Nine times nominated for The Pushcart Prize, Carla Martin-Wood is the author of the recently released Into the Windfall Light (The Pink Petticoat Press), as well as Songs from the Web (encore), One flew east, How we are loved, and Flight Risk & Other Poems, all full-length collections of her poetry (all Fortunate Childe Publications). She is the author of the following chapbooks: Songs from the Web (Bitter Wine Press); Garden of Regret, Redheaded Stepchild, The Last Magick (all Pudding House Chapbook Series); Feed Sack Majesty, HerStory, and The Last Magick and Other Poems (all Fortunate Childe Publications); and Absinthe & Valentines (Flutter Press). Carla's work appears in many anthologies, including: Love Poems & Other Messages for Bruce Springsteen and Casting the Nines (Pudding House Publications); Lilith: a collection of women's writes, Postcards from Eve, Tipping the Sacred Cow, and Vintage (all Fortunate Childe Anthologies); From the Front Porch (Silver Boomer Books); Rising in Hope (Tinfoildresses Publications) and a forthcoming anthology on Amelia Earhart. A copy of Carla’s chapbook, Garden of Regret, resides in the Special Collections & University Archives at Stanford University, contributed by Yevgeny Yevtushenko. Carla's poems have appeared in a plethora of journals in the US, England, and Ireland since 1978. She was nominated for Best of the Net 2010 and 2011, and is listed in the directory of Poets & Writers |
Pushcart Prize Nominations 2008 Praisepoem (Joyful!) 2009 Respite (The Foliate Oak) 2010 Broken Lullaby (Victorian Violet Press) Holy Night (Victorian Violet Press) 2011 For Maggie If Ever I May Find Her (Fortunate Childe Publications) Thanksgiving (Fortunate Childe Publications) Windfall Meditation (The Pink Petticoat Press) Dark Lullaby (The Pink Petticoat Press) Endangered (The Pink Petticoat Press) |
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| Special thanks to Kathy Shaw (Shawkl) for the use of one of her magnificent quilt blocks in my header collage. She is a consummate needle artist. Check out her blog at www.shawkl.com |
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