Beltway Poetry Quarterly RESOURCE BANK
New Book (and CD and DVD) Releases
Written or translated by DC-Area Poets (current and former), published in the 21st century, and listed by year
2008
Naomi Ayala, This Side of Early (Curbstone Press) http://www.curbstone.org/
Sandra Beasley, Theories of Falling (New Issues) http://www.wmich.edu/newissue/
Rick Cannon, What We Already Knew (chapbook, Sheltering Pines Press) http://www.shelteringpinespress.com
Grace Cavalieri, Anna Nicole (CreateSpace)
Miguel de Cervantes, The Dialogue of the Dogs, trans. David Kipen (Melville House) http://www.mhpbooks.com/
Buck Downs, 5 from Black Peppermint (tinyside, Big Game Books) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Cornelius Eady, Hardhearted Weather: New and Selected Poems (Putnam Books) http://us.penguingroup.com
Wade Fletcher, Snitch Culture (e-chapbook; Dusie Press) http://www.dusie.org/SnitchCulture.pdf
Barbara Goldberg, The Royal Baker's Daughter (Univ. of Wisconsin Press) http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/books/4468.htm
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, River Country (San Francisco Bay Press) http://www.sanfranciscobaypress.com
Gary Lilley, Alpha Zulu (Ausable Press) http://www.ausablepress.org
Jeffrey McDaniel, The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press) http://www.upress.pitt.edu
Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears (Copper Canyon Press) http://www.coppercanyonpress.org/
Judy Neri, Always the Trains (New Academia Publishing) http://www.newacademia.com.
Eric Pankey, The Pear As One Example: New and Selected Poems (Ausable Press) http://www.ausablepress.org
Stanley Plumly, Posthumous Keats (biography; W.W. Norton) http://www.wwnorton.com
Elisavietta Ritchie, Real Toads (chapbook; Black Buzzard Press) http://www.elisavietta.com/LisaHome.html
Gregg Shapiro, Protection (Gival Press) http://www.givalpress.com/
Charles Simic, That Little Something (Harcourt Books) http://www.harcourtbooks.com
A.B. Spellman, Things I Must Have Known (Coffee House Press) http://www.coffeehousepress.org
Pia Taavila, Moon on the Meadow: Collected Poems (Gallaudet University Press) http://gupress.gallaudet.edu/
Mark Wallace, Felonies of Illusion (Edge Books) http://aerialedge.com/
Kathi Wolfe, Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems (chapbook; Pudding House Press) http://www.puddinghouse.com/
Letters to the World: Poems from the WOMPO Listserv, ed. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler (Red Hen Press). Contributors include: Kimberly L. Becker, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Julie R. Enszer, Bernadette Geyer, D.O. Moore, Elizabeth Rees, Kim Roberts, Patricia Valdata, Diane Vance, Brandy Whitlock, Rosemary Winslow. http://www.redhen.org.
The Why and Later: An Anthology of Poems About Rape and Sexual Assault, ed. Carly Sachs (Deep Cleveland Books). Contributors include: Grace Cavalieri, Lucille Clifton, Teri Ellen Cross, Toi Derricotte, Clarinda Harriss, Erin Murphy, Adrienne Rich, Melanie Rivera, and Rosemary Winslow. http://www.deepcleveland.com.
2007
Kim Addonizio, My Dreams Out in the Street, novel (Simon & Schuster) http://www.kimaddonizio.com/
Karren L. Alenier, The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas (essays and libretto; Unlimited Publishing) http://www.unlimitedpublishing.com/alenier
Kwame Alexander, Crush: Love Poems, poems for young adults (Word of Mouth Press) http://www.kwamealexander.com
M. Lee Alexander, Observatory (Finishing Line) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Roberta Beary, The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press) http://www.snapshotpress.co.uk
Sandra Beasley, Small Kingdom (tinyside, Big Game Press) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Anne Becker, The Good Body (Finishing Line) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Sarah Browning, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
Shannan Butler, Opened Soul (2Donn Books) http://www.2donnbooks.com
Agustín Cadena, trans. C.M. Mayo, Carne verde, piel negra/An Avocado from Michoacán (chapbook, Tameme) http://www.tameme.org
Rick Cannon, What We Already Knew (chapbook, Sheltering Pines Press) http://www.shelteringpinespress.com
Christopher Conlon, Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt (The Word Works, Inc.) http://www.wordworksdc.com.
Kyle Dargan, Bouquet of Hungers (Univ. of Georgia Press) http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/
Heather Davis, The Lost Tribe of Us (Main Street Rag Books) http://www.mainstreetrag.com/H_Davis.html
Cathy Eisenhower, Sheet & tube (tinyside, Big Game Press) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Cathy Eisenhower, clearing without reversal (Edge Books) http://www.aerialedge.com/
Martin Galvin, Circling Out (Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Michael Gushue, Gathering Down Women (chapbook, Pudding House) http://www.puddinghouse.com
Dan Gutstein, non/fiction. Short prose. (Edge Books) http://www.aerialedge.com
Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006, nonfiction (Thunder's Mouth Press) http://www.thundersmouth.com
Bernard Jankowski, in collaboration with painter Ed Ramsberg, Luminous Mud (KarlysKline Press)
Beth Joselow, Begin at Once (Chax Books) http://www.chax..org
Alan King, the music we are (chapbook, Alan King) http://myspace.com/themusicweare
Gerry LaFemina, The Book of Clown Baby and Figures from the Big Time Circus Book (prose poems, Mayapple Press) http://www.mayapplepress.com.
Hiram Larew, More Than Anything (Vrzhu Press) http://www.vrzhu.com
Mary Ann Larkin, Gods & Flesh (chapbook, Plan B Press) http://www.planbpress.com
Barbara Lefcowitz, Blue Train to America (Dancing Moon Press) http://www.dancingmoonpress.com
Reb Livingston, Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books) http://www.yourtenfavoritewords.com.
Bruce MacKinnon, Mystery Schools (Washington Writers Publishing House) http://www.wwph.org.
Mike Maggio, deMOCKracy (Plain View Press) http://www.plainviewpress.net
Cate Marvin, Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande Books) http://www.sarabandebooks.org
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (WW Norton) http://www.wwnorton.com
Gretchen Primack, The Slow Creaking of Planets (chapbook, Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Heddy Reid, A Far Cry (chapbook, Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Kim Roberts, The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press) http://www.vrzhu.com
Ken Rumble, Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press) http://www.carolinawrenpress.org
Lori Shpunt, Escape Routes (chapbook, Pudding House) http://www.puddinghouse.com
Rod Smith, Deed (Univ. of Iowa Press) http://www.uipress.uiowa.edu/
Cheryl Snell, Samsara (chapbook, Pudding House Press) http://www.puddinghouse.com.
Susan Tichy, Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press) http://ahsahtapress.boisestate.edu
Melissa Tuckey, Rope as Witness (chapbook, Pudding House Press) http://www.puddinghouse.com
Ryan Walker, Pop Music (tinyside, Big Game Press) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Reed Whittemore, Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet (memoir, Dryad Press) http://www.dryadpress.com.
Terence Winch, Boy Drinkers (Hanging Loose Press) http://www.hangingloosepress.com
Rosemary Winslow, Green Bodies (The Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
Katherine E. Young, Gentling the Bones (chapbook, Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor, ed. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden (No Tell Books). Contributors include: Deborah Ager, Sandra Beasley, Jill Alexanxder Essbaum, Julie R. Enszer, Piotr Gwiazda, Donald Illich, Cheryl Pallant, Shann Palmer, Kim Roberts, Carly Sachs. http://www.notellbooks.org.
Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers, Eric Pankey, ed. (University of Virginia Press) http://www..upress.virginia.edu
Cut Loose the Body: An Anthology of Poems on Torture and Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib Paintings, ed. Rose Berger and Joseph Ross (chapbook, American University Museum and DC Poets Against the War). Contributors include Myra Sklarew, Kyle Dargan, E. Ethelbert Miller, Consuelo Hernandez, Tala A. Rameh. http://www.dcpaw.org
Electric Grace: Still More Fiction by Washington Area Women, ed. Richard Peabody (short fiction, Paycock Press). Contributors include: Maxine Clair, Rosie Dempsey, Jamie Holland, Eugenia SunHee Kim, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Faye Moskowitz, Jessica Neely, Sheila Walsh, Christy J. Zink. http://www.gargoylemagazine.com.
Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, ed. Kwame Alexander (Capital BookFest Books). Contributors include: Sylvia Dianne Beverly, Kyndall Brown, Lucille Clifton, Maritza Rivera Cohen, Christopher Conlon, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Jennifer Gresham, Carolyn Joyner, Jacqueline Jules, Dan Logan, Tony Medina, E. Ethelbert Miller, Deanna Nikaido, Katy Richey, Kim Roberts, Carly Sachs, Davi Walders, and Mary-Sherman Willis. http://www.capitalbookfest.org
Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry,Robert Strong, ed. Contributors include: Walt Whitman, Joaquin Miller, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Linda Pastan, and Eric Pankey (Autumn House Press). http://www.autumnhouse.org.
Kiss the Sky: Fiction and Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, Richard Peabody, ed. Contributors include Sunil Freeman, Reuben Jackson, Matthew Kirkpatrick, David Nicholson, Darrell D. Stover, Kevin Downs, others. (Paycock Press) http://www.gargoylemagazine.com
Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood, Donya Currie Arias and Hildie Block, eds. Poetry, Fiction, Essays, and Art. Contributors include: Jody Bolz, Grace Cavalieri, Christina Daub, Joanne Rocky Delaplaine, Patricia Gray, Clarinda Harriss, Mary Ann Larkin, Lyn Lifshin, Hilary Tham, others. (Paycock Press) http://www.gargoylemagazine.com
2006
Kim Addonizio, Little Beauties, novel (Simon & Schuster) http://www.kimaddonizio.com/
Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Sister Chicas (young adult novel, Penguin/NAL Trade) http://sisterchicas.com/
Claudia Gary-Annis, Humor Me (David Roberts Books) http://www.claudiagary.com
Elizabeth Arnold, Civilization (Flood Editions) http://www.floodeditions.com
Ed Baker, G oo dnight (Red Ochre Press) http://edbaker.maikosoft.com
E. Louise Beach, Blue Skies (Finishing Line) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Derrick Weston Brown, The Unscene (Derrick Weston Brown)
Grace Cavalieri, Water on the Sun/Acqua sol sole (Bordighera Press). Bilingual English/Italian, trans. Maria Enrico. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize for an American poet of Italian descent. http://www.bordigherapress.org
Michael Collier, Dark Wild Realm (Houghton Mifflin) http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
JoAnne Growney, My Dance is Mathematics. Chapbook. (Paper Kite Press). http://www.wordpainting.com/paperkitepress/pkpshop.html
Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone (Houghton Mifflin Co.) http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
Judith Harris, The Bad Secret (Louisiana State University Press) http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/Books/Spring2006/Books/Harris_Secret.html
Esther Iverem, Living in Babylon (Africa World Press) http://writers.aalbc.com/africaworldpress.htm
Brandon D. Johnson, Love's Skin (The Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
David Keplinger, The Prayers of Others (New Issues) http://www.wmich.edu/newissue/
Alan King, transfer (Alan King) http://myspace.com/bustransfer
Nandinee Kutty, Kavitanjali: Offering with Both Hands (Nandinee K. Kutty)
Doug Lang, Selected Poems (Edge Books) http://www.aerialedge.com
Lyn Lifshin, Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow) http://www.lynlifshin.com
Reb Livingston and Ravi Shankar, Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books) http://www.notellbooks.org/wanton
C.M. Mayo, The Essential Francisco Sosa, or Picadou's Mexico City (Tameme, CD) http://www.cmmayo.com
R.J. McCaffery, Ice Sculpture of Mermaid with Cigar (Three Candles Press) http://www.threecandles.org
The Original Woman, The Addiction (The Original Woman, CD) http://www.theoriginalwoman.com
Linda Pastan, Queen of a Rainy Country (W.W. Norton) http://www.wwnorton.com
Dwaine Rieves, When the Eye Forms (Tupelo Press) http://www.tupelopress.org
Elisavietta Ritchie, Awaiting Permission to Land (Cherry Grove Collections) http://www.cherry-grove.com
Cheryl Snell, Shiva's Arms (novel, Writer's Lair Books) http://www.writerslairbooks.com
stevenallenmay, fracturedevelopment (Plan B Press) http://www.planbpress.com
Henry Taylor, Crooked Run (Louisiana State University Press) http://www.lsu.edu/lsupress/
Truth Thomas, Party of Black (Mouthmark Press) http://www.flippedeye.net/mouthmark/
Maureen Thorson, Mayport, 2006 Chapbook Poetry Fellowship winner (Poetry Society of America) http://www.poetrysociety.org
Joshua Weiner, From the Book of Giants (Univ. of Chicago Press) http://www.press.uchicago.edu
Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include: Miles David Moore, Ross Taylor, Donya Currie Arias, Ann Downer, Kevin Downs, C.M. Dupre, Martin Seay, Aurelie Sheehan, MaryAnn Suehle, Victoria Popdan and Dorothy Hickson. (Paycock Press) http://www.gargoylemagazine.com/books/paycock/alice.html
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, eds. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden. Contributors include Carly Sachs, Kim Roberts, Christy Zink, Emily Lloyd, Ken Rumble, and Ravi Shankar. http://www.notellmotel.org
Enhanced Gravity: Short Fiction by Washington Area Women Writers, Richard Peabody, ed. (Paycock Press). Contributors include: Ramola D, Sibbie O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Poliner, Venus Thrash. http://www.gargoylemagazine.com
Gathering Ground: A Reader Celebrating Cave Canem's First Decade, ed. Toi Derricotte and Cornelius Eady. Contributors include Elizabeth Alexander, Holly Bass, Derrick Weston Brown, Teri Ellen Cross, Kyle G. Dargan, Joel Dias-Porter, Michele Elliott, John Frazier, Monica A. Hand, Yona Harvey, Brandon D. Johnson, Ernesto Mercer, and Venus Thrash. (University of Michigan Press) http://www.press.umich.edu/titleDetailDesc.do?id=104392.
Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, Michelle Sewell, ed. (GirlChild Press). Contributors include Teri Ellen Cross, Yael Flusberg, Sonya Renee Taylor, J. Scales, Charniece Fox, Lisa Joyner. http://www.girlchildpress.com/.
Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century, ed. Michael Dumanis and Cate Marvin. Contributors include: Jeffrey McDaniel, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Richard Blanco, A. Van Jordan. (Sarabande Books) http://www.sarabandebooks.org
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, ed. C.M. Mayo. Short fiction from Mexico in translation. (Wherabouts Press) http://www.whereaboutspress.com/
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry, ed. Arnold Rampersad. Contributors include Elizabeth Alexander, Cornelius Eady, E. Ethelbert Miller, Langston Hughes, May Miller, Sterling A. Brown, Jean Toomer, Angelina Weld Grimke, Paul Laurence Dunbar, and Larry Neal. (Oxford University Press) http://www.us.oup.com/us/?view=usa.
The Ringing Ear: Black Poets Lean South, ed. Nikky Finney. Contributors include Holly Bass, Remica L. Bingham, Lucille Clifton, Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Camille T. Dungy, Cornelius Eady, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Reginald Harris, Reuben Jackson, Brandon D. Johnson, E. Ethelbert Miller, Evie Shockley, Truth Thomas. (Univ. of Georgia Press) http://www.ugapress.uga.edu/
Sex & Chocolate: Tasty Morsels for Mind and Body, ed. Lucinda Ebersole and Richard Peabody. Contributors include R.R. Angell, Jodi Bloom, Jane Bradley, Moira Egan, Ivy Goodman, Deirdre McAfee, Leslie Pietrzyk, Nani Power, and Gregg Shapiro. (Paycock Press) http://www.gargoylemagazine.com.
Voces y memorias de la Luna, Rei Berroa, ed. (Colecctión Libros de la Luna). Anthology in Spanish of poets featured in the annual Poetry Marathon sponsored by Teatro de la Luna. Featured authors include Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Rei Berroa, Gladys Ilarregui. http://www.teatrodelaluna.org.
2005
Kim Alexander and Jeffery Duarté, Sleight of Hand, Twist of Fate (Speak Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
Kwame Alexander, Dancing Naked on the Floor (Writers Lair Books) http://www.writerslairbooks.com
Kwame Alexander, The Way I Walk, short stories and poems for young adults (Capital Book Fest) http://www.kwamealexander.com
Paulette Beete, Blues for a Pretty Girl (Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Sylvia D. Beverly, Forever in Your Eyes (Golden Arts Publishing) http://www.authorsden.com/sylviadbeverly
Richard Blanco, Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Univ. of Arizona Press) http://www.uapress.arizona.edu
Brofucius (aka Jeffrey G. Duarté), Hot Licks & Rhetoric (CD, Speak-Easy Publishing) www.speakeasypublishing.com.
Leslie Bumstead, Cipher/Civilian (Edge Books) http://www.aerialedge.com
Nancy Naomi Carlson, Imperfect Seal of Lips, winner of the Tennessee Chapbook Prize, published in Poems & Plays, Issue #12. http://www.mtsu.edu/~english2/Journals/poemsandplays/
Grace Cavalieri, What I Would Do for Love: Poems in the Voice of May Wollstonecraft (Jacaranda Press) http://www.jacarandapress.org/books.html
Donna Denize, Broken Like Job (The Word Works, Inc.) http://www.wordworksdc.com.
James Ellis III, OnThaGrindCuzin: The School Daze of Being 'Incognegro' in 1619 (Publish America) http://PublishAmerica.com
Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Maverick Room (Graywolf Press) http://www.graywolfpress.org
Ethan Fischer, Beached in the Hourglass (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Jennifer Gresham, Diary of a Cell (Steel Toe Books) http://www.wku.edu/~tom.hunley/Tom%20C%20Hunley.html
Piotr Gwiazda, Gagarin Street (Washington Writer's Publishing House) http://www.wwph.org
Saskia Hamilton, Divide These (Graywolf Press) http://www.graywolfpress.org
Ailish Hopper, Bird in the Head (The Center for Book Arts) http://centerforbookarts.org
David Keplinger, The Clearing (New Issues) http://www.wmich.edu/newissue/
David Kresh, Turn Off or Use Opener (The Blue House Press) http://www.thebluehousepress.com
Mary Ann Larkin, A Shimmering That Goes With Us (Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Vladimir Levchev, The Rainbow Mason (Cornerstone Books) http://www.lostword.com/mbooks.html
Lyn Lifshin, The Daughter I Don't Have (Plan B Press) http://www.planbpress.com/
Lyn Lifshin, The Licorice Daughter (Texas Review Press) http://www.shsu.edu/~www_trp/
Savora Matzo, Soul of Savora (Bambook Books) http://www.bamboobooks.com/
David McAleavey, Huge Haiku (Chax Press) http://www.chax.org.
Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows (Pantheon Books) http://www.pantheonbooks.com.
Judith McCombs, The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New (The Word Works, Inc.) http://www.wordworksdc.com
Laura Minning, sunburst (Xlibris) http://cyoursite.com/verbalcollage.
Sibbie O'Sullivan, Little Wheel (CD, A Dim Puce Production) http://www.sibbieosullivan.com
Kathleen O'Toole, Practice (Finishing Line Press) http://www.finishinglinepress.com
Patric Pepper, Temporary Apprehensions (Washington Writer's Publishing House) http://www.wwph.org
Elizabeth Poliner, Mutual Life & Casualty (Permanent Press) http://www.thepermanentpress.com
Elisavietta Ritchie, The Spirit of the Walrus (Bright Hill Press) http://www.brighthillpress.org/
Anne Sheldon, The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (Aqueduct Press) http://www.aqueductpress.com
Michelle Sewell, Consider This...(CD; The Poetry Fix) http://www.thepoetryfix.org/stuff.htm
Rod Smith, Fear the Sky (CD, Narrow House Recordings) http://narrowhouserecordings.com
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, The Insatiable Psalm: Poems (Wind River Press) http://www.windriverpress.com
Hilary Tham, Tin Mines and Concubines (Washington Writer's Publishing House, short fiction) http://www.wwph.org
Etan Thomas, More Than an Athlete (Moore Black Press) http://www.mooreblackpress.com/
Maureen Thorson, Abecedarium (chapbook, Big Game Press) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Maureen Thorson, EVOL (chapbook, Big Game Press) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Nap Turner, Nap Turner Presents Hughes' View of the Blues (CD, Right on Rhythm). The acclaimed WPFW-FM deejay reading Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple stories. http://www.rightonrhythm.com.
Jonathan Vaile, Blue Cowboy (The Word Works, Inc.) http://www.wordworksdc.com.
Joy C. West, Dancing on the Fringes of the Realm (Joy C. West).
Sharlie West, House of Bones (Shadows Ink Publications) http://www.shadowpoetry.com/bookstore/houseofbones.html
An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Women's Studies, Brianne Friel and Robert L. Giron, eds. Essays. (Gival Press) http://www.givalpress.com.
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, C.M. Mayo, ed. (Whereabouts Press). Short fiction. http://www.whereaboutspress.com/
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, edited by Billy Collins. (Random House) Contributors include Christina Daub, Anthony Hecht, Linda Pastan, Edward Hirsch and Ted Kooser. http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?0812972961.
Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami, Judith R. Robinson, Joan E. Bauer, & Sankar Roy, eds. (Rupa & Co. in New Delhi, India/Bayeux Arts, Calgary, Canada). Contributors include: Indran Amirthanayagam, Mel Belin, Rick Cannon, Grace Cavalieri, John Clarke, Tom Donlon, Yael Flusberg, Robert L. Giron, Lyn Lifshin, Elisavietta Ritchie, Kim Roberts, Avideh Shashaani, Davi Walders, Ernie Wormwood.
http://poetsforhumanity.org and http://www.bayeux.com.Poetic Voices Without Borders, edited by Robert L. Giron (Gival Press). Contributors include Karren L. Alenier, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Rei Berroa, Jody Bolz, Grace Cavalieri, Piotr Gwiazda, Suzan Shown Harjo, Peter Klappert, C.M. Mayo, Judith McCombs, E. Ethelbert Miller, Richard Peabody, Kim Roberts, Myra Sklarew, Hilary Tham, Davi Walders and Ernie Wormwood. http://www.givalpress.com.
Poetry Alive at Iota: 10th Anniversary CD, produced by Terence Mulligan, Martha Sanchez-Lowery and Miles David Moore (Minimus Productions). Featured authors include: Kim Roberts, Hilary Tham, Karren L. Alenier, Grace Cavalieri, Hiram Larew, Sunil Freeman, Judith McCombs, Richard Peabody, Reuben Jackson, Patricia Gray, and Dean Blehert. http://mywebpages.comcast.net/tmulligan6/Miniweb/index.htm.
Unexpected Harvest: A Gathering of Blessings, ed. Ruth Moon Kempher. Contributors include Hilary Tham, Dean Blehert, Peter Klappert, Elisavietta Ritchie, Miles David Moore, and Grace Cavalieri. (Kings Estate Press)
A Wild Perfection: Selected Letters of James Wright, Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley, eds. (Farrar Straus & Giroux) http://fsgbooks.com.
2004
Kim Addonizio, What Is This Thing Called Love (W.W. Norton) http://www.kimaddonizio.com/
Jody Bolz, A Lesson in Narrative Time (Gihon Books)
Christopher Conlon, The Weeping Time (Argonne House Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww.
Lesley Lee Francis, Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900-1918 (Transaction Publishers) http://www.transactionpub.com
Erik Gamlem, Death Language: Collected Poems (Kiss/Kill Press). http://www.kiss-kill.com.
Dana Gioia, Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (Graywolf Press). http://www.graywolfpress.org.
Patricia Gray, Rupture (Red Hen Press) http://www.redhen.org
Jen Gresham, Explaining Relativity to the Cat (Pudding House Press) http://www.puddinghouse.com.
Rod Jellema, A Slender Grace (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing) http://www.eerdmans.com.
Chungmi Kim, Glacier Lily (Red Hen Press) http://www.redhen.org
Ann B. Knox, The Dark Edge (Pudding House) http://www.puddinghouse.com.
Gerry LaFemina, The Parakeets of Brooklyn (Bordighera Press). Bilingual English/Italian, trans. Elisa Biagini. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize for an American poet of Italian descent. http://www.bordigherapress.org
C.E. Laine, Postcards from a Summer Girl (Sun Rising Books) http://www.sun-rising-poetry.com
Barbara Lefcowitz, Photo, Bomb, Red Chair (Fithian Press) http://www.danielpublishing.com/fpmonth.htm
Lyn Lifshin, The Barbie Poems (The Lummox Press; chapbook) http://www.lummoxpress.com/lrb47.html
Lyn Lifshin, When a Cat Dies (The Moon Press; chapbook)
Lyn Lifshin, Another Woman's Story (Butcher Shop Press; limited edition chapbook)
Gary Copeland Lilley, The Subsequent Blues (Four Way Books) http://www.fourwaybooks.com/books/lilley/index.html
Miles David Moore, Rollercoaster (The Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
E. Ethelbert Miller, How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love (Curbstone Press) http://www.curbstone.org
Erin Murphy, Science of Desire (Word Press) http://www.word-press.com/murphy.html
Billye Okera, The Mourner's Bench and Other Stations of Weeping & Joy (Speak-Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
Eric Pankey, Reliquaries (Ausable Press) http://www.ausablepress.org.
Richard Peabody, Last of the Red Hot Magnetos (Paycock Press) http://www.atticusbooks.com/books/paycock/paycock.htm
Mary Quattlebaum, Family Reunion (Eerdmans). Poems for young people with illustrations by Andrea Shine. http://www.eerdmans.com.
Kaia Sand, Interval (Edge Books) http://www.aerialedge.com
The Silhouette Lover, Shadow Dancing (Speak-Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
Cheryl Snell, Epithalamion (Little Poem Press) http://www.celaine.com/LittlePoemPress
Maureen Thorson, Calamity and the Calamity Annex (chapbook, Big Game Press) http://www.reenhead.com/biggame/biggame.html
Maureen Thorson, Novelty Act (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse) http://www.uglyducklingpresse.org
Mark Wallace, Haze: Essays, Poems, Prose (Edge Books) http://www.aerialedge.com
Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001. Edited by Jacklyn Potter, Dwaine Rieves, and Gary Stein. Includes work by Jane Alberdeston Coralín, Karren L. Alenier, Jennifer Atkinson, Holly Bass, Anne Becker, Dean Blehert, Rick Cannon, Kenneth Carroll, Grace Cavalieri, Michael Collier, Joanne Rocky Delaplaine, Roland Flint, Sunil Freeman, Nan Fry, David Gewanter, Brian Gilmore, Patricia Gray, Daniel Gutstein, Reuben Jackson, Valerie Jean, Rod Jellema, Brandon D. Johnson, Jean Johnson, Beth Baruch Joselow, Hiram Larew, Merrill Leffler, Toni Asante Lightfoot, David McAleavey, Richard McCann, Judith McCombs, E. Ethelbert Miller, Miles David Moore, Sibbie O'Sullivan, Stanley Plumly, Kim Roberts, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, Myra Sklarew, Gary Stein, Hilary Tham, Davi Walders, Reed Whittemore, Rhonda Williford, Terence Winch, others. (The Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Second Edition), Sarah Browning, Michele Elliott and Danny Rose, eds. Featured authors include: Naomi Ayala, Myra Sklarew, Ann B. Knox, E. Ethelbert Miller, Jody Bolz, Kenneth Carroll, Samuel Miranda, Melanie Rivera, Richard Peabody, Mike Maggio, DJ Renegade, John S. Murillo, Grace Cavalieri, Patricia Gray, Kim Roberts, M.A. Schaffner, Judith McCombs, Myra Sklarew, Rebecca Villarreal, Rei Berroa, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, David Gewanter, Peter Klappert, and Richard Blanco. http://www.dcpaw.org
DC Slam Semi-Finals 2004, SLAMicide (Baltimore) Semi-Finals, and the DC/Baltimore Slam Team Finals Night 2004 are available on DVD separately or as a 3-disc box set. http://www.dcslam.com to order.
Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women, Richard Peabody, editor. 32 contributors include C.M. Mayo, Myra Sklarew, Judith Harris, Sophy Burnham, Lucinda Ebersole, Patricia Griffith, Leslie Pietrzyk, Mary Quattlebaum, and Mary Kay Zuravleff (Paycock Press) http://www.gargoylemagazine.com.
Sheets for Men Only: International anthology of poetry and prose. Edited by Claire Kincannon. 25 contributors from 12 countries, including E. Ethelbert Miller, Henry Taylor, Steve Scafidi. (Dancingink Press)
31 Arlington Poets (CD). Richard Peabody, ed. (Paycock Press). Readers include: Karren L. Alenier, Rei Berroa, John Elsberg, Miles David Moore, Kim Roberts, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, M.A. Schaffner, and Hilary Tham. http://www.atticusbooks.com/books/paycock/paycock.htm
Women in the Avant Garde: Laura Elrich, Heather Fuller, Carol Mrakove, Kristin Prevallet, and Deborah Richards (CD, Narrow House Recordings. http://www.narrowhouserecordings. com
2003
Afrika M.A. Abney, aka Ashawarrior, Dancers in the Wind (RAH Distributors/Express Yourself Books). http://rahdistributors.com
Karren LaLonde Alenier, Greatest Hits (Pudding Press). http://www.puddinghouse.com.
Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior: Essays (Graywolf Press). http://www.graywolfpress.org
Peter Blair, The Divine Salt (Autumn House Press). http://www.autumnhouse.org/
Gregory T. Boykin, What Makes a Man? (Speak-Easy Publishing). http://www.speakeasypublishing.com.
Brofucius, Lyrical Liquor (CD, Speak-Easy Publishing). http://www.speakeasypublishing.com.
Dan Campbell, Sleeper Car Meditations. http://www.lulu.com/dancampbell
Rick Cannon, The Composition of Absence (Pudding House) http://www.puddinghouse.com.
Christopher Conlon, Gilbert and Garbo in Love (The Word Works). http://www.wordworksdc.com
Jeffrey G. Duarté, Lyrical Liquor (CD; Speak-Easy Publishing). http://www.speakeasypublishing.com.
Jeffrey G. Duarté and Gregory T. Boykin, Why I Stare At You (Speak Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
O.B. Hardison, Jr., Reading His Poetry (CD, Bard Records) http://www.folger.edu.
Judith Harris, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self Through Writing (SUNY Press). www.sunypress.edu/details.asp?id=60726
Anthony Hecht, Collected Later Poems (Knopf). http://www.aaknopf.com
Anthony Hecht, Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press). http://www.press.jhu.edu
James Hopkins, Eight Pale Women (The Word Works). http://www.wordworksdc.com
KaNikki Jakarta, The Skillz of a Sistah (Great Publishing LLC)
Mary Ann Larkin and Patric Pepper, The DNA of the Heart (Pond Road Press) http://pondroadpress.tripod.com/
Robert Lowell: Collected Poems, edited by Frank Bidart and David Gewanter (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) http://www.fsgbooks.com/
Tonya "JaHipster" Matthews, The Legend of Afrodite (CD). http://www.jahipster.com
William Matthews, edited by Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews (Houghton Mifflin) http://www.hmco.com/indexf.html
Mark McMorris, The Blaze of Poui (University of Georgia Press) http://www.uga.edu/ugapress/
Billye Okera, The Mourner's Bench and Other Stations of Weeping & Joy (Speak-Easy Publishing). http://www.speakeasypublishing.com.
Eric Pankey, Oracle Figures (Ausable Press). http://www.ausablepress.com
Stanley Plumly, Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry (Other Press) http://www.otherpress.com.
Ezra Pound, Ego Scriptor Cantilenae: The Music of Ezra Pound (CD, includes samples from his two operas and pieces for solo violin). http://Otherminds.org.
Robert Sargent, 99 After 80 (The Bunny and Crocodile Press).
Katherine Smith, Argument by Design (Washington Writers Publishing House). http://www.wwph.org
Rod Smith, Music or Honesty (Roof Books) http://www.roofbooks.com/
Stimulates, Dark: A Sunset Rising (Speak-Easy Publishing). http://www.speakeasypublishing.com.
Hilary Tham, The Tao of Mrs. Wei (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia. Edited by Sarah Kennedy and R.T. Smith (University of Virginia Press). Contributors include: Jennifer Atkinson, Peter Klappert, Eric Pankey, Henry Taylor. http://www.upress.virginia.edu/books/kennedy_smith.html.
DC Poets Against the War, edited by Naomi Ayala, Sarah Browning, Michele Elliott, and Danny Rose. Includes work by Rei Berroa, Kenneth Carroll, Grace Cavalieri, David Gewanter, Patricia Gray, Peter Klappert, Ann Knox, E. Ethelbert Miller, Kim Roberts, and Rebecca Villarreal. (Argonne House) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
The Earthworm Project, spoken word CD featuring Droopy, Komplex, Abena Disroe, Tonya "JaHipster" Matthews, Krayola, others. http://www.theparagonsound.com
Geri Chavis and Lila Weisberger, eds., The Healing Fountain: Poetry Therapy for Life's Journey (National Assn. for Poetry Therapy) http://www.poetrytherapy.org/
100 Poets Against the War, Todd Swift, ed. (Salt Publishing). Includes poems by Richard Peabody, Rebecca Villarreal, Kenneth Carroll. http://www.saltpublishing.com/books/anth/1876857986.htm
Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from Writers Corps (Harper Collins). Approximately 100 poems by teens from DC, NY, and San Francisco. Forward by Nikki Giovanni, Essay by Kevin Powell, plus writing tips by WritersCorps intructors. http://www.harpercollins.com
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry , Billy Collins, ed. (Random House). Includes Geraldine Connolly, Reed Whittemore, Henry Taylor, Phillis Levin, Terence Winch. http://www.atrandom.com
Poets Against the War web site. Includes work by authors from across the country and internationally. Area poets who contributed include: Holly Bass, Kenneth Carroll, Patricia Gray, Miles David Moore, Elisabeth Murawski, Kim Roberts, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, Rei Berroa, Karren Alenier, John Clarke. http://poetsagainstthewar.org.
The Road Less Taken: The St. Valentine Sunday Poetry Marathon 2001 , Chezia Thompson Cager and Blair Ewing, eds. (Maryland Institute College of Art). CD includes tracks by Nicki Miller, Richard Peabody, Hiram Larew, Ron D. Baker.
Spoken Here, Spoken Now: A Celebration of 30 Years of Poetry (CD; Washington Writers Publishing House). Contributors include David Bristol, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Ann Knox, David McAleavey, Elisabeth Murawski, Jean Nordhaus, Ramola D, Elisavietta Ritchie. http://www.wwph.org.
2002
David Bristol, Toad and Other Poems (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Brofucius, The Philosophical Brother (Speak Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
J. Wesley Clark, I am Paraguay (Bogg Publications, No. 17 in the Second Series of Bogg free-for-postage pamphlets). Bogg Publications, 422 N. Cleveland St., Arlington, VA 22201.
Maxine Combs, Listening for Wings (Wineberry Press). Only available at The Writers Center or from the press: 3207 Macomb St. NW, DC 20008. $10 + $1.50 postage.
Christopher Conlon, What There Is (Argonne House) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Joel Dias-Porter, Libation Song (Black Magi Music). CD of poetry and jazz. http://www.karibu.com
Cathy Eisenhower, Language of the Dog-Heads (Phylum Press) phylumpress@hotmail.com
Blair Ewing, And To The Republic (Argonne House Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Heather Fuller, Dovecote (Edge Books). http://www.aerialedge.com/dovecote.htm
Angela Goldemund, The Gray Notebook of a Stranger (Tibia Books)
Donald Hall, The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin Co.) http://www.houghtonmifflinbooks.com
Roy Jacobstein, Ripe (University of Wisconsin Press) http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/
Dolores Kendrick, Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner (Peter Randall Press) http://www.perpublisher.com/percat.html
Vladimir Levchev, Heavenly Balkans (Argonne House Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Lyn Lifshin, A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead (March Street Press) http://www.marchstreetpress.com/
Ed McCafferty, Audrey & I Strike Forth (Argonne House) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Tony Medina, Love to Langston (Children's literature, with illustrations by Gregory Christie,, Lee and Low Books) http://www.leeandlow.com/
Jean Nordhaus, The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (Milkweed Editions) http://www.milkweed.org
Joe Osterhaus, Radiance (Zoo Press) http://www.zoopress.org
Linda Pastan, The Last Uncle (W. W. Norton) http://www.nortonpoets.com
Richard Peabody, Rain Flowers (Ahadada Press, On-Line Chapbook Series). http://www.sendecki.com/ahadada
Judith Podell, Blues for Beginners (Argonne House) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Ilona Popper, Break (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press) http://ilonapopper.oldwillow.com
Lee Sang, Crow's Eye View: The Infamy of Lee Sang, Korean Poet, work selected and translated by Myong-Hee Kim (the Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
Robert Sargent, Wondrous News (Argonne House). http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
M.A. Schaffner,War Boys. (Welcome Rain) Novel.
Ann Sheldon, Hero-Surfing (Washington Writers Publishing House). http://www.wwph.org
Silhouette Lover, Standing in the Shadows of Love (Speak Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
Myra Sklarew, Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, Essays, and Poems (State University of New York Press) http://www.sunypress.edu
Ronny Someck, The Fire Stays in Red: Poems, translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg (University of Wisconsin Press) http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/
Herman Taube, Looking Back, Going Forward: New & Selected Poems (Univ. of Wisconsin Press) http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/
Edward Weismiller, Walking Toward the Sun (Yale University Press)
Beyond the Frontier, E. Ethelbert Miller, editor. Anthology of contemporary African-American poetry. (Black Classic Press) Includes Reuben Jackson, DJ Renegade, Brian Gilmore, Kenneth Carroll, Brother Yao, Patricia Elam, Carolyn Joyner, Sydney March, Jabari Asim. http://www.blackclassic.com/
An Eye for an Eye Makes the World Blind: Poets on 9/11, edited by Allen Cohen, Clive Matson, and Michael Parenti. Includes Grace Cavalieri, Lyn Lifshin, Robert Pinsky (Regent Press).
Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets, edited by Ellen Byrant Voigt and Heather McHugh (University of Georgia Press). Includes Michael Collier, Roland Flint. http://www.uga.edu/ugapress/
The Heroes of Slam!, Featuring poems by members of the DC/Baltimore National Slam Team Twain Dooley, David Lankford, Queen Sheba, Dave Schein, and Joanna Hoffman. http://www.davelankford.com
Journey to Timbooktu: An African-American Poetic Odyssey, edited by Memphis Vaughn. Authors include L.D. Stewart, Tracy Brown, Zamounde, Jamal Sharif, John Riddick, others. http://www.timbooktu.com
A Poetic Bridge: Poems by Poets Anonymous in the USA and United Kingdom (PA Press). Contributors include Grace Cavalieri, Jean Russell, Edith Graciela Sanabria, Nicki Miller, Sam Hurst, Mike Crowley, and Stazja MacFadyen. http://homepage.mac.com/poetanon/
Poetology CD. Features Sir Reigns, Queen Sheba, Native Son, Men Maa Aim Ra, Droopy, Myisha Cherry, and D. Bell. http://www.poetology.com/shop
Roll Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, edited by Tony Medina, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Samiya A. Bashir (Third World Press). http://www.thirdworldpressinc.com/
September Eleven: Maryland Voices (Baltimore Writers Alliance). http://www.baltimorewriters.org
Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, edited by Mark Wallace and Steven Marks (University of Alabama Press, Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series) http://www.uapress.ua.edu/
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family, edited by Afaa Michael Weaver (Sarabande Books). Includes work by E. Ethelbert Miller. http://www.sarabandebooks.org
When Words Became Flesh, edited by Myisha Cherry (Mwaza Publications). Includes work by Fahim Nassar, Giovanni, Rush, The Dri Fish, Makeda Crane, Takisha, Komplex, more.
2001
Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream Book (Graywolf Press) http://www.graywolfpress.org
Kwame Alexander, Do The Write Thing: 7 Steps to Publishing Success (Manisy Willows Books) http://www.kwamealexander.com
Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City (Northeastern University Press) http://www.nupress.nu.edu
Dean Blehert, Kill the Children and Other Disconnections (Argonne House Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Doris Brody, Judging the Distance (The Word Works) http://www.wordworksdc.com
Grace Cavalieri, Cuffed Frays and Other Poems (Argonne House Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House) http://www.atrandom.com
Ed Cox, Collected Poems (Paycock Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Maxine Clair, October Suite. (Random House) Novel. http://www.atrandom.com
Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination (Putnam) http://us.penguingroup.com/
Cathy Eisenhower, Language of the Dog-Heads (chapbook, Phylum Press) http://www.phylumpress.com/
Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Genuine Negro Hero (Kent State University Press, Wick Chapbook Series) http://www.bookmasters.com/ksu-press
Brian Federico, The Sea and Galilee (chapbook; Pipers' Ash Publishers) http://www.supamasu.co.uk/
Bernadette Geyer, What Remains (Argonne Hotel Press)
http://bernadettegeyer.homestead.com/WhatRemains.htmlRobert L. Giron, Songs of the Spirit (Gival Press). http://www.givalpress.com
Anthony Hecht, The Darkness and the Light (Alfred A. Knopf) http://www.aaknopf.com
Bernard Jankowski, The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns (Washington Writers Publishing House) http://www.wwph.orgPhilip K. Jason, Making Change (Argonne House Press) http://www.angelfire.com/art/ww
Joy Jones, Private Lessons: A Book of Meditations for Teachers (Andrews McMeel Publishers). Nonfiction. http://www.uexpress.com/corporate/amp
Phillip Kurata, The Reluctant Angel (WWPH) http://www.wwph.org
Barbara Lefcowitz, The Politics of Snow (Dancing Moon Press)Cate Marvin, World's Tallest Disaster (Sarabande Books) http://www.sarabandebooks.org
David McAleavey, Greatest Hits 1971-2000 (Pudding House Publications) http://www.puddinghouse.comE. Ethelbert Miller, where are the love poems for dictators? (Re-issue, Open Hand Publishing) http://www.openhand.com
E. Ethelbert Miller, Buddha Weeping in Winter (limited edition hand-made book, with visual art by Don Mee Choi) (Red Dragonfly Press) http://www.reddragonflypress.org/
E. Ethelbert Miller, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (St. Martin's Press)
Eric Pankey, Cenotaph (Alfred A. Knopf) http://www.randomhouse.com/knopf/poetry
Patric Pepper, Zoned Industrial (Medicinal Purposes Press)Libbie Rifkin, Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (The University of Wisconsin Press). Nonfiction. http://www.wisc.edu/wisconsinpress/
Robert Sargent, Altered in the Telling: The Biblical Poems (Bunny & Crocodile Press)
Rod Smith, The Good House (Spectacular Books) http://www.spectacularbooks.com/goodhouse.htm
Shelby Stephenson, Fiddledeedee (Bunny & Crocodile Press)
stevenallenmay, Spontaneous Chili (Plan B Press) http://www.planbpress.com
Stimulates, Watch and Twirl and Spin (Speak Easy Publishing) http://www.speakeasypublishing.com
Hilary Tham, Reality Check & Other Travel Poems (King's Estate Press)
Rebecca Villarreal, First Come, First Served (Mama Chelo Press)
Margaret Weaver, Escaping Words (WWPH) http://www.wwph.org
Joshua Weiner, The World's Room (The University of Chicago Press) http://www.press.uchicago.edu
Terence Winch, The Drift of Things (The Figures) http://www.durationpress.com/thefigures/drift.htm
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, edited by Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera, foreward by Sonia Sanchez. Includes poems by DJ Renegade, Lisa Pegram, Brian Gilmore, Jane Alberdeston-Coralin, Kenneth Carroll, Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, Dudley Randall, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Yona Harvey, others. (Crown Publishing) http://www.randomhouse.com/crown/
The Gargoyle CDs (Gargoyle Press). CD #1, recorded in 1986, includes John Elsberg, Dan Johnson, Gretchen Johnsen, Tina Fulker. CD #2, also recorded in 1986, includes Sharon Morgenthaler, Nigel Hinshelwood, Beth Joselow, Michael S. Weaver. CD #3, 1987, includes Reuben Jackson, Sibbie O'Sullivan, Maxine Clair. CD #4, 1989, includes Joe Ross, Elizabeth Oness, Hilary Tham, Catherine Harnett Shaw, others. http://www.atticusbooks.com/gargoyle/gargoyle.html
The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, edited by Susan Aizenberg and Erin Belieu (Columbia University Press). Contains work by Elizabeth Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Forché, Linda Pastan, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Elizabeth Spires, Belle Waring. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/cup
Out of the Closet, Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Out Gay/Lesbian Family Members, edited by Laura Seigel and Nancy Lamkin Olson (Leyland Publications). Poems, essays, letters. Includes work by <