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THE ENTROPY OF ROCKETMAN
by Rita Anderson
$14.49, paper
Rita Anderson has an MFA Poetry and an MA Playwriting. A published and award-winning playwright and poet, Rita went on scholarship to The O’Neill. Her play, Frantic is the Carousel, was the National Partners American Theatre (NAPAT) nominee, and Rita won the Ken Ludwig Playwriting Award, the top national prize from The Kennedy Center for “Best Body of Work.” Rita has had over 100 publications and as many productions to include several each in London, Paris, and Dubai. Final Conversations and Early Liberty, internationally published (www.offthewallplays.com), are on the “Best Selling Plays” list. Rita is the Dramatists Guild Regional Rep (AUSTIN/SAN ANTONIO) and she’s on the Social Media Team for International Center for Women Playwrights (ICWP), and she’s on the B. Iden Payne Arts Council (BIPAC). She is faculty at Interlochen (Co-Director Intermediate Theatre Ensemble & Acting Intensive), but the highlight of her emerging career was sitting on a panel with Christopher Durang. Recent publications include Best Women’s Monologues of 2019 (Smith & Kraus), “AVALANCHE” in 30 New 10 Minute Plays 2019 (APPLAUSE Theatre & Cinema Books!), and Endlessly Rocking (An Anthology to Celebrate Walt Whitman’s 200th Birthday). Rita is also Producing Artistic Director of Mélange Theatre Company.
A member of Poets & Writers and The Academy of American Poets, Rita was poetry editor at University of New Orleans, and she has two volumes of poetry published: The Entropy of Rocketman (Finishing Line Press), and Watched Pots (A Lovesong to Motherhood). Rita won the Houston Poetry Festival, the Gerreighty Prize, the Robert F. Gibbons Poetry Award, the Cheyney Award, and an award from the Academy of American Poets. She has over 50 poems published to include Spoon River Poetry Review, EVENT Magazine, Blue Heron Review, Random Sample Review, Caesura, Ellipsis, The Longleaf Pine, Old Northwest Review, Cahoodaloodaling, The Blueshift Journal, Blotterature, Words Work, Transcendence, PHIction, Persona (50th Anniversary Edition), Di-Verse-City: An Austin Poetry Anthology, The Stardust Gazette, and Explorations (University of Alaska Press). Currently, she is Senior Poetry Editor for Red Dashboard Publishing. [For a complete list of poetry publications.
Stephanie K. Merrill –
These free-verse poems are sensual and grounded, yet ethereal. The poems in ENTROPY OF ROCKETMAN move through earth, water, fire, and sky in their witness to the everyday. The poems show a range of styles and perception that give this chapbook dynamic movement that buoys the reader while attending to the quiet details of human interactions.