complete little house on the prairie book set

Igloria enjoys drawing, hand-binding little books, experimenting with collage, trying out new recipes, and ripping out and re-starting knitting projects when she’s not writing or teaching. She intends to write until the energy runs out, which it hasn’t-so far. People say she is a kick-ass creative writing teacher. An essay, ‘My Mother in Drumlin Country’, was listed in Notable Essays and Literary Nonfiction of 2017 in Best American Essays (Mariner). Her eighth poetry collection is ‘Massacre of the Birds’ (Salmon). She was appointed Poet Laureate of Naas, Co Kildare, during 2022. Mary O’Donnell has published seventeen books since 1990. When she is not actually writing poems, she can be found leading bird walks and poking around in the local wetlands, or hanging out with her two grown sons. The author of two chapbooks, as well as poems in scattered journals, she currently serves on the boards of two local environmental organizations and teaches courses in nature writing and ecopoetry. Winifred Hughes is a reformed academic and active birder living in Princeton, NJ.

HONORARY MENTIONS (in no particular order): A poem with many interests, including the reader. What a pleasure to watch his poet’s mind at work, guiding us this way and that, then landing on our own experience with mortality. – Billy CollinsĪ poem with a facility of movement, swinging from the Judas goat to Darwin, a dying dog, and ending with our own dead, how they linger and return. The poem is timely as well as formally commendable.

Here, the difficult subject of the forces denying girls an education in Afghanistan is approached at an angle by which the poet ingeniously mixes the language of science with the plight of the young students to form a kind of mathematics of intolerance. An accomplishment in understatement. – Billy Collins The flora and flora are intimately rendered for nothing has changed, except a terrible sense of absence, creating a palpable split on what’s on either side of the window.

This poem is subtle elegy which uses the familiar scene of a rural backyard to evoke the absence of a loved one. Comments on the winning three poems are from Billy Collins (below), who we sincerely thank for lending his time and experience to judge the prize.Ĭongratulations to these ten poets, and also to those whose poems made the short and long-lists.

Complete little house on the prairie book set