"The Us is like nothing I have ever read or seen. I thought it impossible to invent anything in poetry...the very thing Houlihan has done."
Lucie Brock-Broido
"Jennifer Militello makes her way through an
incomplete world and comes out with testaments to the elegance found in
all that is missing...What sets these poems apart is that they are not
songs of praise so much as the distant humming of someone who
gathers...the precise words for the long mending ritual."
Dionisio D. Martinez
Joan Houlihan was born and raised in
Massachusetts. She has been a teacher, technical writer, reporter,
editor, and critic. Her previous books are Handheld Executions: Poems
and Essays, and The Mending Worm. In 2004, she founded the Concord
Poetry Center, and in 2006 she established the Colrain Poetry
Manuscript Conference for advanced writers. She is on the faculty of
Lesley University's low-residency M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program. Her newest collection is The Us.
Jennifer Militello is the author of Flinch of Song, winner
of the Tupelo Press
First Book Prize, and of the chapbook Anchor Chain, Open
Sail. Her poems have been
widely published in such journals as The Kenyon Review, The New Republic, The North
American Review, The Paris Review, and The Virginia Quarterly
Review as well as anthologized in Best New Poets
2008, and have been awarded grants and fellowships from
the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund,
Writers at Work, and the Millay Colony for the Arts.
Location:
Porter Square Books 25 White St Cambridge, Massachusetts 02140-1413
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