Read Poems on the Internet by Lois Marie Harrod

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"

Bio

Award-winning poet Lois Marie Harrod's chapbook Furniture has just been published by Grayson Press. 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, l999) ; Part of the Deeper Sea (Palanquin Press,l997); Every Twinge a Verdict (Belle Mead Press, l987), Crazy Alice (Belle Mead Press, l991) and a chapbook Green Snake Riding (New Spirit Press, l994). Over 325 of her poems have appeared in journals including American Poetry Review, Blueline, The MacGuffin, Salt, The Literary Review, Zone3. She has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize 7 times. A former high school English teacher, she presently supervises TCNJ student teachers.

Upcoming Readings

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.

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

You Missed:

Lois Marie Harrod with Cool Women reading on the theme "Over the River and Through the Woods," at Tulipwood, 1165 Hamilton Street, Somerset, NJ, Saturday, November 8 at 2 p.m. 732-560-1977. www.themeadowsfoundation.org/tulipwood/html

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