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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
2010
Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC by Kim Roberts. Published in conjunction with the tenth anniversary of Beltway Poetry Quarterly.
A timeline of major spoken word events in Washington, DC from 1991 to 2010. Published in partnership with The Word Works, Inc. and the Humanities Council of Washington, DC.
Available soon from Beltway Editions for $10
Francisco Aragón, Glow of Our Sweat (Scapegoat Press)
Elizabeth Arnold, Effacement (Flood Editions)
Ed Baker, This is Visual Poetry (chapbook, Ed Baker)
Sandra Beasley, I Was the Jukebox (W.W. Norton)
Sandra Beasley, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (memoir, Crown Books)
Cliff Bernier, Earth Suite (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books)
Regie Cabico, The Bird That Looks Like 2 Mustaches Kissing: Poems Spoken (CD, Regie Cabico)
Rick Cannon, Questions for My Father's Killer (chapbook, Pudding House)
Grace Cavalieri, Sounds Like Something I Would Say (Goss 183: Casa Menendez)
Jesse Cougot, Rudimentary (very imperfectly developed) (Strategic Books)
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf)
W. Perry Epes, Nothing Happened (The Word Works)
Danielle Evennou, Queen of Tuesday (chapbook, Danielle Evennou)
Mark Fitzgerald, By Way of Dust and Rain (Cinnamon Press)
Martin Galvin, Sounding the Atlantic (Broadkill River Press)
JoAnne Growney, Red Has No Reason (Plain View Press)
Daniel Gutstein, non/fiction (Edge Books)
Anne Higgins, How the Hand Behaves (Finishing Line Press)
Michael Lally, Lost Angels (CD, Monomania Records)
Mary Ann Larkin, That Deep and Steady Hum (Broadkill River Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Ballet Madonnas (Shoe Music Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Katrina (Poetic Matrix Press)
Reb Livingston, God Damsel (No Tell Books)
Herb Lowery, Love's Tango (Herb Lowery)
Dehejia Maat, Deep Rooted Soul Sista Poems (CreateSpace)
Mark McMorris, Entrepôt (Coffee House Press)
Elisabeth Murawski, Out-patients (chapbook, Serving House Books)
Elisabeth Murawski, Zorba's Daughter (University of Utah Press)
John Murillo, Up Jump the Boogie (Cypher Books)
Jon Pineda, Sleep in Me (University of Nebraska Press)
Kim Roberts, Lip Smack: A History of Spoken Word Poetry in DC (nonfiction chapbook, Beltway Editions)
Charlie Rossiter, Meditations on Frank Lloyd Wright (chapbook, Foothills Publishing)
Ravi Shankar, Voluptuous Bristle (chapbook; Finishing Line)
Myra Sklarew, Harmless (Mayapple)
Cheryl Snell, Shiva's Arms (novel, Writer's Lair Books)
Marcela Sulak, Immigrant (Black Lawrence Press)
Sonya Renee Taylor, A Little Truth on Your Shirt (GirlChild Press)
Susan Tichy, Gallowglass (Ahsahta Press)
Reetika Vazirani, Radha Says (Drunken Boat Books)
2009
Kim Addonizio, Lucifer at the Starlite (W.W. Norton)
Deborah Ager, Midnight Voices (Cherry Grove)
Kwame Alexander, And Then You Know: New and Selected Poems (Word of Mouth Books)J. Joy "Sistah Joy" Matthews Alford, From Pain to Empowerment: The Fabric of My Being (chapbook, SJ Productions)
Luis Alberto Ambroggio, edited and translated by Yvette Neisser Moreno, Difficult Beauty: Selected Poems of Luis Alberto Ambroggio (Cross-Cultural Communications)
Karen Leona Anderson, Punish Honey (Carolina Wren Press)
Naomi Ayala, This Side of Early (Curbstone Press)
Ned Balbo, Something Must Happen (chapbook Finishing Line Press)
R. Dwayne Betts, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison (autobiography, Avery)
Cliff Bernier, Dark Berries (chapbook, Pudding House)
Jamie Brown, Conventional Heresies (Bay Oak)
Rene Char, trans. by Nancy Naomi Carlson, Stone Lyre (Tupelo Press)
Maritza Rivera Cohen, A Mother's War (chapbook; Pyramid Atlantic)
Christopher Conlon, Starkweather Dreams: Landscape with Figures (Creative Guy)
Geraldine Connolly, Hand of the Wind (Iris Press)
Ramola D, Temporary Lives and Other Stories (short fiction, University of Massachusetts Press)
Buck Downs, You Can't Get Enough of What You Really Don't Need (Buck Downs)
Alessandra Gelmi, Ring of Fire (Publish America)Christopher Goodrich, Nevertheless, Hello (Steel Toe Books)
K. Lorraine Graham, Terminal Humming (Edge Books)
Sandy Green, Pacing the Moon (chapbook, Flutter Press)
Jack Greer, Abraham's Bay and Other Stories (short fiction, Dryad Press)
JoAnne Growney, Angles of Light (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Margaret B. Ingraham, This Holy Alphabet: Lyric Poems Adapted from Psalm 119 (Paraclete Press)
Charles Jensen, The First Risk (Lethe Press)
Ann Knox, Reading the Tao at 80 (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Gerry LaFemina, Proofreading America and Other Stories (Marick Press)
Jenny C. Lares, Lemons & Potpourri (chapbook, handbound, self-published)
Lyn Lifshin, Persephone (Red Hen Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Light at the End: The Jesus Poems (Clevis Hook Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Barbaro: Beyond Brokenness (Texas Review Press)
Lyn Lifsin, Lost Horses (chapbook, Presa Press)
Haki R. Madhubuti, Liberation Narratives: New and Collected Poems, 1966-2009 (Third World Press)
C.M. Mayo, The Last Prince of the Mexican Empire (novel, Unbridled Books)
Greg McBride, Back of the Envelope (chapbook, Copperdome Press)
E. Ethelbert Miller, The 5th Inning (memoir, PM Press/Busboys and Poets)
Ron Moore, Washington Cats (Publish America)
Deanna Nikaido, A Voice Like Water: Love Poems (Word of Mouth Books)
Elizabeth Oness, Fallibility (New Rivers Press)
Michael Price, Jr., Right in Front of You (Uncommon Sense Publishing)
Elizabeth Rees, Now That We're Here (chapbook, Spire Press)
Charlie Rossiter, All Over America: Road Poems (Foothills Publishing)
Kay Ryan, The Best of It (Grove Press)
Jane Satterfield, Daughters of Empire: A Memoir of a Year in Britain and Beyond (memoir, Demeter Press)
Leo Shelton, Deep Breaths (Tugson Press)
Leo Shelton, D'Liberate Ramblings (Tugson Press)
Cheryl Snell, with visual art by Janet Snell, Prisoner's Dilemma (Lopside Press)
Lyrae Van Clief-Stefanon, ]Open Interval[ (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Katherine E. Young, Van Gogh in Moscow (chapbook, Pudding House)
Days I Moved Through Ordinary Sounds: The Teachers of WritersCorps in Poetry and Prose, ed. Chad Sweeney. Contributors from WritersCorps branches in San Francisco, New York, and DC. Contributors include: Kenneth Carroll, Joel Dias-Porter, Michele Elliott, Ryan Grim, Monica Hand, Joy Jones, Livia Kent, Jeffrey McDaniel, Melissa Tuckey, Seshat Yonshea Walker. (City Lights Foundation)Dee Snyder's Open Mics: Rantings and Writings, ed. Dee Snyder (chapbook, Dee Snyder). Contributors include: Ann Brandstadter, Eric Hendrixson, Russell Henry, Donald Illich, HH Judd, Tony Masalonis, J.D. Smith, Marisa Torrieri.
Inspired Results: Poets and Artists of Takoma Park, MD. Documents collaborations of 36 artists and poets. Contributors include: Anne Becker, Brian Gilmore, Merrill Leffler, Chris Llewellyn, Ann Slayton. (anthology, Lulu)
It's All Love: Black Writers on Soul Mates, Family and Friends, ed. Marita Golden. Contributors include: Reginald Dwayne Betts, E, Ethelbert Miller, Kwame Alexander, Abdul Ali, Brian Gilmore, Kenneth Carroll (anthology; Broadway Books)
It's Your Mug Tuesday Night Reading Series 15th Anniversary Commemorative Anthology, ed. Toni Asante Lightfoot, forward by Holly Bass. Contributors include: Eric Antonio, Holly Bass, Toni Blackman, Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Joel Dias-Porter, Twain Dooley, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Brian Gilmore, Monica A. Hand, Reuben Jackson, Brandon D. Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Carolyn Joyner, Dehejia Maat, Ernesto Mercer, Lisa Pegram, Venus Thrash, Patrick Washington, Toni Asante Lightfoot (chapbook anthology, self-published)
Lines + Stars Chapbook 2006-2009, ed. Rachel Adams. Best fiction and poetry published by the online journal since its inception. Contributors include: Regina Coll, J. Elyse Kihlstrom, Megan Atwood, David Saitzeff Grossman, Erin Thomas, and Steven Klepetar (chapbook anthology; Lines + Stars)
Mourning Katrina: A Poetic Response to Tragedy, ed. Joanne V. Gabbin. Adult contributors include: Lena Marie Ampadu, tori omega arthur, Ladaisha Ballard, Emily Cadden, Kenneth Carroll, Melanie Michelle Henderson, Damaris Beecher Hill, Ciara Jeffery, Rudolph Lewis, Shawn Maldon, Joy Pteway, Stephen Rooney, Emily Schrecker, H.E.R. Ward. Children and youth contributors include: Erika Burke, Olivia Grubb, Rowan Gryder, Ashley Hammond, Mishonia Lee, Abi Solomon, Audrey Stephenson, Emily Strom, Eric Sutton. (anthology, Mariner)
My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, ed. Michael Montlack. Contributors include: David Bergman, Richard Blanco, Regie Cabico, John Dimes, Bill Fogle, R. J. Gibson, Scott Hightower, Allen Smith. (anthology of essays, Terrace Books/Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Persistent Voices: An Anthology of Poets Lost to AIDS, ed. Philip Clark and David Groff. Contributors include Donald Britton, Tim Dlugos, Jim Everhard, Chasen Gaver, and Essex Hemphill. (anthology; Alyson Books)
Plan B Press' 10th Year Anniversary Anthology, ed. stevenallenmay. Contributors include: Mary Ann Larkin, Mark Terrill, Corey Mesler, Anne Blonstein, Kevin Zepper. (anthology, Plan B Press)
Poem, Home: An Anthology of Ars Poetica, ed. Jennifer Hill and Dan Waber. Contributors include: Karren LaLonde Alenier, Cliff Bernier, Dean Blehert, Ellen Aronofsky Cole, Lyn Lifshin, Kim Roberts, Ernie Wormwood. (anthology; Paper Kite Press)
Poetic Voices Without Borders 2, ed. Robert L. Giron. Poems in English, French, and Spanish. Contributors include: Karren L. Alenier, Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Naomi Ayala, Mel Belin, David Bergman, Jody Bolz, Grace Cavalieri, Christopher Conlon, Teri Ellen Cross, Patricia Garfinkel, Bernadette Geyer, Dana Gioia, Patricia Gray, Piotr Gwiazda, Suzan Shown Harjo, Peter Klappert, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Vladimir Levchev, Sydney March, C.M. Mayo, Judith McCombs, E. Ethelbert Miller, Miles David Moore, Yvette Neissser Moreno, Richard Peabody, Kim Roberts, Joseph Ross, M.A. Schaffner, Gregg Shapiro, J.D. Smith, Ernie Wormwood (anthology, Gival Press)
The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Tuscany, ed. Grace Cavalieri and Sabine Pascarelli. Recipes from Tuscany with poems by 28 Italian and American poets. Contributors include: Karren L. Alenier, Christina Daub, Nan Fry, Barbara Goldberg, Patricia Gray, Rod Jellema, Linda Pastan, Carly Sachs, Ernie Wormwood. (anthology, Bordighera Press)
2008
Jennifer Atkinson, Drift Ice (Etruscan Press)
Ed Baker, Restoration Poems (Country Valley Press)
Sandra Beasley, Theories of Falling (New Issues)
Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell, Words in Air: The Complete Correspondence, ed. Thomas Trevisano and Saskia Hamilton (nonfiction, Farrar Straus Giroux)
Linda Blaskey, Farm (chapbook, Bay Oak Publishers)
Paula Closson Buck, Litanies Near Water (Louisiana State University Press)
Rick Cannon, What We Already Knew (chapbook, Sheltering Pines Press)
Grace Cavalieri, Anna Nicole (CreateSpace)
Miguel de Cervantes, The Dialogue of the Dogs, trans. David Kipen (Melville House)
Hilda Stern Cohen, Words that Burn Within Me: Faith Values, Survival, ed. by Werner V. Cohen, Gail Rosen, and William Gilcher, with translations from the German by Elborg Forster (memoir and poetry; Dryad Press)
Mark Dawson, Solitary Conversations (limited edition, letter-press chapbook; Aralia Press)
Buck Downs, 5 from Black Peppermint (tinyside, Big Game Books)
Cornelius Eady, Hardhearted Weather: New and Selected Poems (Putnam Books)
Cathy Eisenhower, Clearing Without Reversal (Edge Books)
Wade Fletcher, Snitch Culture (e-chapbook; Dusie Press)
Brandel France de Bravo, Provenance (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Barbara Goldberg, The Royal Baker's Daughter (Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Wendell Hawken, The Luck of Being (Backwaters Press)
Josh Healey, Hammertime (OMAI/First Wave Press)
Peter Klappert, Circular Stairs, Distress in the Mirrors (re-publication of a book originally released in 1975, with drawings by Michael Hafftka; Six Gallery Press)
Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, River Country (San Francisco Bay Press)
Phillis Levin, Mayday (Penguin)
Lyn Lifshin, Lost in the Fog (Finishing Line Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Nutley Pond (Goose River Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Desire (World Parade Books)
Lyn Lifshin, 92 Rapple Drive (Coatlism Press)
Gary Lilley, Alpha Zulu (Ausable Press)
Herb Lowrey, Heart River Undertow (Nuyorican Press)
Jeffrey McDaniel, The Endarkenment (University of Pittsburgh Press)
Kathi Morrison-Taylor, By the Nest (The Word Works)
Valzhyna Mort, Factory of Tears. Bilingual, translations from the Belarusian by the author, Elizabeth Oehlkers Wright, and Franz Wright. (Copper Canyon Press)
Judy Neri, Always the Trains (New Academia Publishing)
Mel Nichols, Bicycle Day (chapbook, Slack Buddha Press)
Elizabeth Oness, Twelve Rivers of the Body (novel, Gival Press)
Eric Pankey, The Pear As One Example: New and Selected Poems (Ausable Press)
Stanley Plumly, Posthumous Keats (biography; W.W. Norton)
Elizabeth Rees, Now That We're Here (chapbook, Spire Press)
Elisavietta Ritchie, Real Toads (chapbook; Black Buzzard Press)
David Salner, John Henry's Partner Speaks (WordTech Editions)
Gregg Shapiro, Protection (Gival Press)
Jane Shore, A Yes-or-No Answer (Houghton Mifflin)
Charles Simic, That Little Something (Harcourt Books)
Cheryl Snell, Multiverse (chapbook, Goss183 Publications)
A.B. Spellman, Things I Must Have Known (Coffee House Press)
Adele Steiner, The Moon Lighting (March Street Press)
Adele Steiner, Look Ma: "Hands" on Poetry (poetry writing exercises for youth; Dog Ear Publishing)
Marcela Malek Sulak, Of All the Things That Don't Exist, I LoveYou Best (chapbook; Finishing Line Press)
Pia Taavila, Moon on the Meadow: Collected Poems (Gallaudet University Press)
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, What Stillness Illuminated/Vos shtilkayt hot baloykhtn (trilingual in English, Yiddish and Hebrew, Parlor Press)
Truth Thomas, A Day of Presence (Flipped Eye Publications)
Dan Vera, The Space Between Our Danger and Delight (Beothuk Books)
Mark Wallace, Felonies of Illusion (Edge Books)
Kathi Wolfe, Helen Takes the Stage: The Helen Keller Poems (chapbook; Pudding House Press)
Anne Harding Woodworth, Spare Parts: A Novella in Verse (Turning Point)
American Poetry Now: Pitt Series Anthology, ed. Ed Ochester. Contributors include: Richard Blanco, Toi Derricotte, Minne Bruce Pratt, Afaa Michael Weaver. (anthology, University of Pittsburgh Press)
Cadence of Hooves: A Celebration of Horses, ed. Suzan Jantz. Contributors include: Linda Blaskey, Mark DeFoe, James Harms, Wendell Hawken, Gregory Orr, Noah Raizman, Michael Salcman, Henry Taylor. (anthology, Yarroway Mountain Press)
Come Together, Imagine Peace, ed. Philip Metres, Ann Smith and Larry Smith. Contributors include Walt Whitman, Robert Lowell, Gerry LaFemina, Lyn Lifshin, Joseph Ross, Eric Pankey. (anthology, Bottom Dog)
Inventory, ed. Barbara Goldberg. Contributors include Reed Whittemore, Cicely Angleton, and Elaine Magarrell. (anthology, Barclay Bryan Press).
Just Like a Girl: A Manifesta, ed. Michelle Sewell. Contributors include Delrica Andrews, Sarah Browning, Yael Flusberg, Charniece Fox, Sage Morgan-Hubbard, Sonya Renee, Carly Sachs, J. Scales, and Mariposa Villaluna. (anthology, GirlChild Press)
Letters to the World: Poems from the WOMPO Listserv, ed. Moira Richards, Rosemary Starace, and Lesley Wheeler. 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 (anthology, Red Hen Press).
My Diva: 65 Gay Men on the Women Who Inspire Them, ed. Michael Montlack. Contributors include: David Bergman, Richard Blanco, Regie Cabico, John Dimes, Bill Fogle, R. J. Gibson, Scott Hightower, Allen Smith. (essays, Terrace Books/Univ. of Wisconsin Press)
Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions, ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske and Laura Cherry. Contributors include Lyn Lishshin, Brian Gilmore, and Ernie Wormwood. (anthology, Marion Street Press)
Self Portrait: Poems from the Soul of the City. Poems by 21 poets enrolled in DC high schools who participated in the 2008 Soul of the City youth leadership program. Foreward by Joy Ford Austin. (anthology, Humanities Council of Washington, DC).
Stress City: A Big Book of Fiction by 51 DC Guys, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include: Sean Brijbasi, Kenneth Carroll, Brian Gilmore, Dave Housley, Nathan Leslie, Richard McCann, Kermit Moyer, Terence M. Mulligan, David Nicholson, Ross Taylor, Tim Wendel, Terence Winch (anthology, short fiction, Paycock Press)
The Why and Later: An Anthology of Poems About Rape and Sexual Assault, ed. Carly Sachs. Contributors include: Grace Cavalieri, Lucille Clifton, Teri Ellen Cross, Toi Derricotte, Clarinda Harriss, Erin Murphy, Adrienne Rich, Melanie Rivera, and Rosemary Winslow (anthology, Deep Cleveland Books)
2007
Kim Addonizio, My Dreams Out in the Street (novel, Simon & Schuster)
Karren L. Alenier, The Steiny Road to Operadom: The Making of American Operas (essays and libretto; Unlimited Publishing)
Kwame Alexander, Crush: Love Poems (poems for young adults, Word of Mouth Press)
M. Lee Alexander, Observatory (Finishing Line)
Roberta Beary, The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press)
Sandra Beasley, Small Kingdom (tinyside, Big Game Press)
Anne Becker, The Good Body (Finishing Line)
Sarah Browning, Whiskey in the Garden of Eden (The Word Works)
Shannan Butler, Opened Soul (2Donn Books)
Agustín Cadena, trans. C.M. Mayo, Carne verde, piel negra/An Avocado from Michoacán (chapbook, Tameme)
Rick Cannon, What We Already Knew (chapbook, Sheltering Pines Press)
Christopher Conlon, Mary Falls: Requiem for Mrs. Surratt (The Word Works)
Kyle Dargan, Bouquet of Hungers (Univ. of Georgia Press)
Heather Davis, The Lost Tribe of Us (Main Street Rag Books)
Cathy Eisenhower, Sheet & tube (tinyside, Big Game Press)
Martin Galvin, Circling Out (Finishing Line)
Michael Gushue, Gathering Down Women (chapbook, Pudding House)
Esther Iverem, We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006 (essays, Thunder's Mouth Press)
Bernard Jankowski, in collaboration with painter Ed Ramsberg, Luminous Mud (KarlysKline Press)
Beth Joselow, Begin at Once (Chax Books)
Alan King, the music we are (chapbook, Alan King)
Gerry LaFemina, The Book of Clown Baby and Figures from the Big Time Circus Book (prose poems, Mayapple Press)
Jenny C. Lares, (Re)Genesis (chapbook, hand bound, self-published)
Hiram Larew, More Than Anything (Vrzhu Press)
Mary Ann Larkin, Gods & Flesh (chapbook, Plan B Press)
Barbara Lefcowitz, Blue Train to America (Dancing Moon Press)
Reb Livingston, Your Ten Favorite Words (Coconut Books)
Bruce MacKinnon, Mystery Schools (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Mike Maggio, deMOCKracy (Plain View Press)
Cate Marvin, Fragment of the Head of a Queen (Sarabande Books)
Mel Nichols, The Beginning of Beauty, Part 1 (Edge Books)
Kurt Olsson, What Kills What Kills Us (Silverfish Review Press)
Stanley Plumly, Old Heart (WW Norton)
Gretchen Primack, The Slow Creaking of Planets (chapbook, Finishing Line)
Heddy Reid, A Far Cry (chapbook, Finishing Line)
Kim Roberts, The Kimnama (Vrzhu Press)
Charlie Rossiter, The Night We Danced With the Raelettes, (Foothills Publishing)
Ken Rumble, Key Bridge (Carolina Wren Press)
Lori Shpunt, Escape Routes (chapbook, Pudding House)
Rod Smith, Deed (Univ. of Iowa Press)
Cheryl Snell, Samsara (chapbook, Pudding House)
Susan Tichy, Bone Pagoda (Ahsahta Press)
Melissa Tuckey, Rope as Witness (chapbook, Pudding House)
Ryan Walker, Pop Music (tinyside, Big Game Press)
Reed Whittemore, Against the Grain: The Literary Life of a Poet (memoir, Dryad Press)
Terence Winch, Boy Drinkers (Hanging Loose Press)
Rosemary Winslow, Green Bodies (The Word Works)
Katherine E. Young, Gentling the Bones (chapbook, Finishing Line)
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel - Second Floor, ed. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden. Contributors include: Deborah Ager, Sandra Beasley, Jill Alexanxder Essbaum, Julie R. Enszer, Piotr Gwiazda, Donald Illich, Cheryl Pallant, Shann Palmer, Kim Roberts, Carly Sachs (anthology, No Tell Books).
Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers, ed. Eric Pankey (anthology, University of Virginia Press).
Cut Loose the Body: An Anthology of Poems on Torture and Fernando Botero's Abu Ghraib Paintings, ed. Rose Berger and Joseph Ross. Contributors include Myra Sklarew, Kyle Dargan, E. Ethelbert Miller, Consuelo Hernandez, Tala A. Rameh (chapbook anthology, American University Museum and DC Poets Against the War).
Electric Grace: Still More Fiction by Washington Area Women, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include: Maxine Clair, Rosie Dempsey, Jamie Holland, Eugenia SunHee Kim, Joanne Leedom-Ackerman, Faye Moskowitz, Jessica Neely, Sheila Walsh, Christy J. Zink (short fiction anthology, Paycock Press).
Family Pictures: Poems and Photographs Celebrating Our Loved Ones, ed. Kwame Alexander. 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 (anthology, Capital BookFest Books)
Joyful Noise: An Anthology of American Spiritual Poetry, ed. Robert Strong. Contributors include: Walt Whitman, Joaquin Miller, Paul Laurence Dunbar, William Carlos Williams, Ezra Pound, Langston Hughes, Linda Pastan, and Eric Pankey (anthology, Autumn House)
Kiss the Sky: Fiction and Poetry Starring Jimi Hendrix, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include Sunil Freeman, Reuben Jackson, Matthew Kirkpatrick, David Nicholson, Darrell D. Stover, Kevin Downs (anthology, Paycock Press)
Not What I Expected: The Unpredictable Road from Womanhood to Motherhood, ed. Donya Currie Arias and Hildie Block. 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 (Paycock Press)
Radiant Lyre: Essays on Lyric Poetry, ed. David Baker and Ann Townsend. Short essays. Contributors include Eric Pankey and Stanley Plumly. (essay anthology, Graywolf Press)
The Spoken Word Revolution Redux, ed. Mark Eleveld. Contributors include: Gayle Danley, Kyle G. Dargan, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Dana Gioia, Jeffrey McDaniel, Sonya Renee, Henry Taylor. (anthology, with CD, Sourcebooks, Inc.)
Word Warriors: 35 Women Leaders in the Spoken Word Revolution, ed. Alix Olson. Contributors include Leah Harris and Natalie Illum (anthology, Seal Press)
2006
Kim Addonizio, Little Beauties (novel, Simon & Schuster)
Lisa Alvarado, Ann Hagman Cardinal, and Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Sister Chicas (young adult novel, Penguin/NAL Trade)
Claudia Gary-Annis, Humor Me (David Roberts Books)
Elizabeth Arnold, Civilization (Flood Editions)
Ed Baker, G oo dnight (Red Ochre Press)
E. Louise Beach, Blue Skies (Finishing Line)
Andrea Carter Brown, The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry)
Derrick Weston Brown, The Unscene (Derrick Weston Brown)
Regie Cabico, Exodus (limited edition chapbook, Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York University)
Grace Cavalieri, Water on the Sun/Acqua sol sole, Bilingual English/Italian, trans. Maria Enrico. Winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize for an American poet of Italian descent (Bordighera Press)
Michael Collier, Dark Wild Realm (Houghton Mifflin)
Buck Downs, Pontiac Fever (CD, Narrow House)
Buck Downs, In Memory D Thompson (limited edition, Buck Downs). A series of poems composed of rubbings taken from headstones in Congressional Cemetery, DC.
Buck Downs, Ladies Love Oulaws (chapbook, Edge Books)
JoAnne Growney, My Dance is Mathematics (chapbook, Paper Kite Press).
Donald Hall, White Apples and the Taste of Stone (Houghton Mifflin)
Judith Harris, The Bad Secret (Louisiana State University Press)
Esther Iverem, Living in Babylon (Africa World Press)
Brandon D. Johnson, Love's Skin (The Word Works)
David Keplinger, The Prayers of Others (New Issues)
Alan King, transfer (chapbook, Alan King)
Nandinee Kutty, Kavitanjali: Offering with Both Hands (chapbook, Nandinee K. Kutty)
Doug Lang, Selected Poems (Edge Books)
Lyn Lifshin, Another Woman Who Looks Like Me (Black Sparrow)
Reb Livingston and Ravi Shankar, Wanton Textiles (No Tell Books)
C.M. Mayo, The Essential Francisco Sosa, or Picadou's Mexico City (CD, Tameme)
R.J. McCaffery, Ice Sculpture of Mermaid with Cigar (Three Candles Press)
The Original Woman, The Addiction (CD, The Original Woman)
Linda Pastan, Queen of a Rainy Country (WW Norton)
Dwaine Rieves, When the Eye Forms (Tupelo Press)
Elisavietta Ritchie, Awaiting Permission to Land (Cherry Grove Collections)
stevenallenmay, fracturedevelopment (chapbook, Plan B Press)
Henry Taylor, Crooked Run (Louisiana State University Press)
Truth Thomas, Party of Black (chapbook; Mouthmark Press)
Maureen Thorson, Mayport (2006 Chapbook Poetry Fellowship winner, Poetry Society of America)
Joshua Weiner, From the Book of Giants (Univ. of Chicago Press)
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. (anthology, Paycock Press)
The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, ed. Reb Livingston and Molly Arden. Contributors include Carly Sachs, Kim Roberts, Christy Zink, Emily Lloyd, Ken Rumble, and Ravi Shankar (anthology, No Tell Books)
Enhanced Gravity: Short Fiction by Washington Area Women Writers, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include: Ramola D, Sibbie O'Sullivan, Elizabeth Poliner, Venus Thrash (anthology, Paycock Press)
Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality, ed. Gerry LaFemina and Chad Prevost. Contributors include Francisco Aragón, Eric Pankey, Ravi Shankar. (anthology, Bottom Dog)
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 (anthology, University of Michigan Press)
Growing Up Girl: An Anthology of Voices from Marginalized Spaces, ed. Michelle Sewell. Contributors include Teri Ellen Cross, Yael Flusberg, Sonya Renee Taylor, J. Scales, Charniece Fox, Lisa Joyner (anthology, GirlChild Press)
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 (anthology, Sarabande Books)
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, ed. C.M. Mayo. Short fiction from Mexico in translation. (anthology, Wherabouts Press)
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 (anthology, Oxford University Press)
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 (anthology, Univ. of Georgia Press)
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 (anthology, Paycock Press)
Voces y memorias de la Luna, ed. Rei Berroa. 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 (anthology, Colecctión Libros de la Luna)
2005
Kim Alexander and Jeffery Duarté, Sleight of Hand, Twist of Fate (Speak Easy Publishing)
Kwame Alexander, Dancing Naked on the Floor (Writers Lair Books)
Kwame Alexander, The Way I Walk, short stories and poems for young adults (Capital Book Fest)
Paulette Beete, Blues for a Pretty Girl (Finishing Line Press)
Sylvia D. Beverly, Forever in Your Eyes (Golden Arts Publishing)
Richard Blanco, Directions to the Beach of the Dead (Univ. of Arizona Press)
Brofucius (aka Jeffrey G. Duarté), Hot Licks & Rhetoric (CD, Speak Easy Publishing)
Leslie Bumstead, Cipher/Civilian (Edge Books)
Nancy Naomi Carlson, Imperfect Seal of Lips (chapbook, winner of the Tennessee Chapbook Prize, published in Poems & Plays, Issue #12).
Grace Cavalieri, What I Would Do for Love: Poems in the Voice of May Wollstonecraft (Jacaranda Press)
Donna Denize, Broken Like Job (The Word Works)
James Ellis III, OnThaGrindCuzin: The School Daze of Being 'Incognegro' in 1619 (Publish America)
Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Maverick Room (Graywolf Press)
Ethan Fischer, Beached in the Hourglass (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Edith Grant, Centaur and Other Poems (Xlibris)
Jennifer Gresham, Diary of a Cell (Steel Toe Books)
Piotr Gwiazda, Gagarin Street (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Saskia Hamilton, Divide These (Graywolf Press)
Ailish Hopper, Bird in the Head (The Center for Book Arts)
Philip K. Jason, Greatest Hits: 1970-2001 (chapbook; Pudding House Press)
David Keplinger, The Clearing (New Issues)
David Kresh, Turn Off or Use Opener (The Blue House Press)
Mary Ann Larkin, A Shimmering That Goes With Us (Finishing Line Press)
Vladimir Levchev, The Rainbow Mason (Cornerstone Books)
Lyn Lifshin, The Daughter I Don't Have (Plan B Press)
Lyn Lifshin, The Licorice Daughter (Texas Review Press)
Savora Matzo, Soul of Savora (Bamboo Books)
David McAleavey, Huge Haiku (Chax Press)
Richard McCann, Mother of Sorrows (Pantheon Books)
Judith McCombs, The Habit of Fire: Poems Selected & New (The Word Works)
Laura Minning, sunburst (Xlibris)
Mel Nichols, Day Poems (Edge Books)
Sibbie O'Sullivan, Little Wheel (CD, A Dim Puce Production)
Kathleen O'Toole, Practice (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Patric Pepper, Temporary Apprehensions (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Elizabeth Poliner, Mutual Life & Casualty (novel, Permanent Press)
Elisavietta Ritchie, The Spirit of the Walrus (Bright Hill Press)
Anne Sheldon, The Adventures of the Faithful Counselor (Aqueduct Press)
Michelle Sewell, Consider This...(CD, The Poetry Fix)
J.D. Smith, Settling for Beauty (Cherry Grove)
Rod Smith, Fear the Sky (CD, Narrow House Recordings)
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, The Insatiable Psalm: Poems (Wind River Press)
Hilary Tham, Tin Mines and Concubines (short fiction, Washington Writers Publishing House)
Etan Thomas, More Than an Athlete (Moore Black Press)
Maureen Thorson, Abecedarium (chapbook, Big Game Press)
Maureen Thorson, EVOL (chapbook, Big Game Press)
Nap Turner, Nap Turner Presents Hughes' View of the Blues. The acclaimed WPFW-FM deejay reading Langston Hughes's Jesse B. Semple stories (CD, Right on Rhythm).
Jonathan Vaile, Blue Cowboy (The Word Works)
Joy C. West, Dancing on the Fringes of the Realm (chapbook, Joy C. West).
Sharlie West, House of Bones (Shadows Ink Publications)
An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Women's Studies, ed. Brianne Friel and Robert L. Giron. (anthology of essays, Gival Press) http://www.givalpress.com.
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, ed. C.M. Mayo (anthology of short fiction in translation, Whereabouts Press).
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, ed. Billy Collins. Contributors include Christina Daub, Anthony Hecht, Linda Pastan, Edward Hirsch and Ted Kooser (anthology; Random House).
Only the Sea Keeps: Poetry of the Tsunami,ed. Judith R. Robinson, Joan E. Bauer, & Sankar Roy. 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 (anthology; Rupa & Co. in New Delhi, India/Bayeux Arts, Calgary, Canada).
http://poetsforhumanity.orgPoetic Voices Without Borders, ed. Robert L. Giron. 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 (anthology; Gival Press).
Poetry Alive at Iota: 10th Anniversary CD, ed. Terence Mulligan, Martha Sanchez-Lowery and Miles David Moore. 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. (CD anthology, Minimus Productions).
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. (anthology; Kings Estate Press)
A Wild Perfection: Selected Letters of James Wright, ed. Anne Wright and Saundra Rose Maley. (Farrar Straus & Giroux)
2004
Kim Addonizio, What Is This Thing Called Love (WW Norton)
Jody Bolz, A Lesson in Narrative Time (Gihon Books)
Christopher Conlon, The Weeping Time (Argonne House Press)
Lesley Lee Francis, Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900-1918 (memoir, Transaction Publishers)
Erik Gamlem, Death Language: Collected Poems (Kiss/Kill Press)
Dana Gioia, Disappearing Ink: Poetry at the End of Print Culture (essays, Graywolf Press)
Patricia Gray, Rupture (Red Hen Press)
Jen Gresham, Explaining Relativity to the Cat (chapbook, Pudding House Press)
Rod Jellema, A Slender Grace (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing) http://www.eerdmans.com.
Chungmi Kim, Glacier Lily (Red Hen Press)
Ann B. Knox, The Dark Edge (Pudding House Press)
Gerry LaFemina, The Parakeets of Brooklyn. Bilingual English/Italian, trans. Elisa Biagini. (chapbook, winner of the Bordighera Poetry Prize for an American poet of Italian descent, Bordighera Press)
C.E. Laine, Postcards from a Summer Girl (Sun Rising Books)
Michael Lally, March 18, 2003 (Libellum)
Barbara Lefcowitz, Photo, Bomb, Red Chair (Fithian Press)
Lyn Lifshin, The Barbie Poems (chapbook, The Lummox Press)
Lyn Lifshin, When a Cat Dies (chapbook, The Moon Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Another Woman's Story (limited edition chapbook, Butcher Shop Press)
Gary Copeland Lilley, The Subsequent Blues (Four Way Books)
Miles David Moore, Rollercoaster (The Word Works)
E. Ethelbert Miller, How We Sleep on the Nights We Don't Make Love (Curbstone Press)
Erin Murphy, Science of Desire (Word Press)
Billye Okera, The Mourner's Bench and Other Stations of Weeping & Joy (Speak-Easy Publishing)
Eric Pankey, Reliquaries (Ausable Press)
Richard Peabody, Last of the Red Hot Magnetos (Paycock Press)
Mary Quattlebaum, Family Reunion. Poems for young people with illustrations by Andrea Shine (Eerdmans)
Kaia Sand, Interval (Edge Books)
The Silhouette Lover, Shadow Dancing (Speak-Easy Publishing)
Cheryl Snell, Epithalamion (Little Poem Press)
Maureen Thorson, Calamity and the Calamity Annex (chapbook, Big Game Press)
Maureen Thorson, Novelty Act (chapbook, Ugly Duckling Presse)
Hamed Vahidi, Ruins of the Soul (Llumina Press)
Mark Wallace, Haze: Essays, Poems, Prose (Edge Books)
Cabin Fever: Poets at Joaquin Miller's Cabin, 1984-2001. ed. Jacklyn Potter, Dwaine Rieves, and Gary Stein. Includes: 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 (anthology; The Word Works)
DC Poets Against the War: An Anthology (Second Edition), ed. Sarah Browning, Michele Elliott and Danny Rose. 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 (anthology; DCPAW)
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.
Grace and Gravity: Fiction by Washington Area Women, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include C.M. Mayo, Myra Sklarew, Judith Harris, Sophy Burnham, Lucinda Ebersole, Patricia Griffith, Leslie Pietrzyk, Mary Quattlebaum, and Mary Kay Zuravleff (anthology; short fiction, Paycock Press)
Sheets for Men Only: International anthology of poetry and prose. ed. Claire Kincannon. 25 contributors from 12 countries, including E. Ethelbert Miller, Henry Taylor, Steve Scafidi. (anthology; Dancingink Press).
31 Arlington Poets, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include: Karren L. Alenier, Rei Berroa, John Elsberg, Miles David Moore, Kim Roberts, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, M.A. Schaffner, and Hilary Tham (anthology; Paycock Press).
Women in the Avant Garde: Laura Elrich, Heather Fuller, Carol Mrakove, Kristin Prevallet, and Deborah Richards (CD anthology, Narrow House Recordings).
2003
Afrika M.A. Abney, aka Ashawarrior, Dancers in the Wind (RAH Distributors/Express Yourself Books)
Karren LaLonde Alenier, Greatest Hits (Pudding House Press)
Elizabeth Alexander, The Black Interior: Essays (Graywolf Press).
Peter Blair, The Divine Salt (Autumn House Press)
Gregory T. Boykin, What Makes a Man? (Speak-Easy Publishing)
Brofucius, Lyrical Liquor (CD, Speak Easy Publishing)
Dan Campbell, Sleeper Car Meditations (Dan Campbell)
Rick Cannon, The Composition of Absence (Pudding House Press)
Christopher Conlon, Gilbert and Garbo in Love (The Word Works)
Jeffrey G. Duarté, Lyrical Liquor (CD, Speak Easy Publishing)
Jeffrey G. Duarté and Gregory T. Boykin, Why I Stare At You (Speak Easy Publishing)
O.B. Hardison, Jr., Reading His Poetry (CD, Bard Records)
Judith Harris, Signifying Pain: Constructing and Healing the Self Through Writing (SUNY Press)
Anthony Hecht, Collected Later Poems (Knopf)
Anthony Hecht, Essays on the Mysteries of Poetry (Johns Hopkins University Press)
James Hopkins, Eight Pale Women (The Word Works)
KaNikki Jakarta, The Skillz of a Sistah (Great Publishing LLC)
Mary Ann Larkin and Patric Pepper, The DNA of the Heart (Pond Road Press)
Robert Lowell: Collected Poems, ed. Frank Bidart and David Gewanter (Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
Tonya "JaHipster" Matthews, The Legend of Afrodite (CD, JaHipster).
William Matthews, Search Party: Collected Poems of William Matthews, ed. Sebastian Matthews and Stanley Plumly (Houghton Mifflin)
Mark McMorris, The Blaze of Poui (University of Georgia Press)
Billye Okera, The Mourner's Bench and Other Stations of Weeping & Joy (Speak-Easy Publishing)
Eric Pankey, Oracle Figures (Ausable Press)
Stanley Plumly, Argument & Song: Sources & Silences in Poetry (Other Press)
Ezra Pound, Ego Scriptor Cantilenae: The Music of Ezra Pound. Includes samples from his two operas and pieces for solo violin (CD, Other Minds)
Robert Sargent, 99 After 80 (The Bunny and Crocodile Press)
Katherine Smith, Argument by Design (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Rod Smith, Music or Honesty (Roof Books)
Stimulates, Dark: A Sunset Rising (Speak-Easy Publishing)
Hilary Tham, The Tao of Mrs. Wei (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Common Wealth: Contemporary Poets of Virginia. ed. Sarah Kennedy and R.T. Smith. Contributors include: Jennifer Atkinson, Peter Klappert, Eric Pankey, Henry Taylor (anthology, University of Virginia Press).
DC Poets Against the War, ed. Naomi Ayala, Sarah Browning, Michele Elliott, and Danny Rose. Includes: Rei Berroa, Kenneth Carroll, Grace Cavalieri, David Gewanter, Patricia Gray, Peter Klappert, Ann Knox, E. Ethelbert Miller, Kim Roberts, and Rebecca Villarreal (anthology, Argonne House)
The Earthworm Project, includes Droopy, Komplex, Abena Disroe, Tonya "JaHipster" Matthews, Krayola (CD anthology, Paragon Sound)
The Healing Fountain: Poetry Therapy for Life's Journey, ed. Geri Chavis and Lila Weisberger (anthology, essays and poems, National Assn. for Poetry Therapy).
100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift. Includes Richard Peabody, Rebecca Villarreal, Kenneth Carroll (anthology, Salt Publishing)
Paint Me Like I Am: Teen Poems from Writers Corps. 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 (anthology, Harper Collins)
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, ed. Billy Collins. Includes Geraldine Connolly, Reed Whittemore, Henry Taylor, Phillis Levin, Terence Winch (anthology, Random House)
The Road Less Taken: The St. Valentine Sunday Poetry Marathon 2001, ed. Chezia Thompson Cager and Blair Ewing. Includes Nicki Miller, Richard Peabody, Hiram Larew, Ron D. Baker (CD anthology, Maryland Institute College of Art).
Spoken Here, Spoken Now: A Celebration of 30 Years of Poetry. Contributors include David Bristol, Nancy Naomi Carlson, Ann Knox, David McAleavey, Elisabeth Murawski, Jean Nordhaus, Ramola D, Elisavietta Ritchie (CD anthology, Washington Writers Publishing House)
The Spoken Word Revolution: Slam, Hip Hop & The Poetry of a New Generation, ed. Mark Eleveld. Contributors include: Regie Cabico, DJ Renegade, Jeffrey McDaniel. (anthology, with CD, Sourcebooks, Inc.)
2002
David Bristol, Toad and Other Poems (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Brofucius, The Philosophical Brother (Speak Easy Publishing)
J. Wesley Clark, I am Paraguay (No. 17 in the Second Series of Bogg free-for-postage pamphlets, Bogg Publications)
Maxine Combs, Listening for Wings (Wineberry Press).
Christopher Conlon, What There Is (Argonne House)
Joel Dias-Porter, Libation Song (CD, Black Magi Music)
Cathy Eisenhower, Language of the Dog-Heads (Phylum Press)
Blair Ewing, And To The Republic (Argonne House)
Heather Fuller, Dovecote (Edge Books)
Angela Goldemund, The Gray Notebook of a Stranger (Tibia Books)
Donald Hall, The Painted Bed (Houghton Mifflin Co.)
Reginald Harris, Ten Tongues (Three Conditions Press)
Roy Jacobstein, Ripe (University of Wisconsin Press)
Dolores Kendrick, Why the Woman is Singing on the Corner (Peter Randall Press)
Vladimir Levchev, Heavenly Balkans (Argonne House)
Lyn Lifshin, A New Film About a Woman in Love with the Dead (March Street Press)
Ed McCafferty, Audrey & I Strike Forth (Argonne House)
Tony Medina, Love to Langston, children's book, with illustrations by Gregory Christie (Lee and Low Books)
Jean Nordhaus, The Porcelain Apes of Moses Mendelssohn (Milkweed Editions)
Joe Osterhaus, Radiance (Zoo Press)
Linda Pastan, The Last Uncle (WW Norton)
Richard Peabody, Rain Flowers (online chapbook, Ahadada Press)
Judith Podell, Blues for Beginners (Argonne House)
Ilona Popper, Break (The Bunny and the Crocodile Press)
Lee Sang, Crow's Eye View: The Infamy of Lee Sang, Korean Poet, work selected and translated by Myong-Hee Kim (The Word Works)
Robert Sargent, Wondrous News (Argonne House)
M.A. Schaffner, War Boys (novel, Welcome Rain)
Ravi Shankar, Instrumentality (Cherry Grove)
Ann Sheldon, Hero-Surfing (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Silhouette Lover, Standing in the Shadows of Love (Speak Easy Publishing)
Ronny Someck, The Fire Stays in Red: Poems, translated from the Hebrew by Moshe Dor and Barbara Goldberg (University of Wisconsin Press)
Herman Taube, Looking Back, Going Forward: New & Selected Poems (University of Wisconsin Press)
Edward Weismiller, Walking Toward the Sun (Yale University Press)
Beyond the Frontier, ed. E. Ethelbert Miller. Includes Reuben Jackson, DJ Renegade, Brian Gilmore, Kenneth Carroll, Brother Yao, Patricia Elam, Carolyn Joyner, Sydney March, Jabari Asim (anthology, Black Classic Press)
An Eye for an Eye Makes the World Blind: Poets on 9/11, ed. Allen Cohen, Clive Matson, and Michael Parenti. Includes Grace Cavalieri, Lyn Lifshin, Robert Pinsky (anthology, Regent Press).
Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets, ed. Ellen Byrant Voigt and Heather McHugh Includes Michael Collier, Roland Flint (anthology, University of Georgia Press)
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, ed. Memphis Vaughn. Authors include L.D. Stewart, Tracy Brown, Zamounde, Jamal Sharif, John Riddick, others. http://www.timbooktu.com
Over the Rooftops of Time: Jewish Stories, Essays, and Poems, ed. Myra Sklarew (anthology, State University of New York Press)
A Poetic Bridge: Poems by Poets Anonymous in the USA and United Kingdom. Includes Grace Cavalieri, Jean Russell, Edith Graciela Sanabria, Nicki Miller, Sam Hurst, Mike Crowley, and Stazja MacFadyen (anthology, PA Press)
Poetology. Features Sir Reigns, Queen Sheba, Native Son, Men Maa Aim Ra, Droopy, Myisha Cherry, and D. Bell (CD, Poetology)
Roll Call: A Generational Anthology of Social and Political Black Literature and Art, ed. Tony Medina, Quraysh Ali Lansana, Samiya A. Bashir (anthology, Third World Press)
September Eleven: Maryland Voices (anthology, Baltimore Writers Alliance) Contributors include: Ned Balbo, Linda Joy Burke, Virginia Crawford, Vonnie Winslow Crist, Moira Egan, Blair Ewing, Michael S. Glaser, Reginald Harris, W. Luther Jett, Greg McBride, Yvette Neisser, Elisavietta Ritchie, Sam Schmidt, Barbara M. Simon, Davi Walders, Mimi Zannino.
Short Fuse: The Global Anthology of New Fusion Poetry, ed. Todd Swift & Philip Norton. Includes: Regie Cabico, Kenneth Carroll, Jeffrey McDaniel, Richard Peabody, DJ Renegade, Silvana Straw. (anthology, CD included, Rattapallax Press)
Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, ed. Mark Wallace and Steven Marks (anthology, University of Alabama Press, Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series)
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family, ed. Afaa Michael Weaver. Includes E. Ethelbert Miller (anthology, Sarabande Books)
When Words Became Flesh, ed. Myisha Cherry. Includes Fahim Nassar, Giovanni, Rush, The Dri Fish, Makeda Crane, Takisha, Komplex (anthology, Mwaza Publications).
2001
Elizabeth Alexander, Antebellum Dream Book (Graywolf Press)
Kwame Alexander, Do The Write Thing: 7 Steps to Publishing Success (essays, Manisy Willows Books)
Jennifer Atkinson, The Drowned City (Northeastern University Press)
Dean Blehert, Kill the Children and Other Disconnections (chapbook, Argonne House)
Doris Brody, Judging the Distance (The Word Works)
Grace Cavalieri, Cuffed Frays and Other Poems (chapbook, Argonne House)
Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room (Random House)
Ed Cox, Collected Poems (Paycock Press)
Maxine Clair, October Suite. (Random House) Novel
Cornelius Eady, Brutal Imagination (Putnam)
Cathy Eisenhower, Language of the Dog-Heads (chapbook, Phylum Press)
Thomas Sayers Ellis, The Genuine Negro Hero (chapbook, Kent State University Press)
Brian Federico, The Sea and Galilee (chapbook, Pipers' Ash Publishers)
Bernadette Geyer, What Remains (chapbook, Argonne House)
Robert L. Giron, Songs of the Spirit (Gival Press)
Anthony Hecht, The Darkness and the Light (Alfred A. Knopf)
Bernard Jankowski, The Bullfrog Does Not Imagine New Towns (Washington Writers Publishing House)Philip K. Jason, Making Change (chapbook, Argonne House)
Joy Jones, Private Lessons: A Book of Meditations for Teachers (essays, Andrews McMeel Publishers)
Phillip Kurata, The Reluctant Angel (Washington Writers Publishing House)Michael Lally, It Takes One to Know One: Poetry & Prose (Black Sparrow Press)
Michael Lally, ¿Que Pasa, Baby? (chapbook, Wake Up Heavy Press)
Barbara Lefcowitz, The Politics of Snow (Dancing Moon Press)Phillis Levin, Mercury (Penguin)
Cate Marvin, World's Tallest Disaster (Sarabande Books)
David McAleavey, Greatest Hits 1971-2000 (chapbook, Pudding House Publications)E. Ethelbert Miller, where are the love poems for dictators? (Re-issue, Open Hand Publishing)
E. Ethelbert Miller, Buddha Weeping in Winter, limited edition hand-made chapbook, with visual art by Don Mee Choi (Red Dragonfly Press)
E. Ethelbert Miller, Fathering Words: The Making of an African American Writer (memoir, St. Martin's Press)
Eric Pankey, Cenotaph (Alfred A. Knopf)
Patric Pepper, Zoned Industrial (Medicinal Purposes Press)Libbie Rifkin, Career Moves: Olson, Creeley, Zukofsky, Berrigan, and the American Avant-Garde (essays, The University of Wisconsin Press)
Robert Sargent, Altered in the Telling: The Biblical Poems (Bunny & Crocodile Press)
Rod Smith, The Good House (Spectacular Books)
Shelby Stephenson, Fiddledeedee (Bunny & Crocodile Press)
stevenallenmay, Spontaneous Chili (chapbook, Plan B Press)
Stimulates, Watch and Twirl and Spin (Speak Easy Publishing)
Hilary Tham, Reality Check & Other Travel Poems (King's Estate Press)
Rebecca Villarreal, First Come, First Served (Mama Chelo Press)
Margaret Weaver, Escaping Words (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Joshua Weiner, The World's Room (The University of Chicago Press)
Terence Winch, The Drift of Things (The Figures)
Bum Rush the Page: A Def Poetry Jam, ed. Tony Medina and Louis Reyes Rivera, foreward by Sonia Sanchez. Includes: DJ Renegade, Lisa Pegram, Brian Gilmore, Jane Alberdeston-Coralin, Kenneth Carroll, Ahmos Zu-Bolton II, Dudley Randall, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Yona Harvey (anthology, Crown Publishing)
The Gargoyle CDs. 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 (CD, Gargoyle).
The Extraordinary Tide: New Poetry by American Women, ed. Susan Aizenberg and Erin Belieu. Includes: Elizabeth Alexander, Lucille Clifton, Carolyn Forché, Linda Pastan, Minnie Bruce Pratt, Elizabeth Spires, Belle Waring (anthology; Columbia University Press)
Out of the Closet, Into Our Hearts: Celebrating Out Gay/Lesbian Family Members, ed. Laura Seigel and Nancy Lamkin Olson. Poems, essays, letters. Includes Kim Roberts, Tom Starnes, James M. Pines (anthology; Leyland Publications)
2000
Kim Addonizio, Tell Me (Boa Editions)
Karren LaLonde Alenier, Looking for Divine Transportation (The Word Works)
Kwame Alexander, Kupenda: Love Poems (BlackWords, Inc.)
Henry Allen,What It Felt Like: Living in the American Century (essays, Pantheon)Mel Belin, Flesh That Was Chrysalis (The Word Works)
Laura Brylawski-Miller, The Square at Vigevano (novel, Washington Writers Publishing House)
Maxine Combs, The Inner Life of Objects (novel, Calyx Books)
Martin Galvin, Appetites (chapbook, Bogg Publications)
Patricia Garfinkel, Making the Skeleton Dance (George Braziller)
Judith Harris, Atonement (Louisiana State University Press)
Bernadette K. Geyer, In My Own Defense (chapbook, Bernadette K. Geyer)
Lisa Jarnot, Bill Luoma, and Rod Smith, The New Mannerist Tricycle (Beautiful Swimmer)
Beth Joselow, Self Regard (Chax Books)
Peter Klappert, Chokecherries, New and Selected Poems 1966-1999 (Orchises Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Before It's Light (Black Sparrow Press)Terence Mulligan, Children of the West (short fiction, Minimus Books)
Patric Pepper, Zoned Industrial, winner of the first annual Medicinal Purposes Chapbook Contest. (chapbook, Poet to Poet Press)
Stanley Plumly, Now That My Father Lies Down Beside Me: New & Selected Poems, 1970 - 2000 (The Ecco Press)
Elisavietta Ritchie, In Haste I Write This Note: Stories and Half Stories (short fiction, Washington Writers Publishing House)
Jane Satterfield, Sheherdess with an Automatic (Washington Writers Publishing House)
Dean Smith, American Boy (Washington Writers Publishing House)Hilary Tham, Counting (The Word Works)
American Poetry: The Next Generation, ed. Gerald Constanzo and Jim Daniels. 200 poets under age 40 who have published at least one book. Includes: Kim Roberts, Kenneth Carroll, Elizabeth Alexander, Thomas Sayers Ellis, Rose Solari, Joe Osterhaus (anthology; Carnegie Mellon University Press)
In a Certain Place, ed. Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda and Alice Marie Tarnowski. Anthology published in memory of Betty Parry, includes Charles Sullivan, Judith McCombs, Elisabeth Stevens, Stacy Tuthill (anthology; SCOP Publications).The New Young American Poets: An Anthology, ed. Kevin Prufer. Forty poets under age 40 including Thomas Sayers Ellis and Jeffrey McDaniel (anthology; Southern Illinois University Press)
Poetry Slam: The Competitive Art of Performance Poetry, ed. Gary Mex Glazner. Contributors include Regie Cabico, Gayle Danley, DJ Renegade, Jeffrey McDaniel, Jose Padua. (anthology, Manic D Press)
Weavings 2000: The Maryland Millenial Anthology, ed. Michael S. Glaser. Includes Karren LaLonde Alenier, David Bergman, Nan Fry, Clarinda Harriss, Grace Cavalieri, Jean Johnson, Judith McCombs, Linda Pastan, Elizabeth Spires, D.J. Renegade, Reed Whittemore, Myra Sklarew, Ilona Popper, Kenneth Carroll, Sterling Brown, Merrill Leffler, Maxine Clair, Terence Winch, Hiram Larew, Elisavietta Ritchie, Ann Knox, Christina Daub, Roland Flint, Reuben Jackson, Philip K. Jason, Hilary Tham, E. Ethelbert Miller, Jean Nordhaus, Sunil Freeman, Rod Jellema, Henry Taylor, Jody Bolz, Michael Collier (anthology; Forest Woods Media Productions).
Winners: A Retrospective of the Washington Prize, ed. Karren Alenier, Hilary Tham, Miles David Moore. Includes Ramola D, Patricia Gray, Judith McCombs, Robert Sargent, Reuben Jackson, Brandon D. Johnson, Hiram Larew, Betty Parry, Jean Nordhaus, Richard Peabody, Martha Sanchez-Lowery, M.A. Schaffner, Rod Smith, Rhonda Williford (anthology; The Word Works)The World in Us: Lesbian and Gay Poetry of the Next Wave, ed. Michael Lassell and Elena Georgiou. Contributors include: Regie Cabico, Cheryl Clarke, Honor Moore, Minnie Bruce Pratt. (anthology, St. Martin's Press)
