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A. Evidence of Love by David J. Adams~What Is Brought to Light (This was Joyce's last book. She died in 2009.) (and Secret Swing in the NWV Series) by Joyce Adams~Foothold by Linda Aldrich~Letters From Down Under (and dreamfish in the NWV Series) by Constance Alexander~Observatory by M. Lee Alexander~Nightingale Habit by MAUREEN ALSOP~Fade In by Shari Alvanas~The Stones by CELIA LISSET ALVAREZ~Threads & Dust by Jane Alynn~The Hanging of the Wind by Shurooq Amin~Every Vanish Leaves Its Trace by Elizabeth Aoki~The Port by KATHLEEN APONICK ~Playing in Most of the Keys by Doug Arnold~ Song of the Species  by James Arthur~Light Under Skin by Amanda Auchter~ Love is a Weed by Lana Hechtman Ayers~Blue on Rye by Michele Aynesworth~NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: The Time it Takes by Kathy Cantley Ackerman~Secret Swing (and outside of the series:What Is Brought to Light) by Joyce Adams~dreamfish by Constance Alexander~

B. Meditation Upon the Invisible Ceremony of Breath by REBECCA BAILEY~ Mountains, Rivers and Heavens by Karen M. Balch~Light & Darkness and This Side of the Old World and Zuihitsu by Robert Baldwin~Garden by Tama Baldwin ~ ***Plowing to the End of the Road by Barry Ballard~Brown Birds by Deborah Barchi ~Angel's Land by VICKY L. DANIELS BARDELL~The Caretakers by Don Barkin~Reading the Alphabet of Trees by Lisa Alexander Baron~When the Sap Rises by Glenda Barrett~Sphere of Influence by Heather Barrett~Swimming Woman:Poems from Montana by Coyla Barry~Women Fresh From Water by Jackie Bartley~Music by Jim Barton~Man Overboard by Steven Barza (This was Steven's last book. He died in 2004.)~My Father's Bones by JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER~ Blue Skies by E. LOUISE BEACH~Now Might as Well Be Then by Glenda Beall~Sanctuary by Jane Beal~The Good Body by Anne Becker~Blues for a Pretty Girl by Paulette Beete~The Street Where  I Was a Child by Linda Benninghoff~Transpiration by Emily Benson~For the Willing by Kristin Berger~The Generosity of Stars by Barbara Berman~After the Diagnosis by Phyllis Berman (This was Phyllis' last book.  She died in May 2010.)~Second Sight by Amanda Berry~The Prodigal Son's Mother by Mary Rose Betten~Lessons in the Rain Room by Linda Bieler~Letters to the Silence  by Sarah Birl ~Love Scenes by George Bishop~Blue Laws by Michelle Bitting~All Things Are Ordered by Jenn Blair~Raincoat Variations by Drew Blanchard~Railroad Crossings by Don Boes~The Mariner's Wife by Emma Bolden~White Night by Louis E. Bourgeois~Green by Marion Boyer~ Summering Into Autumn by LARSEN BOWKER~The Mockingbird Puzzle by CHARLES BOYER~ The Mediterranean Garden   and Putting in a Window (out of print) by John Brantingham (A poem from this collection was featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org) ~ Weathervane by James Braziel~The Shadow of Longing by James Breeden~Rites & Observances by Nancy Breen~ Wood Smoke and Chance of Rain and Hollyhocks by Robert Brimm~ Shedding Our Skins and Some Other Eden by Ronda Broatch~The Catbird Sang by Barbara Brooks~ Three-season Views and A Story Anyone Could Stick To by Bob Brooks~Interstices by Dorothy Howe Brooks~ The Rose Industrial Complex Poems by Marcel Brouwers ~When They Tell Me by Grey Brown~Each Thing Torn From Any of Us by Polly Brown ~The Deer by Wendy Burk~***Small Town by Thomas Brush~Conjuring by Regina Buccola~Roomful of Sparrows by Mary Buchinger~Ripe Again by Rachel Bunting ~Given These Magics by Sarah Busse~ Sunday Factory by W. E. BUTTS~Eyes Open to the Flash by Jeremy Byars~October Light by Anita Gevaudan Byerly (This was Anita's last book. She died in 2009.) NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Kinkeeper by Evelyn McAmis Bales~Drawing Lessons by Carol Barrett~Bright Seeds by Kathryn T. S. Bass~Moongate and (After the Diagnosis outside of the series) by Phyllis Berman~American Desire by Patricia Brody~Wings That Wait by Sydna Altschuler Byrne

C. ~A Visitor's Guide to North Dakota by Thom Caraway~The Poetry of a Man by Curtis Carter~Fragrance Upon His Lips by Helen Marie Casey~Arriving at the Riverside by R. T. Castleberry~ Seeking an Answer (with NORMA W. GORST) by CAROL CATANZARITI~Our Lady of the Shipwrecks by ALAN CATLIN~Where the Red Road Meets the Sky by E. Gail Chandler~They Return by Sarolina Shen Chang ~On Solitude by Nadine Chapman~Skinny Dipping by Maryelizabeth Christine~ Running Down Division Street and Red Fin by Sauci Churchill~Blue Nights, Golden Daysby Catherine Clarke ~Cardiac Alert by Leslie Clark~Bending Light   by Rebecca Clark~Talk at Large by Brad Clompus~On a Good Day One Discovers Another Poet by Helen Degen Cohen~Finding the Sweet Spot by Susan Cohen~Another Way to Begin by Don Colburn~Seascapes by Philip W. Comfort~As If A Leaf Could be Preserved by Alice Cone~Eurydice & Orpheus by Temple Cone~A Conversation with the Living by Sean M. Conrey~Breathing Cup by J. Donald Coonrod ~Soon the Wind by Anne Coray~Almost Beautiful by Maureen Corcoran~Flying for the Window by Charles Coté~Green and Helpless by LEIGH ANNE COUCH~The Origin of Bear by NITA COUNTRYMAN~Of England Still by Roger Craik~The Book of Rocks by Thomas Rain Crowe~Parables and Revelations by T. Crunk~A Philosopher Speaks of Rivers by Olga Maria C. Cruz~Pyromythology by Dana Curits~Hiking the Maze by Heidi Czerwiec NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES:~Dance The Black-eyed Girl by Sherry Chandler~Passion Tour by Garnett Kilberg Cohen~Between the Ceiling & the Moon by Deborah Gordon Cooper ( Honorable Mention Prize in poetry at the Northeastern Minnesota Book Awards ) ~ Scarab Hiding by SUSAN COWGER~

D. ~Ties That Bind by Kathleen Dale~ Supplications: Immediate Poems of Loss and Love by Franco D'Alessandro~Nevadans by Elaine Dallman~Begin with May by Jill Darling ~ Closeness of Ice by Marion Davidson~The Drowned Man by PHEBE DAVIDSON~Appalachian Buddha by Shae Davidson ~Conversion / Return by Cortney Davis~Holding for the Farrier by KATHY DAVIS~Saying This Place Right by Arthur Dawson~The Book of Answers by LUCILLE LANG DAY ~ Wander Luster by TARA DEAL~No Longer Any Place but Here by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett ~Repairs by JESSICA G. de KONINCK~Sweet Surrender by Marcia Denius~Inside Light by Deborah DeNicola~Licking the Spoon by JOANIE DIMARTINO~Dress Her in Silk by Martha Andrews Donovan~The Luminous House by EDWARD DOUGHERTY~The Weathermancer and What Remains by JUDITHA DOWD~Heading Home by Donna Doyle~A Wild Turn by Donelle Dreese~Drawn Into Someone's Passion by Sue Terry Driskell~The Promised Bride by JEHANNE DUBROW~Giving in to the Smoke by Karen Zaborowski DuffyNEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES:Of A Feather by Janine DeBaise~Flame Above Flame by TENEICE DELGADO

E. ~ Transports by Katherine Edgren ~At the Center by Roselyn Elliott~Body Rhymes by Donna Emerson~Breakfast with Blake At the Lacoon by John Estes~After the Swan Dive by David Allan Evans (Poet Laureate of South Dakota)

F. ~Fingers Pointing at the Moon and Red Ships by Rod Farmer~Highway Stops for No One, In Search of Self and Working Our Way Through by Scott Faubion~The Size of Sparrows by GINA FERRARA~Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk by Linda Annas Ferguson (honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC)~Night Verse by David Filer~ Provenance of the Lost by MARY FISTER~A Fling with the Ground by Stacia M. Fleegal~Migrations by Deborah Fleming~That Severed Cord by Gretchen Fletcher ~The Hours of Us by Nancy Flynn ~Plainspoken by Susan Forbes~Michelangelo and Me by Martine Fournier~Condensed Matter and Other States of Mind by Douglas A. Fowler~ Ghosts for Jesse Jewel by Amber Frangos~When the Catfish Are in Bloom: Requiem for John Fahey by Ed Frankel~Without Us by JOEL FREDERICK~She by Melissa Frederick~Paean by Jeanie French~Walnut Heart by Donna Frisk~The Range Of Seeing and Drinking the Light by LAVERNE FRITH~Putting Bybeetown on the Map by Jason Fritz~Grassland Genealogy by Patricia Frolander ~Portraits by Susan Fuller NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES:~Raccoon Afternoons by Linda M. Fischer~Looking for Montrose Street by Carol Frith~Cow Poetry and Other Notes From the Field by M. Frost ~

G.~Apocalypses by David Galef~Playing Outside by Lucia Galloway~Circling Out by MARTIN GALVIN~Nothing to Hold Onto by Laura Gamache~Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series by JULIE GARD~The Burden of Angels by Bill Garvey~Fear by Pamela Garvey ~At the Five-and-Dime, Lavallette, New Jersey by Jim Garrett~Hunger All Inside by Marie Gauthier~At the Edge of the Known World by Mary Ellen Geer~Something Yet Unseen by Jill Gerard~Agates by Shelley Getten~Silk & Sting by Colette Anderson Gill~Remembering Eden by Michael S. Glaser~By Reaching by Christopher Goodrich~Swimming in El Rio Sumpul by Elsie B.C. Rivas Gomez~At the Edge of Speech and Seeking an Answer (with CAROL CATANZARITI ) by Norma Gorst~Silken Water by Teresa Grabstein~Dusting The Piano by Abigail Gramig~Slow Children Playing by CONNIE JORDAN GREEN~Stations of the Cross by James E. Green~Poisoning Caesar by Rob Griffith~Object of Desire by Carol Lynn Grellas~ Shin Deep by Amy Groshek ~ Pilgrimage by David Gross ~ Angles of Light by JoAnne Growney ~Outside the House of Normal and Bullets and Lies by Phil Gruis~The Third Winter of War: Buchenwald by JOHN GUZLOWSKI NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES:Girl in Garden by Sandra Graff~Left Standing by Ona Gritz~

H.~The Guest House by Barbara G. S. Hagerty~Breach  by Anne Haines ~Japanese for Daydreamers by Judy Halebsky~At Home Here by Miriam Hall~Refuge from Flux by Quinton Hallett~Contrapuntal and Shots On by Carol Hamilton ( finalist in the 20th Annual Oklahoma Book Award Competition )~Reading the White Spaces by Ruth D. Handel~Small Waves by Linda Lee Harper~~Morning and What Has Come Since by DAVID HARRITY~Firmament by Lois Marie Harrod ~Local Journeys by Marc Harshman~The Archipelago by Lorraine Healy~ Fire Season by Sue Thomas Hegyvary ~Grounded (A poem from this collection was featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org) and The Art of Writing and Others by George Held~Eclipse of Heaven by Gladys L. Henderson~Luminosity by Barbara Hendryson~Fascicles by Suzanne Heyd~Pick It Up and Read by Anne Higgins~The Significance of Swans by SØrina Higgins~Inventory From a One-hour Room by Elizabyth A. Hiscox~Red Clay by Eve Hoffman~Called by Stones and You Were Always Music by LYNN HOINS~Opened: A Mourning Sequence by Alan Holder~A Tone Poem of Stones by Stephen Michael Holt ~ Harvesting All Night by Jane Hoogestrat~***Sleeping With The Dead by Katharyn Machan Howd~The Lonesome Crowded West by LUCAS HOWELL~I'll Fly Away by Dory L. Hudspeth~ Emerald's End by LUCINDA HYNETT NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Losing Ohio by Gwen Hart~Body & Soul by Emily Ruth Hazel~Kaddish for Columbus by M. Miriam Herrera~Falling Dreams by Alison Hicks ~All the While by Catherine Abbey Hodges ~*Happiness by Susan Hogan~The First Hundred Years (and outside of the series:The Solitude of Cities) by Ruth Holzer~The Round Kiss by Betsey Houghton~

I. Reading Ruskin in Los Angeles by Charlotte Innes NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Proper Words for Birds by Margaret B. Ingraham~

J.~Into the River Somewhere by Mark Jackley~Advice Column by Kathryn Elisabeth Jacobs~Gunshy by Sarah Ruth Jacobs ~ A Little Instability Without Birds and Lost Enough by D. R. JAMES ~My Drive, A Natural History by Reamy Jansen~The Tea of the Unforeseen Berry by Julia Campbell Johnson ~Tracings by Carolyn Howard-Johnson( WINNER of the Silver Award for Excellence by the Military Writers Society of America )~Fun & Games by Cheri Johnson~ Dissonance and Consonance by Roy K. Johnston ~View From a Barstool  by A. Jones~Building a Second Home by Karyn Crispo Jones~Erasing People by Jones Faye Williams Jones ~Luna Moth by Jerry Judge NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Womb Rain by Shawn R. Jones~

K.~Cumulus by Adrianne Kalfopoulou~Taboo by Jenny Kander~Out of Southern Africa and Chronicle of Dog by Carol Kanter~The Thorn Fence by Pearl Karrer ~Hawk Prairie Anthology and The Magdalene's Notebook by BOBBI DYKEMA KATSANIS~After the Poison by Collin Kelley~Curly Tails & Cloven Hooves  by Lisa Kemmerer~The Places We Find Oursleves by Diane Kendig ~The Kite & Other Poems from Childhood by Adele Kenny~The Voices by Nancy Kerrigan~Slow Runner by Marjorie Deiter Keyishian~Journals of a Flatlander by don Kimball~Broken Sonnets by Kathleen Kirk~Culling the Petals by Judith Kleck~Reading the Tao at 80 by Ann B. Knox~Letting Go by Raphael Kosek~A Box of Stones by John Kristofco~Modeling With Miss America by Marsha Kroll~Necessary Harm by Vera Kroms~Ghost Nurseries by Judy Kronenfeld NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: *The Glow of Everyday Objects by Amie Keddy~Time of Sand & Teeth by Gunilla Theander Kester~Living on Earth by Kathleen Kirk~Faberge (and Why Plant Bougainvillea outside of the series) by Jacqueline Kolosov~

L.~Other Voices by Susan Landgraf~Resolution by Erin Lambert~Camera Obscura by Lorene Lamothe~Men At the Gates by GARY L. LARK~A Shimmering That Goes With Us by Mary Ann Larkin~Virgo by Hannah R. Larrabee~ One Thousand Pieces   by Alexis Lathem ~The Essential Rudder: North Channel Poems by Estella L. Lauter~Kitchen Odysseys and Watching Ants by Ronda Lawson~Lost in Hindsight by C. S. Leaf ~ Sacred Fire ( WINNER OF THE 2009 Paul Green Multimedia Award) and Shew Bird Mountain (WINNER OF THE 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD) by BRENDA KAY LEDFORD ~Various Ways of Thinking About the Universe by Rodger LeGrand~Turns About a Point by Anna Leahy~Attempts At Location by Katie Hae Ryun Leo ~Dark Feathers by Nikia Leopold~It so Happens by Ben Lesousky~The Kingdom of Ignorance by Donald Levering ~Sea Lions Sing Scat by CAROL LEVIN~Compared to This by Adrienne Lewis~Animal Husbandry by Susan Lewis~Lost in the Fog by Lyn Lifshin~Courting Light  by Ann Linde ~As If by Jack Lindeman~Thoughts on Myself by Micah Ling~Love Song Hiroshima by Julia Lisella~Amore on Hope Street by Maria Lisella~ You Left Without Your Shoes by Kenji Liu ~After Appalachia by Judy Loest ~Unclaimed Baggage by CHERYL LOETSCHER (winner of 2008 New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award for the best chapbook published in the preceding year). Judged by Harris and Svetlana Sussman. ~An Unexpected World and Dear Mrs. Dalloway by Joyce Greenberg Lott (A poem from this collection was featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org) ~What We Burned for Warmth by CHRISTINA LOVIN~Ode to Toledo by Daryl J. Lukas~Praising Invisible Birds by Doris Lynch ~ In the Butterfly House by Ann Lynn ~Season of Red by Anne Lynn ~Meanwhile by Bonnie Lyons NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Pressing a Life Together by Hand by Estella Lauter~Dancer with Good Sow by Diane LeBlanc~Little Fires (and outside of the series: What We Burned for Warmth) by Christina Lovin~ Hineni (out of print) (and outside of the series: Meanwhile) by Bonnie Lyons~

M.~The Small Hours by Kathleen McCann ~ Advice for the New Prisoner by MARK McCARTH~Photoplay by Julianna McCarthy~The Art & the Wait by Terri McCord~Finding My Way Home by Gretchen McCroskey ~How To Leave Home by Catherine MacDonald~Where There Was No Pattern by STEPHEN MCDONALD~ Sacred Traces, Secret Seams and Sparks of Eden by JEROME L. MCELROY~Drawing Outside the Lines by Ann McGovern~Seawind Cafe by Barbara J. McGrath~Dream Wilderness by Kevin McKelvey ~Body of Surrender and  Clear Moon, Frost by Amy Small-McKinney~A Sentenced Woman by Aimee Mackovic~Up From Dust by Joan McLean~Holding Patterns by SUSAN McLEAN~Panic & Joy by Heather McNaugher~A History of Water by Maura MacNeil ~Relentless Light  by Maureen McQuerry~ Chasing Schroedinger's Cat by Alan MacKellar~Twenty-Four Questions for Billy by JESSICA MAICH~Looking to the East with Western Eyes by Leah Maines~Wyoming by John Mann~Continents of Light by David Treadway Manning ~ The Last One Eaten by Claudia Manz~XQ Goes Galactic A Lyric Comic by Jordan Margolis~To Darkness by Beth Martinelli~The Cold Music of the Ocean and Meanwhile, Back in Kansas and The Raw Silk of the Dark by Carlos Martinez ~Morgan: Writing Through Grief by Sheila Massoni ~Fall in the Borderland by Jerry D. Mathes II~Atilt by MICHELLE MATZ~Reconfigured by Bonnie Maurer~Things Undone by Barbara Meetze~Chameleon by Susan Melot~An Unknown Country by Marion Menna~Faith by Susie Meserve ~Francis d'Assisi 2008 by Gary Metras (2009 “Highly Recommended” list of the 9th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards ) ~The Minor Fauna by Ann E. Michael~The Blessings of Motion and Silence by Michael Milburn ~ Anchor Chain, Open Sail by JENNIFER MILITELLO ~Leafing Out by Michael Miller~The Legend of the Turquoise Knight A Lyric Comic by P. Andrew Miller~ A Long Glance by R. H. Miller~Sunbathing in the Ukraine by Sid Miller~November by John Minczeski~The Cleft of the Rock by Felicia Mitchell~Current by KOSUKE MIYATA~Pulse and Constellation by JUDITH MONTGOMERY~New Eden by E. B. Moore~Teaching the Robins by Janice Townley Moore~Election Day by JULIE MOORE~Bride of Frankenstein by Carolina Morales~Sharing Solitaire by Michael Morical ~War Psalm by Mimi Moriarty~A Field Guide to the Muses by Annabelle Moseley~A Most Improbable Life by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs~Bluefield Breakdown by Rick Mulkey~ **Surface Tension by ANNE JOHNSON MULLIN~There Will Be Cats by Aileen Murphy~Family Secret by Rich Murphy~Greener by Alicia Rebecca Myers~Unreported by DIANA MYERS NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Visionware by Caridad Moro-McCormick~Float by Laurie MacDiarmid~Looking to the East With Western Eyes by Leah Maines~The Love of Unreal Things (and outside of the series: Unbound & Branded) by Christine Stewart-Nunez~Bone China by Helen Mallon~Lanyards by Mary Beth Molloy ~*This is Not a Story by Katrinka Moore~**The Blessing Box by Maria Morrison~

N.~Easy to Lose by Andrew Najberg~Potato Eaters by Amy Nawrocki~How to Read a Clock by Jeff Nedeau~**When The House is Quiet by Kirsten Jones Neff~A Visible Sign by Jeff Newberry ~ Breathing Out by Bruce W. Niedt~The Abattoir by Kathy Nilsson

O.~A Dangerous Man by Mary O'Dell~Mine by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell~At Higher Elevations by Kathy O'Fallon~Life in This House by Mary Ann O'Gorman~Knots of Clouds by Rosemary O'Hara~Making Good Use of August by Sherry O'Keefe ~Stuck in the Dream Wheel by Rita Catinella Orrell~On a Greyhound Straight From the 915 by Monica Teresa Ortiz~Practice by Kathleen O'Toole~ Harvesting Ice and In the Lake's Eye by SUZANNE OWENS NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Water Signs by Katherine Durham Oldmixon~Weed Over Flower by Jenny Sadre-Orafai~

P.~St. Louis Suite and User's Guide by Judith Pacht ~Elegy & Collapse by Patty Paine~Faith to See and Other Poems by Kathe L. Palka~Estuary Light by Susan Firghil Park~This Brief Light by Miriam Pederson~Box of Surprises by Teresa Peipin~The Love of a Sleeper by Adam Penna~That's The Way the Music Sounds by Laurel S. Peterson ~Francisco in the Days of Exile by David A. Petreman~A Postcard from My Mother by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske~Boulder Field by George Petty~Early Lessons by Barbara Fleming Phillips~The Measure by Jo Pitkin~The Truth About Water by Mary Jean Port~Beirut Redux by Susan Azar Porterfield~Psalms in Time by Janice Miller Potter~Still Here (Winner of the Finishing Line Press Prize in Poetry, Open Chapbook Competition) by Charles W. Pratt~Touch by Irena Praitis~Confirmation by JoAnne Preiser ~Violins by Gordon Preston~The Slow Creaking of the Planets by Gretchen Primack~Nests by KARA PROVOST NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: The Grace of Light (Faith to See and Other Poems) by Kathe Palka~Muddy Prints, Water Shine by Carol Peters~Mama Thoughts (out of print) by Gayle Pierce~Difficult to Subdue As the Wind by Janet Powers~

Q.~The Hermit's Act by Bernard Quetchenbach~Landloper by Alexis Quinlan

R.The Book of Gretel by Zara Raab~Canonicals: Love's Hours by David Radavich~ Kicking the Rain by R. G. Rader~In the Palm of the Land by Marilyn Raff ~Lip of Awareness by Leon Raikes~A Density of Ghosts by Sonia Rapaport~ The Apparatus of Visible Things by Hila Ratzabi~ The Lonely Boy in the Red Truck by Jim Redmond~Medusa Discovers Styling Gel by Dian Duchin Reed~Light and Trials of Light by Cynthia Reeser~Green Cove Stop AND Lightning in Wartime by Tony Reevy~A Far Cry  by Heddy Reid~67 14' N by 142 30' W and Vicinity by Kenneth Rehill~Walking Among Shadows and Through Yesterday's Window by Paul R. Rice~The Drive Home and Television Daddy by Emmy award nominated poet Susanna Rich ~Lightly Separate [full-length]  by Page Richards ~Birding Into Winter by SUSAN EDWARDS RICHMOND~I Hear the River Call My Name by Mary A. Ricketson~The Way of Stones by Kathryn Ridall~inscapes by Tree Riesener~Savage Machinery by Karen Rigby~Lucky, Lucky by Nina Riggs~Foreign Correspondence (poems about 9/11) by Timothy Riordan~No Such Person Is Likely to Appear by Christina Rizzo~Scarred Seasons by Jessica Bane Robert~The Transmigration of Souls by Maureen Picard Robins~Dinner Date by Judith R. Robinson~Arrangements by Margaret A. Robinson~Leaving the Pony by Cassandra Robison~Rappelling Blue Light by Laura Rodley~Wall to Wall by Lori Romero~Delicious Air by Tania Runyan( WINNER OF THE 2007 Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature Belles Lettres )~Strip by Jenni Russell~Holy Rocks and Mineral Treasures by Judi A. Rypma NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Waiting for Here by Ellen Rachlin~*Hawk Weather by Anna Ross ( winner of 2009 New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award  )~

S.~On Receiving Word by Pamela St. Clair~Divided House by Philip St. Clair~A Season Like This by Michael Salcman~December Morning by Ellen Samuels~ I Speak Moanby Sarah Sandman~Shared Air and Other Poems by Debra Sansone~Itinerant by Jane Sasser~The Grove Behind by Andrea Scarpin~Relation/Couch/Dreaming by Diane Schenker~Remembering the Walker and the Wheelchair Poems of Grief and Healing by Eva M. Schlesinger~Climbing to the Moon by V. Jane Schneeloch~Mentor's Bouquet edited by Linda Leedy Schneider~Out of Season by Maggie Schwed ~Whittling Lessons by Eric Schwerer~A Siege of Raptors by Nancy Scott~***Galileo's House by James Scruton~ Natural Instincts and A Change of Pace by EMILY SCUDDER~Rocks in the Wheatfield by Elaine M. Seaman~ Eternity's Orthography by Claudia Serea~Garden Sutra (out of print) by Prartho Sereno~Family Business by Paula Sergi (A poem from this collection was featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org) ~Your Third Wish by Marian Kaplun Shapiro~Indus Suite by Patricia Lee Sharpe~The Eye of Language by Michael A. Sickler ~The Fox and the Sunflower by Catherine Sherman~Ao by Ie Suzume Shi~The Real Story by Melissa Shook~The Boy From Egypt by Dara-Lyn Shrager~The Orange Juice is Over by Hilary Sideris~ Nao Tirei Fotos Uma coleccao de poemas and New Poems From the Airplane and Graveyard by Robert Simon~Sea Change by Elizabeth Simson~El Aqua Es La Sangre De La Tierra: The Water Is the Blood of the Earth by Alifair Skebe ~I Kidnap My Mother by Marcia Slatkin~A Word For It by Warren Slesinger~Pine by Gary Sloboda~Magnolias and Snow by Fr. Francis J. Smith~Mother Chaos: Under Electric Light by Mattie Quesenberry Smith~Sonnets by FREDERICK SMOCK( finalist in poetry in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry )~No Discription of the World by ANN SNODGRASS~Pinnacles & Plains by Kaye Bache-Snyder (WINNER of first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse.)~ Apocalypse Clam by Joseph A. Soldati~Please, God, Don't Let Me Write Like a Woman by Anushka Solomon~The Bright Obvious by Rebecca A. Spears~Chrome by LIANNE SPIDEL~ Encounters and Young Farmer by Matthew J. Spireng~ Moon Over Continent's Edge and The Colors of Water by Dale Sprowl ~Where Orphans Live by Geo Staley~Lethe, Postponed  by Ilene Starger (several poems from this collection were performed by F. Murray Abraham at Carnegie Hall in NYC 1.15.10:Voice Of The City Ensemble, F. Murray Abraham performs, ELUSIVE THINGS: A Song Cycle by Eric Shimelonis After Poems by Ilene Starger) ~Waving Back by Kathleen Henderson Staudt~ Theme and Variations and Sketches on the Prairie and From My Life by Howard F. Stein~Half-Moon of Clay by DIANNE STEPP ~Amnesia by Christy Stillwell ~More Sweet, More Salt and Paris Etudes by Carole Stone~The Certainty of Fingerprints by Colette Strassburg~Concrete River Boulevard by Griselda Suarez~Mysteries by Karen Subach~Euphoric Natya by Suma Subramaniam~Of All The Things That Don't Exist, I Love You Best by Marcela Malek Sulak~Higher Ground by Enzo Surin~Familiarby Maxine Susman ~Startling Art: Darwin and Matisse (out of print) by Dorothy Sutton~the space between by Aimee Suzara ~Farm Life and Legend by Charles A. Swanson~Impermance by Joyce Sweeney~Horizontal Light by Karin Syversen NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Exposure by Edythe Haendel Schwartz~No Turning Back Now by Pat Riviere-Seel~After I Cut the Cord by Diana Sher~ *Mistress, Recling by Cherene Sherrard ~*Like the Air by Joyce Sidman~*The Birds Are on Fire by Kay Sloan~Flower Half Blown by Cheryl Snell~Ruin by Cassie Premo Steele~

T.~ Flight by JASON TANDON~Where There is No Night and Carilee's House by Lynne Santy Tanner~Talking to Trees by Lisa C. Taylor~What Can Be Saved by Jane Vincent Taylor~Such Dust by Tracy Ann Teel~Double-Edged by Susan Terris~American Gothic, Take 2 by Maria Terrone~A Glimpse of Oranges by Kelly Terwilliger~Voice of the Empty Notebook by Susan Thomas~Beyond the Bridge by Laurence W. Thomas~Rabbit Fur Purse by CELESTE THOMPSON~Castle Mountain by Jim Thompson~Naming Rights by Melinda Thomsen~Saving the Lamb by BG THURSTON (“Highly Recommended” list of the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards)~ The Meaning of Barns by JARI THYMIAN~Wash Away: Marie Antoinette Visits My Mind by Chrys Tobey~The Secrets of Fieldwork by Rodney Torreson, NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: *Archaeology: Twenty-one Poems by Alice Templeton~

U.~Inchworm Season by Pauline Uchmanowicz~ Another Anatomy by JAY UDALL~The Sound in the Corn by Matthew Ulland~Ghosts in a House by Matt Urmy NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: Path of Fire by Christa Polkinhorn Umiker~Sequel by Barbara Louise Ungar~

V.~Moon Walking by David Vancil~ The Girl & Her Lions by Christina Veladota~Letters Through Glass by Alexis Vergalla~Social Smile by Angela Vogel~The Mulberry and When the Sun Burns Out by Constance Vogel~ Neither Rising nor Falling by Jeremy Voigt (A poem from this collection was featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor. http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org)~Ocean Sea by Elisabeth von Uhl

W.~Inside Passage by Barbara Wade~ Who Watch for the Morning by Jerry L. Walls ~Prince of Sin City (a novel) Full Moon and The Millennium Reel by Gary Walton~Bone Island by Gregg Weatherby~ Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues by Julene T. Weaver(A poem from this collection was featured on The Writer's Almanac with Garrison Keillor.http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org)~On Marriage and Other Parallel Universes by Suellen Wedmore~Deaf Man Talking and The Mad Woman  by Laura D. Weeks~A Horse at the Hirshhorn by Eric A. Weil~What Counts by Diana L. Weiss~ Travels by Don Welch~ From a Lost Faust Book by Peter Weltner ~Scared Money Never Wins and Restalrig by Julia Wendell~Stealing Dust by Karen J. Weyant~Scholarship Girl by Lesley Wheeler~Lo & Behold by Shanna Powlus Wheeler~Flying Lessons by Penny Wilkes~The Barleyhouse Letters by S. Scott Whitaker~Petal-tearing and Variations by Jackie K. White ~A Gilford Offering by Kelley Jean White~After the Drowning by GARY J. WHITEHEAD~Florida Heat by Stella Ward Whitlock~The Half-life of Love by Barbara Wiedemann ~Whispers from the Land: Travels in Spain and Flying Lessons by Penny Wilkes (in associaiton with Puente Nuevo Books)~Stepping Through Moons by Toni Wilkes~Possession by Susan Settlemyre Williams~How To Get There by Paul J. Willis~Recuerdos and Solea! ( WINNER of the San Diego Book Award for "a book of poetry." ) by Anne Wilson~ The Way of the Cross: la Via de la Croce  and Mary Speaks of Her Son by Carl Winderl~Invisible Pictures by Kathleen Winter~A Cemetery Affair by Richard Wollman~ Gorizia Notebook by Robert E. Wood ~Living Over Caves by Brandy Woodall ~Leave Time by Jeff Worley~The Ghost Narratives by William Wright~Myomancy by Charles Wyatt~NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES:Bipolar Express by Megan Webste~Acquiesce by Sarah M. Wells~Marriage and Other Infidelities by Debra Wierenga~Failing Better by Catherine Wiley~Arpeggio of Appetite by Morgan Grayce Willow~When All Else Falters by Patrice Wilson~Mementos by Pui Ying Wong ~***Larger Bodies than Mine by Marianne Worthington(WINNER OF THE 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association )

Y.~ Accidents (out of print)and Map of Longing by Ellen Roberts Young~Gentling the Bones by Katherine E. Young~Donner: A Passing by Shana Youngdahl

Z.~Blood-letting by VALERIE WEAVER-ZERCHER ~With Both Hands by Geraldine Zetzel

***winner of the finishing line press prize in poetry open chapbook competition

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*winner of the new women's voices prize in poetry

**winner of the starting gate award

***winner of the Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association

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Recent winners and notables: Congratulations to poet Cheryl Loetscher and Finishing Line Press for Winning the New England Poetry Club's Jean Pedrick Chapbook Award (for the best chapbook published in the preceding year) for the Finishing Line Chapbook, Unclaimed Baggage, Judged by Harris and Svetlana Sussman; Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air has been selected as the Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature Belles Lettres. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award, given by the North Carolina Society of Historians.   Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Congratulations to BG THURSTON author of Saving the Lamb for making the “Highly Recommended” list of the 8th Annual Massachusetts Book Awards; Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC.  Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only). Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report.