Blood Flower by PamelaUschuk Paperback, 126 Pages, Published 2015 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60940-411-6, ISBN: 1-60940-411-4
"In Blood Flower, passionate imagery married to music bursts from each line pushing out the boundaries of Uschuk’s earlier poems. It continues themes in Uschuk’s American Book Award winner, Crazy Love. The poems braid the startling, sometimes brutal stories of her Russian/Czech immigrant family during the McCarthy Era in a conservative Michigan farming community with stories of courageous individuals, especially women, who persevere to l ..."
Scattered Risks by PamelaUschuk Paperback, 98 Pages, Published 2005 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916727-12-3, ISBN: 0-916727-12-2
"Scattered Risks was nomi- nated for both a Pulitzer Prize and the 2005 Zacharias
Poetry Award (nomination by by Ploughshares). Joy Harjo and other musicians
joined Uschuk to record a CD of Finding Peaches. The author of numerous ..."
"Original short fiction and poetry, including Joy Harjo Poetry prize winners and Rick DeMarinis Short Fiction prize winners, featuring Marvin Bell, T.R.Hummer, Diza Sauers, John Blair, Christopher Burawa, Curtis Bauer, Steve Fayer, Cynthia Walker, Dwight Holing, Christopher Phelps, Ciara Shuttleworth, Jendi Reither, Barbara Sorenson, Lorian Hemingway, and others."
Volume 4, Issue 1 by PamelaUschuk Paperback, 180 Pages, Published 2008 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts ISBN-13: 978-0-9795634-1-6, ISBN: 0-9795634-1-0
"Anthology magazine of award-winning poetry and short fiction, edited by Pamela Uschuk, featuring the winners of The 2007 Joy Harjo Poetry Prize and The 2007 Rick Demarinis Short Fiction Prize. Other invited writers include Joy Harjo, Luis Alberto Urrea, Micahel Blumenthal, Tana Jean Welch, Michael Schiavone, Adam Sorkin, Timothy Rien, Andrea Bates, Julia Bowsma, Brendon James O'Farrell, Bill Yake, Michael Rattee, Steven J. Meyers, Rusty ..."
Wild in the Plaza of Memory(1st Edition) by PamelaUschuk Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2012 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916727-92-5, ISBN: 0-916727-92-0
"Blending the personal with the political, these poems explore the deleterious effects of adversity and trauma on a global scale, focusing on such subjects as immigration laws, environmental degradation, multinational corporate greed, and the effects of war on women and children. The poet makes unexpected connections between disparate things, drawing from wild nature for imagery while also passionately engaging the reader to become aware ..."
Crazy Love(1st Edition) New Poems by PamelaUschuk Paperback, 112 Pages, Published 2009 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-0-916727-58-1, ISBN: 0-916727-58-0
"Through bold and innovative language, a strong female narrative explores the world and provides a voice for those who have been silenced in this empowering and inspirational collection of poetry. Examining a wide range of topics--love, spirituality, nature, and family--the poems give particular focus to politics, discussing how the actions of the government affect individuals on a daily basis. Filled with natural imagery and speckled wi ..."
"This collection of insightful poetry uses powerful imagery to describe the landscapes of the Sonoran desert and the lives of the people and animals who live there."
"This is the first collection of poetry by American Book Award winner Pamela Uschuk. FINDING PEACHES IN THE DESERT won the 2001 Literature Award from the Tucson/Pima Arts Council. Luis Urrea wrote of this book, "Whether she writes of the sexy quiet of marriage . . . or the lacerating political rage that bursts out of many of these pages, Uschuk maintains the light that burns in her chest. All the landscapes here – from the desert's rumpl ..."
"CUTTHROAT 12 is a cutting-edge literary journal featuring some of the nation's top writers as well as new and emerging voices. This is a substantial volume--228 pages of poetry and short stories and book reviews, including work by Alison Hawthorne Deming, Luis Alberto Urrea, Patricia Smith, Doug Anderson, Arthur Smith, Richard Jackson, Elizabeth Evans, Margo Berdeshevsky, Kathy Conde (winner of the 2011 Rick DeMarinis Short Story Prize ..."
One-Legged Dancer(1st Edition) by PamelaUschuk, Lynn Watt Paperback, 96 Pages, Published 2002 by Wings Pr ISBN-13: 978-0-930324-76-6, ISBN: 0-930324-76-5
"... Don and Lynn Watt, Holly Bergon St. John, Stewe Claeson, Ignacio Gomez
Palacio, Demetria Martinez, Rick Jackson, ... the Museo Antropologico;" Red
River Review: "Disturbing Dreams and Their Cure;" Seattle Review: "Collision;"
South ..."
"This is an anthology of poems in the Age of Trump—and much more than Trump. These are poems that either embody or express a sense of empathy or outrage, both prior to and following his election, since it is empathy the president lacks and outrage he provokes. There is an extraordinary diversity of voices here. The ninety-three poets featured include Elizabeth Alexander, Julia Alvarez, Richard Blanco, Carolyn Forché, Aracelis Girmay, Don ..."
Heartbeats in Stones(2nd Edition) (Codhill Press) by PamelaUschuk Paperback, 52 Pages, Published 2010 by Codhill Press ISBN-13: 978-1-930337-17-6, ISBN: 1-930337-17-5
"The poet's eye never misses the incongruity of things that cuts to the bone, "an obsidian scalpel of love" that keeps racing with her in the space between life and death, adoration and hatred. It may be that "balance is axiomatic," but always it is imperiled, a saving grace necessary, and the eye nervously glancing between heaven and earth."Pamela Uschuk is a political poet, defiant in the face of injustice, as well as a poet of Eros. S ..."
Cutthroat A Journal of the Arts, Volume 14, Issue 1, Winter 2013 by PamelaUschuk, William Pitt Root Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 2013 by Cutthroat, A Journal Of The Arts ISBN-13: 978-0-9795634-6-1, ISBN: 0-9795634-6-1
"CONTRIBUTORS: Alice Anderson, Devreaux Baker, Brittney Scott, Laura Moretz, Linda Hogan, Pamela Stewart, TR Hummer, Richard Jackson, Maj Ragain, Sebastian Matthews, Daniel Nathan Terry, Gaylord Brewer, Lawrence Judson Reynolds, Shaun Griffin, Amelia Skinner Saint, Sharon Solwitz, Joan Siegel, Toni Mirosevich, John Hoppenthaler, Elizabeth Evans, Laurel Jones, Mike Nelson, Joel Smith, Andrea Lewis, Charles Atkinson, David-Matthew Bar ..."
"It is a feast of contemporary Chicanx literature. Black Earth Institute and Cutthroat, a Journal of the Arts, coordinated by Pamela Uschuk, collaborated on publishing this historic collection of Chicanx writers."
One-Legged Dancer by PamelaUschuk 104 Pages, Published 2012 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60940-027-9, ISBN: 1-60940-027-5
"Brave Mr. Buckingham for Donley Watt Finger after finger, feet, hands, limb after
red limb lopped off by the grace of misfortune, Mr. Buckingham smiled, ink figure
Indian, grim and spinning your youth, a cartoon as ridiculous as Monty Python's ..."
Crazy Love New Poems by PamelaUschuk 114 Pages, Published 2009 by Wings Press ISBN-13: 978-1-60940-035-4, ISBN: 1-60940-035-6
"$16 ' Poetry CRITICAL RAVES FOR CRAZY LOVE Life lived at the fever pitch of
awareness and care—~intense1y .' . ',5, present eye and voice, to ripped—0ut
rooms, distant battles, l' '1' ' TI' Ii, vivid landscapes, succulent soil cupped in the
fist ..."