Dr. R. Allen Shoaf's poetry is the kind of stuff that hits you in the chest like a bowling ball, or like your best friend shoving a travel bag at you when you least expect, and it never allows you to think the same again about anything. Powerful language from an expert in language. It's now available at $14.95.
Joseph Francavilla
Brilliant poetry, short fiction, and criticism from a true academic. Joe is a true aficianado of literature and film, and when you meet him on the street, converse, and walk on you cannot help but want to be just as brilliant and witty. Much of his wit slides by unannounced. This book shows the two sides to Dr. Joseph Francavilla. There will be more about Joe soon on the New Featured Authors page.
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Anne Cope Wallace
Anne Cope Wallace is a great American treasure. She has been published by Mellen, and so I asked her at a book festival in Montgomery, AL, "Why my press? You could go anywhere? I am so new and small." She didn't seem to feel like I did. She is so very modest, but these poems are truly exceptional. Her book is being redesigned and reprinted and should be available by April 15th, 2012.
Melissa Dickson Blackburn
New Plains Press introduces Cameo, a provocative collection by Melissa Dickson Blackburn. In the words of poet Denise Duhamel, "Cameo journeys through a complex American past—exploring power structures, privilege, inheritance, denial, truth-telling, and the subtleties of winning and losing. These poems ooze with the genuine—the drawl and droll of the American South tempered with love, fury, and fate." Poet Peter Campion describes the poems as "remarkable for the range of experience they portray... Dickson Blackburn shows how we are simultaneously haunted and enriched by our histories. She brings alive her vision through mastery of poetic technique, through sentences and lines that feel both sublime and down to earth. Cameo is a treasure of a book.”
Blackburn holds a BFA (Auburn University, AL) and MFA (School of Visual Arts, NY) in studio art. During the composition of Cameo she was completing an MFA in creative writing at Converse College, SC.
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Emily Elizabeth Schulten
Rest in Black Haw, written by Emily Elizabeth Schulten. She is from Bowling Green, KY, and has traveled extensively and currently lives and teaches in Atlanta, Georgia. She is a doctoral candidate in poetry at Georgia State University. Her publications include recent work in the Rio Grande Review, The Secret of Salt, The Hollins Critic, and Askew.
The cost is of Rest in Black Haw is $12.95 + shipping and handling of $3.55 (single copies). Alabama residents add 9% for AL state sales tax. You may send check or money order to Summerfield Publishing/New Plains Press (made out to Summerfield Publishing), PO Box 1946, Auburn, AL, 36831-1946, or pay conveniently with PayPal(R).
I am currently begging her to publish a Rest in Black Haw and Poems.
Scott Wilkerson
Threading Stone by Scott Wilkerson
Wilkerson, poet and theorist, teaches at Columbus State University. His poems, reviews, and essays have appeared, variously, in Amaryllis, E ratio, x-Stream, Zafusy, Word/for Word, ArtsPneumonia, Atlanta Press, and Creative Loafing (Atlanta, Charlotte, NC). Machines of Alterity was written in Los Angeles, New York, and Columbus, Georgia. Scott is working on a second book to follow this one (due to publish in April of 2012), titled Ars Minotaurica, and we ready in excitement for this new installment.
The cost Threading Stone of is $12.95 + shipping and handling of $3.55; AL residents pay 9% sales tax. You may send check or money order to Summerfield Publishing/New Plains Press, PO Box 1946, Auburn, AL, 36831-1946, or pay conveniently through Paypal(R).
