Jean describes her poetry as "a choreography of words" with area musicians providing accompaniment to the reading of each poem. The book is a collaboration of readers and musicians that includes a CD of the poems with musical accompaniment of oboe, english horn, flute, piano, fretless banjo, violin, and balafon. Jean's work has previously been published in the Great Smokies Review, the Online Publication of the Great Smokies Writing Program in Asheville, North Carolina. "With a painter's eye, a musician's ear, and a poet's heart, Jean Cassidy evokes the telling details of a world, one that is at once present and vanished. Hers is a sensibility that locates the ponderous in the intimate, bringing into poignant relief the past that persists and embellishes our days." ~ Holly Iglesias, Author of Angles of Approach ~

Toward the Clearing

Jean M. Cassidy

Main Street Rag

That Which Is Owed to Death

Don Mager

Marilyn Bates attributes her love for the outdoors, with which she begins this collection, to those quiet afternoons of shelling peas under the osage orange tree with her grandmother or digging in her own small patch next to her father's garden. Their psyches, delicately linked, like roots beneath the soil, bear fruit in this poetry. Most painful of all these experience is the illness which linked her to her father and distanced her from her sister as a child. Her disease lies palpably under all of this work as she speaks of those with whom her blood is mixed, both literally and psychologically.

Mixed Blood

Literature & Fiction

Bates, Marilyn

Contemporary

The Man Who

Abbott, Anthony S.

Poetry

The Terribly Beautiful

Stewart, D. Antwan

Poems.  Main Street Rag's Editor's Select Poetry Series.

Any Second Now

Smith-Soto, Mark

<p>A well-organized tool for the instructor and the student loaded with adaptable exercises and examples from well-known and aspiring writers.</p>

Spinning Words into Gold: A Hands-on Guide to the Craft of Writing

Reference

Griffin, Maureen Ryan

Almanacs & Yearbooks

117 Poems

Lawing, Barbara Kidd

The 2006 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology:Slower Traffic Keep Right is a collection of short stories that includes the winners, runners up and finalists from the 2005 MSR Short Fiction Contest.

Slower Traffic Keep Left: The 2006 Main Street Rag Short Fiction Anthology

Dreifus, Erika

Fredd, D. E.

Arbogast, Jason

Duckler, Merridawn

Duthie, Kasandra

United States

<p>What Flies Away tells the story in poetry of the author's mother's descent into Alzheimer's, her father's sudden death and the miracle of her daughter's birth. Campanella received the Poet Laureate Award twice for two poems "The Chase" and "How to Grieve," both of which are included in the collection.</p>

What Flies Away

Campanella, Ann

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