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


Monday, November 14, 2016

FENCE TO CHECK, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook





Fence to Check

four poems

Red Shuttleworth



Red Shuttleworth's Fence to Check, a chapbook with four poems, is published in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press.  

Uncollected prior to this chapbook, the poems presented are from 2011:

To Find a Way

Tell us Then

That Place Where

On Cognition


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.


Don Edwards, Luke Shuttleworth, Red Shuttleworth,
and Waddie Mitchell (Wrangler Awards,
National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum,
Oklahoma City, April 16, 2016)


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


Red Shuttleworth


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."

Sunday, November 6, 2016

ON A SUNDAY NIGHT BEFORE AN ELECTION, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook




On a Sunday Night
Before an Election

a one-poem chapbook by

Red Shuttleworth



On a Sunday Night Before an Election is a Red Shuttleworth one-poem chapbook presented by Bunchgrass Press in a limited edition of 32 copies.  The poem is from Red Shuttleworth's in-progress, late-year project, Gold Rock Notebook.

This chapbook poem gives attention to Red Shuttleworth's maternal grandfather, Serge Moiseevich Odnovalenko (1901-1992). 

Odnovalenko (or Valenko as he named himself in America) was predisposed to abrupt violence.  Other Russian immigrants in San Francisco (1923-1975) feared him, gave him a wide berth.  His first wife called him, without affection, "Tatar," "Cossack," and "Mongol."  He ate salted steak and eggs for breakfast every morning, drank a bottle of booze daily, and lived to be at least ninety-one.

   Serge Odnovalenko, 1930's

Thursday, November 3, 2016

EARLY NOVEMBER GHAZAL, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook





Early November Ghazal

a one-poem chapbook by

Red Shuttleworth



Published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited (42-copies) edition, Red Shuttleworth's Early November Ghazal is a one-poem chapbook. The poem is from Shuttleworth's in-progress late-year project, the Gold Rock Notebook.


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.


Red Shuttleworth



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."


Sunday, October 30, 2016

ASK YOURSELF, A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook Anthology





Ask Yourself

A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook Anthology
to Close-Out 2016



The Poets of Ask Yourself:


Jeffrey C. Alfier


J.V. Brummels



John Dofflemyer



Twyla Hansen



Adrian C. Louis



Kirk Robertson



Red Shuttleworth



Larry D. Thomas



Ask Yourself is published in a small (62 copies) edition by Bunchgrass Press.  Copies are only available from participating poets.

Friday, October 14, 2016

TONOPAH, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook





Tonopah

Two Poems

Red Shuttleworth



Published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited (44 copies) edition, Red Shuttleworth's Tonopah presents two poems (the title poem and Miles From) scraped, salvaged from a decades-old failed, unproduced, shredded one-act free verse play, Tom Mix Reconsidered.

Marginal to the play, Old West lawmanWyatt Earp is prominent in Tonopah.  After leaving Tombstone, Earp and his wife, Josephine Sarah Marcus Earp, went to Alaska, then wheeled south into Nevada... to Tonopah in 1902... where Earp opened a saloon, The Northern.  The Northern failed and Earp turned to gold and copper mining in the Mojave Desert... near Vidal, California. Earp liked Tonopah, the gambling scene, and returned from time to time, lodging from 1910-onward at the new Mizpah Hotel.


Wyatt Earp's "The Northern" in Tonopah, 1902-1903.


Wyatt Earp with "Earpie," Vidal, California, about 1910-1920.


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

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



Friday, October 7, 2016

BLACK MOON INWARD, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook





Black Moon Inward

poems

Red Shuttleworth



Published by Bunchgrass Press in a limited (61 copies) edition, Red Shuttleworth's Black Moon Inward presents four poems from the in-progress Hawk Season Notebook: Poems and Tidings:

Pulling Inward

Turning Inward

Black Moon: Inward

and

Six Windows Inward



Red Shuttleworth



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

Saturday, October 1, 2016

AS EACH DAY, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook





As Each Day

Three Poems

Red Shuttleworth


Published in a limited, numbered edition of 29 (with 2 artist proof copies), with three different covers (parchment, orange, and brown), Red Shuttleworth's As Each Day presents three poems... one from October of 2011 and two from the in-progress Hawk Season Notebook: Poems and Tidings:

Some Nature of Unspoken

Hawk Season Notebook #147

and

Hawk Season Notebook #348






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

Thursday, September 29, 2016

Barbara Brinson Curiel, CASCADIA, A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook




Cascadia

poems

Barbara Brinson Curiel


Bunchgrass Press is pleased to publish a 3rd (limited edition) poetry chapbook of Barbara Brinson Curiel's poems: Cascadia.


The poems included are:

Walking the Bottoms, Arcata, California

Drought, Humboldt County, California, 2014

Two Seasons, Northern California

Cascadia 


Barbara Brinson Curiel


Barbara Brinson Curiel won the Philip Levine Prize for her book Mexican Jenny and Other Poems (Anhinga Press, 2014).  Curiel teaches English and Creative Writing at Humboldt State University.

Sunday, September 11, 2016

CHAPBOOK #138, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Collection




Chapbook #138

Three Poems

Red Shuttleworth


Published in a limited edition (44 copies) by Bunchgrass Press, Red Shuttleworth's Chapbook #138 presents three poems from the in-progress Hawk Season Notebook: Poems and Tidings:

Transitionals

Renderings

and

Fragment: Hawk Season Notebook


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

Saturday, September 10, 2016

4,500 MILES: TAKING JACK BACK ON THE ROAD, A Gonzo Prose Book by Ciara Shuttleworth





4,500 Miles:
Taking Jack Back on the Road

A Gonzo Prose Book by

Ciara Shuttleworth



Ciara Shuttleworth's 4,500 Miles: Taking Jack Back on the Road is published by Humanitas Media Publishing and is available in hardcover... and digitally via Kindle and iBooks.

The book features artistically rendered images... starring a cut-out of Jack Kerouac ("Flat Jack")... which accompanies author Ciara Shuttleworth from her residency at the Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida, to the scablands of Washington State.

Ciara Shuttleworth
at Kerouac House, Orlando, Florida


The book's photographs were edited by award-winning filmmaker, artist, and photographer Pamela Theodutou.

Ciara Shuttleworth has been published in journals and anthologies, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Confrontation, Hayden's Ferry Review, The New Yorker, the Norton Introduction to Literature (11e), Ploughshares, and The Southern Review.  Shuttleworth was the "Feature Poet" of the Fall 2016 issue of San Pedro River Review.

Ciara Shuttleworth 
in Jack Kerouac's chair, Kerouac House, Orlando, Florida,
early 2015, when she was the Kerouac Project's
51st Writer-in-Residence



Shuttleworth received an MFA in Poetry from the University of Idaho, a BFA in Painting/Drawing from San Francisco Art Institute, and a BA in Studio Art from Gustavus Adolphus College.

Shuttleworth's poetry chapbook, Night Holds Its Own, published by Blue Horse Press, is available on Amazon.



Shuttleworth is currently Executive Director of Columbia Basin Allied Arts.

Jack Kerouac in his chair.



Monday, August 29, 2016

Barbara Brinson Curiel, SUMMER HIGHWAY, A Bunchgrass Press Chapbook




Summer Highway

 poems

Barbara Brinson Curiel




Bunchgrass Press is proud to publish a new poetry chapbook by Barbara Brinson Curiel, Summer Highway.

The poems included are:

Highway 5: Winters to Lodi, California.
Drought Year

Poem Written in the Shadow
of the Longhorns for Christ Campus Center
at the University of Texas at Austin

Driving Highway 290, Going West,
Houston to Austin

Oaxaca, 2015

Praise



Barbara Brinson Curiel


Barbara Brinson Curiel won the Philip Levine Prize for her book Mexican Jenny and Other Poems (Anhinga Press, 2014). Summer Highway is her second chapbook with Bunchgrass Press.  Curiel teaches English and Creative Writing at Humboldt State University.


Monday, July 4, 2016

JULY 2016, A Red Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook




July 2016

poems

Red Shuttleworth


July 2016, the latest Red Shuttleworth poetry chapbook, is issued in a limited edition by Bunchgrass Press.

The poems contained are:

Hawk Season Notebook #21

End of a Thunderstorm Weekend

Hawk Season Notebook #23

Summer Time-Shroud

Straight Ahead: 36



Red Shuttleworth
2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Poetry
(for Woe to the Land Shadowing from Blue Horse Press)
from The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum