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Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems

Life In Me - anthology of love poems
$12.95 plus S/H --Order today!

Love does more than make skin tingle and cheeks flush. It creates an interior heat that can stoke the furnace of inspiration and communion, giving us fuel to get through our daily lives. That heat can also be wild as grass on fire, burning us to ash.

The Maryland Writers’ Association, editor Laura Shovan, and fifty poets guide us through a seven-fold expression of love Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems. This collection explores:

First Love, Lost Love
Love of Art and Work
Friends and Family
Love of Nature
Love Floods the Senses
The Madness of Love
Love as We Age

Without the dreaded saccharine of so many love poems, these reveal a depth of experience, fresh and unexpected perspectives, and no lack of pain and joy. With insight, wit, and honesty, Life in Me Like Grass on Fire creates a view of love that is playful, resigned, passionate and, ultimately, hopeful.

“This collection offers dazzling variety…riches to the senses, an abundance of wonderful ‘stuff.’ I [HEART] Life In Me Like Grass On Fire.”

—Clarinda Harriss, author of Mortmain, co-editor of Hot Sonnets: An Anthology

"Life in Me Like Grass on Fire is the confluence into which the many streams of love flow. Ride the current of these words through rapids and still waters to places new yet familiar with these poets as your able guides."

—Gregg Wilhelm, Executive Director, CityLit Project

Order today. For more information or to schedule a reading, please contact editor Laura Shovan.

New Lines from the Old Line State

ISBN: 978-0-9820032-0-6
$15.95

Thirty-six captivating pieces of literature from twenty-nine authors in this debut anthology from the Maryland Writers' Association

For over twenty years, the Maryland Writers' Association has nurtured and supported the Maryland literary arts community with monthly meetings, workshops, lectures, author showcases, newsletters, and an annual writers' conference. Now, for the first time, these select MWA members deliver a riveting introduction to the region's writing community in New Lines from the Old Line State.

This collection offers a rich and varied selection of contemporary literature from a stylistically and culturally diverse range of writers including:

Eric D. Goodman, Juliet M. Johnson, Lalita Noronha, Austin S. Camacho, Mary Stojak, Frank S. Joseph, Gary L. Lester, Sonia L. Linebaugh, Vanessa Orlando, Lynn Stearns, Sherri Cook Woosley, Angela Render, Jennie L. Deitz, Sherry Audette Morrow, Sally Whitney, Jane Frutchey, Susan Lesser, Liz Moser, Bonny Barry Sanders, Laura Shovan, B. Morrison, Scott Frias, Lauren Beth Eisenberg, Sherry Bosley, Chris Bancells, Al Karasa, Rosemary Mild, Elizabeth Ayres, Ami Spencer

With seven essays, fourteen poems, and fifteen short stories in genres ranging from mystery to fantasy to literary fiction, New Lines from the Old Line State has something for everyone.

Order here (MWA members please e-mail MemberDiscounts@marylandwriters.org with your full name and membership ID number for a special members-only discount). For more information or to schedule a reading, please contact MWA Public Relations Director Lauren Flax.

Read and hear some the media coverage that New Lines from the Old Line State has been generating!

Pen in Hand

Pen in Hand Submission Guidelines

You must be a current MWA member to be considered for publication.
Maryland-based literary journals, publishers, reading series, and writers' associations are welcome to submit announcements such as calls for submissions and upcoming events.
Submissions should be in unformatted text and included in the body of an email message. Please include abrief bio. If line art or halftones will accompany your submission, please specify that in your e-mail and the editor will provide formatting guidelines.
include "PIH" in the e-mail subject line and send to Pen in Hand Editor Paul Lagasse at peninhand@marylandwriters.org.Questions and queries are encouraged.

Pen in Hand is the official newsletter of Maryland Writers' Association. It is published quarterly and posted on the MWA website (see below).

Pen in Hand articles are written by MWA members about subjects of interest to writers. Each issue might explore a particular question or theme of writing. Articles can include interviews with writers or guest-speakers; how-to-advice; short, short stories and poetry; member profiles; or member surveys, among other subjects.

Regular features include a message from the MWA President, highlights of MWA Board meetings, Chapter updates and meeting schedules, critique Group updates, details about contests and conferences, and contact information for the MWA Board and other officers.

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