THANK YOU for visiting MOON PIE PRESS - Where the men are handsome, the women have curves, and ALL the poetry is above average.

Moon Pie Press was started in 2003 by Alice Persons and Nancy Henry, who met in law school in 1983. In 2002 they collaborated with Lillian Kennedy on an anthology of Maine poetry called A SENSE OF PLACE - see our book catalog under the CATALOG tab - we have a few copies left. Moon Pie Press has published 44 books as of September 2008. These include five anthologies. Nancy left the press in November 2006. Alice is continuing with the press as Editor and Publisher.

Note that one of the goals of the press has always been to keep book prices low, while striving to produce attractive books. We make sure that our poets' work is affordable, and hope to get as many books as we can out into the world. You can help support the poets and make it possible for us to continue to publish fine work by buying our books and spreading the word about what we do. Thank you for your love of good poetry and your support.

Our list of poets includes:

Nancy Henry, Alice Persons, Ted Bookey, Michael Macklin, Jay Davis, David Moreau, Ellen Taylor, Darcy Shargo, Robin Merrill, Jay Franzel, Ed Rielly, Eva Miodownik Oppenheim, Patrick Hicks, Dennis Camire, Blaine McCormick, Marita O'Neill, Kevin Sweeney, Don Moyer, Tom Delmore, Michelle Lewis, M. Kelly Lombardi, Annie Farnsworth, Brenda Shaw, Karen Douglass, Robert M. Chute, Ted Thomas, Jr., Jim Mello, Gaylord Day Weston, Anne Britting Olesen, Ruth Bookey, Bruce Spang, Claire Hersom, Jim Glenn Thatcher John-Michael Albert, and Dave Morrison.

MOON PIE PRESS has enjoyed some wonderful publicity. Nancy and Alice were interviewed on Maine Things Considered on MPBN on May 6, 2005. Articles about Moon Pie Press have appeared in the University of Maine School of Law alumni magazine (December 2005), the Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance newsletter (2005), and The Writer's Chronicle, April 2006.

We are thrilled that our poets' poems have been chosen by Garrison Keillor TWENTY ONE times for his popular "The Writer's Almanac" show on National Public Radio.

Poetry from this program is archived at the Writers Almanac website. You can go there any time and hear Garrison Keillor reading our poems.

The Summer 2008 issue of the Maine Bar Journal has an article about Alice and Moon Pie Press, as part of an ongoing series about people trained as lawyers who pursue avocations outside the law.

Alice N. Persons lives in Westbrook, Maine. Her poems have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize twice, in 2004 and in November 2009. She teaches English courses at SMCC sometimes. A Maine resident since 1983, she volunteers for animal welfare organizations and also works with Port Veritas, a spoken word collective in Portland. She has four cats and a dog and freely admits that this is a little over the top. Her poems have been published in various journals, including Animus, Off the Coast, Aurorean, and The Orange Room Review. Seven poems have been featured on Garrison Keillor's The Writer's Almanac on NPR. Her first chapbook was Be Careful What You Wish For, published in fall 2003. Her second was Never Say Never, published in December 2004. In June 2007 Sheltering Pines Press of Kennebunk, Maine published her third chapbook, Don't Be A Stranger. It is available from their website, or email Alice at

Nancy A. Henry of Westbrook, Maine is the author of five chapbooks: Brie Fly, Anything Can Happen, Hard (the latter two published by MuscleHead Press), ErosIon and Europe on $5 A Day. Her poems have appeared in many print and online journals - over 200 publications in the US, UK and Australia. She has received four Pushcart Prize nominations and an Atlanta Review International Merit Award. In a former life, she was an attorney in the field of child protection. She is also a collage artist, and did the cover of her chapbook ErosIon. In 2007 Sheltering Pines Press published her collection Our Lady of Let's All Sing. Nancy's latest book is Who You Are, also published by Sheltering Pines Press, March 2008.

Cynthia Brackett-Vincent, publisher and editor of The Aurorean:  Nancy Henry's work is imaginative, impeccably thoughtful, imagistic and hauntingly beautiful. Her poetry 'takes you there" but does so on a multilayered level - truly the work of a multitalented poet. To hear her work read aloud would be for me, indeed, a rare treat.

Some of Nancy's poetry online includes: (each will open in a new window)

threecandles | Plum Ruby Review | forpoetry.com | Poetry Repair Shop 1 2 | Rock Salt Plum | Off the Record | Sidereality 1 2 | Neiderngasse | Pedestal Magazine | Poetrybay 1 2 | The Fairfield Review | Tryst 1 2 | Branches Quarterly 1 2 3 | WordRiot | Kota Press Journal | The Aurora Review | Sometimes City | Rattle | Epicenter | Megaera | Melic Review | Poetrybay reviews of my chapbook "Hard" | Carnelian 1 2 | "Hearsay" | Obsessed with Pipework 1 2 3 4 5

Ted Bookey moved to Maine in 1980 from New York, where he taught English in public schools and at Long Island University. He teaches in the Senior Education program at the University of Maine in Augusta, and is the author of four books of poems: Mixty Motions, a book of translations from the German of Erich Kastner (in collaboration with his wife Ruth), and Language As A Second Language. His newest book is Lostalgia from Moon Pie Press, published in October 2007. Bookey's poetry, criticism and reviews appear in many journals and anthologies. His plays have been produced in Maine and off Broadway in New York City.

Michael Macklin of Portland works as a carpenter, as reviews editor for the Cafe Review, and dreams of spending time at the ancient monastery of the island of Sceilig Mhichil off the west coast of Ireland. He received his MFA from Vermont College. He has published poems in the Cafe Review, The Aurorean, Animus, Rattle and other journals, and several anthologies. Michael is the Reviews Editor of The Cafe Review, an international literary journal based in Portland, Maine. He owes a great deal to the support of his wife Donna and his son Gabriel, a hip-hop DJ.

Ruth Bookey and her family fled to the United States from Nazi Germany in the late 1930s. She studied art with Vincent Hartgen at the University of Maine in Orono and at the Rhode Island School of Design. She still produces an occasional painting. She started writing poetry a few years ago, inspired by her poet husband and the poetry groups that met at their home. With her husband Ted she translated the German poet Erich Kastner. Currently Ruth teaches "Hands On Art for Beginners" at Senior College at the University of Maine in Augusta. As a singer, she was very involved in music in the area for many years as soloist and choral singer, and presently sings regularly with a local choral group. She and her husband live in a log house on a lake in the forest with an amazing cat named Murray. Ruth's art has graced five Moon Pie Press book covers: NEVER SAY NEVER, A MOXIE AND A MOON PIE, LOSTALGIA, LIFE CLASS and the upcoming anthology from U Maine-Augusta, HOW MANY CARS HAVE WE BEEN MARRIED?

Jay Davis lives in Portland, Maine, where he has been reading and appearing in the spoken word/slam poetry scene for the last ten years. He studied poetry formally up to and during his freshman year in college, and then took 20 years off, before starting to write seriously again after he turned 40. In his own words, "The time off didn't seem to hurt my writing much." During the day, he works as a computer database specialist.

He founded and hosted the Free Street Poetry Slam and The Skinny Second Tuesday Slam in Portland, Maine. His work has been published in The Cafe Review, Monkey's Fist, and several small 'zines, and two of his poems were recorded on the audio CD "A Big Bang of Bards." He has been a featured reader at poetry venues in Bridgewater and Cambridge, MA, Portsmouth, NH, and at many places in Maine. Whispers, Cries, and Tantrums is his first chapbook. The Hard Way is his second chapbook. Socks is his third chapbook.

Darcy Shargo earned her bachelor's degree in Russian and German from Cornell College in Iowa and her M.F.A. from Goddard College. She has a background in teaching, technical writing, and program management. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in American Literary Review, Bellingham Review, Crazyhorse, New Orleans Review, Puckerbrush Review, Salt Hill, Smartish Pace and others. She is a two-time recipient of the Academy of American Poets Prize and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. Darcy lives in the country with her husband, Steve. In this photo, she is awaiting the birth of her first child, Emily. Darcy and her husband are expecting their second child in late fall 2007.

Ted Bookey: Darcy Shargo's poems are imprinted with the stamp of uniqueness. Filled with sensuous surprise combined with sharp-mindedness from the refined depths of a very individual mind, they display imaginative intensity and aesthetic risk in language that is sonorous, precise, and keenly intelligent, often brilliant and surprising in its sweep of vision - poetry filled to the bursting point with fine insights in shining lines, fine tuned with most exquisite restraint and abundant control.

 

David Moreau lives in Wayne, Maine with his wife, son and daughter. He works in Lewiston with adults who are developmentally disabled. For years now he has considered sex, death, and baseball to be the three greatest subjects worthy of poetry. David's second chapbook, You Can Still Go To Hell...and Other Truths About Being A Helping Professional, published in spring 2007, struck a chord with readers (and Writer's Almanac listeners) all over the world, and hundreds of copies of the book have been sold. He is the author of one other chapbook, titled Children are Ugly Little Monsters (But You Have to Love Them Anyway). David sometimes MCs our readings, and does a hell of a job.

Dawn Potter: David Moreau's greatest strength is his sweetness--his wide-eyed affection for humanity, especially his family, and his willingness to let the reader participate in that intimacy. Often funny, often sharp, David can be a shrewd observer of everyday missteps and distractions, expecially his own. David's poems are, at heart, paeans to the enduring innocence of love, brave devotions to its tenacity.

 

Ellen M. Taylor holds degrees from Tulane University, University of New Hampshire, and Harvard University. She has published her work in numerous journals, including The North American Review, Passages North, and Puckerbrush. Her inspiration comes from travel and return, from land and sea, family near and far. Ellen teaches writing and literature at the University of Maine in Augusta. She lives in Appleton, Maine with her husband Daniel and their pets. She has a second chapbook from Sheltering Pines Press called Letters from the Third World. Ellen's newest book was released in October 2009, a full length collection called FLOATING.

Robin Merrill is a mother of two children under two and two hounds, Orville and Maybelle. She is a high school English teacher and freelance writer from rural Maine. Her poems and essays have appeared in over a hundred publications. She has been told that she reads too much and her house is a mess. She is addicted to dark chocolate and wild about Moon Pie Press. Her students think she's crazy. She says she's not. Visit her at www.robinmerrill.net and at her readers' blog www.robinmerrill.blogspot.com.

Jay Franzel lives in Wayne, Maine with his daughter and their dingo. He has worked with at-risk students for more than twenty years, currently teaching in Winthrop. He has been published in various journals -- Animus, Beloit Poetry Journal, Cafe Review, Off the Coast and Puckerbrush Review. In 2005 Jay's chapbook Animal Wisdom was a finalist in the Sheltering Pines Chapbook Contest, and was published by Sheltering Pines Press. Here Jay is performing one of his own Dylan-esque ballads.

Edward J. Rielly grew up on a dairy farm in Wisconsin and lived there until going away to college. He received an undergraduate degree from Loras College in Dubuque, Iowa, and a doctorate in English from the University of Notre Dame. For the past twenty-seven years, he has lived with his wife Jeanne in Maine, where he chairs the English Department at Saint Joseph's College. He and his wife have two children, Brendan and Brigid, and three grandchildren, Morgan, Shannon, and Maura. His latest poetry book is Old Whitman Loved Baseball and Other Baseball Poems, a Moon Pie Press publication.

Eva Miodownik Oppenheim has lived in New York City since her arrival as a refugee child from Nazi Germany during World War II, after a stopover in Montevideo, Uruguay. A graduate of Queens College, CUNY, she also studied in Stratford-Upon-Avon, England, and in the Writing Division of Columbia University's School of the Arts. She began as an actress (Eva Mio) in summer stock and Off Broadway and went on to write publicity for films in London and books in New York, working also as a freelance editor. Most recently she served as a senior administrator in alumnae affairs at Barnard College, Columbia U. Oppenheim's poems have appeared in Animus, Off the Coast, Poetica, The Little Magazine, The Comstock Review, Jewish Women's Literary Annual (Vols. 6 & 7), Steam Ticket, Mobius, Full Moon Rising: the Best of Moon Pie Press (Vol. 2), Third Annual Live Poets Society Anthology, and two volumes of New Voices: American Writing Today. She has given readings at the Harlow Art Gallery in Hallowell, Maine; on WBAI (NYC) and at public and private venues in New York City.

Patrick Hicks teaches creative writing at Augustana College and was recently a Visiting Fellow at Oxford. His work has appeared in over fifty publications, and he has enjoyed long residences in England, Northern Ireland, Germany, and Spain, He was a finalist for the New Letters Literary Award and he won the Weseca Arts Council Poetry Prize. He currently lives in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, where he enjoys thunderstorms rolling across the prairie. His latest chapbook is The Kiss That Saved My Life from Red Dragonfly Press. Patrick has a website at www.patrickhicks.info

Dr. Blaine McCormick is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs at the Hankamer School of Business at Baylor University. He holds an appointment on the management faculty and teaches negotiation and conflict resolution at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. He was honored to receive the 2002-03 Collins Outstanding Professor Award granted each spring by the graduating senior class.

Dr. McCormick has published a variety of books, scholarly articles, and poems. A nationally recognized scholar on the business practices of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Edison, Dr. McCormick is interviewed frequently across all forms of media including the New York Times, CNN, and ABC World News Tonight with Peter Jennings. Dr. McCormick serves as an editor for Volume Six of The Papers of Thomas A. Edison.

Before joining the Baylor faculty, Dr. McCormick worked in Dallas and Plano for ARCO Oil & Gas Company as a human resource management professional and held a faculty appointment at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California. He lives in Waco with his wife of 16 years, Sarah, and their three children – Ellis, Miriam, and Bea.

Annie Farnsworth, Marita O'Neill, Dennis Camire and John-Michael Albert (staff of the literary magazine Animus)

Dennis Camire is a graduate of U Maine-Farmington and Wichita State University. He works as an adjunct English teacher at Southern Maine Community College, and as a bartender. Some of his poems have appeared in the Mid-American Review, the Taj Mahal Review, Words and Images, and in the anthologies A Sense of Place, Explorers and Grace Notes. In 2003 Sheltering Pines Press of Maine published his first chapbook, bio-luminescing. You can reach Dennis with any correspondence regarding poetry and the lives of poets at bioluminescing@yahoo.com. His chapbooks are also available at Longfellow Books in downtown Portland. "Currently I'm still fascinated with more things than I can fit into my poems: shamanism, cosmology, kabbalah, yoga, Stoic philosophy, the history and philosophy of the ode, reincarnation, and how to grow the world's tallest Russian sunflowers."

Marita O'Neill teaches eleventh grade English at Scarborough High School in southern Maine. She lives in Portland, Maine with her partner Duff; they sometimes venture as far south as Boston to catch a Celtics game for fun. She received her MFA from Vermont College. Her first chapbook was called Love Dogs. Marita is active in the poetry reading scene in Maine and New Hampshire. Email her .

Kevin Sweeney has degrees from California (PA) State College and the University of Massachusetts. He is the chair of the English Department at Southern Maine Community College in South Portland, where he has been for more than twenty years. He is a native of Pittsburgh and dreams of retiring someday to be an old gringo in Mexico, watching Steelers games via satellite. Kevin lives in South Portland with his wife and pets. He has been on a diet, with lapses, for 46 years.

Don Moyer was born in Brooklyn, NY. The family moved to the South Bronx in the late 1940's. His father, Howard, and mother, Sally, operated a candy store near the old Third Avenue Elevated Railway. The family moved to rural, upstate New York when he was seven. Don still lives in upstate New York, near Saratoga Springs.

As a young man, Don hitchhiked across the country, rode Southern Pacific freights through the Southwest desert, and finally graduated from Westfield (Massachusetts) College in 1972.

He has been employed as a factory worker at Strathmore Paper and the Columbia Bicycle Company in Massachusetts, and as a high school teacher, in both public and private, city and rural schools. Fifteen years ago, Don started a one-person interior landscaping business.

He has been married to his wife, Susan, for twenty-five years. They have a seventeen year-old daughter, Kate, and a twenty two year-old son, Nick.

Don's poetry has appeared in Poetry, Harpers, Antaeus, Rolling Stone, and The Massachusetts Review, among other publications. His previous book of poetry, WHEN, was published in 2003 by Bottom Dog Press.

Tom Delmore is also the author of Eclipsing F: Crow Poems in Three Parts. He lives in Mill Creek, Washington, has been married 27 years, and has two grown children. He is currently a shuttle bus driver for Microsoft, which gives him more time to write.

Michelle Lewis' poetry and critical essays have appeared in Cafe Review, Kalliope, Chester H. Jones Anthology, Food for Thought, Poet Lore and The Gettsyburg Review. She teaches at Southern Maine Community College and lives in Cape Elizabeth, Maine.

M. Kelly Lombardi, who passed away in September 2008, was a practicing and teaching poet who lived in coastal Washington County, Maine. She was essential in founding the Salt Coast Sages poetry group and the Roque Bluffs Poetry Festival. She taught poetry in the Sunrise Senior College, and spent part of each year at a 12th century Augustinian monastery in Tuscany, where she wrote a lot, and helped with cooking. She also travelled to Ireland frequently to immerse herself in poetry and music there. Her chapbook Tuscany Light was published in 2006. She was, among many accomplishments, a mentor, a wonderful cook and gardener, a dog lover -- and a bright spirit who is very much missed by a wide circle of friends.

Annie Farnsworth is a poet, mom, Reiki master, artist, gardener, and lives in southern Maine with her two kids and a variety of furry critters. She has a B.A. in English with a minor in art history from USM, and because one unmarketable, esoteric degree did not seem like enough, she went on to receive her Master of Science in Metaphysics. She is now working to add other letters to her name, like PhD, RN, and LOL. When she is not editing, studying, making stuff, and floor sweeping, Annie works as a psych. tech. in an acute-care mental health facility. She is editor and publisher of the poetry/art journal Animus. Visit her website at Sheltering Pines Press. Angel of the Heavenly Tailgate is her second chapbook; her first one is Bodies of Water, Bodies of Light. Sometimes she is unreasonably happy just to sit on the porch with a cuppa and listen to the crickets.

Brenda Shaw grew up on a farm in Maine, worked her way through Boston University, and received a doctorate in biological sciences. She moved to Scotland with her British husband, had two sons, worked as a scientist and university lecturer, and published a number of scientific writings. Her poems, short stories and nonfiction have appeared in various periodicals and anthologies on both sides of the Atlantic. Previous books include The Cold Winds of Summer, a collection of poems published in Scotland in 1987; a memoir, The Dark Well (1997, Audenreed Press, Brunswick, Maine);and a family history, Eliza and Mentora: the Story of a Pioneer Family in Northern Maine (2003, SilverWater Press, Eugene, Ore.).

She and her husband lived in Eugene, Oregon from 1987 to 2003; in 2003 they returned to their permanent home in Dundee, Scotland

Karen Douglass has previously published a chapbook titled Red Goddess Poems (The Cafe Review Press, 1992), a book of short fiction and narrative poems, Bones in the Chimney (Elsewhere Press, 1993) and a creative non-fiction book, Green Rider, Thinking Horse (Soleil Press, 2004.) Her poems have appeared in many small press and literary magazines, including Yankee, Atlantic Monthly, and many others. She is a mental health nurse and currently serves on the editorial staff of The Cafe Review, based in Portland, Maine. She has two children, two in-law children, one grandson, two cats, and a horse.

Robert M. Chute, a Maine native, has published poetry in many journals. He has published eleven previous books, including a three-chapbook set published in 2004 by Sheltering Pines Press of Maine, Bent Offerings. Bob's most recent chapbook is Reading Nature from Just Write Books. He is the recipient of the the Maine State Chapbook Award for Samuel Sewall Sails For Home and Beloit Poetry Journal's Chad Walsh Award for the poem "Heat Wave in Concord." His poem series Thirteen Moons has been republished with translations in French and Passamaquoddy. He is currently working on a collection relating to the settlement of Windham, Maine, where Thomas Chute was first settler in 1738.

Charles Simic on Samuel Sewall Sails For Home: Robert Chute's ear and eye for detail, the mastery of his craftsmanship and the intelligence of his choice among the diaries make this an exemplary work. This is poetry of great clarity, lyric power, and subtlety.

Ted Thomas Jr., a poet and playwright, is the author of two previous collections of poetry. His work has appeared in numerous literary journals. His poem "Rain" was recited at Symphony Hall in Boston to a score composed by a member of the Paul Winter Consort. He has edited several anthologies of poetry. Over the last 30 years, he has conducted poetry workshops and held residencies in a wide range of settings, from schools and seminaries to homeless shelters and prisons, in and around Boston. He is a former faculty member at the Massachusetts College of Art, has taught at the Harvard Divinity School, and is currently teaching at Roxbury Community College. Ted's plays for adults and young people have been performed at venues including Boston College, the Lyric Stage in Boston, and on PBS.

He is the founder and president of Write Every Time, a company providing services in business and creative communications. Ted lives in Boston with his wife Sarah and their bird, Eddie Cantor.

The fact that Jim Mello did not learn to ride a bicycle until he was over 12 years old has served as an apt metaphor for many things blooming later than normal in his life, including this publication of his first chapbook in his mid-fifties. He lives in Farmington with his wife and co-therapist, Aishah, with whom he runs a small counseling agency, and co-parents a blended brood of nine children, ranging in age from 11 to 25 years old. In his spare time he dreams poetry.

Gaylord Day Weston has lived in Maine for the past 35 years. She was born in Massachusetts, and has also lived in Connecticut and Rhode Island - a true New Englander, if not native Mainer. She started writing in high school but life got in the way of writing regularly until she was in her late 40s, when she not only discovered amateur theater, but also Ted and Ruth Bookey of Readfield, Maine. They were instrumental in gathering together a group of poets, including George VanDeventer, who published her first book, BELGRADE, JUST ANOTHER MAINE TOWN. Ted and Ruth encouraged her poetry, teaching her much about the craft of writing. She lives in Belgrade with her husband, Dick, and daughter Kate close by. Gaylord and Dick have three dogs, four cats and two granddogs who visit regularly.

Anne Britting Olesen lives with her family and way too many cats in the mountains of central Maine. She is a writer, a teacher, a musician, a gardener and a bicyclist in her spare time.

Bruce Spang is the author of one previous book of poems, THE KNOT (2006), as well as two chapbooks, THE END OF TIME (2005) and ONCE THE FIRST BERRIES DISSOLVE (2003).

He is Reviews Editor for the Cafe Review in Portland, Maine, and an associate editor for Hunger Mountain. His poems have appeared in The Diner, Rattle, Puckerbrush Review, Patterson Review, Fairfield Review, Cafe Review and Off the Coast. Bruce lives in Falmouth, Maine. He currently teaches creative writing and American literature at Scarborough High School.

This book features photographs by the accomplished Kevin Johnson of Searsport, Maine. Kevin is part owner of Aarhus Gallery in Belfast, and their website is www.aarhusgallery.com.

Claire Hersom is a native Mainer who finds endless inspiration from the love of her family. She has published two other poetry books: THE DAY I CIRCLED THE WAGONS by Snow Drift Press (2006) and SUPPER AT THE FARM (2005), a collection of poems about her Irish family. Claire is a freelance writer most recently writing for Courier Publications out of Rockland, Maine. Her essays and poetry appear regularly in WOLF MOON JOURNAL, and her poetry in various other journals. Her most recent book review appeared in California's RATTLE magazine. Claire has three grown children, nine grandchildren, and three cats she loves dearly, but shamelessly wishes were dogs.

Photo by Jill Arnold

Jim Glenn Thatcher is a high school dropout with both a baccalaureate and graduate work in history, and an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College. For most of his boyhood and youth he lived in the only house on a dirt road in the Adirondacks, spending his time in books, the woods, and his imagination -- habits that still sustain him. Over the years since then, he has been variously miscast as a soldier, carpenter, steel fabricator, woodworker, pole lineman, laborer, factory worker, and lumberyard hand, among various other livelihoods. Through all of this he has has never lost his deep interest in literature, philosophy, and the idea(s) of history, both natural and human. He has taught at St. Joseph's College, Southern Maine Community College, USM Lewiston-Auburn, and Central Maine Community College, where he was named Poet-in-Residence. His poems have appeared in a number of literary journals and were honored by a 2003 Martin Dibner Fellowship for Maine Writers. He is a former Reviews Editor at The Cafe Review and his columns, reviews, profiles and essays have appeared in Maine In Print, the Portland Sunday Telegram, Brunswick Times-Record, and Maine Times, where he was a Contributing Writer. He currently teaches at Andover College, and can be contacted by email at jimglennthatcher at yahoo.com.

John-Michael Albert was born in Ohio and moved to Texas when he was 16, where he lived, on and off, until moving to New Hampshire in 1999. He is a published composer with a BA in music from The University of the South. For 15 years he composed for and conducted the Gay Men's Chorus of Houston. He changed artistic direction after moving to New Hampshire, and dived into the lively seacoast poetry scene. He is involved with Jazzmouth, the yearly jazz and poetry festival, and was a founding member of Blood On the Floor, the poetry workshop and performance ensemble. Besides reading his own work, he hosts readings, judges poetry contests, publishes essays about poetry, and edited a two-volume anthology of New Hampshire poetry, the 2008 and 2010 Poets' Guide to New Hampshire - which has 400 poems by 300 poets. His poetry books include: Two-Ply and Extra Sensitive (Sheltering Pines Press), Apple Blossoms, Splinters and Flames (Sargent Press), and Oh, Ethel! Did You See That? (Sargent Press).

Dave Morrison was born outside of Boston in 1959, and played in rock and roll bands in Boston and NYC. He now lives on the coast of Maine with his wife Susan. This is his fifth poetry collection. For more information please visit www.dave-morrison.com.

 

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