Powder: Writing by Women in the Ranks,

from Vietnam to Iraq

Edited by Lisa Bowden and Shannon Cain

168 pages, 6 x 9" paper

Price: $17.95 ISBN 13: 978-1-888553-25-3

POWDER brings us poetry and personal essays from 19 women who have served in all branches of the United States military. Contributors to Powder have seen conflicts from Somalia to Vietnam to Desert Shield. Many are book authors and winners of writing awards and fellowships; several hold MFAs from some of the country’s finest programs. The essays and poems here are inspired by an attempted rape by a Navy SEAL; an album of photos of the enemy dead; heat exhaustion in Mosul; a first jump from an airplane; fending off advances from Iraqi men; interrogating suspected terrorists; the contemplation of suicide; and a poignant connection with women and children in Bosnia. Their writing exposes the frontline intersection of women and soldiering, describing from a steely-eyed female perspective the horror, the humor, the cultural clashes and the fear.

Read about the upcoming stage adaptation, Coming in Hot, by actor and playwright Jeanmarie Simpson and co-edited by our very own Shannon Cain. Premiering in  Tucson September '09.

Read excerpts and see the full list of contributors here.

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Kore Press First Book Award Winner 2008

Souvenirs of a Shrunken World

Holly Iglesias

104 pages, 6 x 7" paper

Price: $13.95 ISBN 13: 978-1-888553-26-0

"This moving mosaic of the 1904 World's Fair carries the poignancy of an old family album, a presence at once here and gone. Through the poet's pitch-perfect ear and keen eye for the voices, vantages and scraps of the actual, come souvenirs of real lives transfixed in the glare of a triumphant technology's artificial light."

                                                               Eleanor Wilner

Read the feature and selections in the Missouri History Museum's online journal, Voices.

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