Chapbook of poems, 40 pages, published by Village Books Press, Cheyenne, OK, 40 pages

The dust bowl revisited: Poems of rural Oklahoma

Alexander, Dorothy

Village Books Press

Jim Chastain has two books of poetry: Like Some First Human Being (2006) and Antidotes and Home Remedies (2008), which was a finalist for the 2009 Oklahoma Book Award. In addition, his poetry has appeared in periodicals such as World Literature Today, Oklahoma Today, and Blood and Thunder. He did numerous readings around Oklahoma and was friends with most of Oklahoma's top poets.

Like Some First Human Being. Poems.

Jim Chastain

<p>"Nathan Brown's poems tell stories, paint characters, delve into what it means to be human. Open-hearted and available, warm, just a wee bit ironic-like the American character-Two Tables Over is a pure delight," says Rilla Askew,author of Harpsong and Fire in Beulah (American Book Award,)of this collection that received the Oklahoma Book Award in Poetry.</p>

Two Tables Over

Literature & Fiction

Brown, Nathan

Poetry

Lessons From an Oklahoma Girlhood

History

Dorothy Alexander

Americas

Benjamin Myers' poems range from Virgil through Shakespeare to Woody Guthrie.Just as facets in gems come to life when light strikes them, so do the themes, images, and tropes in Elegy for Trains when the brilliance of Benjamin Myers' wit, sensitivity and intelligence illuminate his words. His poems make us see Oklahoma and the world afresh. You will read this book, then want to read it again!

Elegy for Trains

Myers, Benjamin

A story told in poetry and prose, woven from the threads of chaos and fear, the pain of leaving behind those we love, and ultimately the power of life, the impact one human being has on the rest of the world. It's the glory of our gathering, of sunrise and coffee, ravioli and margaritas, whisky and contemplation in the wee hours of the moring, the reduction of this world into its basic ingredients, the food, the drink, the comrades. Here, the epiphany of life is found right before its passing ... at the glorious feast set upon the table ... in the beauty of a soul's Last Supper.

Letters to the One-Armed Poet

Biographies & Memoirs

Memoirs

Jennifer Kidney's "Road Work Ahead" is a meditation on the many roads taken: of learning to drive at 30; of dodging Oklahoma's potholes and sour lovers; of losing her way in a back yard filled with the ghost of a beloved Sheltie and a dead neighbor. Kidney drives Oklahoma's red dirt roads and turnpikes always observing the warning signs that reveal "the sweet stinging memory of all your [our] lost loves." Take the journey with her, again and again. -LeAnne Howe, author of Shell Shaker and Evidence of Red

Road Work Ahead

Kidney, Jennifer

Sennhenn's work reveals the "true voice" of a poet and the vulnerability essential to poetry that touches the reader's heart and soul. In his title poem,"Sometimes, Even I," he says he "may steal into a poem /see what I have shared/then slip quietly behind/you, hoping to hear your sigh-approving/Yes." Reading this collection you will hear yourself sighing again and again that approving "Yes!"

Nocturnes and Sometimes, Even I

Sennhenn, Carl

<p>In her eclectic collection of poetry, Jessica Isaacs' makes her points incisively and passionately based on what she observes and experiences as wife, mother, teacher and poet. She gets down to business without any detours or disguises. She shakes you awake and tells you how it is!</p>

Deep August

Isaacs, Jessica

The Art of Digression: A Fragmented Memoir, is a nonfiction work in both prose and poetry about a place, a family, and one individual. Short and to the point, the "fragments" relate events and experiences from ranging from prehistory to the present. Overall they express the point of view of the narrator, a strong, determined woman who admires and accepts the positive qualities, i.e., the work ethic, of her rural antecedents as they survive the dust bowl, poverty, isolation and World War II. But she also struggles to overcome and overturn the negative aspects of that culture. Especially, the unequal treatment of women. The stories range from sad and poignant to blunt, honest and humorous as she takes us with her through the losses and triumphs of her childhood, adulthood, and into her old age where as she contemplates her own death and celebrates her gay marriage. These are bold stories told in a brassy voice.

The Art of Digression

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