Dive into this sports-themed collection and you'll quickly become a fan, as our poets relive their glory days and share their love of the game. Whether you're a competitive athlete, a dedicated amateur, or an armchair quarterback, we invite you to the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat--it's all here between these pages. On your mark, get set. Go!
Contributing Poets Around the Globe Include: 
Alan Catlin - Alan Robert Proctor - Amie Sharp - Amy Miller - Anne Harding Woodworth - Barbara A Meier - Bill Cushing - Bill Frayer - Brigitte Goetze - Brittney Corrigan - Carolyn Dahl - Carolyn Martin - Charles Halsted - Christopher Scribner - Claire J. Baker - D.R. James - David E. Matthews - Devon Balwit - Diane Averill - Diane de Echeandia - Don Thompson - Donna Prinzmetal - Dwayne Brenna - Emily Waters Shearer - Eric Forsbergh - Gina Forberg - Gretchen Fletcher - Hannah Jane Weber - Jacob Miller - Jamie Brian - Jan Haag - Jeffrey Hantover - John Herold - Joseph Ridgway - Joshua Plack - Joy McDowell - Judith Terzi - Karen Poppy - Karla Linn Merrifield - Kris Demien - Linda Neal Reising - Livia Meneghin - M.G. Stephens - Marc Meierkort - Margaret Chula - Margaret DeRitter - Margaret R. Sáraco - Margaret Van Every - Marjorie Moorhead - Matthew Harrison - Michael Estabrook - Michael Fedo - Naila Claudia Schulte - Neil Creighton - Nils Nelson - Patrick Swaney - Paul Glenn - Penelope Scambly Schott - Peter M. Gordon - Phyllis Wax - Ralph La Rosa - Rick Kempa - Robert Beveridge - Robert Walton - Roger Sippl - Ron L. Dowell - Scott F. Parker - Scott M. Bade - Sharon Wood Wortman - Stephen McGuinness - Stuart Forrest - Stuart Gunter - Toni Partington - Tony Gloeggler - Tricia Knoll - Victoria Stefani - Vivienne Popperl

The Poeming Pigeon: Sports: A Literary Journal of Poetry

Arts & Photography

Poetry Box

The Illustrated Guide to Integrated Learning explores three topics--the mind, creative inquiry, and the integration of the arts in education. Inspired by the field study books naturalists use to record their findings and conceptualize their ideas, the book combines artwork with scholarship, and imagination with information. The "lens" of the exploration is metaphor. Julia Marshall uses metaphors from nature to bring abstract ideas into the realm of the senses and ground them in something tangible. Viewing ideas and topics metaphorically can also change the way we see them. It can deepen our understanding of things. Each metaphor has a trail to explore; the more you follow that trail, the more you discover. Marshall takes you down her trails and, like a naturalist, explains and illustrates her discoveries along the way.

The Illustrated Guide to Integrated Learning

Education & Teaching

Marshall, Julia

Schools & Teaching

Penelope's goldendoodle, Sophia is quite the free spirit-so much so that she reminds the poet of Walt Whitman. In this jeu d'esprit, consisting of 30 poems, we enjoy a delightful peek inside the mind of a dog through her often entertaining & insightful "conversations" and adopted philosophies of her favorite poet (after her poet-owner, of course).ABOUT THE AUTHORSPenelope Scambly Schott is a past recipient of the Oregon Book Award for Poetry and author of a novel and several books of poetry, including her 2018 prizewinning chapbook November Quilt and most recently On Dufur Hill about a small wheat-growing town in central Oregon.Sophia Schott Sweetdog is a four-year-old white goldendoodle, the niece of Lily Schott Sweetdog who co-wrote Lily and Rumi: A Lovestory.Mister Walter Whitman is a greatly admired nineteenth-century American poet who wrote Leaves of Grass.

Sophia and Mister Walter Whitman

Literature & Fiction

Schott, Penelope Scambly

Poetry

Mouth Quill's twenty-one poems narrate an intimate journey of universal themes-of ancestors, displacement, migration, longing, and connection. Drawn from the author's childhood familiarity with ancient poems of her heritage, the collection's title, "mouth quill," is inspired by Finno-Ugric runic verse and refers to the "singer's magical tool." The work unearths many such poetic concepts, creating organic metaphoric connections from the distant past to present; occasionally, the reader is invited into magical realism: becoming "the spirit of an egg, carried by the sea to Iberia" before plummeting below the Baltic Ice Lake to find the "land mother will call home." Other poems display tragedies of history (war and displacement) and the effect of ancient world views-cataclysms, music and sacred nature-upon the author's childhood and present in the 21st century, completing a tightly knit, lyrical arc of identity.

Mouth Quill: Poems with Ancestral Roots

Weeks, Kaja

Drawn from episodes over a long life, the poems of My Mind's Eye survey the joys and sorrows, the affirmations and contractions of the world. The natural world becomes a mirror for human actions. And if simplicity is sometimes trampled by our greed and recklessness, knowing our true place restores at least a corner of the world. Includes illustrations by internationally acclaimed artist, Elaine Franz Witten. Advance Praise: "...a clear-eyed awareness of the human condition in its full actuality...Marshall Witten's My Mind's Eye-by turns wry, deeply loving, empathetic, and soberly realistic-is a signal achievement. The world feels a safer and saner place for the lessons in this stirring volume." -Sydney Lea, Vermont Poet Laureate (2011-2015) "Witten's My Mind's Eye views experience through the lens of a poet's observations. One poem states 'To look is to ask...'-and that is what these poems do." -Tricia Knoll, author Broadfork Farm and How I Learned to Be White

My Mind's Eye

Witten, Marshall

1st Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020 A poignant, poetic memoir written in the wake of the death of the author's parents, celebrating a multicultural life of love and adventure. "I was learning to be the hero of my own story. This line from the poem "1975" could be the anthem for this powerful chapbook that traces the story of the poet's family, an odyssey ranging from coast to coast in the United States, to Tanzania, and beyond. Alternating plainspoken narrative with vivid imagery, the poems also range through time, building a kaleidoscopic view of this interracial family's life, challenges, inevitable aging, and the strong bonds that hold them together even beyond grief. The Day of My First Driving Lesson is a rare love letter to good parents and the legacy of compassion they leave behind."-Amy Miller, Contest Judge, 2020 "Prepare yourselves to be swept off your feet by the brilliance and depth of love in this book, by the beauty and power of its understandings. I can't begin to praise it highly enough."-Ingrid Wendt, author of Evensong "A powerful exploration of what our families can teach us and what we have to learn ourselves along the way, The Day of My First Driving Lesson is a poignant, tender collection."-Jennifer Richter, authorNo Acute Distress and Threshold

The Day of My First Driving Lesson

Self-Help

Ansari, Tiel Aisha

Relationships

2nd Place Winner of The Poetry Box Chapbook Prize, 2020 Because everybody has a mother. And everybody's going to lose her. A collection of poems inspired by one woman's relationship with her mother, the chapbook My Mother Never Died Before and Other Poems sounds heavy, but lands light. The first half includes poems written after the mother's death. The poet focuses on the everyday, mundane details-what the funeral home visit was like, how birds felt like messages, the unexpected realities of life without one's mother. The second half pulls back the camera to include poems written before the death, which capture the ups and downs of the mother-child relationship. Wry humor and a companionable narrative style invite the reader in to one particular take on a universal story. "My Mother Never Died Before is a joyful read, full of surprises. Marcia B. Loughran shows her versatility and variety while bringing a welcome dose of humor to this collection, which is hard to pull off in poems about death. The many familiar scenes here-shopping for caskets, cleaning out papers after a parent has died, touching their intimate objects like breath mints and combs-are all painted with such clarity and reality." -Amy Miller, Contest Judge, 2020 "With the strength of language precise yet lyrical, odd but familiar, full of heart though refreshingly void of even a hint of the saccharine, Loughran has written a eulogy that would make any mother proud..."-Lissa Kiernan, Fou&#65279;nding Director of the Poetry Barn "The mother at the center of these poems emerges as someone who was witty, adventurous and, above all, kind. I found myself longing to sit in her yellow kitchen while making home-made Christmas ornaments over a cup of tea, with milk from a bone china jug."-Cusi Cram, Arts Professor, Tisch School of the Arts

My Mother Never Died Before: and Other Poems

Loughran, Marcia B.

THIRD PLACE WINNER of THE POETRY BOX CHAPBOOK PRIZE, 2020 &#65279;Off Coldwater Canyon explores the emergence of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in Los Angeles. The poems contained in this small volume hold a haunting, unmistakable relevance for those living through today's near-universal experience of global pandemic. Echoing an era described by the poet as "the impossible time," they hold out the possibility of survival in the midst of great sorrow and loss, and the attribution of meaning and purpose to the life that remains.__________ "Emerson's poetry is so honest, its narrative so clear, that his compassion runs through every line: in the care he gave to his dying friends, the comfort he later tried to offer as a caregiver for strangers, and the blunt descriptions of the hollow aftermath and long road to recovery. This is a big-hearted poet, and a book that remembers and doesn't look away."-Amy Miller, Contest Judge 2020 "In this breathtakingly beautiful, heartbreakingly personal elegy to friends and lovers lost in the early days of the AIDS epidemic, C.W. Emerson maps a journey from innocence hungry for experience to experience hungry for lost innocence."-Cecilia Woloch, author of Tsigan: The Gypsy Poem "Emerson dignifies the paths of those who have crisscrossed his own with a limpid accuracy that pinpoints and transpierces the essence of our fleeting existence and names it, a quality that destines this collection to become a classic in league with Thom Gunn's The Man with Night Sweats." -Lise Goett, author of Leprosarium

Off Coldwater Canyon

Emerson, C W

The COVID-19 pandemic had us all sheltering at home, and with all that shelter comes time to reflect, and with all that reflection comes truth. From that truth, if we are lucky, comes poetry. Before the Distance visits what we miss, our longing for whatever normal once was. It also visits our fears and helps us conquer them. And yes, among our longing and fears there is optimism and hope that all the missing will be for good. For good: that would be good, maybe even better than Before the Distance.

Before the Distance

Trozzolo, Pasquale

In Bye Bye Blackbird, Doreen Stock explores the last days of her 93-year-old mother, Annetta Winnick. In this theme-based (rather than chronological) suite of poems, we move in mythic time and through the moments of loss and conveyance that characterized this woman's journey toward the end of her life-always against the background of the mother-daughter relationship. --------------- "Doreen Stock leads us through a dark tempest where navigating a torrent of family matters, she witnesses with vivid imagery and an unflinching eye, the final strains of a mother who's lived a long, exuberant life." -Michael D. Amitin, Parisian musician, International Beat Poet Laureate, 2020-2021 "A medley revealing with compassion, humor and musical remembrances the loving relationship between a daughter and her mother, in life and death." -Jack Hirschman, American poet & activist "You will keep this book on your shelf as a reminder of what matters, and you will want to come back to it again and again." -Julie Fingersh, freelance journalist and writer, The New York Times and O: The Oprah Magazine

Bye Bye Blackbird

Stock, Doreen

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