Southwest by Midwest
Date: May 15, 2020
ISBN: 1948017824
Price: $20.00
43 poems
101 pages
Dos Madres Press
PO Box 294
Loveland, OH 45140
Direct orders: Dos Madres Press
Distributor: Small Press Distribution
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Southwest by Midwest, the fourteenth full-length poetry collection of former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf, centers on his friendship with three creative Native American women, his former student Christie Cooke, Navajo/Diné; Jeanetta Calhoun Mish, Delaware/Lenape, the Oklahoma Poet Laureate whose home base is Albuquerque; and Jody Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo/Tewa potter who lives in Albuquerque. This book of forty-three poems includes color photos by Richard Fields of twenty-three Jody Naranjo pots, or details from them, and two paintings by the late Alvaro Cardona-Hine, a native of Costa Rica who lived in Truchas, New Mexico, on the high road to Taos.
Links to online texts of poems in Southwest by Midwest:
Connotation Press: “Georgia O’Keeffe’s Mountain,” scroll to third poem
Cybersoleil: “Horses Munching Grass, Blue Field, Evening”; “Northern New Mexico Night”
“Canyon de Chelly Reflections”
Creation Spirituality Newsletter (Jan.-Feb., 2020), scroll down: “At the Center of the Circle,” “The Pot Taking shape”
Flying Island: “Dream City XIII”: forthcoming;
‘”On Learning in New Mexico of the Death of Seamus Heaney”
“Small Book of Heart Songs on the Shelf”:
The World We Live(d) In: An Anthology of Poems about Social Justice, ed. by Barbara Shoup (Indiana Writers Center, 2019), section on Violence: “The Police and the Potter’s Healing Hands”