Sarah-Carey

Congrats to FLP author Sarah Carey, whose poem "Making Soda Focaccia the Day of the Muslim Ban" was just featured in Rise Up Review (@RiseUpReview). FLP was proud to publish Sarah's debut chapbook, The Heart Contracts, in 2016. http://www.riseupreview.com/Sarah-Carey.html

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FINISHING LINE PRESS BOOK OF THE DAY: I Wanted To Dance With My Father by Jan Ball $19.99, Full-length, paper RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/i-wanted-to-dance-with-my-father-by-jan-ball/ In her latest collection, Jan Ball captures with riveting intensity the bittersweet core of familial relationships. As this autobiographical collection unfolds, a portrait of a family through the eyes of a child, and later through adulthood, is both particular and universal. The incisive details of dinner table conversations, flowers, food, the ethnic accents of neighborhoods, the music and television of other eras, the childhood games, the wheelchairs and the funerals, a Catholic girlhood and convent life, eventual marriage, travel, and children, create an unforgettable collage of domestic tensions and hidden joys, with Ball’s characteristic quirky humor and clear-sighted veracity never far from view. –Donna Pucciani, author of Chasing the Saints, To Sip Darjeeling at Dawn, Hanging Like Hope on the Equinox, A Light Dusting of Breath, and Edges. The blisteringly honest poems in I Wanted to Dance with My Father unfold in chronological order, reading like pages from a verse autobiography or memory book, spilling family secrets and life experiences in prismatic detail. I don’t know if all of Jan Ball‘s life is in these poems but life surely is. Grab this one. –Bill Yarrow, author of The Vig of Love PREORDER PURCHASE SHIPS AUGUST 11, 2017 https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/i-wanted-to-dance-with-my-father-by-jan-ball/ #poetry

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FINISHING LINE PRESS FEATURED AUTHOR OF THE DAY: Eveline L. Kanes Eveline Kanes is a literary translator of German poetry and prose. Her latest original collection, A Coin Worn Thin, elegantly portrays the foundational years of a young girl forced out of Germany along with other war themed narratives. A COIN WORN THIN by Eveline L. Kanes $14.49, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-coin-worn-thin-by-eveline-l-kanes/ #poetry

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AGNI Online: Fiddler Crabs by Emily Scudder

Fiddler Crabs by Emily Scudder The live ones quick, pop out of sand holes of their own crazy-making. They dig (and when the sand is wet) roll sand balls into piles, a semi-circle around their hole-door. In the same way it’s a ghostly thing, really, the way they blow end over end, lightweight and dead. Emily Scudder’s first collection of poems, A Change of Pace, was published by Finishing Line Press in August 2007. Her poems have most recently appeared in Sow's Ear Poetry Review, Jabberwock Review, Mamazine.com, and Harvard Review. She lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with her husband and two children. (10/2007) http://www.bu.edu/agni/poetry/online/2007/scudder.html

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FINISHING LINE PRESS FEATURED AUTHOR OF THE DAY: EMILY SCUDDER Emily Scudder is the author of Feeding Time, a full-length collection of poems published by Pecan Grove Press (2011), and two poetry chapbooks, Natural Instincts (2008) and A Change of Pace (2007), published by Finishing Line Press. Her poems have appeared in Harvard Review, Agni Online, Margie, New Letters, Harpur Palate, Jabberwock Review, New Letters, Oak Bend Review, Pinyon Poetry, Salamander, So to Speak, Soundings East, Folio, Xavier Review, Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Cranky, Swivel: The Nexus of Women & Wit, Sea Stories (Blue Ocean Institute), and other journals. Her poems have been displayed in Boston City Hall, included in the anthology World of Water, World of Sand (Cape Cod Literary Press), and her poem Fiddler Crab is anthologized in Interative English: Grade 8 (CD-ROM, Hodder Education, London, England, 2008 She lives with her three favorite land creatures - her husband and two children - in Massachusetts. A Change of Pace by EMILY SCUDDER $14, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-change-of-pace-by-emily-scudder/ #poetry

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FINISHING LINE PRESS BOOK OF THE DAY: Border Songs: A Conversation in Poems by Ona Gritz & Daniel Simpson $14.99, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/border-songs-a-conversation-in-poems-by-ona-gritz-daniel-simpson/ RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY Ona Gritz is the author of two previous poetry collections, Geode, (Main Street Rag, 2014), and Left Standing, (Finishing Line Press, 2005). Her poems have appeared in Ploughshares, Bellevue Literary Review, Seneca Review, Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability and many other journals and anthologies. Daniel Simpson‘s collection of poems, School for the Blind, was published in 2014 by Poets Wear Prada. His work has appeared in many journals including Prairie Schooner, The Cortland Review, Passager, The Atlanta Review, The Louisville Review, and Margie, as well as in the anthology,Beauty Is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability, and The New York Times. His blog, Inside the Invisible, can be found at www.insidetheinvisible.wordpress.com. PREORDER PURCHASE SHIPS AUGUST 11, 2017 https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/border-songs-a-conversation-in-poems-by-ona-gritz-daniel-simpson/ #poetry

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FINISHING LINE PRESS CHAPBOOK OF THE DAY: Brief Immensity (WINNER 2016 OPEN Contest) by Jeanine Stevens $13.99, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/brief-immensity-winner-2016-open-contest-by-jeanine-stevens/ RESERVE YOUR COPY TODAY Jeanine Stevens studied poetry at UC Davis and CSU Sacramento and has graduate degrees in Anthropology and Education. Her second poetry collection, Inheritor, was released by Future Cycle Press, 2016. She is also the author of Sailing on Milkweed, Cherry Grove Collections. Jeanine is winner of the MacGuffin Poet Hunt, the Ekphrasis Prize, and most recently, the national poetry award from WOMR, Cape Cod Community Radio. Jeanine is Professor Emerita at American River College and a member of the Squaw Valley Community of Writers. With its acute sense of time and space, Brief Immensity is like walking through an expertly curated exhibit. Jeanine Stevens’ perceptions meld a scientist’s accuracy with an artist’s playfulness and a teacher’s generosity. Whether on rabbit feet traveling diagonally across the page, on snowshoes at Lake Tahoe or in Florsheims, she brings the reader along on a journey through past and present, across tides high and low, accompanied by sounds of flutes and falling snow. Stevens excites in us a curiosity to meet the world anew, to stay up late and “gaze at the mystical/ reconnaissance much as the lone deer rises/ in a fern meadow and passes, / nose to the horizon…/ –Alexa Mergen, poet and yoga teacher In Brief Immensity, “the mind dreams on walls,” there’s “light that halts and waits for other things to begin,” and we hear “the sea wall whisper;” Stevens’ poetic journey, honestly rendered, pulls at the edges where common meets the mystic. –Tim McLafferty, Editor of Forge, and musician PREORDER PURCHASE SHIPS AUGUST 4, 2017 https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/brief-immensity-winner-2016-open-contest-by-jeanine-stevens/ #poetry

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FINISHING LINE PRESS FEATURED AUTHOR OF THE DAY: Ann Batchelor Hursey Ann Batchelor Hursey’s work has appeared in the Seattle Review, Crab Creek Review, Chrysanthemum, and Pontoon, among others. Ann has been awarded writing residencies with the Jack Straw Writers Program (Seattle, WA), Hypatia-in-the-Woods (Shelton, WA.) and Soapstone: A Writing Retreat for Women (Oregon). Besides collaborating with visual artists and musicians, she has written poems to compost and hand-made-things. Ann holds an MFA from the Rainier Writing Workshop @ Pacific Lutheran University. Born and raised in Ohio, she now calls Washington State home. A Certain Hold by Ann Batchelor Hursey $14, paper https://www.finishinglinepress.com/product/a-certain-hold-by-ann-batchelor-hursey/ A Certain Hold takes for its subjects the small, often private, often impermanent labors of women’s hands, and in Ann Hursey’s own—by virtue of her attention, imagination and generous heart—elevates and confers on them a sense of value. Whether the artifacts of such labor are jewelry, textiles, a garden or grave plot attended by a daughter and her aging mother, a child, a marriage, or writing itself, Hursey redeems and renders them with the same level of beauty and skill she admires in them. –Cindy Stewart-Rinier Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!] Ann Hursey‘s poems offer us the inside stories of many lives, one thread at a time. Women in Mali learn to sustain themselves by making–their hands shape lives at the same time they create batik or dolls. Hers is a global perspective that travels across generations. Ann Hursey is a citizen of this moment on this complex and difficult and beautiful earth. She’s a citizen of the world of words, whose poems let us live among all those who’ve gone before and all those who will come after us. These are fine and generous poems. –Peggy Shumaker Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!] Beads and woven fabric, trillium and apples—one gains “a certain hold,” as one poem quotes Virginia Woolf’s diary, by writing down the things of this world. Ann Hursey’s poems are like the spirit dolls she writes about. They contain energy and courage. They speak beyond themselves. They’re full of joy, while also looking straight at suffering and deprivation, making it shine with the light of deep engagement. This collection is the product of love and work and a rich sense of what it means to be human. –Fleda Brown Rating: ***** [5 of 5 Stars!] #poetry

Groundwater Podcast Episode 11 with Kimberly Simms

Is poetry therapy? https://soundcloud.com/jonathanbrownmusic/groundwater-podcast-episode-11-with-kimberly-simms