words dance twelve, ladies issue poetry by various women - $6 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, cream coverstock, stapled, cover photo hand-embossed & adhered, 28 pgs. this issue is AMAZING, a must read! see what some of the contributors are saying below! this issue is full of talent, beautiful photos from erin wallace, katie elizabeth, roxanne carter & aleathia drehmer & poems from some of the best female poets of the present day, some young, seasoned, unschooled, etc! contributors: gina abelkop, heather bell, courtney j. campbell, pris campbell, roxanne carter, jane crown, jessica dawson, aleathia drehmer, katie elizabeth, lori jakiela, marie lascu, lisa latourette, dorianne laux, miriam matzeder, ellyn maybe, amanda oaks, kathleen paul-flanagan, elly portnoy, misti rainwater-lites, erin reardon, rebecca schumejda, linda smith, tammy trendle, erin wallace, amanda wheelock cover photo by: katie elizabeth WHAT SOME OF THE CONTRIBUTORS ARE SAYING: Simple, beautiful, daring! I LOVE kathleen paul-flanagan's "Because the World is So Fast and So Small:" "I teach them lemonade/comes from lemons/rolled on the kitchen counter/to bring up the juice,/not from yellow powder/in a tiny barrel/ sold on supermarket shelves." - rebecca schumejda I just got my issue of Words Dance 12--god, it's just beautiful and SO well put together, the amazing poems, the order of the poems, the photographs--everything. Thank you again for inviting me to be a part of it, I'm so proud! I'm going to order a couple more issues for family too--I think lots of women should have it. - lisa latourette i got my copy of words dance today, and i had to send you a message ... this is the most powerful little book of writing i've read in so long. by the time i finished dorianne laux's "Mother's Day" I was sobbing. when i went back, i got to heather bell's poems and realized THAT is what writing is, pris' poem and kathleen paul-flannagan's poem ... ah, they're all so good. it's just amazing. - courtney j. campbell The diversity of voices appealed to me in this book. The poems are well written and relevant to various atages of my own life. For example, in Parellel Universe, Ellen Maybe tells us: Sometimes I wonder if there are one million people/listening at the same time/to the same Leonard Cohen song,/the one that keeps people from killing themselves In Curled, a poem about illness, Altheathia Drehmer says: She grips me now with tiny fingers,/speaking of her son curled/in a bed from stroke,/how he had never hurt anyone in his life,/to deserve such an end,/such a fate. and in lost and found, we find Jessica Dawson: Your fingers perch on my bare hip,/search my skin like/hungry brown birds/and it's spring/under the covers, I loved reading the journal. It has a permanent place in my library to read and reread. - pris campbell FURTHER REVIEW: Let me say right off that this has to be one of the most beautifully creative zines that I have ever laid my eyes on in my twenty years of doing and reading zines . That is saying a lot. I have seen a lot of zines in my day. The cover, the pictures inside I have to say is all aesthetically beautiful. With that said on to the poetry. The first two poems I have to say hit you like a good punch in the face and drag you in. Lost Petition: For An Endangered Species is an amazing poem, by far my favorite in here by the editor Amanda Oaks. The second poem Parallel Universe by Ellyn Maybe well, I've been an Ellyn Maybe fan since The Cowardice Of Amnesia. If you read on you will find twenty two other woman writers. Each individually with their own strengths. There is not a bad poem in here, the stuff that really stood out to me beyond the first two were the poems by Rebecca Schumajda, and Heather Bell. Words Dance is an incredible zine, well put together with a creative passion. I hear a lot of talk that there are not enough woman writers out there right now. This will change your mind. - michael grover of covert press