For most of her adult life, Kathryn Ridall has worked in the mental health field as a trainer, psychotherapist and university instructor. In her mid-fifties, Calliope, the fiery muse of poetry, paid her an unexpected visit.
When the Muse Calls
Poems for the Creative Life
With poems by Kim Addonizio
Anna Akhmatova Ellen Bass Robert Bly Leonard Cohen Billy Collins Emily Dickinson Donald Hall Jane Kenyon
Jane Hirshfield Stanley Kunitz Dorianne Laux
Denise Levertov Pablo Neruda Naomi Shihab Nye
Rainer Maria Rilke Rumi
Gary Snyder William Stafford James Wright
and many others
Contact Kathryn
kathryn@kathryn-ridall.com
Recommendations
Many of the poems in WHEN THE MUSE CALLS were generously offered without a fee by award-winning poets whose work is not as well-known as other poets in the anthology. The following list presents some of the publications and websites of these fine poets.
CB FOLLETT
Hold And Release
Time Being Books, 2007
And Freddie Was My Darling
Many Voices Press, 2009
BECKY FOUST
Dark Card
University of Texas Press
Texax Review Press
Robert Phillips Poetry Chapbook Prize, 2008
All That Gorgeous, Pitiless, Song
Many Mountains Moving, 2010
MMM Press Poetry Award of the Year
WILLIAM KEENER
Gold Leaf on Granite
Anabiosis Press, 2009
Winner 2008 Anabiosis Press Chapbook Contest
LYNNE KNIGHT
Again
Sixteen Rivers Press, 2009
The Book Of Common Betrayals
Bear Star Press, 2002
Winner of the Dorothy Brunsman Prize
MARI L’ESPERANCE
The Darkened Temple
University of Nebraska Press, 2008
Winner of the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry
NAOMI RUTH LOWINSKY
crimes of the dreamer: poems
Scarlet Tanager Books, 2005
The Sister from Below: When the Muse Gets Her Way
Fisher King Press, 2009
KIRSTEN NEFF
When The House Is Quiet
Finishing Line Press, 2009
Starting Gate Prize from Finishing Line Press
CONNIE POST
Waking State
Small Poetry Press, 2005
Trip Wires
Finishing Line Press, 2010
PRARTHO SERENO
Causing A Stir: The Secret Lives and Loves of Kitchen Utensils
2008 International Publisher’s Award
in the Gift Book Category
Call from Paris
Word Works 2007 Washington Prize
THOMAS R. SMITH
Waking Before Dawn
Red Dragonfly Press, 2007
Kinnickinnic
Parallel Press, 2008