Nothing Unrequited Here poetry by heather bell - $10 if you cannot pay via paypal please feel free to email me about sending a money order or well-concealed cash here: vervebathpress(at)gmail(dot)com 8.5 x 5.5, kraft brown recycled card stock cover with a paper doily fastened with pewter brads, numbered, stapled, 28 pgs, first impression of 100. Bell marries kaleidoscopic images with the familial in her unforgettable collection Nothing Unrequited Here. With honesty and faint humor, she illustrates the evolution of relationships and redefines poetry as the distance between two people. In "the Reason You Are Not A Poet," she nails the chasm of intimacy when she writes, "He says / I Love your hair in my shower. I love your hair in my shower. / You exhale and realize / e will never be a poet, but you love / the way he called / your eyes kettle drums one night, / for lack of anything else to say. The way he carved / names into his kitchen table." After taking a dip in this impressive first chapbook you will emerge, towel-less & shivering for more. - rebecca schumejda - Nothing Unrequited Here was in The Orange Spotlight over at What to Wear During an Orange Alert?. - Claire Askew posted a lovely review of Nothing Unrequited Here. - Cynthia Reeser posted a review of Nothing Unrequited Here. - Barbara Bialick wrote a review for Nothing Unrequited Here. - Leah Angstman posted a review of Nothing Unrequited Here. - - Bio:    Heather Bell graduated in 2005 from Oswego State University in Oswego, NY. Since, she has been published in Mannequin Envy, From East to West: BiCoastal Verse, Empowerment4Women, Ditch, ReadThisMagazine, Pomegranate and Killpoet, among others. She spends her time polishing boots, gardening, painting and looking brightly at all raw stars. Heather dedicates all her writing to JNB. Without him, she never would have written any of it down. This is her first chapbook.