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Evidence of Love by David J. Adams~What Is Brought to Light (and Secret Swing in the NWV Series) by Joyce Adams~Foothold by Linda Aldrich~Letters From Down Under (and dreamfish in the NWV Series) by Constance Alexander~Observatory by M. Lee Alexander~Nightingale Habit by MAUREEN ALSOP~The Stones by CELIA LISSET ALVAREZ~Threads & Dust by Jane Alynn~The Port by KATHLEEN APONICK ~Playing in Most of the Keys by Doug Arnold~Light Under Skin by Amanda Auchter~ Love is a Weed by Lana Hechtman Ayers~Blue on Rye by Michele Aynesworth~Meditation Upon the Invisible Ceremony of Breath by REBECCA BAILEY~ Mountains, Rivers and Heavens by Karen M. Balch~Light & Darkness and This Side of the Old World by Robert Baldwin~Garden by Tama Baldwin ~ ***Plowing to the End of the Road by Barry Ballard~Angel's Land by VICKY L. DANIELS BARDELL~When the Sap Rises by Glenda Barrett~Sphere of Influence by Heather Barrett~Reading the Alphabet of Trees by Lisa Alexander Baron~Women Fresh From Water by Jackie Bartley~Man Overboard by Steven Barza (This was Steven's last book. He died in 2004.)~My Father's Bones by JILL PELAEZ BAUMGAERTNER~ Blue Skies by E. LOUISE BEACH~The Good Body by Anne Becker~Blues for a Pretty Girl by Paulette Beete~The Street Where  I Was a Child by Linda Benninghoff~For the Willing by Kristin Berger~The Generosity of Stars by Barbara Berman~Second Sight by Amanda Berry~Lessons in the Rain Room by Linda Bieler~Letters to the Silence  by Sarah Birl~Blue Laws by Michelle Bitting~Raincoat Variations by Drew Blanchard~Railroad Crossings by Don Boes~The Mariner's Wife by Emma Bolden~White Night by Louis E. Bourgeois~Green by Marion Boyer~ Summering Into Autumn by LARSEN BOWKER~The Mockingbird Puzzle by CHARLES BOYER~Putting in a Window (out of print) by John Brantingham~ Weathervane by James Braziel~The Shadow of Longing by James Breeden~Rites & Observances by Nancy Breen~Chance of Rain and Hollyhocks by Robert Brimm~ Shedding Our Skins and Some Other Eden by Ronda Broatch~The Catbird Sang by Barbara Brooks~The Deer by Wendy Burk~***Small Town by Thomas Brush~Roomful of Sparrows by Mary Buchinger~Ripe Again by Rachel Bunting ~ Sunday Factory by W. E. BUTTS~October Light by Anita Gevaudan Byerly ~A Visitor's Guide to North Dakota by Thom Caraway~The Poetry of a Man by Curtis Carter~Fragrance Upon His Lips by Helen Marie Casey~ Seeking an Answer (with NORMA W. GORST) by CAROL CATANZARITI~Our Lady of the Shipwrecks by ALAN CATLIN ~On Solitude by Nadine Chapman~ Running Down Division Street and Red Fin by Sauci Churchill~Bending Light   by Rebecca Clark ~Another Way to Begin by Don Colburn~As If A Leaf Could be Preserved by Alice Cone~Breathing Cup by J. Donald Coonrod ~Soon the Wind by Anne Coray~Green and Helpless by LEIGH ANNE COUCH~The Origin of Bear by NITA COUNTRYMAN~The Book of Rocks by Thomas Rain Crowe~Parables and Revelations by T. Crunk~A Philosopher Speaks of Rivers by Olga Maria C. Cruz~Pyromythology by Dana Curits~Ties That Bind by Kathleen Dale ~Nevadans by Elaine Dallman~ Closeness of Ice by Marion Davidson~The Drowned Man by PHEBE DAVIDSON~Holding for the Farrier by KATHY DAVIS~Saying This Place Right by Arthur Dawson~The Book of Answers by LUCILLE LANG DAY ~ Wander Luster by TARA DEAL~No Longer Any Place but Here by Stephanie Coyne DeGhett ~Repairs by JESSICA G. de KONINCK~Sweet Surrender by Marcia Denius~Inside Light by Deborah DeNicola~Licking the Spoon by JOANIE DIMARTINO~The Luminous House by EDWARD DOUGHERTY~The Weathermancer by JUDITHA DOWD~Heading Home by Donna Doyle~The Promised Bride by JEHANNE DUBROW~Giving in to the Smoke by Karen Zaborowski Duffy~At the Center by Roselyn Elliott~Breakfast with Blake At the Lacoon by John Estes~Red Ships by Rod Farmer~Highway Stops for No One, In Search of Self and Working Our Way Through by Scott Faubion~The Size of Sparrows by GINA FERRARA~Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk by Linda Annas Ferguson~Night Verse by David Filer~ Provenance of the Lost by MARY FISTER~A Fling with the Ground by Stacia M. Fleegal~Migrations by Deborah Fleming~The Hours of Us by Nancy Flynn ~Plainspoken by Susan Forbes~Michelangelo and Me by Martine Fournier~Condensed Matter and Other States of Mind by Douglas A. Fowler~Without Us by JOEL FREDERICK~She by Melissa Frederick~Paean by Jeanie French~Walnut Heart by Donna Frisk~ Drinking the Light by LAVERNE FRITH~Portraits by Susan Fuller~Playing Outside by Lucia Galloway~Circling Out by MARTIN GALVIN~Nothing to Hold Onto by Laura Gamache~Obscura: The Daguerreotype Series by JULIE GARD~The Burden of Angels by Bill Garvey~Fear by Pamela Garvey ~At the Five-and-Dime, Lavallette, New Jersey by Jim Garrett~At the Edge of the Known World by Mary Ellen Geer~Agates (out of print) by Shelley Getten~Silk & Sting by Colette Anderson Gill ~By Reaching by Christopher Goodrich~Swimming in El Rio Sumpul by Elsie B.C. Rivas Gomez~At the Edge of Speech and Seeking an Answer (with CAROL CATANZARITI ) by Norma Gorst~Dusting The Piano by Abigail Gramig~Slow Children Playing by CONNIE JORDAN GREEN~Poisoning Caesar by Rob Griffith~ Shin Deep by Amy Groshek~Outside the House of Normal and Bullets and Lies by Phil Gruis~The Third Winter of War: Buchenwald by JOHN GUZLOWSKI~Japanese for Daydreamers by Judy Halebsky~Shots On by Carol Hamilton~Morning and What Has Come Since by DAVID HARRITY~Firmament by Lois Marie Harrod ~Local Journeys by Marc Harshman~The Archipelago by Lorraine Healy~Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others by George Held~Eclipse of Heaven by Gladys L. Henderson~Luminosity by Barbara Hendryson~ You Were Always Music by LYNN HOINS~***Sleeping With The Dead by Katharyn Machan Howd~The Lonesome Crowded West by LUCAS HOWELL~ Emerald's End by LUCINDA HYNETT~Into the River Somewhere by Mark Jackley~Gunshy by Sarah Ruth Jacobs ~ A Little Instability Without Birds and Lost Enough by D. R. JAMES ~My Drive, A Natural History by Reamy Jansen~Tracings by Carolyn Howard-Johnson~Taboo by Jenny Kander~Out of Southern Africa and Chronicle of Dog by Carol Kanter~The Thorn Fence by Pearl Karrer ~The Magdalene's Notebook by BOBBI DYKEMA KATSANIS~Slow Runner by Marjorie Deiter Keyishian~A Box of Stones by John Kristofco~Modeling With Miss America by Marsha Kroll~Ghost Nurseries by Judy Kronenfeld~Camera Obscura by Lorene Lamothe~Men At the Gates by GARY L. LARK~A Shimmering That Goes With Us by Mary Ann Larkin~Kitchen Odysseys by Ronda Lawson~ Shew Bird Mountain by BRENDA KAY LEDFORD ~Various Ways of Thinking About the Universe by Rodger LeGrand~Turns About a Point by Anna Leahy~Attempts At Location by Katie Hae Ryun Leo ~Dark Feathers by Nikia Leopold~It so Happens by Ben Lesousky~The Kingdom of Ignorance by Donald Levering ~Sea Lions Sing Scat by CAROL LEVIN~Compared to This by Adrienne Lewis~Courting Light  by Ann Linde ~As If by Jack Lindeman~Love Song Hiroshima by Julia Lisella~After Appalachia by Judy Loest ~Unclaimed Baggage by CHERYL LOETSCHER~Dear Mrs. Dalloway by Joyce Greenberg Lott~What We Burned for Warmth by CHRISTINA LOVIN~Ode to Toledo by Daryl J. Lukas~Meanwhile by Bonnie Lyons~ Advice for the New Prisoner by MARK McCARTHY~The Art & the Wait by Terri McCord~Where There Was No Pattern by STEPHEN MCDONALD~Secret Seams by JEROME L. MCELROY~Seawind Cafe by Barbara J. McGrath~Body of Surrender by Amy Small-McKinney~A Sentenced Woman by Aimee Mackovic~Holding Patterns by SUSAN McLEAN~Panic & Joy by Heather McNaugher~A History of Water by Maura MacNeil ~Relentless Light  by Maureen McQuerry~ Twenty-Four Questions for Billy by JESSICA MAICH~Looking to the East with Western Eyes by Leah Maines~ The Last One Eaten by Claudia Manz~To Darkness by Beth Martinelli~The Cold Music of the Ocean and Meanwhile, Back in Kansas by Carlos Martinez~Atilt by MICHELLE MATZ~Things Undone by Barbara Meetze~The Minor Fauna by Ann E. Michael~The Blessings of Motion and Silence by Michael Milburn ~ Anchor Chain, Open Sail by JENNIFER MILITELLO ~Leafing Out by Michael Miller~Sunbathing in the Ukraine by Sid Miller~November by John Minczeski~Current by KOSUKE MIYATA~Pulse and Constellation by JUDITH MONTGOMERY~Teaching the Robins by Janice Townley Moore~Election Day by JULIE MOORE~War Psalm by Mimi Moriarty~A Most Improbable Life by Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs~Bluefield Breakdown by Rick Mulkey~ **Surface Tension by ANNE JOHNSON MULLIN~Unreported by DIANA MYERS~Easy to Lose by Andrew Najberg~How to Read a Clock by Jeff Nedeau~The Abattoir by Kathy Nilsson~A Dangerous Man by Mary O'Dell~Mine by Angela Alaimo O'Donnell~At Higher Elevations by Kathy O'Fallon~Life in This House by Mary Ann O'Gorman~Knots of Clouds by Rosemary O'Hara~Stuck in the Dream Wheel by Rita Catinella Orrell~On a Greyhound Straight From the 915 by Monica Teresa Ortiz~Practice by Kathleen O'Toole~In the Lake's Eye by SUZANNE OWENS~Elegy & Collapse by Patty Paine~Faith to See and Other Poems by Kathe L. Palka~Estuary Light by Susan Firghil Park~This Brief Light by Miriam Pederson~A Postcard from My Mother by Rosalie Sanara Petrouske~Boulder Field by George Petty~The Measure by Jo Pitkin~Touch by Irena Praitis~Violins by Gordon Preston~The Slow Creaking of the Planets by Gretchen Primack~Nests by KARA PROVOST~The Hermit's Act by Bernard Quetchenbach~Lip of Awareness by Leon Raikes~ The Lonely Boy in the Red Truck by Jim Redmond~Green Cove Stop AND Lightning in Wartime by Tony Reevy~A Far Cry  by Heddy Reid~67 14' N by 142 30' W and Vicinity by Kenneth Rehill~Walking Among Shadows by Paul R. Rice~Lightly Separate [full-length]  by Page Richards ~Birding Into Winter by SUSAN EDWARDS RICHMOND~I Hear the River Call My Name by Mary A. Ricketson~inscapes by Tree Riesener ~Foreign Correspondence (poems about 9/11) by Timothy Riordan~The Transmigration of Souls by Maureen Picard Robins~Wall to Wall by Lori Romero~Delicious Air by Tania Runyan~Holy Rocks and Mineral Treasures by Judi A. Rypma~On Receiving Word by Pamela St. Clair~Divided House by Philip St. Clair~A Season Like This by Michael Salcman~December Morning by Ellen Samuels~Shared Air and Other Poems by Debra Sansone ~Out of Season by Maggie Schwed ~Whittling Lessons by Eric Schwerer~***Galileo's House by James Scruton~A Change of Pace by EMILY SCUDDER~Rocks in the Wheatfield by Elaine M. Seaman~ Eternity's Orthography by Claudia Serea~Garden Sutra (out of print) by Prartho Sereno~Family Business by Paula Sergi~Your Third Wish by Marian Kaplun Shapiro~The Fox and the Sunflower by Catherine Sherman~New Poems From the Airplane and Graveyard by Robert Simon~Sea Change by Elizabeth Simson~El Aqua Es La Sangre De La Tierra: The Water Is the Blood of the Earth by Alifair Skebe ~I Kidnap My Mother by Marcia Slatkin~A Word For It by Warren Slesinger~Magnolias and Snow by Fr. Francis J. Smith~Mother Chaos: Under Electric Light by Mattie Quesenberry Smith~Sonnets by FREDERICK SMOCK~No Discription of the World by ANN SNODGRASS~Pinnacles & Plains by Kaye Bache-Snyder~ Apocalypse Clam by Joseph A. Soldati~Please, God, Don't Let Me Write Like a Woman by Anushka Solomon~Chrome by LIANNE SPIDEL~ Encounters and Young Farmer by Matthew J. Spireng~The Colors of Water by Dale Sprowl ~Where Orphans Live by Geo Staley~Sketches on the Prairie and From My Life by Howard F. Stein~Half-Moon of Clay by DIANNE STEPP~More Sweet, More Salt and Paris Etudes by Carole Stone~Higher Ground by Enzo Surin~Startling Art: Darwin and Matisse (out of print) by Dorothy Sutton~Impermance by Joyce Sweeney~Horizontal Light by Karin Syversen~ Flight by JASON TANDON~Where There is No Night and Carilee's House by Lynne Santy Tanner~Talking to Trees by Lisa C. Taylor~A Glimpse of Oranges by Kelly Terwilliger~Beyond the Bridge by Laurence W. Thomas~Rabbit Fur Purse by CELESTE THOMPSON~Castle Mountain by Jim Thompson~Naming Rights by Melinda Thomsen~Saving the Lamb by BG THURSTON~ The Meaning of Barns by JARI THYMIAN~ Another Anatomy by JAY UDALL~The Sound in the Corn by Matthew Ulland~Ghosts in a House by Matt Urmy~Social Smile by Angela Vogel~The Mulberry and When the Sun Burns Out by Constance Vogel~ Full Moon and The Millennium Reel by Gary Walton~Bone Island by Gregg Weatherby~ Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues by Julene T. Weaver~The Mad Woman  by Laura D. Weeks~A Horse at the Hirshhorn by Eric A. Weil~Scared Money Never Wins and Restalrig by Julia Wendell~Scholarship Girl by Lesley Wheeler~The Barleyhouse Letters by S. Scott Whitaker~Petal-tearing and Variations by Jackie K. White ~A Gilford Offering by Kelley Jean White~After the Drowning by GARY J. WHITEHEAD~The Half-life of Love by Barbara Wiedemann ~Whispers from the Land: Travels in Spain by Penny Wilkes (in associaiton with Puente Nuevo Books)~Possession by Susan Settlemyre Williams~How To Get There by Paul J. Willis~Recuerdos and Solea! by Anne Wilson~Mary Speaks of Her Son by Carl Winderl~Invisible Pictures by Kathleen Winter~A Cemetery Affair by Richard Wollman~Living Over Caves by Brandy Woodall ~Leave Time by Jeff Worley~ Accidents (out of print)by Ellen Roberts Young~Gentling the Bones by Katherine E. Young ~Blood-letting by VALERIE WEAVER-ZERCHER~With Both Hands by Geraldine Zetzel

***winner of the finishing line press prize in poetry open chapbook competition

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THE NEW WOMEN'S VOICES SERIES: (click on the title to purchase the book from amazon.com.  Having trouble with the link, or can't find the title you want?  Please email us at finishingbooks@aol.com)

The Time it Takes by Kathy Cantley Ackerman~Secret Swing (and outside of the series:What Is Brought to Light) by Joyce Adams~dreamfish by Constance Alexander~Kinkeeper by Evelyn McAmis Bales~Drawing Lessons by Carol Barrett~Bright Seeds by Kathryn T. S. Bass~Moongate and (After the Diagnosis outside of the series) by Phyllis Berman~Wings That Wait by Sydna Altschuler Byrne~Dance The Black-eyed Girl by Sherry Chandler~Passion Tour by Garnett Kilberg Cohen~Between the Ceiling & the Moon by Deborah Gordon Cooper~ Scarab Hiding by SUSAN COWGER~Of A Feather by Janine DeBaise~Flame Above Flame by TENEICE DELGADO~Raccoon Afternoons by Linda M. Fischer~Cow Poetry and Other Notes From the Field by M. Frost ~ Girl in Garden by Sandra Graff~Left Standing by Ona Gritz~Losing Ohio by Gwen Hart~Body & Soul by Emily Ruth Hazel~Falling Dreams by Alison Hicks ~All the While by Catherine Abbey Hodges ~*Happiness by Susan Hogan~The First Hundred Years (and outside of the series:The Solitude of Cities) by Ruth Holzer~The Round Kiss by Betsey Houghton~Womb Rain by Shawn R. Jones~*The Glow of Everyday Objects by Amie Keddy~Faberge (and Why Plant Bougainvillea outside of the series) by Jacqueline Kolosov~Pressing a Life Together by Hand by Estella Lauter~Dancer with Good Sow by Diane LeBlanc~Little Fires (and outside of the series: What We Burned for Warmth) by Christina Lovin~ Hineni (out of print) (and outside of the series: Meanwhile) by Bonnie Lyons~Float by Laurie MacDiarmid~Looking to the East With Western Eyes by Leah Maines~The Love of Unreal Things (and outside of the series: Unbound & Branded) by Christine Stewart-Nunez~Bone China by Helen Mallon~*This is Not a Story by Katrinka Moore~**The Blessing Box by Maria Morrison~Weed Over Flower by Jenny Sadre-Orafai~The Grace of Light (Faith to See and Other Poems) by Kathe Palka~Muddy Prints, Water Shine by Carol Peters~Mama Thoughts (out of print) by Gayle Pierce~Difficult to Subdue As the Wind by Janet Powers~Waiting for Here by Ellen Rachlin~ Exposure by Edythe Haendel Schwartz~No Turning Back Now by Pat Riviere-Seel~After I Cut the Cord by Diana Sher~*Like the Air by Joyce Sidman~*The Birds Are on Fire by Kay Sloan~Flower Half Blown by Cheryl Snell~Ruin by Cassie Premo Steele~Path of Fire by Christa Polkinhorn Umiker~Sequel by Barbara Louise Ungar~Bipolar Express by Megan Webster~Marriage and Other Infidelities by Debra Wierenga~Failing Better by Catherine Wiley~Arpeggio of Appetite by Morgan Grayce Willow~When All Else Falters by Patrice Wilson~Mementos by Pui Ying Wong ~***Larger Bodies than Mine by Marianne Worthington

*winner of the new women's voices prize in poetry

**winner of the starting gate award

***winner of the Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association

 
   

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Recent winners and notables: Tania Runyan's poetry collection Delicious Air has been selected as the Book of the Year by the Conference on Christianity and Literature Belles Lettres. Brenda Kay Ledford's Shew Bird Mountain won the 2007 PAUL GREEN MULTIMEDIA AWARD. The Paul Green Multimedia Award, given by the North Carolina Society of Historians.   Marianne Worthington’s Larger Bodies than Mine (NWV Series) won the 2007 Appalachian Book of the Year Award for Poetry awarded by the Appalachian Writers Association. Anne Wilson won the San Diego Book Award (for "a book of poetry ") for her book SOLEA! Frederick Smock's Sonnets was a finalist in the Kentucky Literary Awards for excellence in poetry. Linda Annas Ferguson’s chapbook, Stepping on Cracks in the Sidewalk, won an honorable mention in the 2007 Oscar Arnold Young Book Award of the Poetry Council of NC.  Kaye Bache-Snyder won first place in the National Federation of Press Women’s annual competition, in category 75, creative verse for her book PINNACLES AND PLAINS. Carolyn Howard-Johnson was awarded the Military Writers Society of America Silver Award for Excellence for her chapbook of poetry, Tracings. Abigail Gramig's poem "Requiem" (first published by Finishing Line Press in her chapbook DUSTING THE PIANO) is included in Billy Collins' new anthology 180 More : Extraordinary Poems for Every Day by BILLY COLLINS (Editor). Julene Tripp Weaver author of Case Walking: An AIDS Case Manager Wails Her Blues; George Held, author of Grounded and The Art of Writing and Others, GARY L. LARK, author of Men At the Gates, Joyce Greenberg Lott,author of DEAR MRS. DALLOWAY, and to Paula Sergi author of FAMILY BUSINESS and John Brantingham author of PUTTING IN A WINDOW were all recently featured on Garrison Keillor's THE WRITER'S ALMANAC radio show. Karen Zaborowski Duffy’s (author of Giving in to the Smoke) poetry was featured on the PBS show The Newshour with Jim Lehrer . Michael Milburn’s poem “Preserved” from his FLP chapbook The Blessings of Motion and Silence appeared in Mary Karr’s weekly Book World feature, “Poet’s Choice.” In her column Ms. Karr picks a poem (or poems) each week and introduces it briefly. Book World is syndicated to a number of other papers, including the Washington Post Book World in The Washington Post National Weekly, washingtonpost.com, on-line data services and microfiche and CD-ROM versions of The Washington Post. Also appearing in The New Yorker (online only). Finishing Line Press has also been featured in Poet's Market Insider Report.