Sunday, December 25, 2016

HYPNAGOGIA, a Red Shuttleworth Chapbook




Hypnagogia

Four Monologues

Red Shuttleworth



Hypnagogia, by Red Shuttleworh, is a Bunchgrass Press limited edition Bunchgrass Press chapbook presenting four monologues.



Dramatis Personae:

Wee Joe
(1964-1970)

Washington Bolivar Cloyes
(1830-1912)

Princess Vera Ligovskaya
(1815-1851)

Van Barney Hogan
(1842-1908)



Red Shuttleworth's poetry has been published widely.  His most recent collection of poems, Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press), received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma.  Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the (Western Writers of America) Spur Award for Poetry.  In 2007, True West magazine named Shuttleworth "Best Living Western Poet."

Red Shuttleworth's plays have been presented in both professional and academic venues, including at Sundance Playwrights Lab (1990 and 1994), the Sun Valley Festival of New Western Drama, SUNY-Fredonia, University of Nebraska at Kearney, and the Tony Award-winning Utah Shakespearean Festival.

Red Shuttleworth's High Plains Fandango, a play about the coming scarcity of water, is available as a book from Humanitas Media publishing.

Red Shuttleworth





Sunday, December 18, 2016

WHAT WE DON'T, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook




What We Don't

a poem by

Red Shuttleworth


What We Don't, a one poem Red Shuttleworth chapbook, is published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited (49 copies) edition.

What We Don't is Red Shuttleworth's 150th chapbook.

His first chapbook, Moaning Woman Wind, was published in 1971 by Kathy Decter's Lazy Ears Press in San Francisco:


Red Shuttleworth's writing (poetry, fiction, drama, essays) has been published in numerous journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Blue Mesa Review, Concho River Review, Confrontation, Jeopardy, Minnetonka Review, Nebraska Review, New Letters, Ontario Review, Poetry Now, Prairie Schooner, San Pedro River Review, South Dakota Review, and Weber: The Contemporary West.

Red Shuttleworth
(Galveston Island, Texas, 1976)

Red Shuttleworth's Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press) received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.

Jason Richards, Ben Masters, Rusty Richards,
and Red Shuttleworth at the 2016 Wrangler
Awards Weekend in Oklahoma City.

Red Shuttleworth's next full book of poetry, Straight Ahead, will be issued in January 2017 by Blue Horse Press:



Red Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the (Western Writers of America) Spur Award for Poetry.  In 2007, True West magazine named Shuttleworth "Best Living Western Poet."


Red Shuttleworth





Sunday, December 11, 2016

BARB WIRE CONCLUSIONS, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook





Barb Wire Conclusions

Four Poems

Red Shuttleworth



Barb Wire Conclusions by Red Shuttleworth is a limited (29 copies) edition poetry chapbook from Bunchgrass Press.  The poems presented are:

Swimming in the Dark

Gospel

Sun City, Kansas (1903)

Barb Wire Conclusions


Red Shuttleworth's Woe to the Land Shadowing (Blue Horse Press) received the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City.


2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award
for Outstanding Poetry Book:
Red Shuttleworth
Woe to the Land Shadowing


Red Shuttleworth's next full book of poetry, Straight Ahead, will be published in January 2017 by Blue Horse Press.  


Red Shuttleworth, September 1991


Shuttleworth is a three-time winner of the (Western Writers of America) Spur Award for Poetry. In 2007 True West magazine named Shuttleworth "Best Living Western Poet."


Red Shuttleworth
accepts a 2016 Wrangler Award
at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum