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
2012
Karren L. Alenier, On a Bed of Gardenias: Jane & Paul Bowles (chapbook, Kattywompus Press)Luis Alberto Ambroggio, El exilio y la palabra. La trashumance de un excritor argentino-estadounidense, edited by Rosa Tezanos-Pinto (essays and poems in Spanish, Editorial Vinciguerra)
Luis Alberto Ambroggio, Homenaje al camino (poems in Spanish, Alción Editora)
Dorothy Bendel, Expatriate (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)Richard Blanco, Looking for the Gulf Motel (Pitt Poetry Series)
Carmen Calatayud, In the Company of Spirits (Press 53)
Grace Cavalieri, Gotta Go Now (chapbook, Goss 183)
Lucille Clifton, The Collected Poems of Lucille Clifton, 1965-2010 (BOA Editions)
Michael Collier, An Individual History (W.W. Norton)
Donna Lewis Cowan, Between Gods (Cherry Grove)
Moshe Dor, Scorched by the Sun, translated from the Hebrew by Barbara Goldberg and Moshe Dor (The Word Works)
John Elsberg and Eric Greinke, All This Dark: 24 Tanka Sequences (chapbook, Červena Barvá Press)
Blas Falconer, The Foundling Wheel (Four Way Books)
Dana Gioia, Pity the Beautiful (Graywolf Press)
Joshua Gray, Beowulf: A Verse Adaptation with Young Readers in Mind (Zouch Six Shilling Press)
Piotr Gwiazda, Messages: Poems & Interview (Pond Road Press)
Joe Hall, Post Nativity (chapbook, Publishing Genius)
Monica Hand, me and Nina (Alice James Books)
Jeffrey Harrison, What Comes Next (Tupelo Press)
Marc Harshman, Green-Silver and Silent (Bottom Dog Press)
Roger Hecht, Talking Pictures (Červena Barvá Press)
Kathleen Hellen, Umberto's Night (WWPH)
Jodie Hollander, The Humane Society (chapbook, The Tall-Lighthouse)
Randall Horton: Roxbury: A Memoir (nonfiction chapbook, Kattywompus Press)
William Silver Jennings, Robert Kimmel Jennings, and Lane Eaton Jennings, Lineage: Poetry and Prose of Three Generations (XLibris)
Charles Jensen, The Nanopedia Quick-Reference Pocket Lexicon of Contemporary American Culture (chapbook, GOSS 183/Mi Poesias)
Sally Keith, The Fact of the Matter (Milkweed Editions)
Alan King, Drift (Willow Books)
Gerry LaFemina, Steam Punk (chapbook, Smalls Press)
Merrill Leffler, Mark the Music (Dryad Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Knife Edge & Absinthe: The Tango Poems (Night Ballet Press)
Lyn Lifshin, For the Roses: Poems for Joni Mitchell (March Street Press)
Lynn Lifshin, Hitchcock Hotel (e-book, Stronesthrow/Lazarus Media)
Gary Copeland Lilley, Cape Fear: Poems (chapbook, bound together with Holly Iglesia's chapbook Fruta Bomba, Q Ave. Press)
Tony Mancus, Bye Land (chapbook, Greying Ghost Press)
Melanie McCabe, History of the Body (David Roberts Books)
Tony Medina, An Onion of Mars (Third World Press)
Douglas Messerli, Dark (e-book, Green Integer)
Yvette Neisser Moreno, Grip (Gival Press)
Valzhyna Mort, Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press)
Eric Pankey, Dismantling the Angel (Parlor Press)
Linda Pastan, Traveling Light (WW Norton)
Richard Peabody, Speed Enforced by Aircraft (The Broadkill River Press)
Richard Peabody, Blue Suburban Skies (short fiction, Main Street Rag)
Natalie Peeterse, Black Birds: Blue Horse, An Elegy (chapbook, Gold Line Press)
Joseph Ross, Meeting Bone Man (Main Street Rag)
Jane Satterfield, Her Familiars (Elixir Press)
Susan Kay Scheid, After Enchantment (CreateSpace)
Sam Schmidt, Suburban Myths (Beothuk Books)
Gregg Shapiro, Gregg Shapiro: 77 (chapbook, Souvenir Spoon Books)
Jane Shore, That Said: New and Selected Poems (Houghton Mifflin)
J.D. Smith, Labor Day at Venice Beach (Cherry Grove)
Maryhelen Snyder, Sun in an Empty Room (Mercury Heartlink)
Jeff Sypeck, Looking Up: Poems from the National Cathedral Gargoyles (Quid Plura Books)
Pia Taavila, Two Winters (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Truth Thomas, Speak Water (Cherry Castle)
Mary-Sherman Willis, Caveboy (chapbook, Artist's Proof Editions)
Ed Zahniser, At Betty's Restaurant Thomas Shepherd Loves Danske Dandridge and The Shepherdstown Sonnets (Pernot and Tatlin/Four Seasons Books)
Sally Zakariya, Arithmetic and Other Verses From Late in Life (Richer Resources Publications)
Amazing Graces: Yet Another Collection of Fiction by Washington Area Women, ed. Richard Peabody. Contributors include: Jonetta Rose Barras, Verlyn Flieger, Alssandra Gelmi, Esther Iverem, Kim Roberts, Katherine R. Smith, Amber Sparks. (short fiction anthology, Paycock Press).
Ashes Caught on the Edge of Light: Ten Chapbooks, ed. Susan Richardson. Featured authors: John Bradley, Serena Fusek, Arthur Ginsberg, Anastasia Kritterden, Laura LeHew, Lyn Lifshin, Trisha Nelson, Elisavietta Ritchie, Ken Rodgers, Myra Sklarew. (Winterhawk Press)
Cave Canem Anthology XII. Contributors include: Toi Derricotte, Cornelius Eady, Niki Herd, Randall Horton, Alan King, Venus Thrash. (anthology, Willow Books)
Divining Divas: 100 Gay Poets on the Women Who Inspire Them, ed. Micharl Montlock. Contributors include: David Bergman, Richard Blanco, Regie Cabico, Scott Hightower, Charles Jensen, Dan Vera. (anthology, Lethe Press)
Four Virginia Poets Laureate (2004-2012): An Anthology and Reader's Guide, ed. Sofia M. Starnes. Featuring Rita Dove, Carolyn Kreiter-Foronda, Claudia Emerson, and Kelly Cherry. Other contributors: Betty Adcock, Fred Chappell, Cathryn Hankla, Edward Lull, Kevin Everod Quashie, and Charles W. Steger (anthology, Cedar Creek Publishing)
In Good Company: Poets Celebrate Shepherdstown's 250th Anniversary, ed. Georgia Lee McElhaney and Ed Zahniser. Contributors include: Tom Donlon, Ethan Fischer, Sonja James, Ilona Popper, Antrim Ross, Hope Maxwell Snyder, John Yost. (anthology, Pernot and Tatlin/Four Seasons Books)
Lady Business: A Celebration of Lesbian Poetry, ed. Bryan Borland. Contributors include: Julie R. Enszer, Gina R. Evers. (anthology, Sibling Rivalry Press)
Sunken Garden Poetry: 1992-2011, ed. Brad Davis. Contributors include: Naomi Ayala, Richard Blanco, Lucille Clifton, Stephen Dunn, Carolyn Forche, Jeffrey Harrison, Grey Jacobik, Honor Moore, Kim Roberts, Edgar Gabriel Silex, Sue Ellen Thompson. (anthology, Wesleyan University Press)
Token Entry: New York City Subway Poems, ed. Gerry LaFemina. Contributors include: Phillip Dacey, Cornelius Eady, Langston Hughes, Jeffrey McDaniel, Grace Paley, Carly Sachs, Ravi Shankar. (anthology, Smalls Press)
Voices of the Future, ed. Etan Thomas. Contributors include members of the DC Youth Slam Team. (anthology, Haymarket Books)
Words of Protest, Words of Freedom: Poetry of the American Civil Rights Movement and Era, ed. Jeffrey Lamar Coleman. Contributors include: Amiri Baraka, Gwendolyn Brooks, Lucille Clifton, Robert Frost, Robert Hayden, Langston Hughes, Philip Levine, Robert Lowell, Haki Madhubuti, Larry Neal, Dudley Randall, A.B. Spellman. (anthology, Duke University Press)
2011
Akbar Ahmed, Suspended Somewhere Between (Busboys & Poets/PM Press)Kwame Alexander, Acoustic Rooster and His Barnyard Band (children's literature, with illustrations by Tim Bowers, Sleeping Bear Press)
Luis Alberto Ambroggio, La arqueologia del viento/The Wind's Archeology (Vaso Roto Ediciones, bilingual, translated by Naomi Ayala)
Jennifer Atkinson, The Canticle of the Night Path (Parlor Press)
Ed Baker, Stone Girl E-Pic (poetry and visual art; Leafe Press)
E. Louise Beach, Sine Nomine (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Roberta Beary, The Unworn Necklace (Snapshot Press)
Sandra Beasley, Don't Kill the Birthday Girl: Tales from an Allergic Life (memoir, Crown Books)
Kimberly L. Becker, Words Facing East (WordTech Editions)
Paulette Beete, Voice Lessons (chapbook, Plan B Press)
Clifford Bernier, The Silent Art (Gival Press)
Princess Bethea, Free Love (e-book, Issuu)
Andrea Carter Brown, Each Boat Signs the Water (chapbook, Pudding House)
Derrick Weston Brown, Wisdom Teeth (Busboys & Poets/PM Press)
Jamie Brown, Constructing Fiction: Essays and Advice on Writing Fiction (nonfiction chapbook, Broadkill River Press)
Linda Joy Burke, Moods, Minds and Multitudes (chapbook, Birdtalks Press)
Vincent Carretta, Phillis Wheatley: Biography of a Genius in Bondage (nonfiction, University of Georgia Press)
Dorrit Carroll, In Caves (BrickHouse Books)
Grace Cavalieri, Millie's Sunshine Tiki Villas: A Novella in Verse (CreateSpace)
Ellen Aronofsky Cole, Prognosis (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Toni Cole, Negro Woman (Toni Cole)
Merle Collins, Angel (fiction, Peepal Tree Press)
Merle Collins, The Ladies are Upstairs (fiction, Peepal Tree Press)
Christopher Conlon, A Matrix of Angels (Creative Guy Publishing)
Stephen Cushman, Riffraff (Louisiana State University Press)
Ben Doller, Dead Ahead (Fence Books)
Tim Dlugos, A Fast Life: The Collected Poems of Tim Dlugos, edited by David Trinidad (Nightboat Books)
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Gone Pop/The Helicopter (chapbook, Willow Books)
W. Perry Epes, Nothing Happened (The Word Works)
Michael Fallon, Since You Have No Body (chapbook, Plan B Press)
Michael Fallon, The Great Before and After (chapbook, BrickHouse Books)
Landon Godfrey, Second-Skin Rhinestone-Spangled Nude Souffle Chiffon Gown (Cider Press)
Herb Guggenheim, Sunset at the Hotel Mira Mar: New and Selected Poems (Infinity Publishing)
Dan Gutstein, Bloodcoal & Honey (Washington Writers' Publishing House)
Andrew Haley, Good Eurydice (Otis Nebula Press)
Joe Hall, Pigafetta is My Wife (Black Ocean)
Melanie Henderson, Elegies for New York Avenue (Main Street Rag)
Cynthia Marie Hoffman, Sightseer (Persea Books)
Donald Illich, Rocket Children (chapbook, Donald Illich)
Gray Jacobik, Little Boy Blue: A Memoir in Verse (CavanKerry Press)
Steve Kistulentz, The Luckless Age (Red Hen Press)
Ann Knox, Breathing In (Blurb Books)
Yahia Lababidi, Trial By Ink: From Nietzche to Belly Dancing (essays, Common Ground Publishing)
Gerry LaFemina, Vanishing Horizon (Anhinga Press)
W.F. Lantry, The Language of Birds (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Vladimir Levchev, The Refugee (Gival Press)
Lyn Lifshin, All The Poets Who Have Touched Me (World Parade Books)
Gregory Luce, Drinking Weather (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Mike Maggio, The Keepers (short fiction, March Street Press)
Mary Makofske, Traction (Ashland Poetry Press)
Tony Medina, An Onion of Wars (Third World Press)
Tony Medina, My Man Was Always on the Lam (NYQ Books)
Tony Medina, Broke on Ice (Willow Books)
Ernesto Mercer, Gunpowder + A Match (chapbook, outbackintheshack + Carolina Jones Ink)
E. Ethelbert Miller, The Ear is an Organ Made for Love (ebook, E. Ethelbert Miller)
Valzhyna Mort, Collected Body (Copper Canyon Press)
Ben Nardolilli, Common Symptoms of an Eduring Chill Explained (chapbook, Folded Word)
Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, Bela-Wenda: Voices from the Heart of Africa, translated by Marcela Malek Sulak (Host Publications)
Gloria Oden, Homage (Irving Place Publishers)
Maria Teresa Ogliastri, South Pole/Polo Sur, translated by Yvette Neisser Moreno and Patricia Bejarano Fisher (Settlement House Books)
Kathleen O'Toole, Meanwhile (WordTech Editions)
Linda Pastan, Traveling Light (W.W. Norton)
Elizabeth Poliner, Sudden Fog (chapbook, Spire Press)
Minnie Bruce Pratt, Inside the Money Machine (Carolina Wren Press)
Daniel Pravda, A Bird in the Hand is a Dumb Bird (Poetica Press)
Elizabeth Rees, Tilting Gravity (chapbook, Codhill Press)
Joan Retallack, The Question of Time (baseball-style trading card, Fact-Simile)
Elisavietta Ritchie, Cormorant Beyond the Compost (Cherry Grove)
W.M. Rivera, Buried in the Mind's Backyard (Brickhouse Books)
Kim Roberts, Animal Magnetism (Pearl Editions)
Bruce Sager, Famous (chapbook, CityLit Press)
J.D. Smith, Dowsing and Science: Essays (nonfiction, Texas Review Press)
Cheryl Snell and Janet Snell, That Feel: Paintings and Poems (chapbook, Scattered Light Library)
Jennifer Tamayo, Red Missed Arches (Switchback Books)
Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, Uncle Feygele (Plain View Press)
Maureen Thorson, Applies to Oranges (Ugly Duckling Presse)
Barbara Louise Ungar, Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life (The Word Works)
Patricia Valdata, Looking for Bivalve (Pecan Grove)
Davi Walders, Women Against Tyranny: Poems of Resistance During the Holocaust (Clemson University Digital Press).
David C. Ward, Internal Difference (Lintott Press)
Terence Winch, Falling Out of Bed in a Room with No Floor (Hanging Loose Press)
Michele Wolf, Immersion (The Word Works)
Anne Harding Woodworth, The Artemis Sonnets, Etc. (Turning Point Books)
Wynn Yarbrough, A Boy's Dream (Pessoa Press)
Ed Zahniser, Slow Down and Live (chapbook, Pernot & Tatlin)
Sally Zakariya, Arithmetic, and Other Verses from Late in Life (Richer Resources)
At the Gate: Arrivals and Departures, ed. Ruth Moon Kempher. Contributors include: Karren Alenier, Mel Belin, Grace Cavalieri, John Elsberg, Lyn Lifshin, Judith McCombs, Richard Peabody. (anthlology, Kings Estate Press)
Burning Bright: Passager Celebrates 21 Years, ed. Mary Azrael and Kendra Kopelke. Contributors include: Connie Anderson, Cicely Angelton, Shirley Brewer, B.R. Culbertson, Sarah Dabney, Lucille Lang Day, Tillie Friedenberg, Lee Gould, Wendy Hoffman, Barbara Hurd, Wayne Karlin, Elaine Magarrell, Ann Rayburn, Heddy Reid, James Smith, Margaret Weaver. (anthology of poetry, fiction and memoir, Passager Books)
Collective Brightness, LGBTIQ Poets on Faith, Religion & Spiritualty, ed. Kevin Simmonds. Contributors include: Oliver Bendorf, Regie Cabico, John Frazier, Reginald Harris, Joseph Ross, Gregg Shapiro, Yermiyahu Ahron Taub (anthology, Sibling Rivalry Press)
Entering the Real World: VCCA Poets on Mt. San Angelo, ed. Margaret B. Ingraham and Andrea Carter Brown. Contributors include: Karren LaLonde Alenier, Ned Balbo, Moira Egan, Charles Fishman, Neva Herrington, Halvard Johnson, LuAnn Keener-Mikenas, Kathleen O'Toole, Lia Purpura, Kim Roberts, Enid Shomer, Michele Wolf (anthology, Wavertree Press)
Hot Sonnets, edited by Moira Egan and Clarinda Harriss. Contributors include: Kim Addonizio, Sandra Beasley, David Bergman, Grace Cavalieri, Tim Dlugos. (anthology, Entasis Press).
Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Lover Poems, ed. Laura Shovan. Contributors include: Ann Bracken, Shirley Brewer, Christopher Cassimassima, Barbara Westwood Diehl, Kathleen Hellen, Anne Higgins, Dennis Kirschbaum, Danuta Kosk-Kosicka, Lalita Noronha, Heidi Mordhorst, B. Morrison, Fernando Quijano III. (anthology, Maryland Writers Association Books)
Literary Capital: A Washington Reader, ed. Christopher Sten. Contributors include Henry Adams, Sterling A. Brown, Frederick Douglass, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Jean Toomer, Mark Twain, Walt Whitman. (anthology of letters, fiction, nonfiction, poetry, University of Georgia Press)
Mentor and Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, ed. Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, Helena Mesa. Contributors include: Stanley Plumly, Phillis Levin, Jane Satterfield, David Keplinger. (nonfiction, Southern Illinois University Press)
Milk and Honey: A Celebration of Jewish Lesbian Poetry, ed. Julie R. Enszer. Contributors include: Joanna Hoffman, Eryca Kasse, Eleanor Levine, Bonnie J. Morris, Jess Novak. (anthology, A Midsummer Night's Press).
The Penguin Anthology of 20th Century American Poetry, ed. Rita Dove. Contributors include: James Weldon Johnson, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson, Angelina Weld Grimké, Archibald MacLeish, Jean Toomer, Langston Hughes, Dudley Randall, Anthony Hecht, Lucille Clifton, Toi Derricott, Haki R. Madhubuti, Henry Taylor, Elizabeth Alexander, Reetika Vazirani. (anthology, Penguin Books)
The Poetry of Yoga: A Contemporary Anthology, Volume 1, ed. HawaH. Contributors include: Rocky Delaplaine, Dehejia Maat, Lalita Noronha, Carly Sachs (anthology, One Common Unity)
A Sea of Alone: Poems For Alfred Hitchcock, ed. Christopher Conlon. Contributors include: Lyn Lifshin, Miles David Moore, Norman Prentiss, Anne Harding Woodworth. (anthology, Dark Scribe Press)
The Word: Black Writers Talk About the Transformative Power of Reading and Writing, ed. Marita Golden. Thirteen interviews. Contributors include John Hope Franklin, Edward P. Jones, Nathan McCall, Nikki Giovanni. (nonfiction, Random House)
Writers Among Us: A Celebrtion of St. Albans School's Writer-in-Residence Program. Contributors: Christopher Feliciano Arnold, Lora Jane Berg, Will Blythe, Beth Boyett, Katie Brandi, Stuart Holmes Coleman, Bernardine Connelly, Cynthia Cotts, Ronica (Bhattacharya) Dhar, Caitlin Doyle, James Hoch, David Kajganich, Matthew Klam, Kimberly Libby, Robert Lunday, Margaret Meyers, Michael Pickard, Hannah Louise Poston, Brendan Short, Shauna Seliy, Curtis Sittenfeld, Brian Weinberg, Holly Richards Woodward, Christy J. Zink, and Mary Kay Zuravleff. (mixed genre anthology, St. Albans Press).
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.
Nonfiction chapbook.
Available from Beltway Editions for $10.
Elizabeth Alexander, Crave Radiance: New and Selected Poems 1990-2010 (Graywolf)
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)
Cliff Bernier, Earth Suite (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Reginald Dwayne Betts, Shahid Reads His Own Palm (Alice James Books)
Sylvia Dianne Beverly, Cooking Up South (Capital BookFest). Cookbook, with poems about food. Contributors include: Shirley J. Brewer, Tinesha Davis, Nikki Giovanni, Deanna Nikaido, Kim Roberts.
Laura Brylawski-Miller, Exile at Sarzana (Broadkill River Press)
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)
Grace Cavalieri, Navy Wife (chapbook, MiPoesias Chapbook Series)
Travis Cebula, Under the Sky They Lit Cities (BlazeVOX)
Jesse Cougot, Rudimentary (very imperfectly developed) (Strategic Books)
Thomas Sayers Ellis, Skin, Inc.: Identity Repair Poems (Graywolf)
Danielle Evennou, Queen of Tuesday (chapbook, self-published)
Mark Fitzgerald, By Way of Dust and Rain (Cinnamon Press)
Yael Flusberg, The Last of My Village (chapbook, Poetica)
Martin Galvin, Sounding the Atlantic (Broadkill River Press)
Molly Gaudry, We Take Me Apart (verse novel, Mud Luscious Press)
Molly Gaudry, Anatomy for the Artist (e-chapbook, Blossombones)
Sid Gold, The Year of the Dog Throwers (Broadkill River Press)
Heather Green, No Omen (chapbook, Love Among the Ruins Press)
JoAnne Growney, Red Has No Reason (Plain View Press)
Michael Gushue, Conrad (chapbook, Souvenir Spoon)
Daniel Gutstein, non/fiction (short fiction, Edge Books)
Kathleen Hellen, The Girl Who Loved Mothra (Finishing Line Press)
Anne Higgins, How the Hand Behaves (Finishing Line Press)
Rod Jellema, Incarnality: The Collected Poems (Eerdmans)
Beth Konkoski, Noticing the Splash (chapbook, BoneWorld Press)
Jaimee Kuperman, You Look Nice Strange Man (ABZ Press)
Michael Lally, Lost Angels (CD, Monomania Records)
Mary Ann Larkin, That Deep and Steady Hum (Broadkill River Press)
Sarah D. Lawson, every note spoken (chapbook, self-published)
Lyn Lifshin, Ballet Madonnas (Shoe Music Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Ballroom (March Street Press)
Lyn Lifshin, Katrina (Poetic Matrix Press)
Reb Livingston, God Damsel (No Tell Books)
Herb Lowery, Love's Tango (Herb Lowery)
Gregory Luce, Signs of Small Grace (chapbook, Pudding House)
Dehejia Maat, Deep Rooted Soul Sista Poems (CreateSpace)
Karel Hynek Macha, May, translated from the Czech by Marcela Sulak (Twisted Spoon Press)
Mark McMorris, Entrepôt (Coffee House Press)
Tony Medina, My Old Man Was Always on the Lam (Nightshade Press)
Susan Bucci Mockler, Noisy Souls (chapbook, Finishing Line 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 (memoir, University of Nebraska Press)
Q.R. Quasar, The Archangel of Radiance (Global Scholarly Publications)
Q.R. Quasar, I, Universe: The Great Time-Heart Speaks (Global Scholarly Publications)
Charlie Rossiter, Meditations on Frank Lloyd Wright (chapbook, Foothills Publishing)
David Salner, Working Here (Rooster Hill Press)
Ravi Shankar, Voluptuous Bristle (chapbook; Finishing Line)
Ravi Shankar, Seamless Matter: Thirty Stills (chapbook; Rain Taxi)
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)
Jonathan B. Tucker, I Got the Matches (chapbook, self-published)
Reetika Vazirani, Radha Says (Drunken Boat Books)
Al pie de la Casa Blanca: Poetas Hispanos de Washington DC, edited by Luis Alberto Ambroggio and Carlos Parada Ayala. Contributors include: Francisco Aragón, Quique Avilés, Naomi Ayala, Rei Berroa, Robert Giron, Gladys Ilarregui, Samuel Miranda, Martha Sanchez-Lowery. (anthology in Spanish, Academia Norteamericana de la Lengua Española).
Mexican Poetry Today: 20/20 Voices, edited by Brandel France de Bravo (bilingual anthology, Shearsman Books)
Mentor to Muse: Essays from Poets to Poets, ed. Blas Falconer, Beth Martinelli, and Helena Mesa. Contributors include Stanley Plumly, Phillis Levin. (essays, Southern Illinois University Press)
Moments of the Soul: Poems of Meditation and Mindfulness by Writers of Every Faith. Contributors include: Christina Beasley, Maria Wingfield Butler, Temple Cone, Carol F. Peck, Terry Quill, Alexander Russo, Carly Sachs. (anthology, Spirit First Books)
Poetic Art 2010, edited by Mary B. Allen, Grace Cavalieri, Philippa Hughes, Eric Pankey, Kim Roberts, and Elizabeth Tebow. Contributors include: Katie Clare, Susan Bucci Mockler, Garrett Phelan, Allen Pryor, Verna Taylor. (chapbook, poetry and visual art collaborations, Lorton Arts Foundation)
The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Germany, ed. Grace Cavalieri and Sabine Pascarelli. Poems by 33 American Poets with German Translations, plus recipes. Contributors include: Karren L. Alenier, Naomi Ayala, Anne Becker, Cliff Bernier, Christina Daub, Nan Fry, Patricia Gray, Dolores Kendrick, Merrill Leffler, Elisabeth Murawski, Jean Nordhaus, Linda Pastan, Ernie Wormwood, Ed Zahniser. (Forest Woods Media Productions).
The Poets Laureate Anthology, ed. Elizabeth Hun Schmidt. Contributors include: Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, William Carlos Williams, Randall Jarrell, Reed Whittemore, William Stafford, Anthony Hecht, Mark Strand, Joseph Brodsky, Mona Van Duyn, Louise Gluck, Charles Simic, Kay Ryan. (W.W. Norton)
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)
Roberta Beary, nothing left to say (Kings Road Press)
R. Dwayne Betts, A Question of Freedom: A Memoir of Survival, Learning, and Coming of Age in Prison (memoir, Avery)
Cliff Bernier, Dark Berries (chapbook, Pudding House)
Travis Cebula, Some Exits (chapbook, Monkey Puzzle Press)
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)
Margaux Delotte-Bennett, Living Learning Loving (chapbook, self-published)
Buck Downs, You Can't Get Enough of What You Really Don't Need (Buck Downs)
John Elsberg and Eric Greinke, Catching the Light: 12 Haiku Sequences (chapbook, Červena Barvá Press)
Jessica Garratt, Fire Pond (University of Utah Press)
Molly Gaudry, Parts (chapbook, Mud Luscious Press)
Molly Gaudry, Bloody Floral Sandals (e-chapbook, Scantily Clad Press)
Alessandra Gelmi, Ring of Fire (Publish America)
Christopher Goodrich, Nevertheless, Hello (Steel Toe Books)
K. Lorraine Graham, Terminal Humming (Edge Books)
Heather Green, The Match Array (chapbook, Dancing Girl Press)
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)
Richard Harteis, The Revenant (Little Red Tree Publishing)
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)
Lidia Kosk, Slodka woda, slona woda/ Sweet Water, Salt Water, translated and edited by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka (bilingual, short fiction and poetry, Edition Astra)
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)
Chris Nealon, Plummet (Edge Books)
Mel Nichols, Catalytic Exteriorization Phenomenon (Edge Books)
Deanna Nikaido, A Voice Like Water: Love Poems (Word of Mouth Books)
Mutombo Nkulu-N'Sengha, Bela-Wenda, translated from the French by Marcela Malek Sulak (Host Publications)
Elizabeth Oness, Fallibility (New Rivers Press)
Michael Price, Jr., Right in Front of You (Uncommon Sense Publishing)
Shelley Puhak, Stalin in Aruba (Black Lawrence Press)
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)
Ruth Irupé Sanabria, The Strange House Testifies (Bilingual Review 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.
Gravity Dancers: Even More Fiction by Washington Area Women, ed. Richard Peabody. The fourth in an ongoing series. Contributors include: Elizabeth Bruce, Maud Casey, Nan Fry, Kyi May Kaung, Sharon Morgenthaler, Denise Orenstein, Meredith Pond, Elisavietta Ritchie, Carly Sachs, Joyce Winslow, Laura Zam. (Paycock Press)
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. (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 (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, 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; 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. (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. (Alyson Books)
Plan B Press' 10th Year Anniversary Anthology, ed. stevenallenmay. Contributors include: Mary Ann Larkin, Mark Terrill, Corey Mesler, Anne Blonstein, Kevin Zepper. (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. (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 (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. (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)
Jamie Brown, Conventional Heresies (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)
Veneta Masson, Clinician's Guide to the Soul (Sage Femme 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. (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. (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. (Bottom Dog)
dandelion clocks, edited by Roberta Beary and Ellen Compton (anthology, Haiku Society of America)
Inventory, ed. Barbara Goldberg. Contributors include Reed Whittemore, Cicely Angleton, and Elaine Magarrell. (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. (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 (Red Hen Press).
Poem, Revised: 54 Poems, Revisions, Discussions, ed. Robert Hartwell Fiske and Laura Cherry. Contributors include Lyn Lishshin, Brian Gilmore, and Ernie Wormwood. (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. (Humanities Council of Washington, DC).
Strange Attractors: Poems of Love and Mathematics, ed. Sarah Glaz and JoAnne Growney (AK Peters)
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 of 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 (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)Michael Collier, Make Us Wave Back (nonfiction, University of Michigan 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)
Blas Falconer, A Question of Gravity and Light (University of Arizona Press)
Martin Galvin, Circling Out (Finishing Line)
Michael Gushue, Gathering Down Women (chapbook, Pudding House)
Neva Herrington, Her BMW and Other Poems (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)
Andrew Jarvis, Choreography (chapbook, Johns Hopkins University Press)
Charles Jensen, The Strange Case of Maribel Dixon (chapbook, New Michigan 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 (No Tell Books).
Best New Poets 2006: 50 Poems from Emerging Writers, ed. Eric Pankey (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, 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 (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 (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 (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 (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)
Jules Boykoff, Once Upon a Neoliberal Rocket Badge (Edge Books)
Andrea Carter Brown, The Disheveled Bed (CavanKerry)
Derrick Weston Brown, The Unscene (chapbook, self-published)
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)
Blas Falconer, The Perfect Hour (Pleasure Boat Studio)
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)
Jeffrey Harrison, The Names of Things: New and Selected Poems (Dufour Editions)
Jeffrey Harrison, Incomplete Knowledge (Four Way Books)
Randall Horton, The Definition of Place (Main Street Rag)
Esther Iverem, Living in Babylon (Africa World Press)
Charles Jensen, Living Things (chapbook, Thorngate Road)
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)
John Morris, The Musician, Approaching Sleep (chapbook, Dos Madres 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)
Ed Zahniser, Mall-Hopping with the Great I AM (Somondoco 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. (Paycock Press)
American War Poetry, ed. Lorrie Goldensohn. Contributors incllude: Joel Barlow, Ambrose Bierce, Elizabeth Bishop, Joseph Brodsky, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carolyn Forché, Charlotte L. Forten Grimké, Anthony Hecht, Langston Hughes, Randall Jarrell, Francis Scott Key, Robert Lowell, Archibald MacLeish, Joaquin Miller, Ezra Pound, Walt Whitman. (Columbia University 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 (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 (Paycock Press)
Evensong: Contemporary American Poets on Spirituality, ed. Gerry LaFemina and Chad Prevost. Contributors include Francisco Aragón, Eric Pankey, Ravi Shankar. (Bottom Dog)
fish in love, edited by Roberta Beary and Ellen Compton (anthology, Haiku Society of America)
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)
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 (GirlChild Pres)
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)
Mexico: A Traveler's Literary Companion, ed. C.M. Mayo. Short fiction from Mexico in translation. (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 (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 (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 (Paycock Press)
Under the Rock Umbrella: Contemporary American Poets from 1951-1977, ed. William Walsh. Contributors include: Kim Addonizio, Michael Collier, Kate Daniels, Thomas Sayers Ellis, James Harms, Cate Marvin, Campbell McGrath, Barbara J. Orton, Elizabeth Spires, Susan Tichy, Afaa Michael Weaver. (Mercer University 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 (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)
Lesley Lee Francis, Robert Frost: An Adventure in Poetry, 1900-1918 (memoir, Transaction Publishers)
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)
Jeffrey Harrison, An Undertaking (Haven Street 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)
Gary Copeland Lilley, Black Poem (chapbook, Hollyridge 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, self-published).
Sharlie West, House of Bones (Shadows Ink Publications)
Alice Redux: New Stories of Alice, Lewis, and Wonderland, ed. Richard Peabody (fiction anthology, Paycock Press).
An Interdisciplinary Introduction to Women's Studies, ed. Brianne Friel and Robert L. Giron. (anthology of essays, Gival Press)
180 More: Extraordinary Poems for Every Day, ed. Billy Collins. Contributors include Christina Daub, Anthony Hecht, Linda Pastan, Edward Hirsch and Ted Kooser (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 (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 (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. (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)
Richard Blanco, Nowhere But Here (chapbook, Hill-Stead Museum)
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)
Marc Harshman, Local Journeys (chapbook, Finishing Line Press)
Rod Jellema, A Slender Grace (Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing)
Richard Eric Johnson, Schemes of Consciousness (Mellen Poetry Press)
Sally Keith, Dwelling Song (University of Georgia Press)
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)
Lyn Lifshin, Secretariat: The Red Freak, The Miracle (Texas Review Press)
Gary Copeland Lilley, The Subsequent Blues (Four Way Books)
Gary Copeland Lilley, The Reprehensibles (chapook, Fractal Edge Press)
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)
Christopher Nealon, The Joyous Age (Black Square Editions)
Gloria Oden, Appearances (Saru Press International)
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)
Peter Streckfus, The Cuckoo (Yale University 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 (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 (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 (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. (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 ( CD 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)
Lidia Kosk, niedosyt / reshapings, translated by Danuta E. Kosk-Kosicka (bilingual, Pod Wiatr)
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)
Tony Medina, Committed to Breathing (Third World 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 (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 (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 of essays and poems, National Assn. for Poetry Therapy).
100 Poets Against the War, ed. Todd Swift. Includes Richard Peabody, Rebecca Villarreal, Kenneth Carroll (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 (Harper Collins)
Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry, ed. Billy Collins. Includes Geraldine Connolly, Reed Whittemore, Henry Taylor, Phillis Levin, Terence Winch (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 (e-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 Lauren Anita Arrington, Kenneth Carroll, James Coleman, Joy Dawson, Cornelius Eady, Patricia Elam, Gideon Ferebee, Calvin Forbes, Brian Gilmore, Michelle Calhoun Greene, Monica A. Hand, Peter J. Harris, Yona Camille Harvey, Michael Hill, Amitiyah Elayne Hyman, Esther Iverem, Reuben Jackson, Valerie Jean, Brandon D. Johnson, Lisa Elaine Johnson, A. Van Jordan, Carolyn Joyner, Kiamsha Madelyn Leeke, Toni Asante Lightfoot, Gary Lilley, Garrett McDowell, Sydney March, Nyere-Gibran Miller, Gaston Neal, Ronald D. Palmer, Lisa Pegram, Tammy Lynn Pertillar, DJ Renegade, Sybil Roberts, Gigi Maria Ross, S.P. Shephard, StacyLynn, Darrell Stover, Imani Tolliver, Lori Tsang, Elaine Upton, Jennifer Lisa Vest, Eunice Juaguina Watkins-Cothram, Brother Yao. (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 (Regent Press).
Hammer and Blaze: A Gathering of Contemporary American Poets, ed. Ellen Byrant Voigt and Heather McHugh Includes Michael Collier, Roland Flint (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 (poetry and prose 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 (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 (Third World Press)
September Eleven: Maryland Voices. 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. (Baltimore Writers Alliance)
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 with CD, Rattapallax Press)
Telling it Slant: Avant Garde Poetics of the 1990s, ed. Mark Wallace and Steven Marks (University of Alabama Press, Modern and Contemporary Poetics Series)
These Hands I Know: African-American Writers on Family, ed. Afaa Michael Weaver. Contributors include E. Ethelbert Miller (Sarabande Books)
When Words Became Flesh, ed. Myisha Cherry. Includes Fahim Nassar, Giovanni, Rush, The Dri Fish, Makeda Crane, Takisha, Komplex (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)
Regie Cabico, The Poems that Slam & The Twilight Stories (chapbook, Cabicoism Press)
Regie Cabico, Regiespective: Poems (chapbook, Cabicoism Press)
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)
Ty Gray-El, Breath of My Ancestors (Booksurge)
Jeffrey Harrison, Feeding the Fire (Sarabande Books)
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 (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 (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 (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)
Andrea Carter Brown, Brook & Rainbow (chapbook, Sow's Ear Press)
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)
Sally Keith, Design (Center for Literary Publishing)
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)
Richard Peabody, Sugar Mountain (novella, Argonne Hotel Press)
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 (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 (SCOP Publications).The New Young American Poets: An Anthology, ed. Kevin Prufer. Forty poets under age 40 including Thomas Sayers Ellis and Jeffrey McDaniel (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. (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, Danuta Kosk-Kosicka, 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 (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 (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. (St. Martin's Press)
