You've seen "give a penny, take a penny" bowls in bookstores. What about "give a haiku, take a haiku"? To celebrate the importance and power of poetry, let's share haiku everywhere we go.
Check out my haiku sharing project.
Mark B. Hamilton's November 2023 review of The Found Object Imagines a Life, at Cider Press Review.
Here's a link to hear me read from The Found Object Imagines a Life: New and Selected Poems during my 25 Sept 2022 "FUMFA Poets & Writers Live" session. (Reading at minute 39.)
And another link to a reading with three others at Everybody Reads, Lansing MI.
Click here for the Cornerstone Press book list and instructions for ordering.
Also available at Amazon or Barnes&Noble.
Here's what Mary Minock, author of A Time When You Know a House: Poems of Detroit and The Way-Back Room: A Memoir of a Detroit Childhood says about The Found Object:
Crisp, carefully-shaped poems with nary an unnecessary word, nary an unmusical line, cover an ambitious range of themes: poems imagining the mythological figure Persephone, whom Harper locates in the Underworld of craggy Rocky Mountain caves. Poems exploring the relationship between humans and gods. Poems contemplating apocalypse and revelation. Poems exploring the love in a troubled relationship. Finally, poems of lived experience. Harper shows herself to be a consummate poet, faithful to the images that push her poems along, and comfortable in a range of poetic forms.
Dawn Burns, author of Evangelina Everyday says . . .
"No matter the subject at hand, Harper’s poems serve as revelation and reminder to love fiercely, embrace paradox, and tell stories. What a gift!"
And Laura Donnelly, author of Midwest Gothic . . .
This is a collection alive to the world and rich with what it finds there.
Who I am:
A 2018 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award winner and OAC poet-in-residence at the Fine Arts Work Center of Cape Cod for the summer of 2019, I have made my home at the confluence of the Auglaize and Maumee rivers in Ohio, where I co-organize the yearly SwampFire Retreat (swampfire.org) for artists and writers at 4 Corners Gallery in Angola, Indiana. A two-time winner of the 2018 Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Prize, my poetry has appeared in numerous journals. My Some Gods Don’t Need Saints chapbook was published in 2016, and The Found Object Imagines a Life was published by Cornerstone Press in September 2022.
Update 22 October 2022
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