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

Tuesday, April 19, 2016

Red Shuttleworth Receives a Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Poetry

Red Shuttleworth accepts
the 2016 Western Heritage (Wrangler) Award for Outstanding Poetry Book
Woe to the Land Shadowing
(Blue Horse Press, Redondo Beach, CA)
on April 16, 2016
at the National Cowboy &
Western Heritage Museum
in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma.
The presenters were
songwriter/cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell, songwriter/singer Don Edwards,
with assistance from Miss Rodeo Oklahoma, Miss Sydney Spencer.


The 55th Annual Western Heritage Awards, honored contributers to Western Culture, including Tommy Lee Jones, Lee Marvin, George Lane, Bob Steele, Rusty Richards, Waddie Mitchell, Pipp Gillette, Mary Kaye, C.J. Box, Enrique Guerra, Mike Kearby, Mack White, Lee Marmon, Tom Corbett, Ben Masters, Red Steagall, John Wirth for Hell on Wheels, and Red Shuttleworth.

Western Heritage Award winners receive a bronze sculpture, The Wrangler.


Red Shuttleworth's winning book of poems, Woe to the Land Shadowing (published by Jeff and Tobi Alfier's Blue Horse Press) was predicated by the worst fire season (summer 2015) in Washington State history.  Woe to the Land Shadowing is available at the book store at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum and also on Amazon.




The official (for now) post-ceremony photograph: singer Don Edwards, Luke Shuttleworth, Red Shuttleworth with his Wrangler, and cowboy poet Waddie Mitchell.

On the first day of the Wrangler Weekend,
at the Renaissance Waterford Oklahoma City Hotel,
Luke Shuttleworth, Michael Martin Murphey, Cindy Murphey,
and Red Shuttleworth.

On Friday night, April 15, 2016, at a private VIP reception: Jason Richards, Ben Masters (Wrangler for Documentary Film, Unbranded), Rusty Richards (Chester A Reynolds Award), and Red Shuttleworth.


Red Shuttleworth, Debbie and Dean Smith (awards presenter... stunt man, actor and former Olympian), and Luke Shuttleworth.

"Midnight," the greatest buck horse ever,
is buried at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum.
Any visit there should include paying respects to "Midnight."



Red Shuttleworth and C.J. Box at the Museum Book Signing.


John Cunningham, Red Shuttleworth
and singer/songwriter Eli Barsi (2014 Wrangler winner).


Red Shuttleworth and David Marion Wilkinson.


Red Shuttleworth & actor Barry Corbin.



The legendary Red Steagall, Red Shuttleworth, and cowboy singer Don Edwards at the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, April 16, 2015.


New York Times Best Selling Novelist C.J. Box, Laurie Box, and Red Shuttleworth at a reception for Honorees.  Box received a Wrangler for Outstanding Western Novel, Endangered.


John and Gail Wirth with Red Shuttleworth.  Wirth is Executive Producer of the TV series Hell on Wheels, which won a Wrangler for Outstanding Fictional Drama.



Buck Taylor (over 170 episodes on Gunsmoke
as "Newly O'Brien") and Red Shuttleworth
at the Western Heritage Awards.

Red offers thanks for the Western Heritage Wrangler for Poetry.