Uncork a heady vintage of all things autumnal in this intoxicating anthology of poems from prize-winning poets. Bottled for your pleasure by Fortunate Childe Publications.
So this is what happens when prize-winning poets get together to write about the classics. They turn myths topsy-turvy, rewrite hallowed text, speak in defense of characters previously maligned. One... More > poet admits to a crush on the devil, while another exonerates the Wicked Witch of the West. You’ll meet a wildly bawdy Goldilocks and feel a bit of a chill when you come face-to-face with the serpent in Eden. These poems are a mélange of the zany, irreverent, mildly shocking, serious, and scholarly. Whether you love the classics or you hate them – you’re bound to enjoy this book.< Less
Reading these poems is like handling some lovely hand-made, carefully-wrought artefact from an age when craftsmanship and elegance still remained sovereign virtues. Karen Kelsay eschews cheap... More > gimcrack-trendy modernisms and postmodernisms, and instead evokes a more organically traditional aesthetic and praxis. It is refreshing to read poetry that, far from urgently straining for effect and ersatz novelty, quietly and touchingly speaks to more durable human virtues. Yet within this exquisitely traditional poetic vision, Ms. Kelsay addresses concerns that are as relevant today as they ever were, and she does this from her own unique perspective, and in her own authentic voice. This is poetry that enriches the reader: and thank goodness such poetry is still being written! — Paul Christian Stevens, Editor, The Chimaera Literary Miscellany and The Flea Broadsheets< Less
So this is what happens when prize-winning poets get together to write about the classics. They turn myths topsy-turvy, rewrite hallowed text, speak in defense of characters previously maligned. One... More > poet admits to a crush on the devil, while another exonerates the Wicked Witch of the West. You’ll meet a wildly bawdy Goldilocks and feel a bit of a chill when you come face-to-face with the serpent in Eden. These poems are a mélange of the zany, irreverent, mildly shocking, serious, and scholarly. Whether you love the classics or you hate them – you’re bound to enjoy this book.< Less
This collection of poems by four-time Pushcart Prize nominee Carla Martin-Wood includes the title poem from her earlier chapbook, The Last Magick, as well as newer work. Perhaps, the only real magic... More > is found within ourselves, in our ability to rise above loss and adversity, to reshape our lives with every new morning, to extend love and forgiveness to our fellow humans – and possibly, even to God. And if so, that is the last Magick – the one that will guide us home.< Less
In 1986, Songs from the Web was first published by a struggling independent publisher, Bitter Wine Press, with a limited printing of only 100 copies. It was Carla Martin-Wood’s first chapbook. ... More > Shortly after its debut, which resulted in a complete sellout, a tape of her reading of womanpoem reached the attention of the English department at the illustrious University of the South at Sewanee. The poet was invited to read for their homecoming. The Sewanee reading led to performances at other colleges and universities, for charitable, civic, and women’s political groups, and to Greenwich Village, where the poet was asked to lend the title of her book to a series of readings by several poets. Fortunate Childe Publications is pleased to present selected poems from the original Songs from the Web, accompanied by some of the poet’s more recent and previously unpublished work.< Less
Those wild and uppity women from Lilth are back, and they brought friends. Can-can dancers and Gibson Girls -- women who dared. Don't miss this collection of accomplished poets, including several... More > Pushcart Prize nominees.< Less
Was Eve actually upset at being ousted from the Garden? Did Sarah appreciate being passed off to the Pharaoh to protect Abraham, losing the friendship of Hagar, then getting pregnant in her old age,... More > only to have Abraham try to sacrifice her son? And what was Mary Magdalene really like?
Men wrote the histories of these women -- so we don't truly know.
In HerStory, Carla Martin-Wood gives these and other women of the
bible a voice of their own. Illustrated in glorious colour.< Less
This collection of lyrical poems by Pushcart Prize nominee, Carla Martin-Wood, is a sometimes nostalgic tribute to the memory of the poet's grandparents. Most of the poems previously appeared in... More > literary journals and chapbooks.< Less
Dive into this energetic collection by 17 women poets -- some well-published Pushcart Prize nominees, along with bright, new voices. Gutsy, lyrical, full of juice, this "collection of women's... More > writes" is a delight start to finish.< Less
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