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Apr 15, 2007
Real Name
Becky Ellis
About My Library
Extensive library of poetry books, including poetry chapbooks; love fiction (classic and contemporary), historical fiction about ancient Britain, Britain and Europe between WWI and WWII, some mystery series, nonfiction including science and lots of obscure topics.
About Me
Poet, publisher (small-press poetry chapbooks), midwestern US (prairies and rivers), former medical copy editor, former software systems analyst (financial industry). Interested in gardening, trees, pugs, knitting, history, politics.
Location
Glen Carbon, IL
Homepage
http://cherrypiepress.blogspot.com
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Currently Reading
The Seashell Anthology of Great Poetry by Christopher Burns
Collected Poems by Jane Kenyon
Second Star (Star Svensdotter #1) by Dana Stabenow
Across the Wide Missouri by DeVoto, Bernard Augustine by Bernard Augustine DeVoto
S. by Doug Dorst
Before the First Shots Are Fired: How America Can Win Or Lose Off The Battlefield by Tony Zinni
An Ocean of Air: Why the Wind Blows and Other Mysteries of the Atmosphere by Gabrielle Walker
Book of Dog: Poems by Cleopatra Mathis
Quiver of Arrows: Selected Poems, 1986-2006 by Carl Phillips
The Book of Hours (Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award) by Marianne Boruch
Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing by Margaret Atwood
Noose and Hook (Pitt Poetry Series) by Lynn Emanuel
The Selected Poetry of Hayden Carruth by Hayden Carruth
Otherwise Elsewhere: Poems by David Rivard
The Accidental Life: An Editor's Notes on Writing and Writers by Terry McDonell
Stay, Illusion: Poems by Lucie Brock-Broido
Community Garden for Lonely Girls by Christine Shan Shan Hou
Decoding Sylvia Plath's "Daddy": Discover the Layers of Meaning Beyond the Brute by Julia Gordon-Bramer
Citizen: An American Lyric by Claudia Rankine
The Best American Poetry 2015 (The Best American Poetry series) by David Lehman
Ventriloquy by Athena Kildegaard
Too Quick for the Living: Poems by Walter Bargen
The Complete English Works (Everyman's Library Classics) by George. Herbert
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate―Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben
Elegy Owed by Bob Hicok
The Day Before: Poems by Dick Allen
St. Trigger by Aaron Coleman
Anybody: Poems by Ari Banias
After Rain: Stories by William Trevor
The Journals of Lewis and Clark (Nature Library, Penguin) by Meriwether Lewis
The Speed of Darkness by Muriel Rukeyser
Killing Custer (A Wind River Mystery Book 17) by Margaret Coel
Night of the White Buffalo (A Wind River Mystery Book 18) by Margaret Coel
The Man Who Fell from the Sky (A Wind River Mystery Book 19) by Margaret Coel
The Beatrice Stubbs Series: Boxset One by JJ Marsh
The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles by Steven Pressfield
Gates of Fire: An Epic Novel of the Battle of Thermopylae by Steven Pressfield
The Girls of Peculiar: Poetry by Catherine Pierce
How a Poem Moves: A Field Guide for Readers of Poetry by Adam Sol
The Art of Recklessness: Poetry as Assertive Force and Contradiction by Dean Young
Letters to Joan by Allison Blevins
Footnote by Trish Hopkinson
A Rule Against Murder: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny
The Little Mrs./Misses by Jane Ellen Ibur
Penelope's Design: Fourteen Poems by David Havird
Barbara Crooker: Selected Poems by Barbara Crooker
A Guide to Forgetting (National Poetry Series) by Jeffrey Skinner
Prairie Architecture by Monica Barron
Course by Athena Kildegaard
Falling Awake: Poems by Alice Oswald
Late Rapturous (Autumn House Poetry) by Frank X. Gaspar
The Calling (Free Verse Editions) by Bruce Bond
The Sound: New & Selected Poems by David Mason
Discount Fireworks by Wendy Taylor Carlisle
The Visible Woman (Free Verse Editions) by Allison Funk
Lightning Falls in Love by Laura Kasischke
Several Short Sentences About Writing by Verlyn Klinkenborg
Rules for the Dance: Handbook for Writing and Reading Metrical Verse by Mary Oliver
The Art of Voice: Poetic Principles and Practice by Tony Hoagland
The Art of the Poetic Line by James Longenbach
Thrall: Poems by Natasha Trethewey
Hold Me Tight by Jason Schneiderman
The Complete Perfectionist by Christopher Maurer
West Portal (The Agha Shahid Ali Prize in Poetry) by Benjamin Gucciardi
Day Unto Day: Poems by Martha Collins
Infodemic by Carol Guess
What an Owl Knows: The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman
I Carry My Mother by Lesléa Newman
Finger Exercises for Poets by Dorianne Laux
The Braille Encyclopedia by Naomi Cohn
Where The Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie (Bur Oak Book) by John Madson
A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian by Marina Lewycka
Blue Highways: A Journey into America by William Least Heat Moon
The Color Wheel by Diane Lockward
What the House Knows by Diane Lockward
BLUE HIGHWAYS Revisited (Volume 1) by Edgar I. Ailor Iii
My Lost Poets: A Life in Poetry by Philip Levine
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