Pamela Uschuk
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Refugee, May 10, 2022,
Starred Review, Kirkus, 01/23. Listed by Orion Magazine as one of 14 recommended books of poetry in 2022.
Blood Flower, February 1, 2015, BOOKLIST STARRED NOTABLE BOOK
Wild In The Plaza of Memory, 2012
Crazy Love, AMERICAN BOOK AWARD, 2010
Scattered Risks, 2005
One Legged Dancer, 2002
FInding Peaches In The Desert, 2000, TUCSON-PIMA LITERATURE AWARD
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Antigone Books, Maria's, Elk River Books, Union Street, Homer Books, & Powell's Books & from the author. Or www.redhen.org
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UPCOMING EVENTS 2024
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Thank you, everyone, for funding my Kickstarter Project: HOPE'S CRAZED ANGELS: An Odyssey Through Ovarian Cancer.
GREEN FLAME
Slender as my ring finger, the female hummingbird crashed
into plate glass separating her and me
before we could ask each other’s name. Green flame,
she launched from a dead eucalyptus limb.
Almost on impact, she was gone, her needle beak
opening twice to speak the abrupt language of her going,
taking in the day’s rising heat as I took
one more scalding breath, horrified by death’s velocity.
Too weak from chemo not to cry
for the passage of her emerald shine,
I lifted her weightlessness into my palm.
Mourning doves moaned, who, who,
oh who while her wings closed against the tiny body
sky would quick forget as soon as it would forget mine.
Appeared in Academy of American Poets, Poem-A-Day, April, 2020.
From, REFUGEE, Red Hen Press
Listen to this interview done by Leslie Tate with Pam in Feb. 2017 https://leslietate.com/2017/02/2980/
Pamela edited and published Truth to Power in 2017 as a response to the 2016 Presidential Election. It features 119 American writers, including Rita Dove, Carolyn Forche, Joy Harjo, Sandra Cisneros, Natalie Diaz, Martin Espada, Luis Alberto Urrea, Alberto Rios, Linda Hogan, and more. She published the 357 page Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century in 2020, edited by Luis Alberto Urrea, Octavio Quintanilla, Carmen Tafolla, Beth Alvarado and Edward Vidaurre. Her laterst collaboration with Black Earth Institute is Through The Ash,, New Leaves--100 writers (Camille Dungy, J. Drew Lanham, Linda Hogan, CMarie Fuhrman, Joy Harjo, Richard Jackson, Rita Dove and more addressing the Climate Crisis. Puro Chicanx and Through the Ash are projects sponsored by Cutthroat and by Black Earth Institute. Purchase all three anthologies at:
NAMED ONE OF KIRKUS REVIEW'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF 2023! ORDER FROM RED HEN PRESS NOW!
AWP OFF SITE READING AT KANSAS CITY'S CENTRAL LIBRARY'S FILM VAULT: FEB. 9, 2024 3-5 P.M.
2024 PEARL S. BUCK VISITING WRITER, RANDOLPH COLLEGE, LYNCHBURG VIRGINIA FEBRUARY 2024.
October 12, 2024 Featured Writer Rising Stars, Desert Nights, Arizona State University, Tempe.
October 19, Crestone Poetry Festival: Reading and performance with Jesse Tsinajinnie Maloney and William Pitt Root. Crestone, Colorado.
October 26, November 2: Generative Poetry Workshop at the University of Arizona Poetry Center., Tucson, Arizona.
