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38 pgs, $7.95. November 2011
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Kenneth Pobo has four full-length collections of poetry and, including Ice and Gaywings, twenty chapbooks. He began writing at age fifteen. He teaches creative writing and English at Widener University in Chester, Pennsylvania. He and his partner and two cats enjoy gardening, music, and the Wisconsin Northwoods. You can catch Ken’s radio show, Obscure Oldies, on Saturdays from 6-8:30pm EST at wdnrfm.org.

Ice and Gaywings
Kenneth Pobo
winner of the 2011 qarrtsiluni chapbook contest

Qarrtsiluni and Phoenica are proud to announce the publication of Kenneth Pobo's Ice and Gaywings. Winner of the 2011 qarrtsiluni chapbook contest, this sensitive collection allows us an intimate entrée into the woods and rural communities of northern Wisconsin, near Lake Superior, and through those places, into the poet’s life and memories. In these deceptively simple poems, he and his partner search the woods for ladyslippers, listen to loons, and drink milkshakes in a local restaurant where the walls are lined with 45s. We, the readers, find ourselves drawn deeper and deeper into a world where both grief and the potential of loss coexist with a tender and bittersweet beauty.

Luisa Igloria, judge of this year's contest, said this about the chapbook she chose:

"The experience I value most in reading this collection is the way its language (never romanticized) and tone (never overwrought) allows me to settle with increasing depth into the poems’ rhythms and precise observations—about the natural world, now only partially reclaimable from so many forms of artifice; about the intrusions of contemporary urban life and culture; about histories older than us that haunt and shadow place. And finally, its urgent reminder to listen, look, and learn to dwell again."
Luisa Igloria, author of Juan Luna’s Revolver (2009 Ernest Sandeen Prize, University of Notre Dame Press), Trill & Mordent (WordTech Editions, 2005) and 8 other books


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