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Look. A woman is writing on parchment, a scroll.* We don't know her name. Her king, Solomon, has died, and the whole country's going to hell under the new king, Rehoboam. The year is 937 BCE. Banished from the ring of political power, she grounds herself by collecting the kingdom's ancient stories. ... Read More about The J Horoscope: Poems

In this impressive volume poet Sharon Chmielarz has drawn from a lifetime of work--four decades and fourteen books in all--to present a representative selection of her wide-ranging interests and imagination. Early poems draw their imagery from working-class family life--a focus that expanded to incl... Read More about Duet in the Little Blue Church: New and Selected Poems

"These are lovely poems. I have come to think of 'widowness' as transpersonal almost-it will strike those who are reckless enough to become wives and can recall so intensely the feeling of being in the hospital-vigil with an ending not yet known."-Joyce Carol Oates, author of A Widow's Story "I love... Read More about The Widow's House: Poems

Visibility: Ten Miles is a collaboration of poetry and photography between Sharon Chmielarz, poet, and Ken Smith, photographer. Both are well acquainted with the prairie; hence these photos and poems include not only grasslands but also the unusual only insiders have seen. These images come fro... Read More about Visibility: Ten Miles: A Prairie Memoir in Photography and Poetry

Author Sharon Chmielarz, best known for her wry and subtle poems, here turns her attention in a slightly different direction, to word-puzzles that actually have a solution--often more than one. The language is as pleasant and evocative as always, but the challenge is perhaps greater. Answers are pro... Read More about Speaking in Riddles