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New Chapbook Announcement!
Conspiring Skyward by Cameren Harper
I’m super pleased and proud to announce that I have a poetry chapbook collection forthcoming with Kelsay Books: We Have Seen the Corn will be entering production in May 2025, and will be available for purchase soon thereafter (Don’t worry, I will keep you updated!). By the way, the gorgeous graphic above is the illustration my immensely talented and generous daughter, Cameren Harper, created expressly for use as the cover of We Have Seen the Corn, for which I’m inexpressibly grateful!
This little collection has been a long time in the making and most of the individual poems have been previously published (including the title poem, below*), but what I’m most thrilled about is this opportunity to amass and share with you all these words of grief, growth, joy, and celebration into one beautiful entity dedicated to my husband, inspiration, love of my life, brilliant poet, and most extraordinary (and freaking adorable!) of human beings, the one and only, inimitable Robert Okaji (idk, you may’ve heard of him…).
I’ve been sitting on this news for quite a while, but I’ve decided that there couldn’t be a better time to make such an announcement than during our revered National Poetry Month, so the cat is officially clawing her way out of the bag!
Thank you so much for sharing this poetic moment with me! And stay tuned for more info as it comes available!
*We Have Seen the Corn
with twelve-hundred miles
of fields in our wake
I am aching
to slip among those stalks & touch
their silk-topped ears all conspiring
skyward now
to beguile the birds’ cries from the brim
of that thundercloud
burgeoning
over the Nebraska plain
let’s pull off the interstate so we can
stretch our legs for a bit
Indiana will wait
split those crows’ itinerant
congregation there & park
right alongside the unending green
I want to enter
its late-sun-streams sifting the sky motes
crimson-gold & stirring
the cicadas’ whirrs & earwigs’ scuttles in the loam
to a viscous chorus
& with my hand clasped in yours press
another lush measure
into our song’s sweet & sultry folds
~STEPHANIE L. HARPER
Featured American Poet at The High Window!
My poems, “Brave,” “There is This,” “Anatomy of Hope,” and “Moon Cake” are now up in the winter 2019 edition of The High Window, a fantastic online journal hailing from the U.K.! Thank you to editor David Cooke for the incredible thrill and honor of hosting me as this issue’s Featured American Poet!
3 Poems Up At CatheXis Northwest
Thank you to editor C. M. Tollefson and the poetry editing team at CatheXis Northwest for publishing my 3 poems, “Aubade with Smoke,” “Dilated,” and “What a Patriot Dreams.”
The latter two poems also appear in my newest chapbook, The Death’s-Head’s Testament, scheduled for release by Main Street Rag in March 2019, and available now for advance order @ $6.50 per copy.
Two poems up at Rat’s Ass Review!
Many thanks to editor Roderick Bates for including my quirky poems, “Jack’s in the Pulpit” and “Trumplewocky,” in this terrific selection of PWA (Poetry With Attitude) in the summer 2018 edition of Rat’s Ass Review (poems in alphabetical order, according to authors’ last names).
Two Poems up at Isacoustic*
I’m so pleased that my poems, “Dross” and “Chimera,” are featured today at the wonderful online journal, Isacoustic*! Thank you editor (and very fine person) Barton Smock for hosting my work.
Q&A with Poet Stephanie L. Harper (Part 2)
Thank you, Sir Robert, for your generosity and insightfulness in this interview, and for everything you do in general to promote a sense of authentic connectedness that’s so vital to poetry and Poetkind!
I’m pleased to present part 2 of the Q&A with poet Stephanie L. Harper:
If you were a poetic form, which would you be?
I would be a poetic form that could seep down into darkness, molecule by molecule, through miles of porous rock, to return to the wellspring, then rise again to the surface, and wash over the grief-stricken with the all immensity of love and joy in my depths. I’m pretty sure that would make me an elegy.
What themes or traits will readers find in your work? What will they not find?
My work is chock full of mythological creatures, archetypal symbolism, and nature imagery (i.e., birds, seascapes, wolves, forests, volcanoes). It touches often on spirituality (and/or religiosity), sometimes alludes to current events (and associated dismay), and has an overall feminist and philosophical bent. My love for and awe of my children shows up a lot, too…
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My new chapbook is now available!
It’s officially official! My debut poetry collection, This Being Done, is now available for prepublication order! RESERVE YOUR COPY HERE: Finishing Line Press!
Thank you to my son, Matthew Harper, for contributing his gorgeous photograph, “Beesiness as Usual” for use on the cover of THIS BEING DONE. According to the timeline I received from Finishing Line Press, the graphic designer should have my cover design completed sometime this week! I’ll be sharing it here as soon as it’s ready!
I’m so grateful to my WordPress Poetry Posse for your interest in, enthusiasm for, and support of my work! I can’t emphasize enough the difference you make in my life as a poet, artist, and human being, in general.
I must also give a shout-out to poet and human extraordinaire, Robert Okaji, whose guidance has been instrumental in this venture. Thank you, Bob, for sharing your many talents with our community, and for your wisdom, humility, and generosity of spirit that so enrich my life, and the lives of countless others!
Last Day of Pre-Publication Sales for Robert Okaji’s Chapbook
Don’t get left in the cold as Robert Okaji’s wondrous poetry takes the literary world by storm! 🌩 Let’s celebrate the difference that Bob’s vital words have made in so many lives, and take today’s last opportunity to make a difference for him! 😊
From Every Moment a Second
Today is the final day of the pre-publication sales period for my new chapbook, From Every Moment a Second. If you intended to order a copy but haven’t yet (the dog ate your homework, you had to wash your hair, poetry? you’re kidding, right?), time’s running out. Order here.
Many, many thanks to the members of this blog community for supporting my writing. I am truly grateful for your wisdom, advice, humor and willingness to help me traverse the strange and wonderful worlds of poetry and publication.
Recording of Robert Okaji’s Poem, “Mayflies”
Hear the words that inspired this artwork for the cover of Robert Okaji’s new chapbook, *From Every Moment A Second* in the voice of the man himself!
“Mayflies” is included in my chapbook, From Every Moment a Second, forthcoming from Finishing Line Press. FLP is taking prepublication orders here. It was also the inspiration for the artwork gracing the cover. I am in debt to Stephanie L. Harper for providing such a vivid and appropriate piece of art for the book.
Please note: prepublication sales determine the print run, which means this stage is crucial in terms of how many copies will be printed and the number of copies I’ll receive as payment. So if you feel inclined to help, and are able, please purchase your copy before August 11. Thank you!
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