Bird Dog Publishing

“Inspired by nature in his thoughtful and plain-spoken poems, Rob Smith reminisces and reflects on life, death, and the passage of time in 256 Zones of Gray. He takes us "Along the Shore," and we see barren trees through his eyes when the sky threaded/a blue ribbon between the trunks and a postcard moment in "Pittsburgh" when colors sliding back into the rivers/define the Point. Smith’s words often give us hope, a lighted window on the edge of color.”      - Laura Treacy Bentley, author of Lake Effect: Poems

Born in Youngstown, Ohio and raised in the Cleveland area, Rob Smith has been writing poetry and prose for over forty years. As with many young writers, his creative efforts developed beneath the requirements of career. Nonetheless, he quietly persisted in creating a body of work representative of his imagination. In 2006, he entered his first poetry competition and was awarded the Robert Frost Poetry Award for the poem “Catbird” and published his first novel, Night Voices.

100 pages, paper, ISBN 978-1933964-16-4   $14.00

A Life in Poems

by
William C. Wright

Review from People's Weekly World:
"Whoever touches this book, touches a man," wrote the poet Walt Whitman, in his epic book Leaves of Grass. That is how I feel about the poetry book A Life in Poems by 93-year-old William C. Wright. . . Wright has an eye for detail and attention to poetic technique that make situations come to life, as in the short poem where he writes, "Last night in our furnace we burned a thousand years of sun and a quart of miners' swear to keep us warm." . . . It is clear that William C. Wright must be viewed as one of the most important working class poets of his generation." - Chris Butters.

"Plucking Scales from Eyes” – that’s what truthteller Bill Wright titles a poem contrasting the daily corporate papers with the leftist political weekly. Simple passion, remarkable clarity, precise insights mark this record of picket lines, devoted love, tough choices, steadfast activism, deep pleasures and powerful truths. This is a record to be wholly admired: one decade after another of reliable observation and intensely felt emotion. Wright has always woven experience into wisdom. I have often thought, “It would have been great to know Bill in his incarnations as farmer, boxer, family man, organizer, and unionist.” Now we have the record. Here is a spirit who easily embraces the poetic enthusiasm of Walter Lowenfels, the radical ministry of Maurice McCracken, as easily as the struggles of the current moment. Here, finally, is the book that tells the tale. This is the book you have been waiting for, too.

                 – David Shevin, author of Three Miles from Luckey

152 pages, paper, ISBN 978-1933964-15-7 $10

Second Story Woman
A Memoir of Second Chances

by Carole Calladine

“In Second Story Woman Carole Calladine takes the reader along on her journey of self-discovery. Her authentic voice comes through as she comes to terms with the balance between her professional responsibilities and her need for a creative life. This strong memoir will speak to anyone charting life past 50.” – Doris Larson, founder of “A Writing Retreat: In the Company of Women”

A remarkable book of dealing with life's turnings as the author confronts her mid-life passage and diagnosis for Type 2 diabetes at the same time.

“Carole Calladine is a quintessential storyteller whose writing is entertaining, informative, and inspiring. Second Story Woman is a feast for the soul, a guide to mindfulness, and a tale of tender triumph over a huge life challenge.” – Jan Phillips, author of The Art of Original Thinking-The Making of a Thought Leader

ISBN 978-1-933964-12-6    232 pages $15.00

Another Life:

Collected Poems
by Allen Frost

I wish you could have seen me reading these poems of Another Life for the first time . . . A slight smile I didn’t even know was there surprised me. Ridiculously, I began making check marks in the margins of individual pages, as if I might never see them again. Now it’s difficult to find a single page I did not leave my mark on, and the other way around. Long ago I abandoned any hope of learning the mechanisms behind the nightingale’s song. Dissections always killed the bird, and in the end there was nothing to show for it. I will not allow this to happen to the poems of Allen Frost that you now hold in your hands.

                                                - T.L. Kryss

Allen Frost lives in Bellingham, Washington, with wife,Laura, daughter Rosa and son Rustle. He has lived and worked in Seattle, Washington; Portland, Oregon; and Huron, Ohio. He works in the library at Western Washington University. His Ohio Trio: Fictions appeared in 2001 from Bottom Dog Press, followed by Bowl of Water written between 1989-2002. Another Life is drawn from limited edition poetry chapbooks written 2002-2007.

Another Life: Collected Poems by Allen Frost
ISBN 9781933964102
176 pages $14.00

Winter Apples: Poems

by Paul S. Piper

ISBN 978-1-933964-08-9

Paper 88 pgs. $14.00

"So this is what Paul Piper has been up to, walking the dog, spying from trees, meeting mountains, testing the water, writing it down for us to see. Now you can know. You've picked up a book like a stone from a river. You're lucky you found this beauty, turn it round, open the seams and read."
                                                                    -Allen Frost, author of Bowl of Water: Poems

Paul S. Piper is a native of Chicago who moved to the mountains and rivers and forests of Montana, where he eventually earned degrees in biology and creative writing. In 1992 he, his wife, and son moved to Hawaii where they lived on Oahu for five and-a-half years. He now works as a librarian at Western Washington University in Bellingham. His poems were included in America Zen:A Gathering; this is his fourth book of poetry, following Now and Then (Flying Trout Press).

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Another Life:

Collected Poems

Winter Apples: Poems

by Paul S. Piper