elizaPress Publications, elizaBeth Benson-Udom founder, editor & writressworder

BEGINNING WITH CLARITYBEGINNING WITH CLARITY (book)

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The first half of the third year's installment of this author's near daily musings about life, art making, motherhood, and what to do about making a living. This author's journey offers her blathering insights as gained through the first half of her gradual school experience at JFKU's innovative Transformative Arts Program where some of the most inspirational geniuses ever to grace that former ketchup factory hallway find their way to immortality through the inspiration passed from experiences they hold there that translate through elizaBeth's typing fingers. An unfolding, entertaining story of possibility opening up to transform culture through all the ordinary ways in this everywoman's evolutionary journey toward her own revolutionary acts of empowerment and purpose.

Completion Compilation, 2007Completion Compilation, 2007 (book)

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This final book in the launch year of the elizaPress Publication's eclectic anthology series offers a glimpse at the life and death importance of writing, expressing, making. Punctuated with beautiful imagery by Shiloh McCloud, this edition is a soulful expression of creative community at its best. Enjoy poetry, prose, great stories from powerful voices, rich expressions of truth and beauty. Featured writer Faye Adams is flanked by word worlds contributed by elizaBeth Benson-Udom, Marlene Cleckley, Carolee Gearhart, Floriana Hall, Reverend Shiloh Sophia McCloud, Maggie Rankin, Janice D. Rubin, Lynn V. Sadler, Marco Salazar and Charlotte Zuzak.

FREEDOMFREEDOM (book)

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This fifth elizaPress eclectic anthology invites and incites the language of revolution as each contributor offers their take on the fighting word of FREEDOM. A testimony to visual expression and creative collaboration, this book offers unique voices from varying geographies across the American landscape--asking and answering, through their rugged, individualism the powerful and unifying call to freedom of expression.

Again is a Good Thing to Begin-Complete Blog '07 July-DecemberAgain is a Good Thing to Begin-Complete Blog '07 July-December (book)

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the culmination of this year's blog takes the reader through the ups and downs of a summer of in-laws, returning to gradual school, opening an art studio and following the whirlwind of insights that accompany the life journey of artist, writer, wife, mother, elizaBeth Benson-Udom. a well crafted tale, the artist is true to her spontaneous style telling whatever truths show up as she records her journey with words. a great ride, well worth the read.

again is a good thing to begin - complete blog '07 - january -juneagain is a good thing to begin - complete blog '07 - january -june (book)

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this is the second in the complete blog series, a series the author hopes to continue for the rest of her natural life. it chronicles the almost daily reflections, ideas, dreams, hopes, longings, trials of this artist, mother, dreamer, encourage-er, writer, blogger, suburban girl. first published in a daily blog format on the author's website: www.writressworder.com, these entries endeavor to pin the shadow of the butterfly to a virtual wall of words. her efforts are transparent and unedited. they are an attempt to tell the truth. in the telling, though, the writer finds, whenever she endeavors to actually tell the truth, the word work requires some morphing into "not quite". and so, she tells what was the closest to truth on the day she wrote it.

HIMSHIMS (book)

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This anthology explores the writing of fifteen writers from around the world all freely interpreting the theme, HIMS. Featured writer, BEAR, truly a unique voice, offers his remarkable poetry series that explores the nature of a father/daughter relationship that uses the metaphor of what life for them would be like on each of the planets. BEAR's planet poetry is flanked by the true and honest portraits of great HIMS throughout history--both public figures and personal heroes. Everyone from Bob and other husbands, to Liberace, Jesus Christ, and Japan's Shakespeare, Chikamatsu Monzaemon is given homage in this unique HIMnal. Contributing Writers include: Faye Adams, Henry Alley, elizaBeth Benson-Udom, Carolee Gearhart, Floriana Hall, Debra J. Harmes Kurth, Jason Lahman, Nan LaTorre, Juanita J. Martin, Janice D. Rubin, Lynn Veach Sadler, Pallavi Sharma, Richard Weingart, Charlotte Ann Zuzak and by special invitation, Jay Frankston.

DIGGING, eclectic anthology #3DIGGING, eclectic anthology #3 (book)

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This hard won anthology lay deep in the seed. Overdue by eleven days, this book of books is the trifecta--the glorious third--the holy spirit of the new eclectic anthology series for this launch year of elizaPress Publications. This book features the word work of Debra J. Harmes Kurth, flanked by a team of talented contributing writers, including Faye Adams, elizaBeth Benson-Udom, Jason Lahman, Debby Maguire, Anne Nichandros, Janice D. Rubin, Lynn Veach Sadler, Pallavi Sharma, PhD, Katherine Sauceda & Charlotte Ann Zuzak. This book of poetry, tributes, blog entries, profound prose, lists and longings inspires the unearthing of buried dreams. The writings are provocative and ignite the passions of readers and writers alike--illuminating what it is to dig ones self out of the depths of daily living, into the bright light of desire for sprouting from the soil.

New BeginningsNew Beginnings (book)

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This second eclectic anthology in the launch year of elizaPress Publications features the writing of Lynn Veach Sadler, an interview with Lynn about her writing practice and experience, and the work of ten additional contributing writers including elizaBeth Benson-Udom, Aggie Burke, Carolee Gearhart, Floriana Hall, Debra J. Harmes Kurth, Juanita J. Martin, Martha Meltzer, Janice D. Rubin, Pallavi Sharma, PhD, & Richard Weingart. This compilation of work includes poetry, stories, plays, performance pieces, essays, blog-like entries, a couple of haiku, and a limerick. The writers demonstrate an astounding way with words and the rich relationship they each have with writing. Their words reveal painful truths, haunting longings, brave new starts of the most poignant kind. All in all, these offerings reach out to inspire readers to try their own hand at the page. This is an expressive anthology, a moving demonstration of new beginnings and the promises they bring.

HERSTORY: the Launch Anthology of elizaPress PublicationsHERSTORY: the Launch Anthology of elizaPress Publications (book)

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This eclectic volume of “her” stories boasts a taste of 30 talented writers from across America. In it, there are grandma stories, moving tributes to women who sacrificed to make the present day possible, and stories that slice us open to the cruelties women have yet to totally overcome. This anthology is an assembly of diverse cultural & ethnic voices that share a heritage and an inheritance. There are 31,000+ words spread over 230 pages that recognize our collective debt to the women whose lives find meaning through our arrival on the planet. We carry them on with us through the stories we share, here, with you. All in all, this book is a joyful potluck, a community feast, with something yummy for everyone, glistening on the silent page.

HeArt's Desire: A Poetic Complement to the Adobe Art Gallery ExhibitionHeArt's Desire: A Poetic Complement to the Adobe Art Gallery Exhibition (book)

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This book is a poetic complement to the Valentine’s Exhibit at The Adobe Gallery, in Castro Valley, California. The resulting collection, titled, like the exhibition, “HeArt’s Desire”, is full of the sultry, sexy stories of new beginnings, spurned lovers and the long smoldering of the married faithful. It celebrates the artistic with more than a few references to the power of revelation available to those who hold the brush and contemplate the painting. It invites us all, deeper, closer, to a world of our collaborative collage. The poems, stories, sayings and reflections recorded here are heartfelt and tender, searing and still. The assembled community of writers is an inspired and pedigreed one. We are each grateful for your kind eyeballs and response to our collected work.

Over a lifetime of making, one must choose: to keep it all to one's self, or to risk to share. This is the "stuff"--the books, the words, the musings, the ideas, the anecdotes, the antidotes that seem to have helped me. I've written words nearly every day--words strung into sentences, carved out of stillnesses and left on the waiting page. Here, in this simple way, i risk to share what i have to say. Along the way, i've decided that even the writing game is much more fun to play with friends. This year is the launch year for elizaPress Publications. Already we've published 3 and are in the editing process for the 4th eclectic anthology. writers, artists, wordsmiths and regular people who write stuff down in english collaborate to create extraordinary collections of ideas, images, poetry, blog entries, lists, and other word sparks. Learn more about elizaPress and the themes for future books and the rules of the game on my website: http://www.writressworder.com. Thanks for finding me here, for buying, reading, liking and telling people you like the books you've found here. I am grateful for your kind eyeballs.