Phyllis St. George is a poet, writer, and filmmaker living in Western Massachusetts. Her short story, “View from the Watchtower,” is featured in Anthology 5 of Running Wild Press. Her poetry has appeared in the Hiram Poetry Review and Sinister Wisdom. Her villanelle, “Last-Minute Temptation,” won 3rd Place in the 2019 Palm Beach Poetry Festival Tech Effect Poetry Contest. She produced and directed two short films, Plastics and The Therapy Killings, accepted at the Downtown Boca Festival and the Outside the Box Bakersfield Film Festival, respectively. Her short film Plastics won an Award of Merit for her leading actor in the March 2011 Best Shorts Competition. Her digital artwork “Monsters in the Deep” is found in the Bonemilk Collective Vol II by Gutslut Press. She enjoys playing pickle ball and taking walks. In her former life, she worked as a computer programmer for a financial services company. Sweet Blisters is her first poetry collection.
PRAISE:
Sweet Blisters is a visual covenant, guaranteed to renew readers. We can feel the texture of refusal, grace, and refuge across each poetic line. Difficult familial confessions reverberate tension – post tears. Warm nostalgic moments offer immense expectations: St. George encourages us to “capture poems and release them.” These poems shall return, take root, and multiply. St. George’s season is now.
–Delicia Daniels, author of The Language We Cry In Recipient of The 2017 Discovery Prize for the Writers’ League of Texas Book Awards
At turns subtly heart wrenching and subversively joyful, Phyllis St. George‘s Sweet Blisters is perfectly titled. The narrator’s heart, memory, trauma, yearning, wisdom, and wit dance gracefully on the page as she goes “looking for a poem” and ends up finding that and more. We get the honor of witnessing it all unfold via expert maneuvers of craft and form. This is an incredibly poignant, wise, and unique voice and collection.
—Carolyn Zaikowski, author of In a Dream, I Dance Myself, and I Collapse and Poet Laureate of Easthampton, Massachusetts
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