- Wingbeats: Exercises and Practice in Poetry
- 2012 Texas Poetry Calendar
- Redefining Beauty, Poems by Karla K. Morton
- Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair: Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar
- 2011 Texas Poetry Calendar
2012 Texas Poetry Calendar
Scott Wiggerman and Cindy Huyser, Editors
Cover Photograph by Walter Eagleton
Cover Design by Kristee Humphrey
$13.95
Starting with the cover, you’re going to love our 2012 calendar. Award-winning Denton photographer Walter Eagleton photographed a pair of boots embossed with the Texas seal. Then, Kristee Humphrey, our graphic designer, worked her magic. The result is breathtaking.
Inside you will discover 95 poems as diverse and original as the state itself. You’ll find poetry by former poet laureates of Texas and Oklahoma. You’ll enjoy established and award-winning poets as well as younger writers, some of them appearing here for the first time.
The Poets:
Nick P. Adams, Robin Allen, Evelyn C. Appelbee, Linda Banks, Tammy L. Beevers, Diane Gonzales Bertrand, Patricia Spears Bigelow, Ann Reisfeld Boutté, Mary Ellen Branan, Frances Briggs, John Brooks, Nathan Brown, Del Cain, Claire Vogel Camargo, Martha Kirby Capo, Barbara Ann Carle, Mary Margaret Carlisle, Ida Chavira, Elzy Cogswell, Kay L. Cox, A. N. Coyle, Stan Crawford, Mary S. Dallas, Margo Davis, Frank J. De Canio, Susan De Wolfe, Winston Derden, Richard Dixon, Cyra S. Dumitru, Toni Heringer Falls, Fernando Esteban Flores, Ken Fontenot, Jeannie Gambill, Alan Gann, Lyman Grant, Martha K. Grant, Amy L. Greenspan, Barbara Gregg, Carol Hamilton, Jerri Buckingham Hardesty, Cindy Johnson Harper, Michael Harty, Ralph Hausser, J. Todd Hawkins, J. Paul Holcomb, Ann Howells, Jean Jackson, Monty Jones, Carie Juettner, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Erica Lehrer, Catherine L’Herisson, Becky Liestman, Kate Mangold, Margaret Barrett Mayberry, Anne McCrady, Diane D. McGurren, Elisabeth Sharp McKetta, Frances L. McRedmond, Neil Meili, Karla K. Morton, Katherine Durham Oldmixon, Christa Pandey, Richard H. Peake, Laura Peña, D. Ellis Phelps, Barbara Ras, Carol Coffee Reposa, Brenda Nettles Riojas, Margie McCreless Roe, Susan Rooke, William Pitt Root, Gary S. Rosin, Lynn Veach Sadler, Jeff Santosuosso, Shubh Bala Schiesser, Steven Schroeder, Kelsey Erin Shipman, Naomi Stroud Simmons, Carol Lavelle Snow, Sandra Soli, Marilyn Stacy, Mary Bryan Stafford, Lulynne Streeter, Sandi Stromberg, Susan Beall Summers, Sandra Terry Tolliver, Rebecca Hatcher Travis, Jo Virgil, Beverly Voss, Sarah Webb, Christine Wenk-Harrison, Allyson M. Whipple, Jill Wiggins, Harold Whit Williams.
Redefining Beauty
by Karla K. Morton, 2010 Texas Poet Laureate
Photographs by Walter Eagleton
Cover Design by Kristee Humphrey
$17.55 – 64 pages
Redefining Beauty grew out of author Karla K. Morton’s diagnosis, treatment and recovery from breast cancer. In a series of passionate and powerful poems, accompanied by photographer Walter Eagleton’s stunning black and white images, Morton offers readers hope and comfort through her intimate candor, good-humored defiance and unfiltered honesty. Redefining Beauty has been named the Winner in the Women’s Issues category of the 2010 Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
“Morton’s Redefining Beauty presents a fresh perspective on cancer. In effect, it is a redefining of more than just what is beautiful concerning our bodies, relationships, and poetry; it’s a redefining of cancer in those spaces as well. Her ability to combine beauty and ugliness, sickness and sweetness, and humor and fright makes her collection an intriguing and entertaining one.”
— Laura E. Decker, in Texas Books in Review
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Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair:
Best of the Texas Poetry Calendar
Scott Wiggerman and Jason Robberson, Editors
Cover Design by Kristee Humphrey
$17.95 – 224 pages
The Lone Star State comes to life in Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair. From the Gulf Coast to the Big Bend, from the Panhandle to the Rio Grande Valley—the people, flora, fauna, places, weather, and seasons of Texas are well represented among the collection’s almost 300 poems, all published during the first decade of the Texas Poetry Calendar. The 187 poets are as diverse as the poems themselves, from housewives to university professors, from those just starting in poetry to those with numerous credits and world renown—all touched by Texas in some way. Everything about this volume is big, especially the rewards.
“From the freak South Texas snowstorm to the summer day with ‘cicadas winding up their missionary pitch,’ from grackles to gadwalls to collared pecaries—Big Land, Big Sky, Big Hair showcases the everyday as well as the extraordinary.”
— Susan Hanson, in Texas Books in Review
2011 Texas Poetry Calendar
Scott Wiggerman and Cindy Huyser, Editors
Cover Design by Kristee Humphrey
Cover Photo by Carol King
$5.00 — clearance price
Our 2011 calendar is a spiral-bound desk calendar, 5 ¾ X 8 ½ inches, crisply designed and printed on heavy bright-white paper. Open the stunning, full-color cover, and discover—week by week, poem by poem, the spirit that is Texas. 2010 Texas Poet Laureate Karla K. Morton is represented here, along with Oscar C. Peña, Loretta Diane Walker, Anne McCrady, Jim LaVilla-Havelin, Brenda Nettles Riojas, Robert Wynne, Cyra S. Dumitru, and dozens more.
“Texas poetry is alive and well thanks to the folks at Dos Gatos Press.”
— Steve Labinski, online at Texana Book Reviews