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What Moves You To Write: Recommendations From Dzvinia Orlowsky, Jeff Friedman, and Carolyne Wright

Johnson County Library is delighted to do a three-part program series on Zoom with Dzvinia Orlowsky! She will be in conversation with Jeff Friedman and Carolyne Wright, and all three writers have highlighted their favorite titles in our collection (and beyond) to share with you in this list. July 19 6:30-7:30 Immediacy, Urgency, or Tranquility: What Moves Us To Write with Dzvinia Orlowsky and Carolyne Wright July 22 9-11am What Moves You To Write: A Generative Workshop July 24 6:30-7:30 The Illusive Chameleon: Prose Poetry or Flash Fiction with Dzvinia Orlowsky and Jeff Friedman REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED! Library staff are happy to register you, or you can register on our Events page: https://jocolibrary.bibliocommons.com/v2/events?q=dzvinia%20orlowsky

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  • Little Mr. Prose Poem

    Selected Poems of Russell Edson

    Edson, Russell,
    A seminal voice in American prose poetry from the sixties onward, Russell Edson's whole career is surveyed in a single volume edited for our times, presenting a new and contemporary view of a poet of startling imagination and strangeness.
    Book, 2022Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, Ltd., 2022. — 811.54 Edson 11/2022
  • Swan

    Poems and Prose Poems

    Oliver, Mary, 1935-2019
    Swan , her twentieth volume, shows us that, though we may be "made out of the dust of stars," we are of the world she captures here so vividly: the acorn that hides within it an entire tree; the wings of the swan like the stretching light of the…
    Book, 2010Boston : Beacon Press, c2010. — 811.54 Oliver 09/2010
  • With a dozen poems previously published in The Paris Review , Carsten René Nielsen is already a familiar name to US poetry readers. These dark prose poems--reminiscent of Charles Simic--map out a uniquely European territory with chilling, cinematic…
    Book, 2011Rochester, NY : BOA Editions, c2011. — 839.8117 Nielsen 12/2011
  • Flash Fiction International

    Very Short Stories From Around the World

    These short shorts, usually no more than 750 words, range from linear narratives to the more unusual: stories based on mathematical forms, a paragraph-length novel, a scientific report on volcanic fireflies that proliferate in nightclubs.
    Book, 2015New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2015] — FICTION Flash 04/2015
  • Brevity

    a Flash Fiction Handbook

    Galef, David,
    "Over the past ten years or so, "Short-shorts" or "Flash Fiction" has emerged as an increasingly popular and visible genre within fiction. David Galef's Brevity offers a guide to the genre for creative writing students by combining discussions of…
    Book, 2016New York : Columbia University Press, [2016] — 808.31 Galef
  • Honeybee

    Poems & Short Prose

    Nye, Naomi Shihab
    In eighty-two poems and paragraphs, Naomi Shihab Nye alights on the essentials of our time--our loved ones, our dense air, our wars, our memories, our planet--and leaves us feeling curiously sweeter and profoundly soothed.
    Book, 2008New York : Greenwillow Books, c2008. — TEEN 811 Nye
  • The Day Dali Died

    Poetry and Flash Fiction

    VanderMeer, Jeff
    In this new collection from World Fantasy Award-winner Jeff VanderMeer, car accidents, Angkor Wat, dead whales, flower vendors, dogcatchers, classic television shows, frogs, and the moon are transformed by the author's imagination into something…
    Book, 2003Canton, Ohio : Prime Books, 2003. — 811.54 VanderMe 2003
  • In this dazzling new collection, his first in three years, Collins explores boyhood, jazz, love, the passage of time, and, of course, writing-themes familiar to Collins's fans but made new here. Gorgeous, funny, and deeply empathetic, Billy…
    Book, 2005New York : Random House, c2005. — 811.54 Collins
  • A collection of poems about the four seasons by one of best-known American poets.
    Book, 1994New York : Sterling, c1994. — J 811 Frost
  • With passion and wit, Mary Oliver skillfully imparts expertise from her long, celebrated career as a disguised poet. She walks readers through exactly how a poem is built, from meter and rhyme, to form and diction, to sound and sense, drawing on…
    Book, 1994San Diego : Harcourt Brace & Co., c1994. — 808.1 Oliver
  • Poetry of Witness

    the Tradition in English, 1500-2001

    A companion volume to Against Forgetting, Poetry of Witness is the first anthology to reveal a tradition that runs through English-language poetry. The 300 poems collected here were composed at an extreme of human endurance--while their authors…
    Book, 2014New York : W. W. Norton & Company, [2014] — 808.8193 Poetry 02/2014
  • The power of verse to encompass a topic of mammoth scope and render it into painstakingly personal detail is keenly demonstrated in this absorbing and well thought-out anthology of grief. Sixty-two poets of different ages, citizenships and…
    Book, 1995New York : St. Martin's Press, 1995. — 808.81 Holocaus
  • Words for War

    New Poems From Ukraine

    Directly and indirectly, the poems collected in this volume engage with the events and experiences of war, reflecting on the themes of alienation, loss, dislocation, and disability; as well as justice, heroism, courage, resilience, generosity, and…
    Book, 2017Boston : Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University : Borderlines Foundation for Academic Studies : Academic Studies Press, 2017. — 891.791 Words
  • Eccentric Days of Hope and Sorrow

    Selected Poems = Nepovtorni Dni Nadiï I Smutkiv : Vybrani Virshi

    Bilot͡serkivet͡sʹ, Natalka, 1954-
    Natalka Bilotserkivets was a hallmark poet of Ukraine's literary life of the 1980s and 1990s. This collection brings together a selection of her poetry from the last four decades.
    Book, 2021Sandpoint, Idaho : Lost Horse Press, [2021] — 891.7914 Bilotser
  • With their often starkly contrasting visions and styles, these poets illuminate some of the more controversial and intimate aspects of the black American experience. Poetry here is not only or mainly a vehicle of protest but also an exploration of…
    Book, 2006Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006. — 811.008 Oxford 2006
  • Here is the first anthology to present a full range of multilingual poetries from Latin America, covering over 500 years of a poetic tradition as varied, robust, and vividly imaginative as any in the world.
    Book, 2009New York : Oxford University Press, 2009. — 861.008 Oxford
  • This powerful sixth collection of poetry is like some kind of new world Genesis singing its stories with lyric, grace, comic intuition and tragic force. The poet leads us over the remains of drought, along empty riverbeds that run parallel to…
    Book, 2018Pittsburgh : Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2018. — 811.54 Orlowsky
  • Harrowing, poignant, and inspiring, Ghost Soldiers is the mesmerizing story of a remarkable mission. It is also a testament to the human spirit, an account of enormous bravery and self-sacrifice amid the most trying conditions.
    Book, 2008New York : Ecco, c2008. — 811.54 Tate 04/2008
  • In his fourteenth collection of poetry, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner James Tate continues exploring his own peculiar brand of poetry, transforming our everyday world into one where women give birth to wolves, wild babies are found…
    Book, 2004New York : ECCO, c2004. — 811.54 Tate 2004
  • First published in 1886, Arthur Rimbaud's Illuminations is the work of a poet who had abandoned poetry before the age of twenty-one and changed the language of poetry. Hallucinatory and feverishly hermetic, it is an acknowledged masterpiece of world…
    Book, 2011New York : W.W. Norton, c2011. — 841.8 Rimbaud 09/2011