| Pax: An Anthology of Southern Maryland Poetry Contributor(s): Miller, George (Editor), Shomette, Donald, Ritchie, Elisavietta (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1733232605 ISBN-13: 9781733232609 Publisher: George Miller OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2019 |
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| BISAC Categories: - Poetry |
| Physical Information: 0.1" H x 11" W x 8.5" (0.34 lbs) 40 pages |
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"PAX - An Anthology of Southern Maryland Poetry" presents the work of thirteen poets who live along the Patuxent River and the Chesapeake Bay. Individual poems capture the spirit of the region from Point Lookout and Solomons Island in the south and Annapolis in the north. Many poems have been published in other magazines and journals. Several have won awards. Special thanks to the facilitators who foster poets and poetry in Southern Maryland: Laura Webb who leads the Poets Circle of Southern Maryland in Prince Frederick, Elisavietta Ritchie who mentors poets and writers in her workshops at the Calvert County Library and her cottage at Jack Bay, Rocky Jones and Cliff Lynn who host the Evil Grin poetry series in Annapolis. Most poems are illustrated with photographs and art provided by the contributors. The book design by Donald Grady Shomette includes his own photos and art as well as the photos and art of Anita Ewing, Jeff Smallwood, Lester Jay Stone, and Amy Fusco. Contributing poets include Doug Hile, Rocky Jones, Kate Lassman, Cliff Lynn, George Miller, Elisavietta Ritchie, Elspeth Cameron Ritchie, Suzanne Shelden, Carol Shomette, Donald Grady Shomette, Jeff Smallwood, Laura Stewart Webb, and Joanne Van Wie. |
Contributor Bio(s): Shomette, Donald: - Donald Grady Shomette completed his undergraduate work in art and art history at the Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York. His early career as a graphic designer for the Wall Street Journal, Grolier Publishing in New York City, and the Washington Post in Washington, D.C., and as art director for several advertising agencies, and the Federal Government, earned him numerous awards in the field of visual communications. For more than two decades he served on the staff of the Library of Congress and simultaneously as director of Nautical Archaeological Associates, Inc., a non-profit research organization, which conducted among others endeavors the first underwater archaeological surveys in the states of Maryland, New Jersey, and Arkansas. As a historian Shomette has served as a cultural resources management consultant for numerous states, various agencies of the U.S. Government, museums, universities, and non-profit research establishments. As a marine archaeologist he has worked in the U.S., Canada, and Great Britain under the sponsorship of such institutions as the National Geographic Society, the National Park Service, the U.S. Navy, and various educational foundations and museums. He is currently CEO of Cultural Resources Management. Shomette is the author of seventeen books, the most recent being Privateers of the Revolution: War on the New Jersey Coast, 1775-1783, published in July 2016 by Schiffer Publishing. His newest book, Anaconda's Tail: The Civil War on the Potomac Frontier 1861-1865, will be appearing in Fall 2019. He is a contributor to three international encyclopedias and two anthologies of history. His many scientific and popular articles have appeared in such publications as National Geographic Magazine, History and Technology, American Neptune and Sea History. He has appeared in documentaries on the History Channel, the Discovery Channel, the National Geographic Channel, Maryland Public Television, NBC, CBS, and the BBC. For more than a dozen years he served as a lecturer for the Smithsonian Journeys Program in the Great Lakes and along the entirety of the North Atlantic Seaboard of the United States. Thrice winner of the prestigious John Lyman Book Award for Best American Maritime History, and once winner of the Marion V. Brewington Book award for Naval Literature, Shomette was also honored with the Calvert Prize, the highest award in Maryland for historic preservation. In 1997 he was awarded an Honorary Ph.D. in Humane Letters by the University of Baltimore for his contributions to the arts, science, and literature. His most recent endeavors have taken him into the field of historic cartography for the National Geographic Society, and into recorded sound and music as lyricist and music producer for Millstone Landing Productions.Ritchie, Elisavietta: - Elisavietta Ritchie's fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, photojournalism, and translations from Russian, French, Malay and Indonesian have appeared in numerous publications including Poetry, American Scholar, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, Washington Post, National Geographic, New York Quarterly, JAMA: Journal of the American Medical Association, Confrontation, Press, New Letters, Kalliope, Nimrod, Canadian Woman Studies, Ann Arbor Review, Loch Raven Review, Innisfree, Broadkill Review, Beltway Poetry, ArLiJo, Calyx, and many others; anthologies including Sound & Sense; The 90th Anniversary Poetry Anthology, When I'm An Old Woman I Shall Wear Purple; If I Had My Life To Live Over I Would Pick More Daisies; The Tie That Binds; If I Had A Hammer; Grow Old Along With Me / The Best Is Yet To Be; Generation To Generation; New to North America, Beyond Lament (poems on the Holocaust); September Eleven, Life On The Line: Selections on Words & Healing; The Use of Narratives in the Helping Professions: A Teacher's Casebook; and many others including several international anthologies from Lost Tower Books (England) and Prosopisia (India). In Haste I Write You This Note: Stories & Half-Stories, winner of the premiere Washington Writers' Publishing House Fiction Competition (2000), is now an ebook (2015). Raking The Snow won the Washington Writer's Publishing House poetry prize (1982). Flying Time: Stories & Half-Stories, her first short fiction collection, includes four PEN Syndicated Fiction winners. Tightening The Circle Over Eel Country won the Great Lakes Colleges Association's "New Writer's Prize for Best First Book of Poetry 1975-76." "Camille Pissarro's THE BATHER Speaks" won The Ledge 2011 poetry award; two poems won annual Poetry Society of America awards. Grants include a graduate teaching fellowship, American University; four DC Commission for the Arts grants; and four Virginia Center for the Creative Arts grants. Education includes: The Sorbonne, University of Paris, where she received a diploma with "Mention Très Bien" (equivalent to magna cum laude) from the Cours de Civilisation Française; Cornell University; University of California at Berkeley (combined BA in French, Russian and English); Georgetown University (Russian courses); American University (MA in French literature, minor in Russian studies); The Writer's Center; and the Toronto Martial Arts Commission.Miller, George: - George Miller is a poet and a novelist residing in Southern Maryland. The thirteen respected poets whose work the anthology includes are his friends and fellow poets. |
