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PUBLISHED: May.01.2010

The Alchemist's Kitchen

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PUBLISHED: Sep.01.2006

Cures Include Travel

From Library Journal "What is poetry in wartime?" News anchors around the world apologize for showing explicit footage, but, as one Al Jazeera broadcaster says, "The world should know the truth." Rich has seen more of the world than most of us, and her poems bring back a truth we are unlikely to encounter anywhere else. As an election supervisor in Bosnia, a...

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PUBLISHED: Apr.01.2000

The Cartographer's Tongue

Qustions of geography, ethnic identity, and the corssing of cultural borders keep company with poetic form in this first collection of work. "These poems will wound you and haunt you, but the larger knowing they bring is crucial . Susan Rich is a caring citizen of every heartland."-Naomi Shihab Nye "Susan Rich gives us a collection of poems...generous in the range...

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Feb.05.2012 - 4:59 pm

7 Things that I Loved about Search For Meaning - Festival of the Book

The Search for Meaning Book Festival I've just returned from Seattle University where I attended and participated in an amazing event. I've been to literally...

Dec.08.2010 - 8:46 am

Interview with photographer Rosanne Olson and Free Book Giveaway

Portraiture: An Interview with Rosanne Olson and a Free Book!Rosanne Olson - Portrait Some people are just multi-talented. And Rosanne Olson is one of them. I first met Rosanne...

Dec.08.2010 - 8:45 am

Interview with photographer Rosanne Olson and Free Book Giveaway

Portraiture: An Interview with Rosanne Olson and a Free Book!Rosanne Olson - Portrait Some people are just multi-talented. And Rosanne Olson is one of them. I first met Rosanne...

Sep.24.2010 - 12:15 am

Thankful Thursday - Second Edition

Thankful Thursday - Before It EndsThank you for the last two days of working on poems. Maybe I can make my deadline after all Thank you for 20 more minutes in which I will try to...

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Oct.03.2009 - 6:59 pm

In response to: Are you intrigued? Are these photographs that you want to learn more about?

I want to be clear that Myra Albert Wiggins (1869-1956)

These are photographs by Myra Albert Wiggins and they are representative of her Dutch Genre work. She also took many...

Oct.03.2009 - 4:15 pm

In response to: The Alchemist's Kitchen - Poetry Book

Thank you!

Have you done this kind of thing with success? And most importantly, what does success look like? If I am leaving...

Nov.09.2008 - 8:48 pm

In response to: Derek Walcott and Barack Obama together

Walcott or ?

There must be some other serious contenders. Patricia Smith is getting a fair bit of attention these days and comes...

Nov.08.2008 - 9:34 pm

In response to: Who Will Be the Inaugural Poet?

Frost was faking - don't you think?

Hi Paul, I've always believed that Frost knew exactly what he was doing by reading a superb poem at the inauguration...

Oct.28.2008 - 8:12 am

In response to: And the plot thickens ...

Thank you, Hammoudi

Yes, I like the idea of my poems having brothers -- and sisters. I do wonder if others could pick out their genetic...

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Poem: In the Beginning

Poem: After You've Gone, The House

Poem: Polishing Stars

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Sep.05.2008

Published by Library Journal

"What is poetry in wartime?" News anchors around the world apologize for showing explicit footage, but, as one Al Jazeera broadcaster says, "The world should know the truth." Rich...

About Susan

A transplanted Bostonian, Susan Rich is the winner of the PEN USA Poetry Award as well as the Peace Corps Writers Poetry Award for The Cartographer's Tongue: Poems of the World, (White Pine Press, 2000). Her book, Cures Include Travel came out from White Pine...

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