Read Poems on the Internet by Lois Marie Harrod

Homer Holds Down a Job in the Bureau of Blind Statistics
Ms. Finicky's Grammar Lessons
Spelling the World Backwards
The Clothes Grinding Down the Line
"Her Kisses Were More Stone that Kisses"
A Small Parenthesis in Eternity
The Sonnet of Winter
The Hospital Sonnet
PerleorneqPhone Call to Indonesia
At the Academy Awards or Best Supporting Grief
Goldenrod in Winter
Never Mind
Lovers Disembodied like Letters in an Alphabet
"Landscape laid open like an old newspaper"
Cosmogony
From Labyrinth to Linear
"What will your father say down among the shades?"
This Is Not a Cigar
"Walt Whitman's Sermon on Spirituality to a Certain Congregation of Worms"
"Voltages for Different Locations"
You could Save on a New Sky!
What the Elephant Sings
The Naked Man in the Glass Elevator
When you were dying (November 28, 2009)

Bio

Award-winning poet Lois Marie Harrod's chapbook Furniture won the 2008 Grayson Press Poetry Prize Her chapbook Firmament was published by Finishing Line Press, 2007; her chapbook Put Your Sorry Side Out by Concrete Wolf, 2005. She won her third poetry fellowship from the New Jersey Council on the Arts 2003. Her other books include Spelling the World Backward (Palanquin Press, University of South Carolina Aiken, 2000); This Is a Story You Already Know (Palanquin Press, 1999) ; Part of the Deeper Sea (Palanquin Press, 1997); Every Twinge a Verdict (Belle Mead Press, 1987), Crazy Alice (Belle Mead Press, 1991) and a chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press, 1994). Over 360 of her poems have appeared in literary journals and online magazines including American Poetry Review, Blueline, The MacGuffin, Salt, The Literary Review, Verse Daily and Zone3. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 7 times. A former high school English teacher, she presently supervises student teachers and teaches Creative Writing at The College of New Jersey.

Upcoming Readings:

Lois Marie Harrod reading at The Unitarian Universal Fellowship Hall, 1 West Nelson Street, Newton, New Jersey 07806, 862-268-2954. February 2, 2010. 7 pm.

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Madeline Tiger, Sunday, March 21, 2010, 2 p.m., South Brunswick Library, 110 Kingston Lane, Monmouth Junction, NJ

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Cool Women at Grounds for Sculpture, 18 Fairgrounds Road, Trenton, NJ, 3 pm, May 16, 2010.


You Missed:

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Patricia Goodrich, at Barnes & Noble, Route 1, Princeton, NJ, 7:30 for Delaware Valley Poets. OCTOBER 12, 2009.

Lois Marie Harrod reading at the Bridgewater Public Library for the SOMERSET POETRY GROUP

1 Vogt Drive, Bridgewater, NJ
 (908) 526-4016. For further information contact Bob Rosenbloom at bloom306@yahoo.com

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Cool Women at Cool Women's Book Launch, Cool Women Volume 4, Princeton Arts Center, Princeton, N. J., DECEMBER 4, 2009.

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Cool Women at Windrows, 2000 Windrow Dr., Princeton, NJ 08540 June 23, 3 pm.

Laura McCullough, Nancy Scott and Lois Marie Harrod reading Thursday, November 20. Middletown Township Public Library, 55 New Monmouth Rd., Middletown, NJ. 7:00 PM

Juditha Dowd and Lois Marie Harrod reading December 12, 2008, 8 pm, at Newtown Public Library Poetry Series, 114 Centre Avenue, Newtown, PA 18940, 215-968-7659. For further info contact Kathleen Mulholland, 215-968-4843.

Juditha Dowd and Lois Marie Harrod reading December 12, 2008, 8 pm, at Newtown Public Library Poetry Series, 114 Centre Avenue, Newtown, PA 18940, 215-968-7659. For further info contact Kathleen Mulholland, 215-968-4843.

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Cool Women at The Raconteur Bookstore, on January 30, 2008, at 8 pm. 431 Main Street, Metuchen, NJ. www.raconteurbooks.com.

Lois Marie Harrod reading with Cool Women Thursday, February 26, Middletown Township Public Library, 55 New Monmouth Rd., Middletown, NJ. 7:00 PM.

Poetry Books by Lois Marie Harrod

Or order books directly at discount: Cool Women Books

Furniture, Grayson Books 2008 Poetry Chapbook Winner http://www.graysonbooks.com/
Firmament, Finishing Line Press, 2007, available amazon.com
Put Your Sorry Side Out, Concrete Wolf 2005, available www.concretewolf.com
Spelling the World Backwards, Palaquin Press, 2000, available amazon.com
This is a Story You Already Know, Palaquin Press, 2000, available amazon.com
Part of the Deeper Sea, Palaquin Press, 1999, available amazon.com
Green Snake Riding, New Spirit Press, out of print.
Crazy Alice, Belle Mead Press, 1993, available amazon.com
Every Twinge a Verdict, Belle Mead Press, 1987, out of print