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."

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

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."

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.

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

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."

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