2004
Word Journal Chapbooks and Poems
The Civil War in Baltimore
by Jerry Wemple, Bloomsburg, PA (winner of the Word Journal Chapbook Prize)
Mythmaking by Sandra Gardner, Woodstock, NY
Poems by Kenneth Chamlee (winner of the Word Journal Poetry Prize), Leilani
Hall, and Leslie Anne Mcilroy
The Civil War in Baltimore is
a chapbook-length collection of poems that take readers through the city
of Baltimore, from the 1640s to the Civil War and then to the present.
This collection includes “Frederick Douglass Learns to Read,”
“In the Year of the Jubilee,” and “Cousin, Will You
Take My Hand.” Author Jerry Wemple’s first book-length collection,
You Can See It from Here (Lotus Press, 2000), won the Naomi Long Madgett
Poetry Award. His poems, reviews, and creative nonfiction have appeared
in numerous publications including 5
AM, West Branch, Connecticut Review, Ninth Letter, The Pittsburgh Quarterly,
and HEArt. He received a Fellowship
in Literature from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, and teaches at
Bloomsburg University.
Mythmaking is a chapbook-length
collection of poems with a wicked twist on popular myths and fairy tales.
This collection includes “Eve’s harvest,” “Cinderella
and her sisters,” “The Housewife’s Tale: Cinderella
Revisited,” and “Eurydice dreaming.” Author Sandra Gardner
is a winner of several poetry awards. She is the author of four non-fiction
books, one of which received a Book Award from the National Federation
of Press Women. Several of her novels have been finalists for literary
prizes. Gardner is a freelance writer/editor and a writing instructor
at the Institute of Children’s Literature in West Redding, CT. She
lives in Woodstock, NY.
Poet Kenneth Chamlee, the winner of the 2004 Word Journal Poetry Prize,
is Professor of English at Brevard College in North Carolina. His poems
include “After Deciding to Divorce,” “Apart,”
“Pulse,” and “Traveling without Keys.”
Leilani Hall teaches creative writing and theory at California State University-Northridge.
She received the Jane Kenyon Prize for Poetry (2003), and has poetry forthcoming
in Poetry East and the anthology
In a Fine Frenzy: Contemporary Poets
Respond to Shakespeare, Iowa Press 2005. Her poems are “How
It Passes,” “Woman Trapping,” and “The Last Labor,
Trial by Water.”
Leslie Anne Mcilroy won the 2001 Word Press Poetry Prize for her full-length
collection Rare Space and the
1997 Slipstream Poetry Chapbook Prize for her chapbook Gravel. Her poems are entitled “Scars,”
“Rehearsal/Scraps,” and “One Blue Second.”
ISBN: 1932339329, 92 pages, $17.00