| Books/Services |
| Below is perhaps what we are most proud of at KSPS -- our members and their works and services. We have provided order information for your use in adding these works to your collection or to take advantage of the excellent literary services our members provide. |
Pegasus, the KSPS poetry journal, publishes three issues each year, Spring/Summer, Fall/Winter, and a Prize Poems issue featuring all first place
poems from our annual contest. A subscription to Pegasus is provided at no cost to KSPS members. For all others, Pegasus is available for $3.50 per
copy. Make checks payable to KSPS and send to Miriam Woolfolk at the address below.
Pegasus invites submissions from all poets. KSPS membership is not required. Selection of work for Pegasus is based on merit; therefore, publication,
regardless of membership status, is not guaranteed. Submit 3 - 5 poems at one time, keeping in mind that the length and width of the page may also
affect the choice of work. Always enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return and/or reply.
KSPS members may send their books for review in the "Book Beat" column of Pegasus to Elaine Palencia, KSPS Book Reviewer, at 3006 Valley Brook
Drive, Champaign IL 61822-6114. Submit poetry and/or inquiries to: Pegasus, Miriam L. Woolfolk, Editor, 101 S. Hanover Ave. # 5C, Lexington, KY,
40502.
poems from our annual contest. A subscription to Pegasus is provided at no cost to KSPS members. For all others, Pegasus is available for $3.50 per
copy. Make checks payable to KSPS and send to Miriam Woolfolk at the address below.
Pegasus invites submissions from all poets. KSPS membership is not required. Selection of work for Pegasus is based on merit; therefore, publication,
regardless of membership status, is not guaranteed. Submit 3 - 5 poems at one time, keeping in mind that the length and width of the page may also
affect the choice of work. Always enclose a self-addressed, stamped envelope for return and/or reply.
KSPS members may send their books for review in the "Book Beat" column of Pegasus to Elaine Palencia, KSPS Book Reviewer, at 3006 Valley Brook
Drive, Champaign IL 61822-6114. Submit poetry and/or inquiries to: Pegasus, Miriam L. Woolfolk, Editor, 101 S. Hanover Ave. # 5C, Lexington, KY,
40502.
James Burdick, Ph.D., was born in Omaha, Nebraska. He received his
BA from James Millikin University (chemistry and math), MA from
Brooklyn College (psychology), and his Ph.D. from the University of
Manitoba (psychology). He has published over 50 articles in refereed
journals, mostly in the field of psychophysiology. He has received
grants from the U. S. Public Health Service, and the Medical Research
Council of Canada. Jim has lived in the US, Turkey, Canada, England,
and Saudi Arabia, and traveled extensively. Presently, he is retired and
lives with his wife in a log cabin on a lake in rural Kentucky.
Book offerings include: the first book of poems, the second book of
poems, Poems from a Log Cabin, philosophical self search, The
Burdick Workbook, the adventures of James, Machu Picchu. Available
at: http://www.lulu.com/burdick; and, poetry pages vol II, $16; within
three lines, $9.50; available at
http://www.poetrypages.com/phpBB2/index.php
Email: jaburdick@yahoo.com Address: 1717 Tanglewood Lane
McDaniels, KY 40152
BA from James Millikin University (chemistry and math), MA from
Brooklyn College (psychology), and his Ph.D. from the University of
Manitoba (psychology). He has published over 50 articles in refereed
journals, mostly in the field of psychophysiology. He has received
grants from the U. S. Public Health Service, and the Medical Research
Council of Canada. Jim has lived in the US, Turkey, Canada, England,
and Saudi Arabia, and traveled extensively. Presently, he is retired and
lives with his wife in a log cabin on a lake in rural Kentucky.
Book offerings include: the first book of poems, the second book of
poems, Poems from a Log Cabin, philosophical self search, The
Burdick Workbook, the adventures of James, Machu Picchu. Available
at: http://www.lulu.com/burdick; and, poetry pages vol II, $16; within
three lines, $9.50; available at
http://www.poetrypages.com/phpBB2/index.php
Email: jaburdick@yahoo.com Address: 1717 Tanglewood Lane
McDaniels, KY 40152
Weaving a New Eden – Wind Publications -- Kentucky was the New
Eden and Rebecca Boone was its Eve. Taking Rebecca as its
center, Weaving a New Eden gives voice to a chorus of the women
who settled and populated Kentucky over two centuries. These are
the women Moses Austin saw in 1798, crossing the Appalachians in
dead of winter, with barely as maney raggs as covers their
Nakedness, to find Paradise. These are the descendants of those
women, not the plantation belles but the women of the washed-out
hill farms, the women of the ruined wilderness of the Ohio Valley.
Weaving a New Eden lets Kentucky’s earthy women rise up and
have their say. They are not reverent.
Weaving a New Eden is 108 pages, 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.4
inches, 5.6 oz., soft-covered. Retail price is $15.90
(including Kentucky sales tax). The book is available
from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, independent book
stores, or the publisher.
Dance the Black-Eyed Girl -- Finishing Line Press -- #13 in their
New Women’s Voices series, was a finalist in their open competition,
was nominated for the 2005 Kentucky Literary Award in poetry. A
limited edition chapbook with rice paper endpapers and ribbon.
$12.00 plus 6% sales tax for Kentucky residents. Can be purchased
at Amazon and online from publisher through Paypal or by mail:
Finishing Line Press, PO Box 1626, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324,
http://www.finishinglinepress.com/
My Will and Testament Is on the Desk – Foothills Publishing -- #4
in their Poets on Peace series. Also a limited edition chapbook,
hand-stitched. Available direct from publisher through Paypal or by
mail: FootHills Publishing, PO Box 68, Kanona, NY 14856,
http://www.foothillspublishing.com/index.htm.
Be sure to visit Sherry on her poetry blog: http://www.sherrychandler.
com where she discusses matters pertaining to poetry and the arts
in Kentucky.
Eden and Rebecca Boone was its Eve. Taking Rebecca as its
center, Weaving a New Eden gives voice to a chorus of the women
who settled and populated Kentucky over two centuries. These are
the women Moses Austin saw in 1798, crossing the Appalachians in
dead of winter, with barely as maney raggs as covers their
Nakedness, to find Paradise. These are the descendants of those
women, not the plantation belles but the women of the washed-out
hill farms, the women of the ruined wilderness of the Ohio Valley.
Weaving a New Eden lets Kentucky’s earthy women rise up and
have their say. They are not reverent.
Weaving a New Eden is 108 pages, 8.8 x 5.7 x 0.4
inches, 5.6 oz., soft-covered. Retail price is $15.90
(including Kentucky sales tax). The book is available
from Amazon, Barnes & Noble, independent book
stores, or the publisher.
Dance the Black-Eyed Girl -- Finishing Line Press -- #13 in their
New Women’s Voices series, was a finalist in their open competition,
was nominated for the 2005 Kentucky Literary Award in poetry. A
limited edition chapbook with rice paper endpapers and ribbon.
$12.00 plus 6% sales tax for Kentucky residents. Can be purchased
at Amazon and online from publisher through Paypal or by mail:
Finishing Line Press, PO Box 1626, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324,
http://www.finishinglinepress.com/
My Will and Testament Is on the Desk – Foothills Publishing -- #4
in their Poets on Peace series. Also a limited edition chapbook,
hand-stitched. Available direct from publisher through Paypal or by
mail: FootHills Publishing, PO Box 68, Kanona, NY 14856,
http://www.foothillspublishing.com/index.htm.
Be sure to visit Sherry on her poetry blog: http://www.sherrychandler.
com where she discusses matters pertaining to poetry and the arts
in Kentucky.
Paths From The Shawnee Spring
by Robert W. Kimsey
There are many paths from Kellen Hollow, Greenup County
Kentucky to a log cabin in the Blue Ridge of North Georgia. Travel
with Robert as he walks paths that include city schools, high
mountains, bears and people that touched his life along the way.
Purchase this chapbook of original poetry for $9.00 (includes
shipping and handling) from:
Robert W. Kimsey E-mail: robtkzga@bellsouth.net
85 Trail Tree Drive
McCaysville, GA 30555
Get to know Robert Kimsey better! Visit:
http://robertwkimseywritingontheridge.blogspot.com/
by Robert W. Kimsey
There are many paths from Kellen Hollow, Greenup County
Kentucky to a log cabin in the Blue Ridge of North Georgia. Travel
with Robert as he walks paths that include city schools, high
mountains, bears and people that touched his life along the way.
Purchase this chapbook of original poetry for $9.00 (includes
shipping and handling) from:
Robert W. Kimsey E-mail: robtkzga@bellsouth.net
85 Trail Tree Drive
McCaysville, GA 30555
Get to know Robert Kimsey better! Visit:
http://robertwkimseywritingontheridge.blogspot.com/
ChemICKal Reactions
by Karen L. Newman
Karen L. Newman uses her MS in chemistry from to concoct an
eclectic mixture of chemical mayhem. In this collection chemicals are
the backdrop to human foibles gone bad. From illicit drugs to water
and vinegar and many chemical compounds and elements in
between, the worst of man is exposed in unexpected ways.
Available as a print copy at http://astore.amazon.
com/nakedsnakepre-20/detail/0615428479 and as an ebook at http:
//www.smashwords.com/books/view/32280
Karen L. Newman lives in Kentucky where she's an active member of
Horror Writers Association and edits the magazines Illumen and
Cosmic Crime Stories. She’s been named Chair of the 2011 Bram
Stoker Award jury for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
and is the 2011-2012 East Regional Director for the Kentucky State
Poetry Society. Over four hundred of her short stories and poems
have been published both online and in print in places such as Dark
Tales of Terror, Kentucky Monthly, and The Pedestal Magazine.
She writes a column for The Black Glove: Horror Culture and
Entertainment. Her poetry collections include EEKU (Sam’s Dot,
2005), ChemICKals (Naked Snake Press, 2007), Toward Absolute
Zero (Sam’s Dot, 2009), and ChemICKal Reactions (Naked Snake
Press, 2010). Two of her poems received honorable mention in The
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She's been nominated for a
Rhysling Award, James B. Baker Award, and twice nominated for a
Dwarf Star Award. Please visit her online at http://home.zoomnet.
net/~karennew.
by Karen L. Newman
Karen L. Newman uses her MS in chemistry from to concoct an
eclectic mixture of chemical mayhem. In this collection chemicals are
the backdrop to human foibles gone bad. From illicit drugs to water
and vinegar and many chemical compounds and elements in
between, the worst of man is exposed in unexpected ways.
Available as a print copy at http://astore.amazon.
com/nakedsnakepre-20/detail/0615428479 and as an ebook at http:
//www.smashwords.com/books/view/32280
Karen L. Newman lives in Kentucky where she's an active member of
Horror Writers Association and edits the magazines Illumen and
Cosmic Crime Stories. She’s been named Chair of the 2011 Bram
Stoker Award jury for Superior Achievement in a Poetry Collection
and is the 2011-2012 East Regional Director for the Kentucky State
Poetry Society. Over four hundred of her short stories and poems
have been published both online and in print in places such as Dark
Tales of Terror, Kentucky Monthly, and The Pedestal Magazine.
She writes a column for The Black Glove: Horror Culture and
Entertainment. Her poetry collections include EEKU (Sam’s Dot,
2005), ChemICKals (Naked Snake Press, 2007), Toward Absolute
Zero (Sam’s Dot, 2009), and ChemICKal Reactions (Naked Snake
Press, 2010). Two of her poems received honorable mention in The
Year’s Best Fantasy and Horror. She's been nominated for a
Rhysling Award, James B. Baker Award, and twice nominated for a
Dwarf Star Award. Please visit her online at http://home.zoomnet.
net/~karennew.
The Angels’ Share -- Out of the chaotic nineteenth century period
of reconstruction comes former Sergeant Jack Grady of the
Stonewall Brigade, his family, and a diverse cast of southern
characters trying to rebuild their ravaged land. In the summer of
1865, Jack, his son, and two other veterans make an epic journey
across the war-torn South. Meet this beleaguered farm family from
the Tennessee mountains and get a perspective of our nation that
transcends and enhances textbook history.
Pilgrim Heart -- This collection reverberates with rural tradition,
heartbreak, and salvation. There are individual stories wrapped in
historical events; a drummer boy at the battle of Petersburg, a
Confederate widow going through her dead husband’s backpack, a
peddler from Kansas who is not who he seems, murder on a Civil
War battlefield, a farm boy with a broken heart, and others. Included
are essays about a dog named Molly, a man’s last hunt, and
boyhood recollections of the game of golf. The poems concern
themselves with nature, earth, sky, and human longings. All in all, it
is a compilation concerning the landscape of life.
Order from: Amazon.com
Ascended Ideas epublishing
of reconstruction comes former Sergeant Jack Grady of the
Stonewall Brigade, his family, and a diverse cast of southern
characters trying to rebuild their ravaged land. In the summer of
1865, Jack, his son, and two other veterans make an epic journey
across the war-torn South. Meet this beleaguered farm family from
the Tennessee mountains and get a perspective of our nation that
transcends and enhances textbook history.
Pilgrim Heart -- This collection reverberates with rural tradition,
heartbreak, and salvation. There are individual stories wrapped in
historical events; a drummer boy at the battle of Petersburg, a
Confederate widow going through her dead husband’s backpack, a
peddler from Kansas who is not who he seems, murder on a Civil
War battlefield, a farm boy with a broken heart, and others. Included
are essays about a dog named Molly, a man’s last hunt, and
boyhood recollections of the game of golf. The poems concern
themselves with nature, earth, sky, and human longings. All in all, it
is a compilation concerning the landscape of life.
Order from: Amazon.com
Ascended Ideas epublishing
The Dailiness of It continues the story begun in Palencia's first
poetry collection, Taking the Train.
and The White Palazzo
The Dailiness of It (Louisville KY: Grex Press) is available from the
author for $10.50 (includes postage) at 3006 Valley Brook Drive,
Champaign, IL 61822-6114. Email Elaine at epalenci@uiuc.edu.
Special Note: Elaine Palencia is the book review editor for Pegasus,
the KSPS journal. Members of KSPS may send books for review at
the above address.
poetry collection, Taking the Train.
- "The poems in this collection--by a poet-mother writing about
her mutiply handicapped boy-man--are partly like astonishing
bits of news from a family album, and partly like astonishing
bits of news about the human condition in general. These
poems are deeply personal and acutely universal. Elaine
Palencia's son, Andrew, is seen from the outside and inside,
in all of his heroic and anti-heroic self. As a mother of a
disabled son, I can vouch for the veracity of these poems...
there is devastating honesty in every line."
and The White Palazzo
The Dailiness of It (Louisville KY: Grex Press) is available from the
author for $10.50 (includes postage) at 3006 Valley Brook Drive,
Champaign, IL 61822-6114. Email Elaine at epalenci@uiuc.edu.
Special Note: Elaine Palencia is the book review editor for Pegasus,
the KSPS journal. Members of KSPS may send books for review at
the above address.
Where the Red Road Meets the Sky – Finishing Line Press 2009 --
A chapbook of poetry, $12
(Chandler’s) useful, lovely collection rings with the compassionate voice
and shines with the sharp vision of an Appalachian woman
who is a true citizen of the world as it is. -Jane Gentry, Kentucky Poet Laureate
Purchase from the author at curtisandgailc@insightbb.com or online from the
publisher http://www.finishinglinepress.com/ or by mail: Finishing Line Press,
PO Box 1626, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324. Proceeds from copies sold by the
author are donated to Vihiga Children’s Home in western Kenya.
http://tjuc.org/programs/vihiga-orphanage.html
Sunflowers on Market Street – Dismas Charities 2003 – Trade paperback
with photographs, nonfiction shorts from the author’s years of directing a halfway
house for adult male felons.
“. . . Sunshine and sunflowers shine on this touching book.”
-Madge Walls, author of Paying the Price
May be purchased by email from Dismas Charities for $14.95 at
smountjoy@dismas.com or from the author per contact info above.
A chapbook of poetry, $12
(Chandler’s) useful, lovely collection rings with the compassionate voice
and shines with the sharp vision of an Appalachian woman
who is a true citizen of the world as it is. -Jane Gentry, Kentucky Poet Laureate
Purchase from the author at curtisandgailc@insightbb.com or online from the
publisher http://www.finishinglinepress.com/ or by mail: Finishing Line Press,
PO Box 1626, Georgetown, Kentucky 40324. Proceeds from copies sold by the
author are donated to Vihiga Children’s Home in western Kenya.
http://tjuc.org/programs/vihiga-orphanage.html
Sunflowers on Market Street – Dismas Charities 2003 – Trade paperback
with photographs, nonfiction shorts from the author’s years of directing a halfway
house for adult male felons.
“. . . Sunshine and sunflowers shine on this touching book.”
-Madge Walls, author of Paying the Price
May be purchased by email from Dismas Charities for $14.95 at
smountjoy@dismas.com or from the author per contact info above.
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| James Burdick |
| Sherry Chandler |
| Robert Kimsey |
| Karen L. Newman |
| Brooks Carver |
| Elaine Fowler Palencia |
| E. Gail Chandler |
| Ellen Kelley |
Award-winning author and poet Ellen Kelley has earned a
reputation among readers, critics, and booksellers as a talented
writer and compelling storyteller with her first novel, No Greater
Treasure--Historical Romance from Penguin-Putnam/Berkley-Jove
available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
Ellen's current release is Laura and the Lumberjack, a Short
Contemporary Romance available from Amazon.com in print, and
soon to be available in e-book format. A sixth generation
Kentuckian, Kelley resides in West Paducah with her husband and
two Yorkies. She is a member of Heartland Writers Guild, Kentucky
State Poetry Society (two-time past president), and a former,
long-time member of Romance Writers
of America. Besides her books,
Ellen is published in article, short
story, and poetry.
Visit www.ellenkelley.net to find
out more about Ellen and her books.
reputation among readers, critics, and booksellers as a talented
writer and compelling storyteller with her first novel, No Greater
Treasure--Historical Romance from Penguin-Putnam/Berkley-Jove
available from Amazon.com and BarnesandNoble.com
Ellen's current release is Laura and the Lumberjack, a Short
Contemporary Romance available from Amazon.com in print, and
soon to be available in e-book format. A sixth generation
Kentuckian, Kelley resides in West Paducah with her husband and
two Yorkies. She is a member of Heartland Writers Guild, Kentucky
State Poetry Society (two-time past president), and a former,
long-time member of Romance Writers
of America. Besides her books,
Ellen is published in article, short
story, and poetry.
Visit www.ellenkelley.net to find
out more about Ellen and her books.
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Janet Nesler is editor of a poetry column in a newspaper in
Wheelersburg, OH and would like to have submissions for her
column from KSPS members. Her column is titled Poets Platform,
and she has been editing the column for about 8 years at the
Scioto Voice. Janet's column is a community column that has
beginning poets as well as seasoned poets. To see what the
column is all about, you may visit Janet’s website at
www.poetsplatform.com, or for more information, you may email
Janet directly at abrapoet@roadrunner.com.
Wheelersburg, OH and would like to have submissions for her
column from KSPS members. Her column is titled Poets Platform,
and she has been editing the column for about 8 years at the
Scioto Voice. Janet's column is a community column that has
beginning poets as well as seasoned poets. To see what the
column is all about, you may visit Janet’s website at
www.poetsplatform.com, or for more information, you may email
Janet directly at abrapoet@roadrunner.com.
| Janet Nesler |
Pat Durmon, free-verse poet
Title: Blind Curves, a chapbook
Our lives are full of blind curves--- yours and mine. It will forever
be that way, so I am acknowledging it. Just nodding my head at
how it is. My work touches on nature, love, losses, death, how it
is. My work touches on nature, love, losses, death, becomes
brighter and more splendid. I like to think of my book "Durmon's
as being in your possession. One reviewer says: memories.
work is easy to read, hard to forget."
Price: $11.00; includes all processing fees and mailing.
Available from: Pat Durmon, 2663 Shipps Drive, Norfork, AR
72658; jdurmon@centurytel.net.
Title: Blind Curves, a chapbook
Our lives are full of blind curves--- yours and mine. It will forever
be that way, so I am acknowledging it. Just nodding my head at
how it is. My work touches on nature, love, losses, death, how it
is. My work touches on nature, love, losses, death, becomes
brighter and more splendid. I like to think of my book "Durmon's
as being in your possession. One reviewer says: memories.
work is easy to read, hard to forget."
Price: $11.00; includes all processing fees and mailing.
Available from: Pat Durmon, 2663 Shipps Drive, Norfork, AR
72658; jdurmon@centurytel.net.
| Pat Durmon |
Following Hope
by Sabne Raznik
In this masterful debut offering, Raznik’s free spirit, depth, and
literary gifts sparkle brightly in this spellbinding collection as she
lets loose an array of poems that tickle the mind, touch the heart,
and soothe the soul.
In today’s volatile, stressful world, this poetry collection is a timely
— and timeless — offering from a poet of unquestionable talent
and unfathomable depth.
You can order a copy of Following Hope at these online
bookstores:
www.Xlibris.com - www.BarnesandNoble.com - www.Amazon.com
by Sabne Raznik
In this masterful debut offering, Raznik’s free spirit, depth, and
literary gifts sparkle brightly in this spellbinding collection as she
lets loose an array of poems that tickle the mind, touch the heart,
and soothe the soul.
In today’s volatile, stressful world, this poetry collection is a timely
— and timeless — offering from a poet of unquestionable talent
and unfathomable depth.
You can order a copy of Following Hope at these online
bookstores:
www.Xlibris.com - www.BarnesandNoble.com - www.Amazon.com
| Sabne Raznik |
In Appalachian Girl, Barbara's poems are inspired by memories
from her childhood in St. Charles, Virgina, a booming coal mining
community at the time. Her poems and photographs of the era
capture the close family ties and nostalgic scenes of daily life.
Available from the author, $8.00 (includes S&H), at billg5@tds.net
or the address below.
A Legendary Christmas
This chapbook of original poetry recounts Christmas legends and
celebrates the spirit and joy of Christmas. Available from the
author, $6.00 (includes P&H), at billg5@tds.net or the address
below.
Barbara Groce*
PO Box 746
Morganton, GA 30560 *Make checks payable to Barbara Groce.
from her childhood in St. Charles, Virgina, a booming coal mining
community at the time. Her poems and photographs of the era
capture the close family ties and nostalgic scenes of daily life.
Available from the author, $8.00 (includes S&H), at billg5@tds.net
or the address below.
A Legendary Christmas
This chapbook of original poetry recounts Christmas legends and
celebrates the spirit and joy of Christmas. Available from the
author, $6.00 (includes P&H), at billg5@tds.net or the address
below.
Barbara Groce*
PO Box 746
Morganton, GA 30560 *Make checks payable to Barbara Groce.
| Barbara Groce |
Linda Swift Reeder, past KSPS President, has had over 100
poems, short stories, and articles published. She had a play
produced by WPSD-TV, and has won numerous awards for her
work. Her first books of fiction were published by Kensington. She
now writes for seven digital publishers and has eight ebooks
available with seven also in print. Her ebook of prose poems,
Humanly Speaking: Conversations with God, has recently been
released in print. A collection of Haiku, Song of Every Season, is
also available now. Order both from www.amazon.com or
www.willowmoonpublishing.com. Visit Linda's website for information
about This Time Forever, a Civil War saga, other books and short
stories. www.lindaswift.net
check out her Poetry Page.
poems, short stories, and articles published. She had a play
produced by WPSD-TV, and has won numerous awards for her
work. Her first books of fiction were published by Kensington. She
now writes for seven digital publishers and has eight ebooks
available with seven also in print. Her ebook of prose poems,
Humanly Speaking: Conversations with God, has recently been
released in print. A collection of Haiku, Song of Every Season, is
also available now. Order both from www.amazon.com or
www.willowmoonpublishing.com. Visit Linda's website for information
about This Time Forever, a Civil War saga, other books and short
stories. www.lindaswift.net
- Visit www.lindaswift.net to
- books and release
check out her Poetry Page.
| Linda Swift Reeder |
Don Amburgey has been a teacher, drama producer, and a
and mandolin player; reading, however, remains his dominant
pleasure. With wife Joyce, a librarian, he lives in Jenkins,
Kentucky.
Amburgey's writings include: poetry, stories, and a fictionalized,
straight forward and brief account of the life of C.S. Rafinesque -
neglected genius, world famous, self-taught naturalist.
Rafinesque's peers resented him for being self-taught, but
Charles Darwin paid tribute to him in the introduction of, On The
Origin of Species. Readers are invited to enjoy Amburgey's
latest biographical release, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Solo
Naturalist. Available for $12.95 from: Publish America,
Amazon.com, or Don Amburgey, P.O. Box 609, Jenkins, KY
41537.
and mandolin player; reading, however, remains his dominant
pleasure. With wife Joyce, a librarian, he lives in Jenkins,
Kentucky.
Amburgey's writings include: poetry, stories, and a fictionalized,
straight forward and brief account of the life of C.S. Rafinesque -
neglected genius, world famous, self-taught naturalist.
Rafinesque's peers resented him for being self-taught, but
Charles Darwin paid tribute to him in the introduction of, On The
Origin of Species. Readers are invited to enjoy Amburgey's
latest biographical release, Constantine Samuel Rafinesque, Solo
Naturalist. Available for $12.95 from: Publish America,
Amazon.com, or Don Amburgey, P.O. Box 609, Jenkins, KY
41537.
| Don Amburgey |
Photo by E. Gail Chandler
| Sylvia Davis |
Appalachian Angels is a collection of personal essays by Kentuckians
who have had a near-death experience or an angel encounter. Thirty-nine
amazing stories of hope emerge from this spiritual anthology as writers tell
of traveling to the brink of death and back, or how angels came to their
rescue during an emergency. Appalachian Angels is published by Infinity
Publishing and can be purchased at most bookstores, or online at
www.buybooksontheweb.com and Amazon.com. Price: $12.95
Sylvia DeLee Davis, editor of Appalachian Angels, is a native of Carter
County who maintains homes in Richmond and Ashland, Kentucky. A
graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, she is a substitute teacher and
ESL tutor. She has one daughter and two grandchildren.
Sylvia has had works published in numerous anthologies and journals
including World Treasury of Great Poems, Colors of Thought, The other
Side of Midnight, Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak,
Appalachian Connection, Kudzu, Appalachian Women's Journal, USA
DEEP SOUTH and Pegasus, as well as on-line at CaffeineSociety.com.
You can email Sylvia at sylviadavis@roadrunner.com.
who have had a near-death experience or an angel encounter. Thirty-nine
amazing stories of hope emerge from this spiritual anthology as writers tell
of traveling to the brink of death and back, or how angels came to their
rescue during an emergency. Appalachian Angels is published by Infinity
Publishing and can be purchased at most bookstores, or online at
www.buybooksontheweb.com and Amazon.com. Price: $12.95
Sylvia DeLee Davis, editor of Appalachian Angels, is a native of Carter
County who maintains homes in Richmond and Ashland, Kentucky. A
graduate of Eastern Kentucky University, she is a substitute teacher and
ESL tutor. She has one daughter and two grandchildren.
Sylvia has had works published in numerous anthologies and journals
including World Treasury of Great Poems, Colors of Thought, The other
Side of Midnight, Poetry as Prayer: Appalachian Women Speak,
Appalachian Connection, Kudzu, Appalachian Women's Journal, USA
DEEP SOUTH and Pegasus, as well as on-line at CaffeineSociety.com.
You can email Sylvia at sylviadavis@roadrunner.com.
Dr. Don Coonrod (Ret.) is a member of both
the Kentucky State and Ohio State Poetry
Societies. He is the father of three and a Professor of Medicine at the
University of Kentucky. Dr. Coorod and he and his wife (also a retired
physician) reside in Lexington, KY.
A published writer of over 100 scientific articles and over 100 poems,
Don graduated with a B.S. degree from Earlham College in Richmond,
Indiana and an M.D. from the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland. He has also published one
chapbook of poetry entitled, Breathing Cup, which came out in 2007
from Finishing Line Press in Georgetown, KY, and is currently working
on a second chapbook of poetry and a large book of family history,
which includes his father's ancestors who were among some of the
earliest immigrants into America, and his mother's parents who came
from Ireland during the famine. Be sure to experience Don's blog at
www.authorsden.com/jdonaldcoonrod.
the Kentucky State and Ohio State Poetry
Societies. He is the father of three and a Professor of Medicine at the
University of Kentucky. Dr. Coorod and he and his wife (also a retired
physician) reside in Lexington, KY.
A published writer of over 100 scientific articles and over 100 poems,
Don graduated with a B.S. degree from Earlham College in Richmond,
Indiana and an M.D. from the School of Medicine at Johns Hopkins
University in Baltimore, Maryland. He has also published one
chapbook of poetry entitled, Breathing Cup, which came out in 2007
from Finishing Line Press in Georgetown, KY, and is currently working
on a second chapbook of poetry and a large book of family history,
which includes his father's ancestors who were among some of the
earliest immigrants into America, and his mother's parents who came
from Ireland during the famine. Be sure to experience Don's blog at
www.authorsden.com/jdonaldcoonrod.
| Don Coonrod |
Spirits Walking
by Lori Goff
Lori Goff’s short stories weave family relationships in a special blend of love,
faith and the simple life dating back more than seventy-five years. The stories
convey the hardships in a rural area, the life lessons learned, and the closeness
people felt with nature in the hills and hollows of northeastern Kentucky.
In Spirits Walking, Lori Goff has created a sense of place that takes us to the hills
of Kentucky to discover the cultural heritage of a people. –Margo LaGattuta, poet
and essayist
Lori Goff beckons us in Spirits Walking inside the bittersweet, earthy culture of
the south exposing the dualities of mountain society. These short stories and
poems will leave the reader moved by a striking sense of life and loss. –
Katharine Beaman, author of The Translator
Available: www.amazon.com or bookstores
by Lori Goff
Lori Goff’s short stories weave family relationships in a special blend of love,
faith and the simple life dating back more than seventy-five years. The stories
convey the hardships in a rural area, the life lessons learned, and the closeness
people felt with nature in the hills and hollows of northeastern Kentucky.
In Spirits Walking, Lori Goff has created a sense of place that takes us to the hills
of Kentucky to discover the cultural heritage of a people. –Margo LaGattuta, poet
and essayist
Lori Goff beckons us in Spirits Walking inside the bittersweet, earthy culture of
the south exposing the dualities of mountain society. These short stories and
poems will leave the reader moved by a striking sense of life and loss. –
Katharine Beaman, author of The Translator
Available: www.amazon.com or bookstores
| Lori Goff |
Digging Bones - Finishing Line Press - 2010
A chapbook of Poetry, $12.00 (add .84 tax for KY residents)
From first-kiss Woody to husbands and lovers with their boxes of junk,
and finally down to her one true love, their hands linked in a well-worn hinge,
Barb McMakin excavates her life. "Would we miss them any less if our time
together had been perfect?" McMakin asks in this insightful collection. These
poems unearth the treasure and pain of the ordinary, the sudden and subtle
realizations of a woman who chooses to engage whole-heartedly with those
who people her world.
-Mary O'Dell, President, Green River Writers
Barb McMakin writes the everyday, but beneath each poem is a well placed
shadow. Her free verse echoes like rhyme. Come dig bones with this special
woman. It is a quest you won't forget.
-E. Gail Chandler
author of Where the Red Road Meets the Sky
Order online at:
http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
or at Finishing Line Press, P.O. Box 1626, Georgetown, KY 40324. Shipping is
$1.00 before July 10th. Pre-order purchases ship September 3, 2010.
A chapbook of Poetry, $12.00 (add .84 tax for KY residents)
From first-kiss Woody to husbands and lovers with their boxes of junk,
and finally down to her one true love, their hands linked in a well-worn hinge,
Barb McMakin excavates her life. "Would we miss them any less if our time
together had been perfect?" McMakin asks in this insightful collection. These
poems unearth the treasure and pain of the ordinary, the sudden and subtle
realizations of a woman who chooses to engage whole-heartedly with those
who people her world.
-Mary O'Dell, President, Green River Writers
Barb McMakin writes the everyday, but beneath each poem is a well placed
shadow. Her free verse echoes like rhyme. Come dig bones with this special
woman. It is a quest you won't forget.
-E. Gail Chandler
author of Where the Red Road Meets the Sky
Order online at:
http://www.finishinglinepress.com/NewReleasesandForthcomingTitles.htm
or at Finishing Line Press, P.O. Box 1626, Georgetown, KY 40324. Shipping is
$1.00 before July 10th. Pre-order purchases ship September 3, 2010.
| Barb McMakin |
Songs of Life
by Vada Scott Johnson
Vada Scott Johnson is a native Kentucky writer of poetry, fiction and essay, a past
president of the Kentucky State Poetry Society and currently serves on the Board.
Born in Harlan County in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky, her life
has taken many paths. In her young adult years she traveled with her military
husband, lived eight years in the Bavarian Alps region of West Germany, traveled
in Europe, and lived from California to the Carolinas in the U.S. before settling in
Radcliff, Kentucky, and beginning a career with the Fort Knox Department of
Defense Schools.
Some of the magazines and literary journals in which Vada Scott Johnson's work
has appeared include: Appalachian Heritage magazine;
The Pikeville Review; Pegasus Prize Poems; Two anthologies
of the Appalachian Writers Workshop; Back Home in Kentucky; Kentucky Living;
Kentucky State Poetry Society's Journal, Pegasus; The
Canadian Journal Amber; The anthology, Poetry as Prayer,
Appalachian Women Speak, other lesser known journals and
the Courier-Journal and Ashland Independent newspapers.
Songs of Life is published by Spectrum Press of Chicago and
is available for $12 from the author at vlj39@msn.com.
by Vada Scott Johnson
Vada Scott Johnson is a native Kentucky writer of poetry, fiction and essay, a past
president of the Kentucky State Poetry Society and currently serves on the Board.
Born in Harlan County in the Appalachian mountains of Eastern Kentucky, her life
has taken many paths. In her young adult years she traveled with her military
husband, lived eight years in the Bavarian Alps region of West Germany, traveled
in Europe, and lived from California to the Carolinas in the U.S. before settling in
Radcliff, Kentucky, and beginning a career with the Fort Knox Department of
Defense Schools.
Some of the magazines and literary journals in which Vada Scott Johnson's work
has appeared include: Appalachian Heritage magazine;
The Pikeville Review; Pegasus Prize Poems; Two anthologies
of the Appalachian Writers Workshop; Back Home in Kentucky; Kentucky Living;
Kentucky State Poetry Society's Journal, Pegasus; The
Canadian Journal Amber; The anthology, Poetry as Prayer,
Appalachian Women Speak, other lesser known journals and
the Courier-Journal and Ashland Independent newspapers.
Songs of Life is published by Spectrum Press of Chicago and
is available for $12 from the author at vlj39@msn.com.
| Vada Scott Johnson |
