<p>Poems by Alan BirkelbachArt by Artists from the Plano community10" x 10", hardcover with dust jacketALAN BIRKELBACH has been writing poetry since he was twelve years old. In fact, his first poem ever was about his pet raccoon!Since then he has written thousands of poems, mostly about Texas, its towns, its history, and its geography. His work has appeared in journals and anthologies such as Grasslands Review, Borderlands, The Langdon Review, and Concho River Review. He has received a Fellowship Grant from the Writer's League of Texas, been named as one of the Distinguished Poets of Dallas, was nominated for a Wrangler Award for his contributions to Southwest Letters, and is a member of The Academy of American Poets. He has five collections of poetry: Bone Song, Weighed in the Balances, No Boundaries, New and Selected Poems (the first in the TCU Texas Poet Laureate Series from TCU Press), and Translating the Prairie: Plano, Texas in Words and Pictures.In 2005 Birkelbach was named the poet laureate of Texas.</p>

Translating the Prairie: Plano, Texas in Words and Pictures

Alan Birkelbach

City of Plano

No Boundaries

Literature & Fiction

Poetry

Eakin Press

<p>Baskerville Publishers is pleased to announce the publication of 8 Voices, contemporary poetry of the American Southwest. Eight poets from New Mexico, Oklahoma and Texas were selected to be included, all of whom are widely published and highly regarded. Their work clearly demonstrates that poetry of the Southwest is not to be lessened by being described as regional, but instead deals with the universal themes of all good poetry, while not losing a sense of place. During late November the book will be launched at four readings and signings, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, Norman, Oklahoma, Dallas and in Fort Worth, Texas. Three Texas poet laureates are among the contributors. Dr. Dan Williams, Director of the TCU Press, selected the poems. He has written an introduction which deals with issues surrounding regional poetry. He concludes the introduction by saying, I have gained much becoming acquainted with the poems included in this volume, and I feel privileged to have read and selected them. I believe anyone who picks up this volume will feel the same. Michael McGaba and Rainer Schulte have praised the book. Tom Sleigh writes of the poetry, ... these poems are wonderfully idiosyncratic voices as cosmopolitan as they are rooted in what Seamus Heaney once called the music of what happens ... The region that unites them is the republic of memorable speech.</p>

8 Voices

Nathan Brown

Jeffrey DeLotto

Tony Mares

Ronald E. Moore

Karla K. Morton

Elizabeth Raby

Gary Swaim

Baskerville Publishers, Inc.

Madville Publishing Santa Fe Trail: Chasing the Big West, Western Poetry and Music Collection with CD, Historical Trail Book

Bob Boze Bell

Michael Martin Murphey

Madville Publishing

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