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Found poems in Charlotte Bronte’s, Jane Eyre
dancing girl press
June 13, 2023
This chapbook of poems found inside Charlotte Bronte’s Jane Eyre is part of the chapbook series by dancing girl press.
You can find the chapbook series online here.
The dancing girl press chapbook series was founded in 2004 to publish and promote the work of women writers and artists.
THREE STARS
GHOST CITY PRESS
June 28, 2021
This micro-chapbook was featured on June 28, 2021 as part of Ghost City Press’s annual Summer Series. It tells the story of a relationship through Amazon reviews. Cover art courtesy of the amazing Grand Rapids paper artist Scott Kloska.
SO WHAT TO SAY TO A BIRD
CELERY CITY PRESS
March 25, 2021
So What to Say to a Bird was selected as the State of Michigan winner in the Kalamazoo Friends of Poetry’s annual Celery City contest. Thank you so much to the students at Kellogg Community College who designed this cover.
Published March of 2021; limited press run. Please contact me for more information.
PORCH LIGHT TO THE LONGSHOREMAN
FINISHING LINE PRESS
August 29, 2019
Alles mines midlife and MidWestern particulars for emotional resonance. Small lakes, Great Lakes, falling willow branches, and relentless waves—these surround moments of focus on her infant’s hairline. She wades honestly through both gratitude and the desire to have a beer and rest her head on the bar.
–Lindsay Ellis, Writer, Associate Professor of English Grand Valley State University
INDUCTION: POEMS FOR MY NEW DAUGHTER
FINISHING LINE PRESS
March 2, 2018
“The bond between mother and daughter engenders a wealth of feelings—love and joy, of course, but also at times fear, melancholy, and the realization of its tenuous and temporary nature. Tapped from such wealth, Alles provides readers with riches galore, as these intimate and generous poems track a young mother’s journey from pregnancy (“your body in my body”), through the birth itself (“reordering / in the process / my beautiful life”), to the recognition of motherhood’s give-and-take, its familial brevity (“Share her with me for just the longest / of times.”). Anyone who’s had a mother—and who of us hasn’t!—will find something valuable, something to treasure, in this collection.”
–Phillip Sterling, Author of And Then Snow