Howie Good, a journalism professor at the State University of New York at New Paltz, is the author of eight poetry chapbooks, including Police and Questions (2008) from Right Hand Pointing, Tomorrowland (2008) from Achilles Chapbooks, The Torturer's Horse (2009) from Recycled Karma Press, and Love Is a UFO (2009) from Pudding House. He has been nominated three times for a Pushcart Prize and twice for the Best of the Net anthology. Lovesick is his first full-length book of poetry.

Lovesick

Literature & Fiction

Good, Howie

Poetry

Poetry Press

"Love in a Time of Paranoia is a truly poignant collection, where every word serves a purpose. A lexical surgeon, Good takes little to no time to cut into a moment, revealing the heart as it lays there, exposed and previously misdiagnosed. You are nothing more than an intellectual intern on this journey—you will stand there as he thrusts you into a scene, as he steps back and watches you manipulate the power within a split second. You will be tested mentally, emotionally. So the question becomes not of Good’s literary aptitude, but of your ability to appreciate his precision, his analysis. Laced with quick, clean incisions, his poems are a crisp reflection of a skilled poet and I would wholeheartedly recommend this collection to anyone in the mood to be moved." —Mimi Ferebee, Red Ochre Lit

Love in a Time of Paranoia: twenty20 Chapbook Series No. 1

Diamond Point Press

Winner of Prize Americana, Howie Good's Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements contains poems that feature a penetrating analysis of contemporary life.

Dangerous Acts Starring Unstable Elements

Press Americana

I felt sorry for everyone. For men, for roosters, for dogs. A person I hadn't seen in years walked up and said, "Breathe, just breathe. We're here. We exist." And that sort of started it. I slept under bridges, on park benches, out in the woods. You can't imagine it if you haven't been there. Birds and humans got mixed up in my mind. This is the eye of a woman who participated. At first I didn't register what it could be. There was just one clue - a guard box with a soldier with a rifle on his shoulder.

The Titanic Sails at Dawn

Independently published

New from Right Hand Pointing, Howie Good's "Fugitive Pieces," a collection of collage poems. Proceeds from sales of this book will go to The Food Bank of the Hudson Valley 195 Hudson Street Cornwall-on-Hudson, Ny 12520

Fugitive Pieces

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The Death Row Shuffle

Finishing Line Press

Stick Figure Opera: 99 100-word Prose Poems

Another installment of Howie Good's legacy, Gunmetal Sky are poems that inventively blur the line between lyric and broadside, confronting an increasingly hostile world with poignancy, wry humor, and a sense of the surreal. There's no sun behind this sky but there's plenty of shade.

Gunmetal Sky

Humor & Satire

Thirty West Publishing House

The double threat that is Howie Good is on full-tilt boogie display in this uber-cool combo of prose poetry and original collage. Good is a master of both genres, and this collection sings with the beautiful exchange of words and images on every page. From the stark horror of everyday headlines to nursery rhymes to clocks that strike thirteen, Good takes us everywhere his imagination wants, always with his signature punch of the unexpected. Laid out in an almost storybook manner, frowny face will take you back in some comforting way to when you were little, curled up, and wanting to hear a favorite story read to you just once more. And one more time after that. This book is a triumph, to be sure.- Francine Witte, author of Just Outside the Tunnel of LoveHowie Good's new prose poem collection, frowny face, portrays a baleful world whose ominous sights and scenes haunt an often-perplexed speaker who, despite their puzzlement, is a precise observer of, and brilliant guide through, an apocalyptic darkness. Illustrated by Good's cannily collaged images, frowny face leads the reader through a menacing dusk in which "every street is a crime scene, every person both suspect and victim," toward a searing light that reveals "the world is still a funny kind of free."-Brad Rose, author of Lucky Animals and No. Wait. I Can ExplainFinding power in brevity, Howie Good's frowny face attacks the reader with a seemingly clashing juxtaposition of words and images, causing us to linger for longer on each and unearth new meaning amid myrioramas of apocalypse, advertisements, classic paintings, and displaced figures. A triumph of Weltschmerz and humor. - Colin Dardis, author of The Dogs of Humanity and the x of y

frowny face

Arts & Photography

Individual Artists

Redhawk Publications

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