Madison, Wisconsin
Robin hosts
a poem a day from fellow & sister poets with one of her watercolors,
at her blog, RobinChapmansPoemaDay, robinchapmanspoemaday.blogspot.com/
PUBLICATIONS:
Abundance Winner of Cider Press Review's 2007 Editors' Award - 2009 - $16.95 ciderpressreview.com/BookAward/chapman_2007.html
Smoke and Strong Whiskey, Word Tech Editions - 2008 - $17.00
The Dreamer Who Counted the Dead, Word Tech Editions - 2007 - Winner of an Outstanding Achievement Poetry Award from the Wisconsin Library Association
wordtechweb.com/chapman.html
On Retirement: 75 Poems University of Iowa Press, edited with J. Strasser - 2007 uiowa.edu/uiowapress/2007-chapman-strasser.htm
Images of a Complex World: The Art and Poetry of Chaos, World Scientific (with J.C. Sprott) - 2005 - $36.00. Winner of the 2005 Posner Book-Length Poetry Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers. To read a review: sprott.physics.wisc.edu/icw.htm
To buy the book on Amazon: amazon.com/Images-Complex-World-Poetry-Chaos/dp/9812564012/re f=ed_oe_p/002-3391569-7500866
Once, Juniper Press, 2005 - $7.00 with illustrations by Lynne Burgess
Arborvitae, Juniper Press, 2002 - Sold Out
The Only Everglades in the World, Parallel Press, 2001 - $10.00
The Way In, Tebot Bach Publishing, 1999 Winner of the Posner Poetry Award, Council for Wisconsin Writers, 2000 - $12.00
Banff Dreaming, (CD), Fireweed Press, 1998 - $10.00
Learning to Talk, Fireweed Press, 1991 - $7.00 (One of Small Press Review's Summer Reading Picks for 1992)
Distance, Rate, Time, Fireweed Press, 1989 - Sold Out
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ORDER: Fireweed Press, PO Box 482, Madison, WI 53705
Juniper Press, PO Box 8037, St. Paul, MN 55108
or see links below.
MORE POEMS:
madpoetry.org/madpoets/chapmanr.html
worldscibooks.com/chaos/5882.html
parallelpress.library.wisc.edu/chapbooks/poetry/author.html?chapman
tebotbach.org/publication2.html
June cattails ring the marsh,
doubled cylinders held above
the new leaf tips—
a chartreuse fuse lit and burning
down the barrel to the matched
receptive green that, come fall
will be all that's left of what we see—
thick brown plush topped
by a thin charred stalk.
Come spring again,
a wild unraveling
amid the bent old leaves
and tender greens—
torches that seed the world
as they disappear.
—Robin Chapman
published in Appalachia