To an Anchorage schoolyard invaded by a bull moose. To
a spot at Lord Rothschilds tea table. To the uncharted,
unfathomable territory of an aging mothers dementia.
To the end of a Chrysler assembly line in Detroit.
With lively wit and an eye for striking imagery, Sharon
Lask Munson takes us all over this world and through
generations of family history and lore. Her poems invite
us into both macrocosm and microcosm-that place in
which "Earth rotates on its axis/ and a vine maple drops
its last red leaf."
-Paulann Petersen, Oregon Poet Laureate



Sharon Lask Munsons fi rst full-length...

A very dear friend asked Loretta, "When are you going to write a novel and make some real money? You have some great ideas." Her answer for now is this. Novelists take ideas and create stories. Poets take a word and create a universe. If one is blessed to be both, what a gift they are to the world. One day she hopes to write a novel. But today she is a poet and music teacher at Reagan Elementary in Odessa, Texas. She graduated from Ector High School, received a Bachelor of Music Education degree from Texas Tech University and earned a Masters of Elementary Education from the University of...

A personal message from Janice Davies
The lady with nice in her name
Life is a journey and every experience is an opportunity to learn in
the school of life.
In my journey, I have encountered some unusual situations which
spurred me on to understand them. Not part of my goals I finally
accept a greater force has been preparing me to embrace my life
mission... teaching self esteem. I have founded Selfday - International
Self Esteem Day and will expand this message globally in my
movie.
It has taken me a few years to align myself and dying in October
2010 and being revived finally was my...

Ibu Robin Lim. . . was born in 1956 when a Filipino, Chinese woman married a German, Irish, Native American, against all advice. She now lives in Indonesia where she is called; "Ibu Robin" (Mother Robin). Lim is a Certified Professional Midwife, with the North American Registry of Midwives and Ikatan Bidan Indonesia. She devotes her life to Yayasan Bumi Sehat, a not for profit organization with clinics in Bali and Aceh, www.bumisehatbali.org, www.robinlimsupport.org. Along with receiving babies, Ibu Robin is an author of books in the childbirth genre, in both English and Bahasa Indonesia. Lim...

i was born in brooklyn, n.y. on april 8th 1952. truman was president.
ever since I was a little boy I have been in love with books and
storytelling. i loved to hear stories told. in my neighborhood ,
the best stories were told by the older boys in the neighborhood
or by drunken neighbors intent on dissing other drunken
neighbors. the elderly were best. it was better than grade school.
i was lucky enough in life to have a father who encouraged me
to love words as he did, and, when I was a junior in high school, a
teacher who helped me recognize the importance of cogent ...

Philip Kobylarzs poems, essays, and short stories appear in such journals as The Iowa Review, Paris Review, and Massachusetts Review. Currently he is engaged in the study of how to be/not be.
Rues presents often fascinating views of how the mind might build analogues for the way disparate situations come to constitute a place. The poems build haphazard acts of attention into quasi-surreal urban extensions of haiku. The primary effect is our involvement in intricate fields of feeling-for what gathers the elements together and for our own capacities of surprise that we come to care about...

Dorothy Wall (www.dorothywall.com) is author of Encounters with the Invisible: Unseen Illness, Controversy, and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, and coauthor of Finding Your Writers Voice: A Guide to Creative Fiction. She has taught poetry and fiction writing at San Francisco State University, U.C. Berkeley Extension and Napa Valley College, and for 25 years has run a writing consulting business in Berkeley. Her poetry, essays and articles have appeared in numerous journals and magazines.

"Dorothy Wall consistently uses language as a tool to expose her own vulnerabilities and the frailties of the...

A baby bunny is excited about his new discovery of snow. He cuddles in the warmth of his mothers' lap and listens to a story of long ago. A story about a baby snowflake that never gave up on what she wanted, even when it seemed impossible. Follow her on a journey of determination and learn how she became the First Snowman.

God I Wish I was wearing Tennis Shoes Right Now is part spirited autobiography, part iconic cultural honoring, part incidental history lesson, part psychedelic manual and part philosophical exploration. All together one wild trippin adventure weaving strands of mishap, misfortune, merriment, marvel and miracles to share with us "the small sentence" that is a contribution to the universal tale. Terry Nails offers a mandarin voice to the milieu of the pre and post cultural revolution of the Great American 1960's and offers to take you on an even more far out exploration journey, if you are...