The relationship between writing and living is explored in this collection of letters, poems, photographs, and reminiscences from people who knew Lorine Niedecker personally. Niedecker's acclaimed poems are distinguished by a fierce style that earned her work comparison to that of Emily Dickinson and William Carlos Williams. Revelations about her roles as the daughter of a Wisconsin carp fisherman and as a hospital cleaning woman offer insight into how Niedecker became a quintessential poet of place. Critical questions are discussed about the creative process reflected in Niedecker's writings, including What can we achieve through writing? How are we affected by where we live? and Who inspires us?

America's Greatest Unknown Poet: Lorine Niedecker Reminiscences, Photographs, Letters and Her Most Memorable Poems

Biographies & Memoirs

John Lehman

Arts & Literature

Zelda Wilde Publishing

Advocating a "zentrepreneurial" approach to practical sales and marketing, this succinct guide provides a framework for achieving business success without sacrificing personal fulfillment. An organic alternative, this program encourages professionals to abandon the manipulative "us versus them" mentality frequently associated with sales and marketing strategies, and instead begin to redefine traditional business roles by opening up the buying and decision-making processes, and establishing a genuine rapport with customers and clients. Six symbols—an arrow, a circle, an evergreen, a hand mirror, a road map, and a triangle—are set forth as the keys to developing these zentrepreneurial sales and marketing programs. Through a series of interactive exercises and tests, readers have the opportunity to gain an understanding of the concepts represented by these icons as well as to develop and actually employ their unique sales and marketing solutions.

Everything Is Changing: New Ways to Gain Loyal Clients and Customers Quickly

Business & Money

David Bruns

Management & Leadership

Consisting entirely of justified poems—poems that cacpitalize on the dynamics between the spoken sentence and the intentionally chosen break line—this collection of short works ranges in subject matter from "Biking Past a Farmer's Field" to "Secrets of a Werewolf's Wife." Fundamentally Midwestern in voice, each of these poems catches some element of the compassion, wit, and hard-earned wisdom that characterizes America's heartland.

Shorts: 101 Brief Poems of Wonder and Surprise

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

The combustible verses comprising this anthology examine the unsettling way people, places, and relationships affect everyday life. Exposing the baggage, detours, accommodations, and push and pull of the male/female dance, the verses reveal what the postcards really said from the backstage of the subconscious where the messages are throwing a now-or-never party. Full of turbulent encounters and startling discoveries—a groom dancing with his ex at his wedding, a cashier in a hold-up by her former one-night-stand, something you hope you won’t have to tell your daughter—this collection is a tailbone toss across the continental divide in a jeep that dropped its muffler ten miles back.

What the Postcard Didn't Say

Shoshauna Shy

There are four parts. 1) The first one gives the essential techniques for writing a short story, 2) The next explains why we write what we do, 3) The third section lists some benchmarks in my writing life, 4) The final part gives some additional examples of short stories and poems.

Around Midnight: How to Write a Short Story in One Long Evening

Lehman, Jack

Short Stories & Anthologies