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HELLO, IT’S YOUR MOTHER
by Laurie Kolp
$14.49, paper
The complexities and simplicities of mother/daughter relationships are explored in this chapbook collection of poems that center around a mother’s sudden illness and death, how the daughter deals with the memories, what she does and doesn’t miss after her mother’s gone.
Laurie Kolp is an award-winning poet with more than four dozen publications worldwide, including the 2015 Poet’s Market, Concho River Review, Blue Fifth Review, Referential, Pirene’s Fountain, Found Poetry Review, Deep Water Literary Journal, Amarillo Bay, contemporary haibun online (cho), Chicken Soup for the Soul: Devotional Stories for Tough Times, Writer’s Digest and Diane Lockward’s The Crafty Poet. She placed 1st in Writer’s Digest’s tritina form competition, 2nd in the nonet form and 3rd in sonnet from, and was a runners-up for the Missouri Review’s Barbie sonnet competition, as well as placing in other contests through the years. Kolp collaborates with well-known artists, and her poem “The Sheets” has appeared with Debra Balchen at Palette & Chisel Academy of Fine Arts in Chicago. James Needham of Australia is another artist she’s collaborated with, along with Rebecca Venn. Laurie’s first full-length poetry collection, Upon the Blue Couch, was published by Winter Goose Publishing in April 2014 and is available on Amazon and Barnes&Noble. In July 2014, she had the privilege of appearing at Poetry Hickory, North Carolina as a featured poet, where she read from her collection and wrote a poem inspired by Wolf Kahn’s My Studio From Above in the Hickory Museum of Art. The poem, “Artistic Illusion”, now hangs next to it. Laurie has been interviewed by Robert Lee Brewer of Writer’s Digest Poetic Asides, and a recent interview appeared in the November/December issue of Southern Writer’s Magazine. A review of her book was published in Concho River Review, Fall 2014. Laurie is often inspired by nature, and her photography has been featured in Calliope, Poetic PinUp Revue and graced the cover of MiCrow8: Winter 2013.
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