Set in the western regions of the United States, where the land and weather are harsh, the best of these stories represent slices of life evocative of the universal vagaries of human experience important to know. These memorable stories are required reading of anyone wishing to be more alive.
–Samuel Maio,
Author of The Burning of Los Angeles
Fiction
Elizabeth Appell
Chauna Craig
Patricia Cumbie
Jana Gardner
Bob Hornbuckle
W. Bert Shaw
Tim Scott
Jill Shultz
Rafael Weinstein
Christopher Matthews White
Poetry
Jason Lee Brown
Laura Hope-Gill
Jack Granath
Tom Hansen
Van C. Hartmann
Mary Kennan Herbert
Cindy King
Christine Kitano
Simm Landres
Mercedes Lawry
Karen Mandell
Donna Reis
Dorothy Stroud
Thom Ward
Anthony Russell White
Robert Wrigley
Memoir
William Bradley
Essay
Joyce M. Davis
Cover Art
Joyce M. Davis
Snake~Nation~Press announces the publication of
Dean Poling’s
Cowboy Boots and Pony Tales
$15.00
Winner of the Violet Reed Haas Poetry Award
There’s such sweetness and bravery in Lana Hechtman Ayers’ poems, a clarity that’s always gentled by the poems’ lyricism and by the poet’s ability to see her own life — even the losses and cruelties she’s faced — with humor and grace and a faith that’s “verdant” and “calmly stirring.” Dance From Inside My Bones offers the reader that cool shade, too, with upturned palms. It’s a generous offering, a gift.
— Cecilia Woloch
“Poling’s columns are true-to-life and laugh out loud funny. His imagination is vivid and his storytelling is actually literature.”
— Georgia Press Association Better Newspaper Contest, 2007
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www.deanpoling.com
www.valdostadailytimes.com
Winner of the Serena McDonald Kennedy Fiction Award
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Brian Bedard
Granville M. Brumbaugh
Kathy Flann
Barbara Goldberg
Judith Hemschemeyer
Seaborn Jones
O. Victor Miller
Dean Poling
Robert Earl Price
Penelope Shambly Schott
John P. Sinnott
Irene Willis
Dwight Yates
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reached practically everybody in the invented but wholly believable community of Smoky Ordinary, from small to great, the up-and-comers to the down-and-outers, from the woman caring for her dying husband to the man that howls like a dog, from a jaded former United States President to the bird smashed on the grill of his limo. This collection marks the beginning of an original and memorable career.
–Madison Smartt Bell
Winner of the 2008
Serena McDonald Kennedy Award
