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Poet Nolan RindfleischPoet Dalene Stull
Poet Donald Conrod
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Dr. Rindfleisch is a poet, scholar, and social service professional. He was reared in south St. Paul, MN. attended high school and college in St. Paul, MN. and resided at various times in Bemidji, MN. and Mankato, MN. before relocating to Columbus, Ohio with his spouse Rita and six children.
In 1964 he accepted a position in the school of social work at the Ohio State University. He retired in 1994 and has traveled since to Mexico, Spain, Italy, through the Panama Canal and to Alaska. Dr. Nolan Rindfleisch is an emeritus faculty member of the Ohio State University College of Social Work where he was employed for thirty years in professional education for social work. His undergraduate background is in the humanities, including the study of classical languages and English literature at the College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN. He studied social work at the University of Minnesota and Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. He has been writing poetry for about eight years and has been a participant in the Poets and Writers Guild much of that time. Since retiring in 1994 he has audited courses in English and Spanish, as well as courses sponsored by the Medieval and Renaissance Center at the Ohio State University.
Of "Fire or Water" ! It has been described as energetic, sometimes risqué, sometimes irreverent, and providing very human descriptions of our times, adventures, and survivals! You will not want to miss this rare opportunity to own this wonderful chapbook!
| Last Visit
There is a land of the living and a land of the dead and the bridge is love, the only survival, the only meaning. Thornton Wilder, 1927. The pint of blood they gave him burst into a spring of energy and respite from decline so he could visit with us one more time. Memories of blooming dogwood and magnolias floated faint this late in Fall. Coffee cup in hand he summoned me, “Come out here on the deck. Let’s talk. Our Blue Ridge autumns in Virginia will be very hard to leave. But I have no regrets about my smoking cigarettes and what it has done to me. Besides I have to thank you for the time you kept us while I finished up my studies at Bemidji State. And I replied that we enjoyed our times with him, the story telling ‘til very late, laughing so hard like we did last night. So when we say ‘I thank you’ or ‘regrets’ toward the end of days, we try to shift, reevaluate the weights of life’s events, the costs, the losses we imposed, the unearned favors we received. This work all done we go to rest on pillows calmed by fairness, lie on beds made lambs’ ear soft by justice, in ground made hallow by our peace. |
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Dr. Rindfleisch's web site is HERE
Introducing Deborah Strozier!
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Debora is a scholar, a scientist, and a poet.
Having been raised in Cincinnati, Deborah has also called Hong Kong, and Charleston, South Carolina home. She and her musician husband, Erich, have currently settled in Westerville, Ohio. Deb's full time occupation is product development scientist in an international medical foods company.
A popular and prolific presenter, Deborah has been featured in poetry reading venues across the state of Ohio. She is the recipient of several coveted poetry prizes and awards, including, but not limited to, the Janet Cicchetti Memorial, and the William Redding Memorial Poetry Competition. This volume, "Lotus Leaves", received second place in the Salon Chapbook Competition in 2008. The Salon Competition is sponsored by Pudding House Publishing, who brings us this work.
Debora's most recent poety explores her Chinese American heritage. Her work has been published in numerous anothologies and poetry journals such as The Bitter Oleander, Mobius, Heartlands and others in both the United States and the United Kingdom. In her spare time, Deb serves as Vice President, as well as workshop and seminar coordinator for the Ohio Poetry Association.
"Lotus Leaves" can be describe as a gentle, revealing, sometimes humorous and often gripping journey of life.
| Lotus Leaves At three, mother wraps cloth around my feet. Every day she binds them tighter to shape my future, her love bending toes to curl like lotus leaves, the small pointed ones of a graceful dancer charming princes of China centuries ago. The pain gnaws my bones, sleep interrupted, the only comfort in dreams of a wealthy husband. The law frees me a few years late, feet too small for standing or walking fast. I learn to shout and raise the family alone, sewing shirts until eyes bum. My hatred is reserved for these swaying steps, always leaning on a bamboo cane. |
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You may order this Chapbook by emailing Deborah your name, address and phone number.
The Chapbook is priced at $10.00 which includes shipping within the continental United States.
Email Deborah Here: Deb@ohiopoetryassn.org
We would like you to meet Beverly Zeimer
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Beverly is the daughter of a tenant farmer, a scholar,and a poet.
Beverly's love for poetry dates back to childhood when her mother instilled in her a love for the english language. From her mother, she learned verse and recited memorized poems every Sunday at church.
A grassroots advocate for the preservation of farm land and the rural lifestyle, Beverly describes her work as revealing the importance of preserving the history of Ohioans and their varied traditional cultures. She does this by sharing her own childhood experiences, where she lived in the richness of her families struggles and poverty.
Written in narrative free verse, Beverly's chap book mirrors the rural nature and culture that surrounded her childhood and shaped her life. It presents us with the unique and wonderful opportunity to travel the woods, farmlands, and meadows with her, in this exciting and much anticipated release of her work, in her award winning chapbook "Pick a Way".
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Peace in a Primitive Place for Grandma Down old Xenia Road and near the heart of Paint Creek Fork, past the caretaker's house, stark white against a cerulean sky, a green-painted pony-truss bridge. I found you in a hill of sedge, facing, with a Shawnee Indian Chief, the southern native wood of burr oaks, hickories, sugar maple and white marble stones. All around, signs of life-- bright green field corn, lively cardinals in flowering shrubs. Your simple love of life in this place. Your tobacco pipe at the bottom of the run. |
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You may order this Chapbook by emailing Beverly your name, address and phone number.
The Chapbook is priced at $10.00 which includes shipping within the continental United States.
Email Beverly Here: bjzeimer@aol.com Or You may also send your order along with check or money order to:
Beverly Zeimer P.O. Box 203
Harrisburg, Ohio 43126
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Dr. Robert Birch (more comfortable as Bob) is retired after 35 years of practice as a psychologist, most of which was in private practice specializing in relationship issues. He had taught part-time at the Zanesville branch of Ohio University, and was an adjunct faculty member within the Family Therapy program at Ohio State. Prior to retirement he had published a number of self-help books and had written limericks for fun. Following retirement he and his wife moved to Knox County, where Bob began writing poetry earnest, finding pleasure in exploring a variety of forms. He has published a number of books and chapbooks, including collections of limericks, of sonnets, of Villanelle and of the little-known Glosa. He also has published three novels and four novellas. The Echo of Applause reveals the author's insight into human emotions, his perception of human behavior, and his keen sense of humor. In this, his largest published collection, he writes in a variety of styles, some poems as metered rhyme and some in free verse. Between the covers of this paperback book you will find a collection of humorous ballads, a sampling of sonnets, and a variety of villanelle. You will also discover several pages of cinquains and haiku. Bob writes of nature, people, life, love and loss.
| Entanglement I confessed, no other choice. I had been found out, blamed, exposed. ‘Twas I who put nettles in her hair. Had gathered the pricklies Into a sticky ball, Planted them like a bird’s nest within the innocent strands of my sister’s silky locks. Tears rolled down her face as she pulled, each painful tug complicating the entanglement. What punishment for a six year old boy could have stopped these sixty years of guilt? |
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We welcome award winning Ohio Poet, Dalene Stull!
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Dalene Workman Stull, of Danville, Ohio, was insatiably drawn to books from the time she was able to pick one up. Having taught herself to read by the time she was five, she demanded to go to school, but as she was too young to attend first grade, her mother wisely started her on piano lessons. Music came quickly and easily; thus at a very early age, she entered the two magical worlds that have inspired her ever since.
Dalene, as winner of the competition, received a monetary prize, ten books, and a CD to be used for publishing additional copies of her book.
At Indiana's Manchester College, she "began to feel a vague urge to write." The urge intensified until it could only be called a passion.
Virtually all the poems in PLAID PEOPLE have won awards in other nationwide contests.
When she is not writing award winning poetry books, Dalene teaches piano,enjoys sewing, flower arranging, cake decorating, crewel work, and of coarse lots and lots of reading! "I'm much more in favor of a 40-hour day than a 40-hour work week,for I know I'll never get half the things done that I'd like to do in the regular 24-hour variety!"
PLAID PEOPLE was the winner of the Mary Ann Bandemer Chapbook Contest sponsored by the Pennsylvania Poetry Society, Inc.
In a world that is filled with somber and sometimes tragic events, these light-hearted poems will bring welcome chuckles!
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Where is the man who's always right Or always wrong - all black, all white, With never a streak of purple pride Or emerald envy deep inside? Is anyone purely pink and sweet, Or always blue and too discreet? You may know some all good, all bad, But the people I know are mostly plaid. |
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You may order this Chapbook by sending the following:
Your name:_____________________________
Address:_______________________________ and
phone number:__________________________ and
your payment to:
Dalene Stull
19767 Danville Jelloway Road
Danville, Ohio 43014
The Chapbook is priced at $5.00 which includes shipping within the continental United States.
Donald Coonrod earned an AB from Earlham College where he was First Honor Student and an MD from Johns Hopkins Medical School. he finished an internship and residency in Medicine at the University of Chicago Hospital in Chicago, IL. As a postdoc, Donald trained as an __52__(@0x128).jpg)
Infectous Disease specialist at Northwestern University in Chicago with Dr. Phil Patterson and then at the Univ. of Colorado with Dr. Ted Eickhoff. After two years of military service as a Lt. Commander at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia in a medical research program on human leprosy and participant in the first isolation of the Legionaires bacillus. Following military service, Dr.Coonrod became Professor of Medicine and Director of the Division of Infectious Diseases at the Univ. of Kentucky & later served as a Chief of Medicine (V.A. Hospital, Knoxville,Iowa) and Chief of Staff at the V.A. Hospital in Amarillo, TX. he has published over 100 research articles in infectious diseases.
What does all of that have to do with poetry? Donald Coonrods first love was medicin but he has always maintained a love for poetry which began in High School and continued at Earlham College, a Quaker school. During his medical career he stopped writing poetry. But recently has been able to concentrate on poetry, and has now published over 100 poems with publisher such as "A Little Poetry", Pegasus (Journal of the Kentucky State Poetry Society), "Coffee Press Journal", "Ygdrasil", "The Mid-America Poetry Review", "Prairie Poetry", "Between Kisses", "Artistry in Poetry", and "Poesia", among others. In 2006 he placed second in the Kentucky State Poetry Sciety competition in speculative poetry. His favorite modern poet is Mary Oliver.
Dr. Coonrod relathes "In my world, that of the ordinary poet, I have learned to celebrate small things. For me, that includes publication of my first chapbook, entitled "Breathing Cup," on December 5, 2007."
You may order Breathing Cup by emailing
Dr.Coonrod Here: mailto:donaldcoonrod@aol.com.
Dr. Coonrods's web site is HERE:
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