• 8.5” x 5.5”
• cream coverstock
• stapled
• cover photo hand-embossed & adhered
• 26 pgs
• verve bath press 2008

this issue is AMAZING, a must read! see what some of the contributors are saying below! this issue is full of talent, beautiful photos from erin wallace, katie elizabeth, roxanne carter & aleathia drehmer & poems from some of the best female poets of the present day, some young, seasoned, unschooled, etc!

contributors:

gina abelkop • heather bell • courtney j. campbell • pris campbell • roxanne carter • jane crown • jessica dawson • aleathia drehmer • katie elizabeth • lori jakiela • marie lascu • lisa latourette • dorianne laux • miriam matzeder • ellyn maybe • amanda oaks • kathleen paul-flanagan • elly portnoy • misti rainwater-lites • erin reardon • rebecca schumejda • linda smith • tammy trendle • erin wallace • amanda wheelock


WHAT SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE SAYING:

Simple, beautiful, daring! I LOVE kathleen paul-flanagan's "Because the World is So Fast and So Small:" "I teach them lemonade/comes from lemons/rolled on the kitchen counter/to bring up the juice,/not from yellow powder/in a tiny barrel/ sold on supermarket shelves."
- rebecca schumejda


I just got my issue of Words Dance 12--god, it's just beautiful and SO well put together, the amazing poems, the order of the poems, the photographs--everything. Thank you again for inviting me to be a part of it, I'm so proud! I'm going to order a couple more issues for family too--I think lots of women should have it.
- lisa latourette


i got my copy of words dance today, and i had to send you a message ... this is the most powerful little book of writing i've read in so long. by the time i finished dorianne laux's "Mother's Day" I was sobbing. when i went back, i got to heather bell's poems and realized THAT is what writing is, pris' poem and kathleen paul-flannagan's poem ... ah, they're all so good. it's just amazing.
- courtney j. campbell


The diversity of voices appealed to me in this book. The poems are well written and relevant to various atages of my own life. For example, in Parellel Universe, Ellen Maybe tells us: Sometimes I wonder if there are one million people/listening at the same time/to the same Leonard Cohen song,/the one that keeps people from killing themselves

In Curled, a poem about illness, Altheathia Drehmer says: She grips me now with tiny fingers,/speaking of her son curled/in a bed from stroke,/how he had never hurt anyone in his life,/to deserve such an end,/such a fate.

and in lost and found, we find Jessica Dawson: Your fingers perch on my bare hip,/search my skin like/hungry brown birds/and it's spring/under the covers,

I loved reading the journal. It has a permanent place in my library to read and reread.
-pris campbell