GREATEST HITS
They've done it for music for decades. Now it's the poets' turn. Pudding House is systematically archiving the top 12 signature works from poets of reputation. We are releasing the GREATEST HITS of some of your favorite poets from small presses, academic presses, coffeehouses and bars, and the workshop and conference scene. Each GOLD chapbook showcases the poet's 12 greatest hits spanning that poet's career to date. Nearly 300 have been released and include Stephen Corey, David Chorlton, Jeanne Lohmann, Susan Terris, Hale Chatfield, Jim Bertolino, David Alpaugh, Ruth Daigon, Floyd Skoot, David Citino, . . . and many more. We are archiving poets of impact, poets whose work changes the way we work, volunteer, love, teach, nurture, see. GREATEST HITS are included alphabetically by author on the general publications list. For more information you might also scroll down our Mainpage by using the right side scroll bar to the paragraph of released and forthcoming Greatest Hits.
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Drown ’til you Swim poster. Only 80 available in this very limited press run. This is a beautiful piece of art. Signed and numbered, by Spiel. $95. 5-3/4x14.
Raindance poster, 300 available, 11x14, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. $35. 2006 release
Less poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Dedicated to John Lennon. Only 500, ©2000. $150 (started at $20), will go up. 11x17.
Writer’s Block poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by David Chorlton. Only 500, ©2001. $60, will go up. 11x17
Box poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Only 500, ©2001. $25, will go up. 11x17
Write poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Only 200, ©1997. $600 (started at $10). 17x22. SOLD OUT; poster will not be reprinted in this format.
Dance poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Only 200, ©1998. Currently $300 (started at $25), will go up. 17x22.
What Kills Us poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Only 500, ©2004. $15 (started at $10), will go up. 8x10.
Sing poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Only 500, ©2002. $150 (started at $25), will go up. 17x22.
The Bayeux Tapestry: History in Stitches poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Mari Artzner Wolf. Only 200, ©2000. $25, will go up.
To Choose full color poster. Limited edition, signed and numbered. Poem by Jennifer Bosveld with series of 13 watercolors by artist/poet David Chorlton. 22x32. $600. David and Jennifer profit. Released January 2006 at $125
What's Happened to All My Harmonicas? Limited edition, signed and numbered on hot yellow. By John Bennett of Vagabond Press. Only 100, ©2002. $15
Called Limited edition, signed and numbered, by Jennifer Bosveld. Only 200, ©2002. $100, sold like crazy at the UUA/GA summer 2003, will go up.
Testing the Poet's Vision Limited edition, signed and numbered. By Randy Koch. Only 100, ©2002. $20, will go up.
Books,
Anthologies,
Educational Materials
march
By Mark Hartenbach. The amazing, chronological, emotional x-ray from this poet’s life during the month of March 2005. 100 pp, 8-1/2 by 5-1/2, perfect bound, full-color cover, 70# text, $15 plus $2.50 p/h, ISBN: 158998353X.
book of resurrection
By Mark Hartenbach. A profound collection of poems praised by poets and mental health professionals alike. This courageous book will not leave you where it found you…in the aftershocks of a life at its emotional end. We have much to learn from the author and his observations while hospitalized in 2004. Hartenbach realizes that he writes to live. Writing is breathing. The artistic priority of writing well coupled with the need to write to live gives us this important book and author brave enough to let us in. 55pg, saddle-stitched, 80# red poppy cover, 24# text, black end paper, $10, ISBN: 1589983394.
Mark Hartenbach is published in Nerve Cowboy, Chiron Review, The Temple, Rio Grande Review, Louisiana Review, Kiosk, Black Moon, Wormwood Review, Thunder Sandwich, and elsewhere, and has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. His chapbook, Ten House (MonkeyBoy Press, Holland MI) received rave reviews from Janice Faye Fiering in Them Timple. Gerald Locklin praise him as one of the most significant voices out there right now. Reviewer Michael Basinski (SUNY/Buffalo) says “In all of small press there is no more saintly roving spiritually searching mind artist than Mark Hartenbach. Hartenbach is living soul-shivering, pondering, and roaring. Hartenbach searches the soul like a brillo at work on some baked on zucchini. I stand in awe. He writes ‘without insurrection, we have no resurrection.’”
HUNGER ENOUGH:
Living Spiritually in a Consumer Society
Nita Penfold, editor. Poems and short prose on intentional living. Pudding House anthology based on observations about the gluttonous American culture but isn’t intended to beat us over the head or make us feel guilty with every turn of the page. Released in 2004. Perfect bound, full color cover, beautiful production, 128 pp, $18, ISBN: 1589982495.
URGENT CARE for the World
Jennifer Bosveld, editor. Beyond the Waiting Room—an anthology of poems. This book is part of a national project to get some amazing poems into the hands of people who can use them to breathe again, to move on, to clarify, to hope, or to feel spoken for. This collection features Jeanne Lohmann, James Bertolino, Thom Ward, Vivian Shipley, Annie Finch, Phyllis Stowell, Barbara Crooker, Susan Wooldridge and others. Released in 2004. Saddle-stitched, 36 pp, $10, ISBN: 1589982673. Also available in bulk for hospital waiting room give-away project.
ELASTIC EKPHRASTIC:
Poetry on Art / Poets on Tour
Edited by Jennifer Bosveld, with the work of poets on tour through galleries. Ekphrastic poetry has been on the rise for 15 years and is only now beginning to be understood. Here is a marvelous classroom or workshop resource for writers responding to art. Released in 2003. Perfect bound, red enamel cover, 71 pp, $14, ISBN: 1589981669.
INTERNAL SCENARIOS:
A Painterly and Poetic Collaboration by Walter King and Edward Lense
Four ekphrastic poems by Edward Lense based on the stencil drawings of Walter King. Black and white, saddle-stitched, 2003, 19 pp, 12 illustrations $15, ISBN: 1589981995.
GLASS WORKS:
Art Glass, Windows, Bottles, Marbles, and Jars
What is it about glass that such a significant percentage of people love it, collect it, insist on it for drinking, storage, canning, are particular about it and how it relates to whatever else they are into? This little jewel of an anthology is both eye candy and a dynamic collection of poems & stories that either educate or entertain--often both. The cover alone could be a vibrant poster, and the word collage on the back could spark your own new work. Edited by Jennifer Bosveld. Released 2003. Full color cover, perfect bound, 67 pp, $16, ISBN: 1589981421.
FRESH WATER:
Poems from the Rivers, Lakes, and Streams
This anthology celebrates what we value about water. Contributors include Jim Bertolino, Lucille Lang Day, Susan Terris, Peter Cooley, Thom Ward, Gary Duehr, Antler, Richard Hague, Floyd Skloot, M.J. Iuppa, Lyn Lifshin, Donald Hassler, Gary Metras, Timothy Russell, Patricia Monaghan, Jeanne Lohmann, Vivian Shipley, and others. An outstanding collection. And in honor of Pete Seeger and his comrades in the cause, 5% of the sales from this book will be sent to the Hudson River Sloop Clearwater. Full color cover, perfect bound, 2002, 199 pp, $19.95, ISBN: 1589980824.
THE MAGIC FISH:
Poems on an Edward Boccia Sketchbook
Both poet and artist demonstrate the universality as well as diversity of truths implied by image, relationships, form, color, and light. For this collection there were no rules. Poems are paired with the art on facing pages. Full color cover, perfect bound, 2002, 134pp, $18, ISBN: 1589980832.
Prayers to Protest:
Poems that Center & Bless Us
Edited by Jennifer Bosveld. Anthology of liberal religious, earth-centered, eastern, and a variety of points of view. Poems on political, spiritual, relationships, life-journey, and other subjects. A stellar collection. Amazing B&W photomontage cover by Jerry Uelsmann. Includes Antler, Jeanne Lohmann, Daniel Mills, Rebecca Baggett, Annie Finch, over 100 others. Perfect bound, 1998, 229pp, $19.95, ISBN: 0944754465.
The Unitarian Universalist Poets:
A Contemporary American Survey
The historical first-ever nationwide collection of contemporary publishing poets who happen to be UUs! See UU page for over 100 contributors and to find out what a "unitarian universalist" is! Edited by Jennifer Bosveld. Gorgeous full color cover, perfect bound, 1996, 208pp, $18.95, ISBN: 0944754333.
The Pocket Poetry Parenting Guide
A Small Anthology of Poems on Parenting in conjunction with the Pudding House Parenting Project. We've always said, "There ought to be a manual!" Well, now there is. This yes-based collection is the centering component of The Parenting Project, a workshop-supportive and guided readings project out of Pudding House Writers Resource Center. We are giving half of the press run to parents who cannot afford it and who are in parenting programs. When you buy one at $12 you are also giving one away. Edited by Jennifer Bosveld. First trade edition released June 21, 2000. Tall 4x11 pocket-sized beautiful perfect-bound $12, ISBN: 0944754597.
Looking for Creek Street: Writing Poems Across Our Lives
Edited by
Jennifer Bosveld, including members of the
Pudding House workshop, Writing Poetry for Growth and Healing.
Anthology of poems and narratives by participants, chapter by Jennifer on leading such a group. 8 1/2x 5 1/2 saddlestitched. 60pp. SOLD OUT/ OUT OF PRINT. SEARCH REQUIRED, est. cost $40. ISBN: 0944754759.
Topics for Getting in Touch:
A Poetry Therapy Sourcebook
by Jennifer Bosveld. $35. 60TH PRINTING is forthcoming with a new title. We're taking advanced orders. The world's largest compilation of writing exercises. 8 1/2 x 11 spiral bound,used by creative writing teachers in colleges and high schools, poets-in-the-schools,poets in human services, and by individuals. ISBN: 0944754384.
The Gargantuan
Pudding House Word Jar Inventory
of Best Words for
Writing Work- and Playshops
40 pages--we've done the work for you!
Instructions and rationale included for a far more passionate play with language that can lead you to spectacular results! Includes
words list you can copy and clip! Worth every penny of the $14.00, 1998, ISBN: 0944754619.
Know-It-All Addendum
of obscure, hot new,and/or very difficult words is available for $4. Get both The Gargantuan andThe Addendum at the same time for only $16!
HOLD ANY ORDERS or CALL
Vocabulary Builder Word Jar,List
Precisely targets 8th grade, which means it serves 5th grade through adult. Meant to guide us toward use of the language that takes us a step higher than the commonplace we usually fall back on. Vocabulary Builder Word Jar List is printed on colorful card stock--a different color for each letter. You can choose to cut squares as they are in the book or attach the words to paint chips or other material for an even longer lasting word jar. Thousands and thousands of words that fill up Great Aunt Zelda's most gigantic pickle jar! $40
The Diamond Ring River Valley:
The Adventures of SaraGail
by James Belcher. Jen continues to love this book--gives it as a prize at her workshops, as role-model poetry. $10, 1988, ISBN: 0944754139.
Schott at Sunrise
by Carol Schott (Martino),essays and columns, out of print, search required. $50.00 if we can find, ISBN: 0944754007.
Other Worlds: Poems on Prints by M.C. Escher
by Catherine A. Callaghan, 28 of her poems on and PAIRED with 28 of Escher's prints by permission of the Escher estate. $14.95, ISBN: 0944754767.
Poetry enthusiasts, Escher fans, writing workshop leaders--THIS is a goldmine in role-model poems on art. These ekphrastic poems will inspire others to do likewise. We thank the Ohio Arts Council for their support on this project.
The Courtship of Jim Jones
by Julie Otten. Fiction in the voice of the wife of suicide cult leader Jim Jones. Released January 27, 2002. ISBN: 0944754686 2002 $12.00
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