Thursday, March 24, 2016

NIGHT HOLDS ITS OWN, A Ciara Shuttleworth Poetry Chapbook




NIGHT HOLDS ITS OWN

Poems

Ciara Shuttleworth


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

Pre-publication praise for Ciara Shuttleworth's poetry has come from Judah Adashi (composer, Johns Hopkins University faculty), Kelly Davio (poet and poetry editor of Tahoma Literary Review), Nick Flynn (poet and memoirist, PEN Award-winner, Guggenheim Fellow), and Robert Schenkkan (Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning playwright).

The poems in Ciara Shuttleworth's Night Holds Its Own have enjoyed prior publication in prestigious journals, including Ploughshares, The New Yorker, and The Southern Review.

 Ciara Shuttleworth


Ciara Shuttleworth, in the spring of 2015, was the 51st Writer-in-Residence at Jack Kerouac House in Orlando, Florida.

Ciara Shuttleworth at Kerouac House, Orlando, Florida,
in a a favorite old chair of Jack Kerouac's.


Ciara Shuttleworth is Executive Director of Columbia Basin Allied Arts in Washington State.  She also teaches English part time at Big Bend Community College.