With My Sister, in a Tornado Warning by Shellie Harwood

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Shellie Harwood brings the same dramatic precision she has as an actress to these startling poems in the well-named collection, “With My Sister, in a Tornado Warning.”  The book, including a poem of the same name, captures a running theme:  disaster and how it shapes human beings.  Harwood’s skill as a poet is evident throughout this collection with her fresh perspective, sharp clarity and a striking lyrical voice.  Each poem reveals an epiphany.  This collection of thirty-four poems is a powerful offering, indeed.

–Michael Corrigan, Author of Mulligan, These Precious Hours, and Confessions of a Shanty Irishman

 

Review:   https://www.idahostatejournal.com/opinion/columns/with-my-sister-in-a-tornado-warning-the-poems-of-shellie-harwood/article_b273e8b4-b45f-5703-9111-a6844e7c93b3.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=user-share&fbclid=IwAR0LqnNkKWn7AxqI1FRQaENFPo0HK-Bjw2T2L0eJHcpQLM86XIscKNbrpsc

 

 

 

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With My Sister, in a Tornado Warning

by Shellie Harwood

$14.99, paper

978-1-64662-665-6

2021

Shellie Harwood, a poet and actress with an MA in playwriting, has written several plays, including Ember Days, and Another Bite of the Moon. She’s taught Theatre/Communication and Literature at universities in Idaho, California, Utah, and Connecticut.  Shellie recently returned to Connecticut, after writing for a year in Paris. Her poetry has been published in Oberon, Mudfish22 (Box Turtle Press), Sixfold Poetry Summer 2020, and received an award in the 89th Annual Writer’s Digest Writing Competition.  Shellie has been awarded The Oberon Herbert Poetry Prize, established in honor of the revered Polish poet, Zbigniew Herbert.  The award, for 2021, will be presented this fall by representatives of the Oberon Project and the Zbigniew Herbert Foundation of Warsaw.  This honor and cash award is presented to Ms. Harwood for her poem “With My Sister, in a Tornado Warning”, for “displaying what Herbert considered essential: semantic transparency; using words as windows into emotions”.

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