Delight Is a Field To pay by check please use this order form. We are pleased to take orders from retailers. Email us with details about your order or call us at 207-837-5760. Delight Is a Field unfolds a world of women exploring, pondering, celebrating, and reimagining their connection to natural, wild places (field, meadow, prairie, wetland, ocean) and what inhabits them (celestial bodies, animals, plants, and fungi). These poems reveal the complexity and duality of women's lives filled with discord, chaos, longing, worry, loss accompanied by love, wonder, reverence, mystery, and magic that echoes the seasons’ cycles of change. POETRY / General ISBN: 978-1-962082-69-3 (print; softcover) Released July 8, 2025 | Copyright 2025 82 pages; 9 black-and-white illustrations |
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Donelle Dreese is a writer and Professor of English at Northern Kentucky University where she teaches environmental and multicultural literatures, American women poets, and literature and film. Donelle is the author of several poetry collections, including Sophrosyne (2015) and Organelle (2021). Her poetry and essays have appeared in a wide variety of literary journals, including Potomac Review, Roanoke Review, Louisville Review, and Quiddity International. In addition, Donelle serves as President of Heritage Acres Memorial Sanctuary, Cincinnati’s only dedicated natural burial preserve. She writes about natural burial and “death positive” topics as a regular contributor for Psychology Today. For more information, visit donelledreese.com. Karen George is a retired programmer/analyst and author of five chapbooks, most recently the collaborative ekphrastic Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and four poetry collections: Swim Your Way Back (2014), A Map and One Year (2018), Where Wind Tastes Like Pears (2021), and Caught in the Trembling Net (2024). She has received grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council. She won Slippery Elm’s 2022 poetry contest, and her award-winning short story collection, How We Fracture, was published by Minerva Rising Press in 2024. Her work appears in Adirondack Review, Valparaiso Poetry Review, Ekphrastic Poetry Review, Indianapolis Review, Salamander, and Poet Lore. For more information, visit karenlgeorge.blogspot.com. Nancy K. Jentsch is a retired German professor at Northern Kentucky University. Her chapbook Authorized Visitors (Cherry Grove Collections) and the collaborative ekphrastic chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press), in which her poetry appears, were published in 2017. Since 2008, when she began writing, her work has appeared in both online and print journals, such as Amethyst Review, Eclectica, Panoply, Tiferet Journal, and Zingara Poetry Review, and also in numerous anthologies. In 2020 she received an Arts Enrichment Grant from the Kentucky Foundation for Women. Her collection Between the Rows was published by Shanti Arts in 2022 and a chapbook, Intersecting Orbits (Bottlecap Press), in 2024. For more information, visit jentsch8.wixsite.com/my-site. Taunja Thomson is a former Northern Kentucky University English instructor, with many interests, including mythology, anthropology, history, art, and animal rights. She is a co-author of the chapbook Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017) and author of chapbooks Strum and Lull (Plan B Press, 2019) and The Profusion (Kelsay Books, 2019). Her poetry has appeared in many journals over the years, including Peacock Journal, Pink Panther Magazine, These Fragile Lilacs, Red-Headed Stepchild, and Quillkeeper’s Press. Her full-length poetry collection, Plunge, was published in 2023 by Raw Art Review. For links to her published poetry, visit www.facebook.com/TaunjaThomsonWriter. |
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“In this magical, tumultuous collection, poets Donelle Dreese, Karen George, Nancy K. Jentsch, and Taunja Thomson capture in stunning word and image women on windswept prairies and seascapes and the creatures of air and woods, stitching their witchy auburn hair in worlds both ominous and wondrous. ‘I am always in flight even if you can’t see it,’ one poet writes of these women alone in a snowy field or in a whirling trinity of sisterhood, fires sometimes burning in the distance. ‘I’m pleased with tea; / I’ll proceed to Eve’s downfall,’ another writes of this wholly/holy female Eden. Each voice here is an alchemy of enchantment.” “Nature is enchanted, and that enchantment has provided inspiration to poets and artists through the ages. These four voices write together in harmony to paint us a dazzling picture of every crook and crevice of meadow and firmament. Every poem is filled with vivid images, rendered in stunning, unforgettable language. Each poet here is truly extraordinary. They remind us that magic is everywhere, if our eyes are open.” |
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