POETRY BOOKS

TO THE STARS: KS POETS OF THE AD ASTRA PROJECT by Denise Low

978-0-9800102-7-5 Joint publication of Center for Kansas Studies of Washburn University and Mammoth Publications 110 pages, perfect bound paper, $12.00. Winner of a Kansas Notable Book Award from the Kansas State Library and Kansas Center for the Book. Denise Low, 2nd poet laureate of Kansas, revives the British tradition of “Broadsides,” convenient flyers as a way to present poetry. This book collects her Ad Astra Poetry Project broadsides. Each entry presents a biography, poem, and commentary about the poem in concise form, easily accessible for readers. Clear discussion of the poems, free of jargon, makes this ideal for sharing with students and friends. Low selects poems that comment, in some way, on Kansas experience. The online version of these broadsides, originally available to arts organizations, schools, libraries, and newspapers throughout the state, also attract a national following. The 3rd Kansas poet laureate, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, adds discussion questions for those who wish to use this book for classes or other groups. The poets include selected poets with Kansas connections— Gordon Parks, William Stafford, James Tate, Diane Glancy, Albert Goldbarth, Harley Elliott, William Kloefkorn, Jo McDougall, Jonathan Holden, Charles Plymell, Gloria Vando, Ben Lerner, Steven Hind, Linda Rodriguez, and Kevin Young to name a few. The online broadsides are at http://deniselow.blogspot.com

Diane Glancy--Stories of the Driven World

ISBN 978-0-9800102-9-9 perfect-bound, paperback $14.00 ISBN 978-0-9800102-8-2 laminate case, hardback $23.99 108 pages

Cover art by Thomas Pecore Weso. In The Driven World, Diane Glancy creates an original vision of North America, pieced from real and invented historic documents, museum artifacts, and field notes. Language is the transformative tool as at the author imagines herself in the position of both explorers and explored peoples. Glancy uses varieties of language—petroglyphs, Morse code, Cherokee, Inuit, and 19th century English—to describe simultaneously the New World of European Americans and the homeland of Indigenous Americans. Glancy, award-winning author and filmmaker, writes from the viewpoint of a feminist, postcolonial Indigenous American, literary-nationalist, and mainstream Christian.

"Diane Glancy has established herself as one of the country's most versatile and prolific writers. Distinguished by her laconic honesty, she presents Native American life—especially the ways it intersects with non-native culture—in all its complexity and nuance." Jessica Bennett, Univ. of North Dakota

CARYN MIRRIAM-GOLDBERG Landed (2009) and Reading the Body: Poems

Landed: Poems by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, 2009-2011 Kansas poet lauareate. 978-0-9800102-3-7 122 pp. perfect bound. Cover photography by Terry Evans. $12.00.

Landed: Poems plus audio CD of poems with 3 songs by Kelley Hunt. 978-0-9800102-4-4 $20.

Reading the Body: Poems by Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg 28 pp. Staple bound. $5.00. isbn 0-9761773-090000.Cover painting by Kathy Hird Wright. This moving suite of poems follows the course of breast cancer, from diagnosis to healing. Mirriam-Goldberg coordinates the Transformative Language Arts program at Goddard College in Vermont. These poems show her teaching and leadership at their best, as she brings the reader into the magic of her spiritual process. The poems commemorate an inter-arts performance with blues singer Kelly Hunt and the Prairie Wind Dancers. Mirriam-Goldberg has published Lot's Wife and Animals in the House with Woodley Press (Washburn University, Topeka). For more information about this poet, see www.carrynmirriamgoldberg.com or www.goddard.edu.

Robert Day--We Should Have Come by Water

ISBN 978-0-9800102-1-3 6” x 8.75”. Paper wrapper, hand-stitched, 20 pages. $20.00 EDITION: 100 numbered copies signed by the author and artist. Hand printed by Mike Kaylor at the Literary House Press, The Rose O’Neill Literary House, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland. Type cast by Lead Graffiti, Newark, Delaware. CONTENTS: A dozen poems of autumn texture: about hunting teal and quail; about strands of memory; about the perseverance of seasons.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Robert Day received his MFA in Poetry at the University of Arkansas and taught at Washington College. Besides recent publications in New Letters and North Dakota Quarterly, he is author of The Last Cattle Drive, Speaking French in Kansas: Stories; Four-Wheel Drive Quartet; In My Stead; The ABCs of Enlightenment: Essays. He has awards from the NEA & Fulbright. ABOUT THE ARTIST: Kathryn Jankus Day has exhibited in the United States and France. She is represented by the Strecker-Nelson Gallery of Manhattan, Kansas.

Also available: Color Laser Print edition, $10.00

BARRY BARNES We Sleep in a Burning House: Poetry

Performance poet Barry Barnes releases his first full-length book of poems and incantations. He celebrates family and community life. He asks his readers to think about the war, poverty, Washington policies, and racism. He asks readers to live consciously as he evokes the spirit of Langston Hughes. ISBN 978-0-9800102-0-6 $10.00.

E.DONALD TWO-RIVERS Powwows, Fat Cats, and Other Indian Tales, narrative poems.

The most recent book by Ojibwe writer E. Donald (Eddie) Two-Rivers. $12.00. 80 pages. 2nd ed. 2009, with intro. by Denise Low. ISBN 978-0-9800102-6-8 Cover Design by Randi Robin Cover Art by Chris Pappan Poems convey, with tender detail, traditional Canadian Ojibway Indian life, in contrast to hard-hitting Urban Indian experiences. This award-winning writer is a political activist and performer. He is an authentic, sincere, and energetic word crafter.

A. LaVonne Ruoff, Univ. of Illinois, writes, This volume illustrates why Two-Rivers has been nationally acclaimed as a forceful voice of resistance to injustice and the harshness of urban Indian life. Diane Glancy, Macalester College, writes, Underneath the brash cover is a voice of good sense, mediation, and justice.

E. Donald Two-Rivers (1945-2008) is an original Native writer with experiences both as a traditional person (Anishnaabe or Ojibwa from northwestern Ontario) and urban Indian. He moved to Chicago when he was a teenager, where he worked and participated in arts and civil rights movements. He led open-mic poetry readings and performed his own verse. In the 1990s Two-Rivers founded the Red Path Theater Company, for which he acted, directed, and wrote plays. His honors include the American Book Award from the Before Columbus Foundation in 1999 for Survivor’s Medicine and the Iron-Eyes Cody Award for Peace, 1992. He lived in Green Bay, Wisconsin, from 2002 until his death in 2008.

DENISE LOW New & Slected Poems, 2nd. ed.

Second edition of this classic by Denise Low. $14.95. 128 pp. Perfect bound. Full cover photo by Terry Evans. Selections from 7 books plus new poems by one of the premier poets of the Middle West and Great Plains region. William Stafford praises Denise Low's book Spring Geese: This book is a delight. Low got to use so many good words in diligent pursuit of accuracy. I am going to be learning from this book.intrudes . . . .she knows her surroundings. Originally published by Penthe Press. Available only through Mammoth. isbn 0-9632475-2-2.

PHOENIX PAPERS, edited by STANLEY LOMBARDO & STEVE ADDISS

Phoenix Papers: 26 Lawrence Poets. $10.00. 136 pages. Editors Stephen Addiss and Stanley Lombardo. Design by Lois Greene. Cover photo by Terry Evans. The book includes representative selections from Ken Irby, Trish Reeves, Judith Roitman, Stanley Lombardo, Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Jim McCrary, Denise Low, Philip Kimball, Victor Contoski, John Moritz, James Bogan, Philip Wedge, Anne Wallace, et al. Stanley Lombardo (Univ. of Kansas), known for his translations of Homer, Sappho and other Greek and Latin classics, brings his editorial skills to this work, along with those of art historian, poet, author, and calligrapher Stephen Addiss (Univer. of Richmond). isbn 0-9632475-1-4

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