Ordinary Time

"Bartley s new work, her best yet, presents the stories of women s lives. In these poems daily, personal, serious, and beautiful moments, one after another, layer against one another as in a book of black and white photographs. Women as children, as friends and enemies, as teachers and daughters, swimmers, travelers, as bodies Bartley traces out the essential shape of who we are, how we become." - Heather Sellers, Heather Sellers's "Drinking Girls and Their Dresses" was published by Ahsahta Press. Her short story collection "Georgia Under Water," published by Sarabande, was selected for a Barnes and Noble New Voice Award in 2001