors, nature, religion and a host of other matters.
He uses very little internal and external punctuation, which in turn, creates a rhythmic
and kind of enjambment of short verses. The reader can get comfortable enough to
complete the entire book non-stop.
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For more information on Charles Portolano, visit Web site www.thesouldecision.com
Author: Richard Swanson
Title: Men in the Nude in Socks, and other poems
Published: October 2006
Number of Pages: 70 pp., perfect bound, quality paperback
Publisher: Fireweed Press
Price: $13.00 each
Shipping: Included
Terms: Send check with order to:
Richard Swanson
7320 Cedar Creek Trail
Madison, WI 53717
Description from Author:
The poems in this collection are often comic, frequently with a satirical edge. But many of the works tackle very serious subjects: war and peace, nature's complexities, and human relationships. As one of my reviewers noted, "there's plenty of meat on these funny bones."
I love to delve into pop culture, and there are poems about Ted Williams and Barbie and Ken, for example. I also have a love of the commonplace, so there are pieces about cats in bookstores, young teen-age girls not being able to say goodbye to one another, people at farmers' markets, and do-it-yourself homeowners.
My poems have architecture, frequently based in conventional forms. When they're successful, I believe, readers should barely notice that they're reading a sonnet or villanelle.
"Possessed of a warm sensibility and dry wit, Swanson's poems crackle with humor and huanity." -- Ian Morris, Associate Editor, TriQuarterly
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